Don't do drugs, kids

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This is all reminding me of a conversation I had recently with an old friend who works in tech and extremely gung-ho about AI. When I told him about my process for writing a long New Yorker piece, he was absolutely sure that AI could make it more "efficient." / www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Fascinating chart: huge gap between median and mean winnings on Polymarket, possibly suggesting insiders/AIs are reaping the richest rewards as.ft.com/r/520f0be6-3...

TWO bullshit categories today! You are really spoiling us. #stupidgame Connections Puzzle #1027 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟪🟩🟩 🟪🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦

Lyme Regis has been our favourite family getaway for years so I've got all the history books but this is my very favourite, essentially he was Mr Lyme Regis...fun fact - he was curator of the Lyme Regis museum in the 80's

I ranked Easter* Bunnies for Guardian Film! This was fun. (*not strictly Easter - just bunny films, really) Naturally the only BTL comment so far (I'll stop looking at them now) is asking "Where's The Brown Bunny"?

this is the most meta thing i've ever seen

Blew Tiddler and Tadpole’s minds today by showing them this 3D representation of the Save icon.

Featuring authors who: - feared dying in the middle of a novel "in case some bastard comes along and finishes it"; - lost "a large and expensive pork pie" (it never turned up); - hated being second fiddle to Amis and McEwan ("I'm way better"); & more I wrote about mid-life crisis Booker novels:

This thread is exactly right. Even for just a listicle of book recommendations, I always read the books I haven’t already, because that’s the only way you can find interesting things to say about them that aren’t already online. You can always tell if a list has just been put together with Google.

“Happy 100th birthday” (as we are obliged to put it here) to John Fowles. Well, it was on Tuesday, but who’s counting?

Ah, so *that* was what married Bondi’s term as attorney general! Not cravenly - even enthusiastically - pursuing vendettas against Trump’s critics on his behalf. Gotcha.

four colors. four colors in the same pen. with this groundbreaking technology we should be able to increase writing output 4x and usher in a new era of productivity

one of my all-time favourites was Beau de l'Hair in Nantes, flawless

A smart review of the new book by one of our greatest living novelists- Gwendoline Riley. With plenty of detail for us all to gossip about - www.thetimes.com/culture/book...

happy easter everybody

How brilliant is this concept kit, Lego Fawlty Towers! Incredible detailing throughout. beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

@mhairim.bsky.social Of interest to you?

Crump's earlier books My Elvis Blackout and Neverland were terrific, so this will be worth watching.

Anyone – critic or blurbist – who labels an author as being “at the height of their powers” is de facto NOT writing, or blurbing, at the height of THEIR powers.

“At a time when cinema is fighting for its existence and defining itself as a recognisable expression of lived human experience, this is precisely the kind of ugly, overbranded, lifeless digital marketing vomit that represents the sinister end of it all.” Kevin Maher on The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

We are delighted to announce that Patrick Radden Keefe is returning to HomePlace to discuss his highly anticipated new book, London Falling, in conversation with John Self! 📅 Date: Monday 8th June ⏰ Time: 7.30pm 🎟️ Tickets: £15 (or £37 Ticket & Book Bundle) Tickets on sale Thursday 2nd April at 2pm

Just seen a reporter job ad that includes the line "You have the ability to interpret audience data and respond to performance trends." Not to sound like a grump who trained 30 years ago, but that right there is everything wrong with the modern media landscape.

I don't get the repeated dogpiling of experts who are just describing things that are happening in the news. You're completely stifling interesting conversation in favor of just jacking off. And if you want to jack off, you can go to pornhub dot com or wherever else you like

"Critics have called the ‘Let Them Cook’ initiative “cynical”, “moronic” and “borderline incomprehensible”, making it the venue’s most controversial youth-oriented programming since its ill-received Happy Slapping event in 2004."

The best media April Fool jokes are the ones that get inadvertently poleaxed by real events.

Now you've got me imagining typical Bluesky responses to classic British TV April Fools. "Very funny until you consider the working conditions of thise forced to pick that spaghetti" "It's basically wrong to keep Lirpa Loofs in captivity" "Tramp should consider the impact of driving, dog or not"

It’s very Bluesky that the tone this morning is of sour disapproval of April Fool’s Day. Bring on the stupid ads and silly news stories, I say. Let’s have more San Serriffe and spaghetti on trees.

I get that this is legal boilerplate but it’s still a really bad look for a business product

“THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS RULING”

Always nice to see Trump get a bloody nose in the courts, but did the judge write it like this because it’s the only punctuation Trump understands?

Superb work from BBC Sport getting the new Current Spurs Manager in the revolving door at Tottenham.

Behold the monstrosity I have grown from the single sprouted tomato seed that was in my burger king whopper

I wrote on AI trashing literary life, and spoke to Alex Preston about the NYT book review scandal

I spent 3 days photographing bees at the cherry blossom trees. This one is my favourite.

"I would hope our presidents will be remembered for their labors in building better government rather than for their efforts in constructing public works projects to themselves."

scrolling the news and matched the wrong pic to the wrong headline and OH LORD JUST IMAGINE

On MattGPT and the future of bookishness

what did darth vader say about your george michael playlist? I find your lack of faith disturbing

A pretty straightforward one, tbf Parseword #61 ⚡️ 53s 💎 Perfect

The book content on Bluesky is worth the admission price alone.

Alas, Agnes Owens never had a Paris Review interview. However, this one comes pretty close. journals.openedition.org/etudesecossa...

These reissues of Agnes Owens's novels, coming in May from Polgyon, are lovely in the flesh. They're being published for Owens's centenary. Cover art is by Joan Eardley.

that’s quite a short flight, even for twenty five quid

What if Scott Mills nicked all them KitKats

Actually maybe we shouldn’t?