@hookland.bsky.social , I've been trying to buy Fragments for over a week now. No success.

I can't wait to become an overnight success.

Yep. all this. The whole thread really but the racism is up thing - this might have exacerbating factors such as US white supremacy but the UK government is at fault because they have the power to do something about it and instead stood around like ignorant buffoons repeating racists' talking points

Batman / Judge Dredd Judgement on Gotham arrived. Oversized. I got it for the absolutely loco Simon Bisely art. The dialogue is cringe in parts, so-so in others. Best to just look at it like you would an art book.

What? Fuck, no. You folks are compromised.

Sumi ink and correction fluid

Humans, don't change a single thing for fear of accusations. "But this reads as if-" That's because they stole my fucking work to train it, Hubert. I will change nothing. I look forward to the day someone accuses me of using AI in my writing. I have choice words at the ready.

Read 'In Vetera' and thought it was some Latin phrase flex only to find out it means, literally, 'in a place called Vetera'. Probably a good hint that I'm tired and should go to bed.

I hate this world where every email I get is suspect. Even the simplest email requires due diligence these days.

Ahh, the 1990s, where Regression Hypnotism thrived (although it was debunked in the 1980s), captured in amber in the X-Files.

Jesus, Zeus, and Mithra, there's a lot of anger about today.

It’s amazing seeing @holdenthorp.bsky.social say the obvious part clearly. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Happy Friday.

Son(watching X-Men 97): Would you still love me if I were a mutant? Me: You mean you're not? You've been human this whole time? Really? Does your mother know? Son: Daaad... Me: *panic mode, throwing hands up* Ahhhh, he's human, he's human! Son: This is not funny. Me: it's a little funny.

I don't suppose end-organ sensitivity, receptor resistance, genetic variants, and, you know, science, figures in these folks world view...

Not in the UK, it's not.

#JackeyJuly : A month of daily #NeurographicArt Day 13: Title: “Home” Sharpie & marker on paper Please join me in making NA each day of July? Only 1 rule: do art in neurographic method at least 10 mins per day. OK to do more. Any medium. Do 1 daily, or work on 1 or more each day #Art

Every single time I hear someone, shill, creative scab, corporate person, anyone, say anything about how AI improves our lives it just makes me want to make something crude and imperfect with my fucking hands.

So, I see George Lucas has lost his midichlorians.

You all need to hold on to whatever learning you have. You may need to teach your kids and grandkids yourself. Hold on to the literature and the arts. This systematic destruction is going to be a long, hard road. We'll need storage silos and stuff. You can learn a few tricks from oral tradition.

"If you want to write, write; don't prompt." - Tuco (probably)

I'm about to do something that's most likely going to fail and leave me open to a big bag of I Told You So. And yet, I'm gonna do it because it involves having faith in a person. I believe in them, even though I know objectively they might not be able to do this. The faith is the point.

"May"? What's all this "may" business? Comics are good for you. (During the Satanic Panic my mum used to say comics were like cigarettes for the mind,which was ineffective because that was my peak smoking experiment period.)

Google trying to sneak a Gemini tab into Chrome like "what do you mean, I was here all this time" Nah, cuz

If the commonest comment about your product is, "how do I turn this off?" it may not be the transformative technology you're pimping it out to be.

The newborn city emerges from the primordial ooze of industrial petrochemical and nuclear waste. You can see lights popping on in the neonatal high-rises, although it is a myth that they contain human occupants. Time to maturity varies by hemisphere, but many cities do not survive childhood.

Feed coffee to your Lawsonibacter asaccharolyticus.

Space: 1999

The most pertinent question of our time.

When I was a student, I met the tail end of a time when hospitals would record unwell people, sometimes in video. By the time I got some letters after my name, the practice was essentially banned. Now, we're being encouraged to record interviews by means of AI. Things that make you go 'hmm'...

Let them fight dot gif.

Writers (of whatever), if you've ever sold a short/poem/essay, is the first venue that you sold to still in business? My first actual sale was to Ideomancer back in 2002 or 2003. They are defunct. What was yours?

Wow, it looks like this is real. I had hoped it was a hoax. This is what Marvel put out. Jeez and Jinkies...

And humour is hard to write. Humorous satire even more so. Sir Terry was brilliant and his writing was layered.

Son 1 said draw a goggly-eyed monster. Son 2 said draw a artist. This is the compromise.

Folks, I'm telling you, drawing a stick figure yourself is better (and more ethical) cover art than using genAI. Fitzcarraldo editions don't even use cover art. And actual stick figures have been used for cover art. If you take the time to think about it, you can come up with a great cover.

Guess what comes out in the UK in paperback this Thursday?

Advert: "I know it sounds like you have to have a PhD to use AI..." No, it does not, dummkopf. Only you think that.

"The Greeks were wrong about the sun; she is definitely a woman. I know her well. She often visits me, but not often enough." Alasdair Gray / The Problem

So in addition to stealing Walter White('s actor), Vince Gilligan also took the fumigation tent meth lab from X-Files for use in Breaking Bad.

Jeez, the child will eat Dominos, but I can't get him to eat the infinitely more healthy pizza I bake for him. Quality ingredients and everything. Sigh.

Sportsball update via ambient noise: 'how did he moss that?' I have no idea who missed what. But I enjoy not knowing.