Barry Ryerson

It's like they've taken the best bits of fps and point-and-click, thrown them away, and mushed the remaining junk in a blender before vomiting it out as a video.

Yet another case to add as proof to that the MIT Report about GenAI not actually being this amazing company productivity booster Techbros keep praising it for.

What gets me about that video is just how much worse it gets the closer you look at it.

It hurts, and the more closely you look at it, the more you realise just how godawful it is.

My phone: Hey, you've got a new notification!

Also my phone: I'm gonna freeze once you've swiped down so now you can't tap anything, and wait until you've just about given up before unfreeze and pretend that your swipe to remove the notification was actually a press to load up an app you don't want

Thank you so much everyone who has bought Reborn in Ash. I hope you're all enjoying it!

If you're on the fence about it or are waiting for payday, please add it on Goodreads as a reminder to yourself. ❤️ Plus the first review is up over there for you to read.

www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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a man and a woman standing in front of a netflix ad ALT: a man and a woman standing in front of a netflix ad

Just started series 3 of Dark, and whoever came up with the plot for this has got a severely impressive mind. I'm only now picking up on throwaway lines in series 1 that now make sense.

Though it does irk me how often characters just stare stupidly at each other!

a man in an orange shirt is standing with his hands on his hips and says `` who 's awesome ? you are '' . ALT: a man in an orange shirt is standing with his hands on his hips and says `` who 's awesome ? you are '' .

Thanks, matey!

Yooo! People, what are you even doing??? Go pick up Barry's books right now.

Yes, even the short stories.

They're really fuckin' good.

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Book cover for The Magic Circle, a dystopian scifi fantasy suitable for 15+. A gold, circular emblem rests over a dark and smoky cityscape.

Book cover for Origins: The Secret Agent by Barry Ryerson. A white man in a business suit walks away from the camera down a Russian street. The sky is bright orange from a distant explosion.

Book cover for Origins: The Hacker by Barry Ryerson. A white man sits at a computer desk, programming using a glitchy holographic display. A bloodstain is on the left wall, whilst a window on the right shows a hot and arid landscape.

Thanks!

I've got a novel (The Magic Circle) and a couple of short stories set in the same universe.

Decades after nuclear war, magic returns. As artists and spies alike discover how to use this power, some will stop at nothing to have it all for themselves.

a woman is sitting at a table with her hand on her chin and looking up . ALT: a woman is sitting at a table with her hand on her chin and looking up .

Me: Wow, haven't had a book sale in a while.

Also me: I really should do some promo work for my books, otherwise no one will know about them.

I wonder if there's a link there? 🤔

Sooo...if you like your books to be a fun fantasy or a spy techno-magic-thriller, check out www.linktr.ee/bryerson

White cat with black markings, lounging on a cat bed and giving zero fucks.

May you find as much peace and rest as this little bundle of fluff.

Reborn in Ash is out NOW in ebook and paperback!

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068390220

(US folks will have to wait a few hours)

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I remember as a kid seeing a teenage girl walking her dog in a park whilst she wore roller skates.

A little later, the dog was running and she held on to the lead for dear life. Not sure how she stopped as she raced out of view, but I knew she wasn't going to stop by her own volition.

I've seen fancy buildings in London being renovated and they cover it up with a painted facade.

He just doesn't care what it looks like, as long as he gets his own way. And what a metaphor for his presidency!

You're quite clearly not legitimate and have no connection with this matter.

So, no.

Go and scam someone else.

Watched "Dunkirk" tonight and feel the plot could be summed up as: "One very unlucky man tries to have a dump and keeps getting in sinking boats instead."

Some excellent bits in it, though.

My mum's Irish and she taught me how to make soda bread along these lines.

"Put in some flour."

"How much?"

"Enough. Then add in some sour milk."

"How much?"

"Until it looks right."

Needless to say, it was always delicious when she made it, but I just use a recipe I found elsewhere.

Book cover for The Magic Circle, a dystopian scifi fantasy suitable for 15+. A gold, circular emblem rests over a dark and smoky cityscape.

Book cover for The Child of Fire and Earth, a fun fantasy adventure suitable for 8+. A boy in a yellow tunic sits atop a red dragon, flying low over the waves towards a craggy shoreline.

Book cover for Origins: The Hacker by Barry Ryerson. A white man sits at a computer desk, programming using a glitchy holographic display. A bloodstain is on the left wall, whilst a window on the right shows a hot and arid landscape.

Book cover for Origins: The Secret Agent by Barry Ryerson. A white man in a business suit walks away from the camera down a Russian street. The sky is bright orange from a distant explosion.

Just because AWS is down doesn't mean you can't, say, buy one of my books from my website.

Just saying. 😁

If you want a signed and personalised MG fun #fantasy adventure or a YA/NA #scifi urban fantasy, check out www.barryryerson.com

Worldwide postage except USA (thanks, tarrifs).

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Summaries, they're called summaries, and they've been around forever. They're not the same as reading the book, no one with a brain thinks they're the same as reading the book, and rebranding them as 'Blinks' does not make it so.

Has exactly the same problem the other day. Made do with chopping up a few tomatoes and using tomato cup-a-soup instead. Wasn't great, but it did the job. How did you manage?

Yep. 99.9% that wasn't the real author, but a scammer pretending to be them in order to direct you to their amazing promoter, who will spread word of your book for a measly $3,000 upfront.

Man carries a large, flaming barrel on his back in the Ottery Tar Barrels competition.

I know Guy Fawkes is a uniquely British celebration, but you know what's based on it but weirder?

5 minutes drive from me is the village of Ottery St Mary, where on Nov 5th each year they have a competition to see who can run the furthest with a flaming barrel on their back.

Yep, that's the one.

And how many trolls did that post bring out?

Great post, BTW.

Can you imagine if Starmer (or, hell, even BoJo) sent that?

But you just know news outlets won't touch it.

I've just seen the video that an actual, living, current president shared, and by all the gods he's such a twat, isn't he?

I still buy DVDs or BluRays even though we have streaming, simply because (a) not everything I want to watch is on there, and (b) you can guarantee that if it's on there now, they'll remove it when you most want to watch it.

It's like my other pet peeve: opening a jar of hot chocolate to find the powder doesn’t start until about 2 inches below the top of the jar.

Happy birthday, fella! Hope you've had a lovely day.