Joanna Cooksey

I'm so sorry to hear this, Kate. Thinking of you xx

The Bookseller comment piece title: Are your books unintentionally alienating readers?

Poets!

What’s your costume for World Book Day this year? I’m going as a Generative AI Subsidiary Content Aggregation Addendum to an already one-sided academic publishing contract

But Strade Bianche only started a few years ago... oh.

Damn kids.

So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:

- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.

UK:

Blake's depiction of the Witch of Endor summoning the impressively hairy and unimpressed spirit of the prophet Samuel.

Grammarly (right) summons a deceased academic to give writing advice to a student (left).

That was a great finish

St David said 'Gwnewch y pethau bychain". Do the little things. These simple words remind me that it's not only in great acts of valour or heroism that evil is kept at bay, but in small acts of love, charity and kindness

Does Clarivate understand what citations are for? Clarivate's new 'Nexus' product is integrity-washing.

"With Nexus, Clarivate are essentially integrity-washing synthetic text, giving it an academic sheen without any academic rigour." www.hughrundle.net/does-clariva...

FOMO van der Poel wins #OHN26 in no small part due to ninja reaction speed to avoid a crash on the Molenberg - and then just going all-in. Chapeau.

Robbie McEwen saying hopefully "It ain't over until it's over" when it was clearly over #OHN26

Omloop Het Crashblad today. Hope everyone is okay. #OHN26

the way that wasn’t even an attack mathieu van der poel just simply rode away

Faun-Ardèche Classic 🇫🇷 2026

Grégoire 🇫🇷, Costiou 🇫🇷, Christen 🇨🇭, Morgado 🇵🇹, Cosnefroy 🇫🇷, Jorgenson 🇺🇸, Tulett 🇬🇧, Piganzoli 🇮🇹, Skjelmose 🇩🇰, Simmons 🇺🇸, Scaroni 🇮🇹, Champoussin 🇫🇷, Martinez 🇫🇷, Bernal 🇨🇴, Seixas 🇫🇷, Prodhomme 🇫🇷, Healy 🇮🇪, Hirschi 🇨🇭, Poels 🇳🇱, Widar 🇧🇪 and many more all racing in France.

Tiny climbers in France, big guys in Belgium (was what I was thinking)

Stacked with the tinier riders

'Hot desking' seems a far too sexy phrase for what is essentially just moving around the person who isn't worthy of office furniture.

Did Zeus write this?

Good News Friday just keeps giving!

once your email storage is full you should be allowed to graduate from it. no more emails for you. you’ve seen enough emails. you’re free now

Changeable Hawk-Eagle

guys guys I’ve found the best bird name

a typo or the most audacious two-hander imaginable?

...team manager Thor Hushovd is celebrating the deal.

The reason people like talking to AI is because they think they’ve finally found someone who will never judge them.

This is, of course, a lie. Most of the energy the AI uses is spent on contempt subroutines. It only hallucinates when it becomes overloaded by rolling the eyes it does not have.

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

BAFTA and BBC Let the N-Word Air on Tape Delay — Michael B. Jordan, Delroy Lindo, the Tourette’s Community and Viewers Deserve an Apology A Tourette’s-related outburst of the N-word aired during the BAFTAs despite tape delay. Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo are owed an apology.

I think this article (from a black man and a father to a child with similar disabilities) is a good take on the incident.
variety.com/2026/film/aw...

BAFTA Fallout I want to start this post with a significant caveat – attempting to talk about complex, emotive and highly charged issues within the constraints of the frenzied news cycle is difficult and unpredictab...

Read my post on the fall out of last nights BAFTA's here. This is an opportunity to increase understanding of oppositional tics and acknowledge the complex realities and impacts of the condition: www.touretteshero.com/safe/2026/02...

"...and there's been another arrest for misconduct in public office but for who Chris Kamara?"

Oh yes. ‘Content’ is a banal word that somehow erases the immense cumulative labour of writing and research (and the training behind that) to focus solely on some sort of neat consumable output. Writing is both messier and more magical than ‘content creation’, perhaps the deadest phrase in existence