"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?" Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

I’ve said it before and I’m sure I’ll say it a thousand times more: We are not a Christian nation. We are a nation where you are free to be a Christian. — Your religion guides you, not all of us. It’s as simple as that.

The Metropolitan Police will tomorrow allow tractors to block Whitehall, then travel in convoy through Westminster. Disruption could last 6 hours. In summer 2023, Netpol logged police arresting environmental campaigners for marching in the road on 274 occasions, often for as little as 3 minutes

Lovely to see Meet Me On The Bridge enter the top 100 Kindle books again! Only 99p for the whole of December 🎉🎉 #MeetMeOnTheBridge

1. Here's why I'll never use AI to assist my research or writing: A. I don't want to know exactly what I'm looking for. I mean that when I start researching a topic, I want to remain open to its contradictions and paradoxes, and to the unexpected paths that might lead off it. 🧵

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver.

I lost a crown (to a bar of chocolate) but carried it faithfully home (on a train from Slovenia), got to the dentist & had LOST IT. £770 for a new one. Readers, dear readers, prior to my appointment on Monday, I HAVE FOUND THE CROWN. That’s the entire message. Best day ever.

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Just finished #AfterTheParty on @channel4tv.bsky.social. STELLAR.

The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis

The next few years are going to be tough, but just remember what Anne Herbert said: "Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries." The best time to join your local library is right now - if you have not already done so!

To be fair she does look like a chicken.

Video shows the moment an Israeli air attack hit and destroyed a residential building in Beirut’s Chiyah area. The city’s southern suburbs have been struck repeatedly in recent months, but this is the first time this neighbourhood has been hit.

To clarify, no, Alison Hammond (lovely though she is) didn’t “write a book”. Writing a publishable book requires 100s of hours of specialist, expert work. #Bombshell was written by professional author Lisa Bent (in consultation with Alison) Not that you’d know it😕 #TheActualWriter #CelebrityFiction

A triumph. I highly recommend you read it. Thanks for the heads up, @jodierobins.bsky.social.

If you grew up in a home with other people, you've been using gender neutral bathrooms your entire life. See where I'm going with this?

A deer, posing on a crystal horizon, and some gorse.

The Onion. 👏😂

You could utterly destroy the smugglers "business model" in one move, but making it safer and simpler for people to seek asylum. Anything less is already shown to be counterproductive. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

Can we stop framing Inheritance Tax as being something the person who leaves it pays? You don’t pay it. You are dead. That’s why it is available for someone to inherit. Your beneficiaries pay it on the free money they have just received. #inheritancetax

Sound on (to hear the peace & solitude of the Scottish countryside).

So Linda McMahon is Betsy DeVos, and Nancy Mace is JK Rowling. Got it. Just keeping it all in my head.

This. Perfection.

@jamesaithie.bsky.social Great to see you! How’s the house & did you get a new dog yet?

Can I beg for followers on our retreat account too please? To hear more mornings like this one (annoyingly didn’t take my phone out today - it was stunning & frosty & fab!). @writescotland.bsky.social

In total 104 Metropolitan Police officers and staff were identified unlawfully accessing confidential personal data about Sarah Everard, who was murdered by one of their colleagues. DAC Stuart Cundy called most of these breaches "honest mistakes" 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Got an invite code for twitter if anyone wants it

Ok, so what I did - because me - was completely forget that I’d joined this on day one & make another account. So please ignore that and let’s use this… #FreePalestine

Imagine what the UK government would be doing if Sunak’s mother-in-law were trapped in Gaza.

it has the same number of letters as Mickey Mouse so I spell it to the tune of the old Mickey Mouse Club song

It’s sort of working: 5000 more followers & I’ll be back where I was…