From what I’m hearing from other writers, AI is already being used to generate marketing plans, etc, at major publishing houses. It isn’t great! But to say that AI is a useful tool for small press publishers is disingenuous, naive, and blinkered boosterism.

Yes, this is just exhausting.

Just a moment. But in Bluesy I have hundreds of times more engagement, and I’m not even trying. People just seem to like my random thoughts. Wild.

Most normal people have no idea quite how malignantly bonkers the anti-vax lobby is… The leaders and their acolytes and devotees are vicious and cruel and also support such vile nonsense as feeding children bleach to “cure” their autism This is not to be taken lightly #vaccineswork

I have made the fabric I saw in my dream. I am doing it in all the colors I remember from the dream. I am going to wait till tomorrow to upload it to spoonflower and order my samples as I am waiting of feed back on the background colors I am doing of it.

The Stick Man family on hols at Rotherslade 😄 #BeachArt #Gower #Wales

91 of 2025 I cannot wait for the rest of the world to get to see what @sunyidean.com has brought to life (and death and life again) in this one. Equal parts rumination on grief and forgiveness and a good old fashioned ghost tale, there’s so much Good going on here. And and and also? A cat named Bao.

They originally thought the flu was caused by a bacterium…so any vaccine created in 1918 wouldn’t have even targeted/involved the actual influenza virus… The influenza virus was only discovered in the 9130s

I wish they gave these to you every time you increased academic rank. I particularly tend to forget (took a long time to recognise) the second point. I got this at the council of Europe parliamentary meeting two weeks ago Monday.

A podcast with me!

@jaythechou.bsky.social could I request Paddington in the Stranger Things coming out scene? I mean: everyone else was there…

I’m running the robot vacuum cleaner…half the fun is hearing it cry out for help and finding out what it’s choked on this time…this made me laugh, started to scoop it out and had to take a photo…

Well..Gurathin initially (but he came round to team-SecUnit pretty fast!) 😂😂😂

Who wouldn't love an insecure assassin cyborg who just wants a little free time to watch TV?

This looks like a Murderbot-Gurathin 2025 campaign poster.

So many stories which make me think of The Patrician in Pratchett’s Jingo: ‘As they say, "If you would seek war, prepare for war."’ I would rather we didn’t have a war

what time is it? wine o'clock? everything else makes way for that.

Describe your BlueSky account in a single image

Why is this in my saved photos?

Describe your BlueSky account in a single image

The winds are hard enough that Gävlebocken fell.

Two weeks before Rob Reiner died…Princess Bride is so much part of of lives… RIP 💖💖💖

An outfit a day, 27th December 2025 New dress!

Percy is a giant!

sparkly!

Oldy but goody

an easy way to understand this is that people make clothes cool and not the other way around. so our judgement of what looks "good" is often shaped by the cultural capital of various social groups. punks, skaters, hip hop heads, etc look stylish simply bc they are cool. thus money is not a barrier.

An outfit a day, Boxing Day 2025 We are into the final furlong now! It’s Panto day! So sparkly clothes and a guest appearance by Percy, my older child

Look at my cute bunny eared skull earrings!

Americans celebrate Thanksgiving, when the original Americans helped foreigners arriving in small boats, who couldn’t feed themselves, to survive the winter. Christians celebrate Christmas when shepherds and wizards helped hide a refugee family from an oppressive regime. Have I got this right?

Happy Boxing Day!

Still keeping festive with this beautiful Bohemian Waxwing enjoying the cotoneaster berries.

Can I just say how much I hate that Leon stole from a pretentious Heinlein story when he named “Grok”? Doubly pretentious. It was cringe before cringe was a thing.

"By replacing rigorous evaluation with a process engineered to deliver preordained outcomes, the administration is trashing science. The Guinea-Bissau trial is the worst manifestation of this anti-science, anti-human perspective."

No, Murderbot book verse! Tldr on the survey everyone except Gurathin & MB die and the two of them have to deal with the aftermath 😭. Gaaah. I'm reading the aftermath fic rn and it huuurts. (They're both getting therapy though which is good!) 🫂❤️❤️❤️

And some gorgeous photos! My theme this year was golden—and it was joyful! The Living Advent Calendar is such a wonderful community project, bringing together all part of our community and those further afield—and raises funds for three local charities: www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

Murderbot is checking the perimeter. Ilya and Shane are going to the cottage. Even in the darkest times, our imaginations create places for love and safety.

New comic. Merry Christmas! 💚🌟❤️

Londo Mollari of Centauri Prime and G'Kar of Narn.

G'Lar and Londo They sure acted like an old married couple anyway!

And the last window! Christmas Eve, window 24!

An outfit a day, Christmas Eve 2025

Face paint…

An outfit a day—bonus: Me and my Family at the traditional local carol walk…

STATE OF BANG! (For the uninitiated: when I first posted Drumbot, it was in the era when Bing would automatically translate Tweets it thought weren't in English, and @rosewind.bsky.social reported that it had offered "state of bang" for the phrase "BANG BANG BANG" in Vietnamese.)

An outfit a day, Christmas Eve 2025 Two outfits today too—this is the sensible one: Santa Addams? Morticia Claus?

Window 23 a wonderful window from a wonderful lady! Judith does so much for the local community in so many ways—she is a STAR! 🌟✨⭐️✨🌟

"[RFK jr.] may as well have shot the bullets himself [...] and I hold him and his colleagues personally responsible for that violence and the death of that officer", says Daskalakis. Their rhetoric dehumanizing people who do public health created the environment that led to the attack, he says.

This is just a note to say that I have eaten the falcon in a widening gyre and that you were probably saving for anarchy Forgive me it was delicious so rough and full of passionate intensity

Had we but falcons enough, and time, This widening gyre would be no crime. Yet the blood-dimmed tide shall flow, Vaster than empires, far less slow. And if the center cannot hold— Well then, lady, let’s be bold!