Alice Bell

That's four books a day! Are you reading or are you _consuming_? Do you like reading and books or do you like line go up?

Maybe this is ungrateful of me, but if you're going to read my book by listening to it at 3x speed or scanning a few key words in a paragraph, in the same month you scan through 100 other books, I'd sort of rather you left if off, to be honest.

You’re a phenomenal writer and I’m excited to read your book one day

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

This #overdiagnosis discourse is dangerous and will be deadly to many - not just those with ME who have been at the mercy of quacks like Wesseley and O'Sullivan for years -
but everyone who the govt wishes to remove support from and has to find a way to claim are not actually disabled to do so.

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A slate blue jumper with an embroidered group of five mice in Victorian clothes from the film Muppet Christmas Carol. It says “NO CHEESES FOR US MEECES” above and below the image

Forgot I ordered the best Christmas jumper in the world until it arrived today

feels like yet again time to mention that the *videogames* industry (that's a creative industry, which people do creative degrees in) brings in more than twice the amount to the British economy as the fishing and steel industries *combined*

Reform claim to have 259k... It's a stretch goal, but it would be really great to give them one in the eye, wouldn't it?

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

Let’s talk about AI art.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

look how happy he is though! he's back in his podcast-bro comfort zone of selling merch, as opposed to having to, you know, solve crimes or whatever

I appreciate analysis from Swifties, because I'm not so intimately familiar with her back catalogue. This is interesting!

Ann Radcliffe eating hard cheese right before bed to give herself nightmares, Stoker claiming Dracula was the result of a nightmare induced by a “too generous helping of dressed crab,” let’s go back to the golden age of eating incredibly rich food before bed to create horror literature

One difference between me and many people in the 40k universe is that I would simply learn about chaos enough to understand its mysteries and make use of its powers without becoming corrupting myself.

(but no I do really hope Bloodlines 2 is good, I just feel safer setting my expectations to min)

PowerWash Sim 2 is out two days after Bloodlines 2, meaning the PowerWash Sim is going to be the Van Helsing arriving to free me from a longstanding curse

IT'S SO CLOSE

I am so hype

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

@johnnyohnny.bsky.social bottom left: it u

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

Sorry folks we're not allowed talk about politics in our respective countries because america is in bits or something

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

catch the UK showing any interest in this. For all its faults the Irish government really supports creatives.

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...

fair warning that it feels every moment of its 2 hour+ runtime

Seeing lots of this tonight after that party political broadcast.

The Green Party are on track to overtake the Tories in membership.

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Yes! The film itself is very bad though, so obviously I love it

Yeah! Sommers did it right after coming off The Mummy trilogy and it is even more inexplicable in that context.