The ongoing issue of LLM training chipping away at copyright is exhausting. So many writers whose work has been stolen to train these LLMs responded to the government's consultation, and with every single question it was made abundantly clear that our views & rights didn't matter. Just our words.

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

Charlie Stayt, "A lot of people think those leaflets are the nasty side of politics" Zack Polanski, "Genocide is quite nasty"

‘hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it's over. no, i lost. he saw u drop me off & did a pretty devastating rhyme about it’

It's so exciting to wake up to hopeful news for a change. Congratulations to the @greenparty.org.uk for a fantastic result. Nice little bonus that the Tories lost their deposit.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

A rare outtake.

I've been stuck under a blanket on the sofa with a truly horrific bug for the last couple of days, so I've been thankful for the warm hug of a book that is The Demon Overlord's Retirement Plan to get me through (and yes, I did immediately read the sequel, too) #Booksky #sff

One more reason I stay indie.

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

It never ceases to confound me just how many folks think the point of essays is to provide teachers with essays. That teachers just like, collect them, or need them for sustenance or something. Rather than the point of them being the *actual fucking act of learning how to think about shit*

I’ve also been comparing AI to asbestos and radium—technology that had a bunch of benefits but then turned out to be deadly. The only difference is we already KNOW AI is killing people and they’re shoving it into everything anyway

The Supreme Court:

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

When Norfolk Police ask Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor if he has any special dietary requirements whilst in custody:

Under new plans the government will automatically remove SCUBA divers' access to air tanks once they reach a depth of 30m, just to make sure they really need it before continuing.

THE WINNER

Oh so it does have phd level intelligence

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

Pancake Day approaching? Bored of the same old lemon and sugar pancakes? Then why not add some extra vim to the proceedings and throw a Lupercalia Pancake Party!

Lovely bit of spirited play at the end there, just a glimpse of possibility #WALvFRA

And I thought last week's game was bad #WALvFRA

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Every promo shot of every British electronica trio c. 1997.

Remember, it's not a true loss unless it's in the Rugby region of England, otherwise it's known as 'sparkling humiliation' #WALvFRA

Cat burglar (n.) One who steals cats. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Roses are red 🌹 Pulses are leguminous 🫘 They produce 20 times more protein per hectare 🏞️ Compared to meat that comes from ruminants 🐮

The AI bros (who clearly don't understand AI) in the comments are hilarious. "ask stupid questions, get stupid answers". LLMs have no concept of how intelligent a question is, and they certainly were not designed to deliberately give stupid responses if they deem your question too stupid. 1/?

THREE WEEKS until this virtual deep-dive into the editing process! If you haven't grabbed your ticket yet, now is the time!

Roses are red, These times are quite trying

Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...

😂

I am not even kidding but I've been searching for the original MS of a story with "gaslight" in the title and file explorer says there never was one.

Hey folks -- Signal Boost time for this week's #TheFullLid. If you have a creative project to promote, leave the details in a reply. Include the title and a link please, so folks can find it. For pre-launch crowdfunders let us know about 2 weeks in advance.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Utterly depressing first half from Wales there, absolute horror show #ENGvWAL

Funny how all these awful shits banging on about "core British values" always mean racism. They never mean the post-war consensus of a welfare state, NHS, social housing that dominated and transformed the lives of most people currently alive in the UK.

Okay but Zack Polanski has been coming out with bangers

Indie authors using Draft2Digital, this does indeed work, and your self pubs can now be sold on bookshop.org

this weekend i visited a beloved local cafe/record store and they had a bathroom labeled "Gay Bathroom". when we complimented the sign the barista said sometimes shitty people ask if there's a different bathroom they can use, so they have a second one in the other room labeled "Super Gay Bathroom"

Grab some great romantasy reads at the Farobub Stuff Your Kindle day, Feb 2nd only! #booksky #romantasy #paranormalromance

thank you for sharing this! printable version with alt text

Amazing coda here.

I don’t know if this will help any of my other neurodivergent peeps, but you know what I’m doing a lot of now? Logic puzzles. The little grids with “Bob has brown hair and killed either the dragon or the kraken, but not on Tuesday” clues. Having to focus so intently shuts up the anxiety for a bit.

If you feel "hamstrung" by human rights laws and by health and safety laws - you are the person those laws were designed to protect us against. You need to be obstructed by those laws. Also, she's lying.

Readers... this AI shit in Amazon ebooks is something authors can't opt out of and it's frankly illegal, but when did that stop tech companies? The only thing they respond to (sometimes) is customer backlash — don't use this feature and tell Amazon you hate it. kindlepreneur.com/amazon-ask-t...