50 years?!! So according to my maths that makes it 40 years since I was at their 10th anniversary gig. Oh good god! I'm old! #TheDamned

Currently getting harassed by the Boots Opticians chatbot.

Uncle Lee is perfectly capable of causing mayhem when he's off-screen. Even more so, as he can get into all sort of shenanigans and no one has to animate them. Ask the firefighters.

Two clicks and no account to play? Why the heck wouldn't you!? And you can hear me as Uncle Lee (although I think he's just blathering on the phone in the demo).

After about an hour's sleep because my hotel room appeared to be next door to a giant noise machine I managed not to fuck up my lines on Emmerdale this morning and I'm calling that a win.

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And the 2025 award for best last line in an episode of a series that hasn't yet reached its conclusion goes to... #Pluribus

I thought I was handling the festive responsibilities rather well but yesterday I found I was watching YouTube videos about being a lighthouse keeper

This is absolutely fucking bananas the way that these people are *so close* to getting it but still manage to miss it by a fucking mile.

Iain's death still remains as one of the most shocking gut-punches I've ever had on hearing about an author's passing, but listening to Ken's recollections here has brightened my day. Also, if you haven't already, read some Ken, he's bloody marvellous too!

-Comes into your space uninvited, without permission -Greedily uses up resources preferentially - Forces a new mode of existence on you -Steals your own shit to sell back to you -Desperately wants to convince you that its arrival is good, that these are glad tidings AI or colonialism?

I'm in this! A wonderful not-allowed-to-tell-you-coz-it's-secret character. Though probably not in the first hour...so you'll just have to wait 🤐

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful. A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

Oooh, I just got a lovely message from the mighty @jim.londoncentric.media who wrote this fine piece, which has warmed my cockles still further. Thanks again, sir!

Got a call from a pal who never really calls for a *chat*. Bit odd, I thought. Turns out his dog had diarrhoea(d) all over itself so he was hiding in the bedroom until someone else came home to clean it up and he had nothing better to do. 🤷

This article I narrated for @theguardian.com is brilliantly ridiculous and warmed the cockles* of my heart. What a guy! *A mollusc pun for which I will not apologise.

I have grown to believe that excessive wealth does something to your brain that is analogous to a serious head injury

Unexpectedly decided to give Patrick Ness a go and discovered the finest opening lines ever to be written. The first thing you find out when yer dog learns to talk is that dogs don't got nothing much to say. About anything. "Need a poo, Todd." "Shut up, Manchee." "Poo. Poo, Todd." "I said shut it."

At what point do you switch her off? Because that will be down to you, and probably due to the yearly/monthly subscription increases. "I'm sorry love, but we can't afford grandma anymore, it's her or Netflix"

I keep thinking about all of the people who were NOT hired as part of this exercise. All the real world production crew. The actors. The caterers supporting real world shoots. So many people with real skills not being paid. So. Many. Creative. People. Not. Being. Paid.

An absolute horrific nightmare of two AI bots caught in a loop with each other is the perfect example of the total nothingness of AI “brains”.

Something humans have been doing since the dawn of fucking humanity...this numpty cannot imagine figuring it out without genAI. Other primates can do this just fine, but humans need ChatGPT. Right.

I've got a new audiobook out today but those posts don't seem to get much traction so I'm not going to tell you about it.

One of those spooky moments when as I'm reading The Guardian I get an email from The Guardian offering me a job. Thankfully, I wasn't reading the actual article they want me to narrate else I'd be starting to question reality, I can tell you.

Latest painting (acrylic on canvas)

God, this is a superb thread. Particularly enjoyed the description of AI *writing* as "The whole thing frigid as a robot's bare metal arsecheek."

I think, on reflection, my considered view is...fuck that shit! 😀 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚

I've gone deaf due to wax build up so using ear drops and I'm wandering around the house trying to keep them in and worried the neighbours are thinking my head is falling off.

It's always a shock when I walk out of the booth after a ridiculously immersive session and it's unexpectedly nighttime. But then I'm reminded of this e e cummings poem and everything is right again.

Speaking parts?

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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from. tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this. 🧵⬇️

You know what tomorrow is, my lovelies? IT'S LEGO ENTERPRISE-D RELEASE DAY! The thought of that is giving me life right now. As is this very silly thing that I hope makes you laugh too.

Shh, don't tell anyone, this is my favourite corner of the science fiction cupboard. I take a spin through a whole CENTURY of space opera from the gaudy to the deadly serious. Check it out 👀! 🪐📚💙 #scifibooks #sciencefiction #booktube #spaceopera youtu.be/oMjIcY4OpRQ

To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Do NOT license your voice to ElevenLabs. Their highest-paid actor made $30k last year. Sounds a lot, but that’s from 1.2 bn paid uses - $0.000025 per job. ElevenLabs charge 20 cents per 1,000 words. So they’re making at least 8,000 times what their artists are. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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The force of the Enterprise is strong with this one.

The continuing disappointment of buying a really crap loaf of bread - Day 3.

#booksky #signalboost #bookstand #AuthorSky #AuthorLife #BookMarketing #SelfPublishing Is there a better way of marketing my book to boost sales, without spending thousands on an ad campaign? Asking cos I literally have 4 sales 😂😂 I’d appreciate any shares *he mentioned casually 😉*

Spent all afternoon teaching myself how to make a semi-respectable (you may disagree) #voiceover resume and now my eyes are bleeding. Anyhoo, here it is. I hope you like it 🙂

With alt text.

It baffles me that plays- words intended for performance- are taught as solely literary texts. As soon as you get them up on their feet, you feel what it is-you understand the sounds, the meter, the shape of it all. To quote Hamlet, on acting “suit the action to the word, the word to the action”

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I can only admire Quinn's taste in literary criticism. But admiration that takes third place, after (2) his abs and (1) his superbly laid-back on-the-stairs dog.

If your game has voice acting, then working with the voice actors is half of your writing process. It's not complete until you've heard it interpreted and reimagined by a voice actor. And they always reimagine it in ways that elevate the writing, in ways you never would have imagined yourself.

I recorded a small role for this splendid #DoctorWho fan series because, well, it's Doctor Who, innit? Handily, I feature right at the start, before the opening sequence (and that opening sequence is really rather brilliant).

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