Alan Baxter

Congrats!

Congrats! Told you you'd win novel. 😉

4 panel comic Panel 1: A Purple person is standing holding a clipboard. A Blue Person sits at a laptop. Blue Person: Woohoo. I’m the CEO of a social media platform. Panel 2: Purple person: We should hire a PR person to interact with the public Blue Person begins to type on laptop and says: Nope. Gonna do all that myself Panel 3: Purple person looks concerned and says: Really…but… Panel 4: Purple person: You’re such a whiny little fucking baby

zeldawilliams 20m From Create Mode •• Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want. To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, , just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it. Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

It's never too late to start anything.

Equally, you'll never be "ready", so if you want a thing, don't wait.

That was Tom from MySpace. It's been downhill since then.

*raises hand* personally since ~1988

"Let them eat sandwiches!"

Chase your dreams like a labrador going after a tennis ball.

Hold onto your dreams like a labrador refusing to give that ball back again.

I remember that guy once complaining that he couldn't recharge his cigarette because his wife was using the charger for her book and honestly that was the beginning of the end

Remembering when Chris Rufo insisted that Disney was a thoroughly corrupt institution because it had a small number of employees arrested on CSAM and sex trafficking charges and I replied, well, let's use that standard for Republicans, and he blocked me before I could finish the thread.

🧵Some real Jilly Cooper quotes from her Rutshire Chronicles, the series of books that Rivals is from.

1) "Her breasts swayed like party balloons when the front door opens"

This whole thread, agree 100%.

Yep, almost all of my books. I couldn't agree more with your sentiment.

Spam. Always.

Legend.

It is morally wrong to want a computer to be sentient. If you owned a sentient thing, you would be a slaver. If you want sentient computers to exist, you just want to create a new kind of slavery. The ethics are as simple as that. Sorry if this offends

The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,

Can't wait to get mine!

This headline AND excerpt actually don't name her at all. What the actual fuck?

I had a venison burger for lunch. Delicious, but I wish it hadn't cost so much. It was a little dear.

In memoriam...

And if you want some of a particularly Aussie flavour, I'm your huckleberry.

Dear Alan, I’m Sienna Clarke, curator of Queer Book Clubs NYC a gathering where books are devoured as hungrily as shared plates, and where stories spark debates that carry long past midnight. We’re a tangle of readers who love words as much as laughter, and who hold close the voices that dare to cut deep. Your work reached us like fire through fog fierce, unflinching, yet tender at its core. You write like a warlock at the forge, shaping stories that bruise, heal, and haunt in equal measure. That blend of shadow and humanity is precisely what feeds our circle, what keeps us coming back to the table. It would be a rare honor to feature your book in our monthly digest and discussion, to let your words thread into our community the way whisky warms the veins: steady, unforgettable. An invitation like this doesn’t wait around it’s the kind that asks to be seized before it slips back into silence. Would you be open to exploring how we might carry your voice into our club’s next gathering? With admiration, Sienna Clarke Curator | Queer Book Clubs NYC

This AI scam bullshit is getting so tedious. I get four or five emails a week like this.

ALIEN logo being build and the E has no middle line

The ALIEN logo

Every time I watch ALIEN I am transfixed thinking to myself "there's no way they've left themselves enough room to get the third horizontal line in that E without it looking like a squashed-in mess!" but no, every single time there it is, and it's beautiful. Most tense part of the movie tbh.

More publisher bad behaviour has sunk another project. This fucking business, man.

what - and let me be crystal clear here - the absolute shitting fuck?!

1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.

I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.

Why are you doing this?