The closer the bubble gets to popping, the ragier and more defensive the fanboys get

Write them out anyway, because bad writing can usually be fixed through revision and practice. Most of writing well happens through practice. It's a skill as much as if not more than a talent. Most people could write decently well, given time and effort.

Here's an unclaimed #buyastrangerabook day offer. As it's April 1st, @louiseheal.bsky.social and is offering to buy someone something funny, up to £15. (it has to be a book, obvs). If you want some suggestions, let me know, but Louise would love to send you a book, so get in touch. UK only

Here's another amazing #buyastrangerabook day offer! @jaynee-b.bsky.social is offering to buy someone a copy of Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb. It's the first in the epic Farseer Trilogy. If it's something you'd like, get in touch! UK only.

Hello friends. I wrote a piece about martinis and my late father for Vittles. Hope ya dig it 🍸🫀 substack.com/@vittles/not...

April fools! We're all fools and it's April. Anyway

We're shockingly prone to "cognitive surrender."

Only 47 hours left to help fund the next stretch goal for the Lesbians In Space audiobook (which I will be narrating). Another short story is in reach: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s... @wctracy.bsky.social

I highly recommend Wolf Worm by @tkingfisher.com. I listened straight through in just 2 days to @maryrobinettekowal.com reading the audiobook. I devoured it like insects devouring a carc… ok, let's just say I really liked it.

And where is MY dinner?

Subscribe to @coyotemedia.org ! If you're not in the Bay Area you might think 'why would I subscribe to a Bay Area-focused publication' but Coyote publishes incredible reporting, cultural criticism, and work that's about way more than the Bay bubble. Great people, great reads.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75... There's also an emergency rally on Wednesday in London.

I know that there are a lot of different ways to be in the world, but I actually cannot comprehend how anyone who uses GenAI to do some of their research and/or writing thinks of themselves as a thinker and writer. The thing that makes me a writer is that I do my writing. I also do my prep for it.

It might not help much but here’s 10 seconds of my dog dramatically snorting like a pig in the Happg Hoodie grooming aid. 💜

Bananas and Orkney fudge seem like a very good combination.

Birthday present ideas help please for a boy turning 11, and no ideas being given by parents. (ROLLING EYES HERE) Any general ideas that might suit the age group?

"Stop asking for more salary and better working conditions or we are going to punish the general population" is some petty bullshit

I watched an interview yesterday with the guy that Steve Carell played in The Big Short, Steve Eisman. I didn’t realise that in Sept 2024, he tweeted that he was celebrating “Screams of Palestinians being burnt alive”. So now I can’t enjoy that movie anymore.

"AI is here, we can't put the toothpaste back in the tube." When I accidentally squeeze out too much toothpaste, I don't then shove it all in my mouth. I wash it down the plughole. #UKSG2026

no way it reached #2 lmfaooo

If you submitted an Anthropic claim, I recommend calling them and confirming it. Their system is riddled with errors and issues. Even if you got a confirmation number, maybe check: 1-877-206-2314

hey, if AI proponents hadn’t been making up nonsense about AI tools while forcing them on us, then maybe people wouldn’t reflexively block AI tools, even when they actually work. that’s not on normies for being rational consumers. that’s on AI proponents for being systematically full of shit

Hello, it's time for another round of Products Pinterest's Algorithm Thinks I Should Buy. Today's search was the salacious "pottery glaze combinations" and based on that, the algorithm suggested this kicky couples Halloween costume:

Bluesky book club’s April Catch-22 read starts April 1! I am organizing it and maintaining the feed, so please message me if you’d like to join. Once I’ve added you, you can post to the feed with the helmet emoji 🪖 or #catch22. Feed is here: bsky.app/profile/did:...

When I adopted my second dog, I did not adequately calculate the logistics of sharing a bed with two dogs whose sole nightly goals seem to be to lie as physically close to me as possible while also hogging as much of the bed as possible

what if we got a 100% blockrate on it. what if they designed an AI and we unanimously said "nope"

A little Sunday evening TV.

"Tigris - undomesticated" hand embroidery artwork. I have shared this before, but I do love it so can't resist sharing again. #StunDay #embroidery #art #WildlifeArt

I really can't be bothered to change the clock on the oven.

i feel seen

Goodnight.

Pink, for spring. Revolutionary.

guys who have very clearly never organized anything bigger than a birthday party logging on to make snide lil posts about no kings. talking about a general strike when you couldn't coordinate snacks for a 4th grade soccer team 🤭

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"...every other chef I spoke to for this piece asked to be anonymous. [...] No amount of hand-wringing over Redzepi will matter if we continue to reward brilliance that’s built on exploitation." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Each spring, blossom makes our local neighbourhoods that little bit brighter and remind us that sunnier days are on the horizon. As #BlossomWatch gets underway, save our bingo board and see how many varieties you spot. 🌸

🚨 The Government is retrospectively changing the rules on who can settle permanently in the UK, affecting thousands of people already living here lawfully. Sign now: the.organise.network/campaigns/ne...

Similarly, referring to “AI” as an actor rather than a tool serves to absolve people and institutions of accountability. I’m struck by how many so-called leaders seem happy to treat widespread “AI” adoption as a fait accompli, an act of God or natural phenomenon that can’t be contested, only managed

People don't tend to think "hey I will use this overly complex and expensive student route specifically so I can reach the UK to seek asylum". It tends to be "I am studying in the UK and now cannot return because someone will kill me because I studied in the UK". 8/

The book banning school in Manchester has now been named, the Lowry Academy. Some of the books have been returned to the shelves but not all. Glad to hear CILIP are supporting the librarian ://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/greater-manchester-school-library-censorship-who-is-accountable/

As the police find no evidence whatsoever of illegal family voting or voter coercion in the Gorton and Denton by-election, the BBC should ask themselves why, on the morning of the result, they gave so much airtime to these absurd and obviously racist claims from Nigel Farage

Greater Manchester Police has found "no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting" in the Gorton and Denton by-election, after Reform made a complaint over alleged "family voting" The investigation looked at potential offences under the Representation of the People Act

"David, what do you mean it's a problem when well-intentioned but uninformed people try to guess how to solve a conservation problem?"

I just think that if you wake up unsure of whether it's Friday or Saturday, and it ends up being Friday, you should receive automatic financial compensation for that level of emotional turmoil

A colleague from Estonia lived here for six months. She could not believe that we live like this. The pharma commercials. The phone spam. The instore sales. She was so overstimulated.

It's things like this that make me regularly thank any deity listening for GDPR.

It's funny that there's a whole media ecosystem telling guys that the most masculine thing they can do is be terrified of cities and constantly express child-like fear of big place loud noises many people. "Big place? Loud noises? Many people? Don't be scared, our tactical dude wipes will help"