As human beings, we really, really suck. www.bbc.com/news/article...

So Pras goes to jail but Trump becomes president. Yep. Seems like America. search.app/o7iVH

"Inspirations sleet through the universe continuously. Their destination, as if they cared, is the right mind in the right place at the right time."-- Terry Pratchett

the idea is not all that counts. the idea is nothing at all until it has been lassooed, corralled, mutated, shuffled, blended with other ideas, and then expressed over the medium of however many thousand words that you have selected and arranged as best you can. the idea is a promise, not a book.

If you sincerely think you have done the Author Job by having an idea, then of course it's legitimate to stick that idea into the regurgitron and claim the extruded word product as 'your book'. If the idea is all that counts then yes, you 'wrote a book'.

But the point (there is a point) is, people fetishise the idea over the hard work of plotting and character development and research and internal consistency and just writing the fucker, because the Idea is the sparkly magic bit. And this is what makes them put value in the AI prompt.

The African in me could NEVER put myself in a position to be chased by bloodhounds. Mba nụ. No. Niet. Non. Pero no. Nahin. ‘Are they going to eat me alive?’: trail runners become prey in newest form of hunting www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I'll stop talking about death when I get over this one. chikodiliemelumadu.substack.com/p/we-cry-tog...

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Now, they will laugh at us. They will say "Look at them, pestering us to return their artwork when they are not even united within themselves." www.bbc.com/news/article...

How do schools just die? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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😭😭😭😭 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait...so this Attlee woman wants an author and chef to change the name of her PUBLISHED cookbook featuring a word from her heritage...because Attlee already uses that word - not of her heritage - for her delis? Did I get that right? www.bbc.com/news/article...

In about ten years, the criminals will be trying to force the indigenes out of Nauru. We've seen it before. share.google/LT6Nw2WBSIFp...

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Ah, this is terrible. Oh no. Baek Se-hee, author of I Want to Die But I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, dies aged 35 | Books | The Guardian share.google/33TgUSQWQuI2...

Great. Now even the trees are trying to kill us. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

God, I want to be surprised. I am not. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

'Give us your stuff, but like, don't come to our country, yeah?' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Dame Jilly Cooper is deceased.

Notice something. www.bbc.com/news/article...

They'll live. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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White people do this ALL THE TIME on our continent. Leave them alone🤣 www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Maybe don't share videos of a guy shot in the neck.

My father is dead. The sun shines overhead. My limbs tingle. A woman compliments my hair, pink. 'Thank you' I say. A hand wrings my heart like a dishcloth. The daughter wants dessert after school. I hurl my heart-free body to an ice cream parlour. 'Thank you,' she says. My father is still dead.

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God, I am tired of American news. Were we not all here when they stormed the Capitol? Now that Babbitt woman is not only a 'hero' but her family has allegedly been compensated. Stay safe, friends. This is the worst timeline.

'The system is the villain.' www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Such hate on the TL.

Well. This is a devastating read and I am trying to stop myself from weeping. What a sad state of affairs.

Many people I follow are wilding out at #AEW which is lovely hey by the way wrestling fans, I have written a pro-wrestling themed murder mystery, it’s out in January, Simon Miller helped and everything www.waterstones.com/book/the-gra...

Dazzling aka 'Ozoemena' Russian edition. Sold before the war in Ukraine and subdued because of it.

Dazzling aka 'Ozoemena' Russian edition. Sold before the war in Ukraine and subdued because of it.

Hmm. Interesting concept but struggling with whether reading it might make me complicit. Which might sort of be the point. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

I remember why I stopped watching The Flash. It is poorly made and badly plotted, the rules are like shifting sands. What a foolish show. I hope everyone dies.

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