Great story of absent proofreaders at a party conference, thanks @nataliehaynes.bsky.social
and @aiannucci.bsky.social They should have looked in the @the-ciep.bsky.social directory (www.ciep.org)
Excellent episode for #editors and #proofreaders
Gratias vobis ago

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This article is about a great deal more than heat pumps.
Plenty to ponder

Sad to read you’ve got work troubles. Hope you find something soon.

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It's always been the case that "buying" an ebook from amazon was only actually a loan they could rescind at any point, but lately Amazon have gone harder on this, and it is 100% so that they can wipe banned books from your libraries without your consent.

Buy direct from authors. Get your files.

Two BBC guys seeking pub work in London E20 (preferably in the Queen Vic). Please contact @owainwynevans.bsky.social or me. Ahead of EastEnders’ 40th anniversary, here is our version of Simon May’s classic theme.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Maternal mental health, Syria's missing, poet Caitlin O'Ryan Laura Kyrke-Smith MP on the support for new mothers struggling with mental health.

Our wonderful new Labour MP,Laura Kyrke-Smith, is on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour right now, talking about post-natal depression and women’s mental health.
So proud of Laura, MP for Aylesbury. She’s amazing.

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This is very disappointing, Chancellor.

Nice catch 🎣

Happy PLR Day to everyone who celebrates! And readers, remember that not only do libraries give you access to a wide selection of books for free, the Government also pays authors a small sum for every time one of their books is borrowed from a public library... #ThisWritingLife

Even if you’re writing a short email to someone trying to explain a problem, the fact you have to think about how to express that clearly and precisely is a process by which you come to understand it more deeply yourself.

We will be out and about talking about POTHOLES this weekend!

The Labour Party is providing £1.6billion to local councils to fix potholes - almost 50% MORE than the Tories promised!

If you see us, come and chat - we need to hold our local council to account to get these fixed, and save you money 🌹

What an interesting thread. I’m glad I stopped scrolling to read it.

Yesterday’s #StetWalk
lacked apricity.

Weird. I recognise some of those.

The list of signatories says it all. Let's hope he bothers to read the letter.

Thanks for sharing Erin.

Do I know you?

So sorry for your loss

All I seem to do here is block fake or weird accounts.

AI has an environmental problem. Here’s what the world can do about that. The sprawling data centres that house AI servers churn out toxic electronic waste and are voracious consumers of electricity, which in most places is still produced from fossil fuels.

"A request made through ChatGPT, an AI-based virtual assistant, consumes 10 times the electricity of a Google Search"

This isn't a game. This is accelerated destruction via huge usage of power, water, resources etc. Stop using it - especially for messing about!!

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All of the above except 2, 8 and 10

Hello to my new followers. Just putting this out there: I’ll be curating my “following” list to keep it to real-life connections and people/organisations directly relevant to me. So apologies in advance for not following back. It’s not you; it’s me.

I haven't read the original. I loved Claire Tomalin's biography of Pepys.
(I started reading her autobiography and can't get on with it at all. Weird.)

Throw off that syndrome. Enjoy your task - you’ve earned it.

Hi Catherine

And many thanks to you too, @kiathomasedits.bsky.social

Illustration of happy young girl surrounded by piles of books, with the text THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS TOO MANY BOOKS as seen on Robin Ince’s #CIEP2023 t-shirt. (Design by aziz smith on Redbubble.)

Wonderful #CIEP2023 Whitcombe Lecture by @robinince.bsky.social. The beauty of bookshops and libraries; avoiding the ‘rules’ of reading; AI being unable to write jokes; books as weapons of empathy; ghostly connections; and filling our lives with stories. ‘THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS TOO MANY BOOKS.’

Same here, @cherryedits.bsky.social
First steps on this platform seem promising.

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