Thread on AI creative writing

What kind of idiots are wasting their time and energy into trying to scam *authors*? Do they think more than 5% of authors have enormous royalty checks piling up in their bank accounts? Can't get blood from a stone.

I get one or two of these scam emails a day. A new twist is emails purporting to be from the presenter of R4 arts programmes inviting you to appear. Then charging you a fee. They’ve got it back to front. The BBC is supposed to pay us.

Really, there is more that unites us than divides us 🥹🤲

Sarah Perry on twitter eight years ago today ‘ Saw Peter Mandelson today, gliding down Mayfair as if on casters, a certain darkening density in the air about him, the tulips wilting in their pots as he passed, the blackbirds falling silent in Berkeley Square.’ 👏👏👏

Sarah Perry on twitter eight years ago today ‘ Saw Peter Mandelson today, gliding down Mayfair as if on casters, a certain darkening density in the air about him, the tulips wilting in their pots as he passed, the blackbirds falling silent in Berkeley Square.’ 👏👏👏

Did Your Party field candidates in these elections?

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

The pictures from the Met Gala make my flesh crawl. Apart from the sickening excess the clothes are ugly and unmoored from fashion’s purpose.

In the 90s my mother was a resident in a Jewish care home in London. When they held a jumble sale open to the community it had to be patrolled by police. This is the reality for British Jews.

Extremely pleased to hear this from Mark Rowley, much needed clarity when a community which has been repeatedly gaslit by senior figures about its own safety

When Andy Kershaw RIP was introduced to Dylan by Dave Stewart he addressed him as ‘your Bobness.’

I couldn't breathe because I was laughing so hard. That bird's an asshole! 😂😂😂😂😂 Best with volume up.

Just breaking up the timeline

If West were truly repentant he would have apologised before it was time to promote a new album and comeback tour. It reads like a cover story and promoters are using it as one

Constitutional guardrails… youtube.com/watch?v=rfbb...

Oh no. Truly a torchbearer. Set a high bar that I don't think has been matched since.

So sorry to hear that Jenni Murray has died. She was magnificent. I still miss her voice on Woman’s Hour.

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees For a bettir future Teach artes and humanityes

youtube.com/watch?v=ft0v... RIP Country Joe ‘Be the first one on your block to have your boy come home in a box’.

Yorkshire, black, pease, rice.

I’m thinking about starting a British version of the NYT connections puzzle designed to be unsolvable by Americans. Sample row: England players who missed a penalty.

Just learned that Keats had a younger brother who emigrated to America. His son, Keats’ nephew lived until 1917, into the age of cars and planes and world war.

Just learned that Keats had a younger brother who emigrated to America. His son, Keats’ nephew lived until 1917, into the age of cars and planes and world war.

FREE THE WINDSOR ONE DEFUND THE POLICE

£500 given out to a working class writer every month. Details in link. Please share :)

“Q: What do you think Jonathan thought of you? A: It doesn’t matter.” The Jewish Chronicle tried to replicate the Guardian’s Blind Date column. It didn’t go very well. (via @lindasgrant.bsky.social)

Feels like America is now run by Tony Soprano.

So much truth. And controversial view: for me one of the key differences between radio programmes and podcasts is that radio programmes rarely make me shout GET THE FUCK ON WITH IT I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU SAID EARLIER IN THE PUB I WASN’T THERE

Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...

I’ve just watched Die Hard for the first time. It was less Christmassy than I’d been expecting.

My kids woke up so excited this morning for the first night of Hannukah and now yet again we have a festival where I’m very conflicted about whether it’s safe to take them to synagogue to celebrate. Communities shouldn’t have to live like this.

I’d hoped it would be Tom Sutcliffe but Misha Glenny is a fine choice.

My experience of jury duty was exactly this. In the end one juror summed up the key points and got us over the line to a verdict. Turned out in his day job he was a solicitor.

In case anyone is wondering if Watson was really THAT bad, @lpachter.bsky.social compiled a list of quotes that are absolutely not for the faint of heart. liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...

The Andrew formerly known as Prince.

Which judges went on holiday together? Which author lost their literary innocence with a judge badmouthed his book? Who sat next to AS Byatt's roll of Sellotape? Me on the Booker Prize in the 2000s, with contributions from @ericawgnr.bsky.social, @lindasgrant.bsky.social, Damon Galgut and more:

Please share this letter in support of the City University professor of economics Michael Ben-Gad, who is receiving death threats and harassment, as part of an ongoing campaign to have him sacked owing to his having completed compulsory IDF service 1982-1985.

Can any flower experts tell me what these are please?

Trump now preparing to invade and annex Sweden.

To put events today in long term context, in the mid-90s during the height of Oslo my mother was in a Jewish care home in N. London. When it held a fundraising jumble sale it had to be patrolled by the police.

The Community Security Trust is one of the jewels of British Jewry which has its origins in the street fighting against the postwar resurgence of the Mosleyites and later the National Front. cst.org.uk/about-cst

I assume the conspiracy theories about the Manchester attack are in full force on X but I’m not going to look.

To put events today in long term context, in the mid-90s during the height of Oslo my mother was in a Jewish care home in N. London. When it held a fundraising jumble sale it had to be patrolled by the police.

You don’t actually have to both sides this. The Jewish community in the UK is not the Israeli government. You can just condemn the murder of two British Jews killed in their place of worship and you don’t have to say a single other thing.

RIP Brian Patten