Jerlamerel is the most stupid name ever.

From frying pan to fire. Source: BBC search.app/RxpFa

I really hate female superheroes that were invented only as a counterpart to male ones. Supergirl's story is shit. So, she is sent to nanny Ka'el, falls into the Phantom Zone then 'somehow' gets out and gets to earth 24 years later. Shite. I hate it so much. #Supergirl 1/

There go my dreams of countryside living! mzharrison.substack.com/p/ceci-nest-...

Just found out the actor who playedLily Salvatore died two years ago. Just seen her in The Runaways. She was fantastic Annie Wersching. May she rest in peace.

We've updated the cover artwork for MUNTU by @genni.bsky.social to add a bit more contrast. This stunning novella (the first in a series) publishes May 12, 2026. Cover art by @nadiarausa.bsky.social. Layout by Tyson Schultz. Pre-order: badhandbooks.com/preorders/mu...

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Can someone who is more versed in comic book TV adaptations please explain to me why DC are just plain awful? God bless Grant Gustin, he'll always be my Flash but rewatching the TV series and it's just so bad. So. Bad. (I'm still watching. WHY?!) 1/

Dear bluskeeters! I'm doing research with a friend. If you're a Black Author with a speculative book publishing in 2026, could you please pitch and link me, please? This a difficult to sus intersection. Please add your friends' work. Please tag people. Please share

Is Nigeria no longer a sovreign nation anymore?!

But her emails! Happy Christmas, America.

A reasonable question here is: how do you *identify* slop consistently? At some level, you really can't—certainly not if someone has already fixed it. I don't propose a whole new infrastructure of policing here. It would be pointless. The answer is to back up the question a level.

The only reasonable position is zero tolerance: the AI industry must end sooner rather than later. It is culturally, socially, environmentally, and economically destructive, and all the Silicon Valley marketing in the world isn't going to make it otherwise.

E.g. If writers are being forced by employers or publishers to use AI, then entities representing the interests of writers should expose and protest that coercion.

The AI bubble will pop at some point, sure, but this is about limiting the damage it does to working writers. This is about protecting the field from the industry in the meantime.

We will get paid less, many of us will be forced out of the field and/or the industry, generations of new writers will find their development stunted and their early-career opportunities limited, and ultimately, the quality of the work available to readers will suffer.

AI is a direct threat to our livelihoods as well as the future of our professions, not because AI is capable of doing any of the work, but because our industries will use the threat of AI to make us all increasingly precarious. Uncertain futures and worse working conditions.

Translators, illustrators, researchers and editors all do creative, human work that is important and cannot be reproduced in part or in whole by AI any more than writers. Their interests are our interests. To legitimize the use of AI to replace them is a failure of principle as much as strategy.

There is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.

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Best present ever: Jake Paul's broken jaw.

Anyway, what is everyone reading today? www.thebookseller.com/news/david-w...

They really said "We no black!" Beachy Head Woman may be ‘local girl from Eastbourne’, say scientists www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Not Sophie Kinsella!!!

Source: The Guardian search.app/Sc2be

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...

Join us on Saturday, 22nd and Sunday, 23rd of November for an extraordinary musical weekend at Stationers’ Hall for the St Ceciliatide Concert and Reception and the St Ceciliatide Concert and Lunch.https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7394361264656961536

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...

Source: The Guardian search.app/KZ4bx

😭😭😭😭 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...