“The most helpful quality a writer can cultivate is self-confidence - arrogance, if you can manage it. You write to impose yourself on the world, and you have to believe in your own ability when the world shows no sign of agreeing with you.” — Hilary Mantel

Apologize for retweeting the same article twice but - and I say this with no hint of irony - this is a pretext to the single largest, easily litigated lawsuit in human history. This is an egregious violation of IP law, law protected quite literally & specifically by the Constitution. Total insanity.

Working while one of your threads has escaped containment

This whole section really.

Lovely day in Bath with Simon Underwood, trying to convince him to get on Bluesky

I feel like if anything is going to end his presidency it will be ICE agents tackling Olivia Colman to the ground on The Oscars red carpet

Important info on scams for authors here.

Hello England! You’re looking lovely today

Production on Spaceballs 2 has now officially begun. And they released a photo from the table read, just like Lucasfilm did for The Force Awakens (2015). 😁

A moment of high drama in Doctor Who as the Master menaces a cherry bakewell

i am begging screenwriters to stop using shitty AI generated stills to promote their spec scripts if you can't afford to pay an artist to make you one, that's fine, but don't use a program that steals other artists' work to try to make your own work stand out it's a huge double standard

Fucks hake.

Saw the most bitchin’ bunny house in the Black Forest today. Complete with floppy eared symbol on the door 🐰

found this on FB marketplace & when i find something weird i usually try to say something funny but i got nothing

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

This meeting could have been a veiled threat, communicated solely by floral bouquets being sent back and forth, utilizing the Victorian language of flowers.

Apparently crossed the borders of Switzerland, France and Germany within 5 minutes (no stops or checks!) in a bus today. As an Australian I just need a moment to process…

I fucken knew it

Ohh, so this explains why my hovercraft is full of eels! 💡

It has long been my opinion that Hollywood is frittering away the generational dance talents of Channing Tatum & Tom Holland by not putting them in a musical together. Not a remake, but akin to Gene Kelly & Donald O’Connor in Singin’ In The Rain. I strongly believe this would make a billion dollars

Ten options for future leaf-removal trains... 10. Keanu Leaves 9. Twiggy Pop 8. Axel Foliage 7. Britney Clears 6. The Regional Branch Manager 5. Leaf No Trace 4. The Fall Guy 3. That Don't Impress Me Mulch 2. A Good Railing 1. Maybe She's Born With it. Maybe It's Maple-leaves

Current mood:

Current mood:

Now THIS is a style! It looks like Blessed fell asleep in the street and a trundling road-markings van painted an AHEAD ONLY arrow over his face.

Built in the 13th century. So that mosque stood for 800 years with every sort of person from every place and every religion in the world passing through Gaza century after century, only for it to be blown up by some shithead loser sitting behind a computer that we probably paid for.

people who want other people to stay in sad little grey boxes forever and never be happy in their bodies or desires are villains and cowards and they may be winning right now but by god they will lose as water smooths stone and roots break it, because that fierce joy is roots and water and life

Absolutely wretched experience at Malpensa airport Milan last night. Do yourself a favour and don’t bother with a hotel shuttle when there - just take a taxi, even if it’s a short distance away.

DAN GILROY WINS. #Andor

Fuck yeah #Andor — this Dan Gilroy script just won the #Emmy for Outstanding Writing

Rather than keep reporting cockroaches, I've made a blocklist to collect them. I'm only going to maintain it for like a week until the astroturfing stops, and will only add new accounts that are engaging in inauthentic Charlie Kirk anger spam. Here's the blocklist link. bsky.app/profile/did:...

Our room attendant had been raising the game every day with Shaun to the stage where we have somehow played out a slow-burn episodic love story between him and a towel-duck. Tonight, they elope!

First impression of Mykonos

Had to pay the toll of “One (1) scritch per person” to this fine fellow at the entrance to the House of the Virgin Mary this morning.

Most photographed exhibit at the Ephesus Museum today: Cat In Bin - 2025CE

I could do a late lunch…

I won’t be asking for extra salt and vinegar again.

PHWOAR THOUGH

VENUS a mini comic about girls night uniting us all 1/2

Going to see the Oracle for some advice

What an utterly charming surprise Otranto turned out to be! Cats and colours, crypts and Amazons

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

How very dare!

Pietà Michelangelo, 1498-1499

is this "blueskyism"

If your business model doesn’t work without stealing data and violating the law, you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

Ok, well Kotor was overcrowded, hot and not the best experience- but we did get to the tiny cat museum where I became obsessed with these Rolex ads - not sure what decade they hail from, but 50’s or 60’s maybe? They had sadly run out of prints to buy

I guess I could do lunch…