"you are taking in the human centipede of content from the very end of the line" is such a good way of describing AI

Note this also applies to calling me: - smart - articulate - hardworking

Don’t call me pretty. Give me a commission and send money into my account.

On a train to london and playing the ‘are you on your way to the far right demo or are you just drunk loud and yt’ game.

People think I’m really quick with sending calendar invites and notes after a meeting because I’m efficient. But really it’s because if I don’t do it right away it ain’t getting done ever because I’ll forget.

Your monthly reminder: Keep writing. When no one cares, persist. When things appear to be crumbling, keep at it. When it's difficult, push through. When you feel alone, listen to the stories in your blood. Just write. The world needs your stories.

Today I spent an hour sorting out all my fanfic open tabs into alphabetical order. Only to realise that you can do it automatically on safari. Fml

I have desi aunties. Smear campaigns don’t work on me.

Yt people in arts organisations will do ANYTHING before admitting they did a racism. And when you call them out on it they go on a smear campaign.

One of the most humbling experiences as an adult is trying to learn a new skill and being shit at it. Because not only do you have to keep yourself motivated through all the failings, but folks your age are now experts in the thing you’re struggling to even get started on.

Once again, I am saying that letting a group of extremely antisocial tech bros make critical decisions about our collective data and all human interaction online is a very bad idea.

I’m surprised that more couples don’t break up during wedding prep. This shit is stressful

Y'know how a house immediately and rapidly deteriorates as soon as no one is living in it? I think that happens with people. Even for those who naturally don't need much, the removal of all regular, meaningful connection breaks us down quicker than we realize. Anyway, yes, AI girlfriends are bad.

Tried on a new jacket today that makes me look like Kim Possible. Prepare for me to be insufferable

The best advice I got on public speaking was from Dolly Parton in a concert she did in London in the 80s: "Make them laugh, make them cry and then scare the hell out of them."

Is it appropriate to take notes when having conversations during networking events? Like it stops me from interrupting and also helps me track my thoughts. But also gives off I’m a journalist here to steal your gossip vibes so…

We need a fund for people who have pulled their work or stopped working with shitty organisations. This having morals and an ethical compass thing is making me broke.

If you support a campaign to stop proscription of a particular group. Is that seen as support for that particular group?

How soon until all direct action will be classified as terrorism?

Gonna have to read an actual book now. Damn it

Liberation on at Royal Exchange Theatre isn’t just political and funny and humanises all the figures we’ve heard about, but it’s a great night out. Ntombizodwa has given us a masterclass in writing for theatre. Go watch it now!! www.royalexchange.co.uk/event/libera...

Who’s coming???

Calling all #writers in + around Manchester! You are invited to our free summer meet-up on Mon 14 July, 6-8pm @rxtheatre.bsky.social, hosted by WGGB Manchester + Lancashire Rep @afshandl.bsky.social + WGGB TV Chair Sukey Venables Fisher Non-members welcome too forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Playwrights working in the UK independent theatre sector are to gain new rights for the digital exploitation of their work and a 24% uplift in minimum fees over three years, following a major update to the existing agreement between WGGB + @itc-arts.bsky.social writersguild.org.uk/itc-new-agre...

Hold up on sec. When yous have all been saying that you’re gonna ask chat you mean chat gpt?? I been thinking you’re asking the group chat this whole time.

Why was booking my train ticket from manchester to london and then to liverpool more expensive than booking my flight to the us of a?

PAID PERFORMER OPP - North West (See infographic for more detail)

Let's make Northern #Booksky grow! We've put together a list of Manchester & Northern writers we could find here, so check it out and give everyone a follow. This is, by all means, not an exhaustive list, so please tag who we've missed👇 bsky.app/profile/did:...

Get your hands on THE hot SF book this year as soon as it comes out with a preorder - a gift to your future self. So very sci fi appropriate. Lesbians! Robots! Collapse of humanity! geni.us/SomeBodyLike... by @ldlapinski.bsky.social

My toxic trait is thinking that I can soothe any crying baby despite their blood/bonded parents not being able to.

Just checked my message requests in the badplace and aside from a gazillion bots I found two cute dms about work I’d written years ago. Anyway here’s your reminder to go check your message requests

What a total star Michael Sheen is www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

My daughter is writing a paper on how corporate culture is affected by extreme and sudden social change -- in this case, how DEI went from standard practice to illegal in a matter of weeks I'd welcome any good academic sources to share with her, given how new this is.

Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States

Anyway drunk football fans are scary. Because what do you mean you’ve been drinking since 7.30am and you’re still drinking at 9pm. Is your liver even alive at this point?

Ended up on a train full of drunk yt football fans which ended up getting cancelled because they were out of control. And an old white uncle (uncle because he deserves the respect) noticed how anxious I was and kept talking to me and shielding me from them. Happy IWD.

my name is all in lowercase letters. no caps

I have proper business type in-person meetings today and look like a teenager who’s in their 2007 emo era.

Sandi Toksvig, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain President, shares her thoughts on the current AI and Copyright consultation and proposals being put forward by the government. As #writers we have until midnight 25th Feb to respond. @writersguildgb.bsky.social writersguild.org.uk/copyright-ai/

We at #BFIflare this March with BEFORE I DO. Directed by @gitikabuttoo.bsky.social and written by myself! whatson.bfi.org.uk/flare/Online...

What the subtweet equivalent on here? Did we ever decide?

So turns out my new show is sold out most nights. With only a few tickets available for the matinees. Everyone wants to fall in love it seems.

Last month I gave a talk on radical poetic practice at a University in Hyderabad. Feels super relevant to what’s happening this week. Our libraries and bookstores are how we retain knowledge of our histories.

The Heroines Anthology is open for submissions of poems & short fiction on the theme of witches, witch trials, medicine women, mystics, herbalists, spells, enchantments, shapeshifters, familiars, covens, hags, crones and sabbats. Deadline June 2025 Please share :) www.writingtheheroine.com

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Curtis Brown Creative offer a series of breakthrough scholarships, bursaries, courses and mentoring for new writers, writers of colour and writers on low income and others. Details in the link. Please share :)

Announcement Time 💍 💍 💍 You’re all invited to The Engagement Party written by myself and directed by @amandahuxtable.bsky.social for Oldham Coliseum. www.coliseum.org.uk/spektrix/spe...

The gorgeous residential Gladstone’s Library Writer in Residence programme provides space and resources for up to four writers whose work engages with liberal values in the broadest sense. Writers at all stages of their career can apply. Please share :) www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events/write...