Jo F

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Cover image of 'Almost Everything There Is To Know' by Hunkin, the pinnacle of 20th-century illustrated non-fiction

I still have my beloved copy of this:

From the paper of record to the bulletin board for embarrassing middle aged people who cooked their brains online

BIG YES to all of these!

The energy I bring to social events: Ai is 💀 the planet and chat gpt is making you stupid

People love it

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

Yeah, that's probably the way round it works in this. Avoiding duplicates is useful to check in on and a well timed reminder

I'm going to go and ponder how this works with a non-fiction project I'm working on. Thank you!

Trello might help

All famines are man-made, all famines are political. Historians of empire and humanitarianism have known this forever. Gaza is not starving, Gaza is being starved, by Israel, and this starvation is enabled by our government and by every other government that does not step in to force food and aid.

Happy St Swithun's Day from Winchester, where the cathedral bells have been busy already. Weather report here is there's been some gentle rain overnight, and now it's a lovely sunny morning but not too hot. Fingers crossed for the next 40 days

I can't donate any more - if you can, please do! It's such a great way to show some love to our fellow humans.

What a title! 😍

Oh, huge congratulations! Very well deserved x

Chris Haughton - Shh! We Have A Plan! is a favourite of mine. Bold shapes, lots of repetition of a couple of key phrases, scope for funny voices, and a surprise pay-off with the right amount of jeopardy!

I don't 'refuse to use' AI, I just don't use AI; in the same way that I don't shoplift, or plagiarise other people's books - it requires no effort of will, it's just not something I would think of doing

I once again find myself wondering what this country would look like today if the Green Party had been given even half the media attention that Farage’s various vanity projects got over the last ten years.

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?”

This was their response:

I know some excellent trans & nonbinary people so I care directly about their rights... and it also took a couple of really open face to face conversations with excellent cis friends to get to my current perspective on the 'debate' on trans rights.

Today, we'll be joining the @societyofauthors.bsky.social outside Meta's offices to protest the use of pirated works to train their AI models.

Join us if you can! More info: societyofauthors.org/2025/04/03/u...

Just looked at this database. 7 of my books have been stolen by Meta for their AI database. In 1842 my greatx3 grandfather called for an International Copyright Law to prevent his works being pirated. Now we have that law, yet once again authors are experiencing theft. @societyofauthors.bsky.social

Doing the last minute World Book Day costume panic... for myself. Sorted the 6yo's costume days ago and just realised today that I need one for me too 🫠

Had a chat about a very fun new nonfiction project- even if it doesn't work out, it's given my brain some fun material to play with.

Finally got round to responding to this government 'consultation'. Now feeling eve crosser about generative AI, if that were possible.

He's got a 7+ book coming out soon and it's a hit with my kid so far!

Oh these people. So wrong in all ways. Is this on Facebook?

Been hearing some shocking instances of racist abuse and sharing of nazi content in young teens in my very well-off (v white) area. They're part of the wider culture and we've not made it unacceptable enough somehow

Reek by Alastair Chisholm. It's 9+, short, dyslexia friendly, and tells a cracking post-apocalyptic action adventure with horrifying baddy and also hope - in v few words!

Steady for This by Nathanael Lessore - funny, playful, real and charming