Attention All Shipping autumn tour dates just announced, dandies. Tickets via www.shippingshow.co.uk/tour. See you out there!

Go on, do explain how LLMs can help me "get ahead" if - it cant edit well - it can't be used to search the web - it can't be used for research or facts - it can't be used to write prose (and it would be unethical to ask it to do this anyway) - it cannot reliably summarize or reference a document

just want to re-up that I was extremely right about this & it's been a DISASTER specifically for journalism students (as well as the entire planet)

Unexpected Scrappy Doo vibe from 'Project Hail Mary'.

Remarkable that the agricultural inheritance tax changes which will affect less than 200 estates a year gets a long news report but insane changes to self-employed tax reporting which will burden millions with massive extra bureaucracy is completely ignored.

Truly embarrassing, from Martyn Brown in The Express

Ah yes, the annual panicky stomach-lurch of the "you need to submit your tax return" e-mail from HMRC this morning.

I see we've reached a point where the US president writing 'praise be to Allah!' in an Easter Sunday message is the least bizarre thing about that message.

Wouldn't class myself as a pedant but despite having written something approaching 20 books I'm still not over someone removing the hyphen from Terry-Thomas on the first page of my first book after I'd approved the final proofs.

Polite suggestion for good etiquette re blurbs: 1 - Don't ask for too many. Maybe 3 is enough but no more than 5. 2 - If you have a word count, say so up front. 3 - Don't abbreviate/edit it without asking first. 4 - Don't ask for a blurb and not use it. 5 - Offer a courtesy copy of the final book.

Beating the record held by my mum when she found those cigarettes in my bedroom.

Beating the record held by my mum when she found those cigarettes in my bedroom.

That’s quite the aside in this LRB piece about Flannery O’Connor.

Yes.

An alternative retelling of the story of Easter that follows Barabbas having the best weekend of his life

Played the hell out of this back in the day.

Fun fact: 54% of US adults read below a 6th grade level. You have to actively remember literally over half the US adult population is *unable to perceive subtext* www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...

Henceforth the town should be known as Tutununeaton

The Scott Mills Bridge at Fleet services has quietly had its plaque removed

It's time to repost this Easter masterpiece

[reading a book in first person] i dont remember doing any of this

It's April Fools' Day, so I will be responding to all work emails with 'Haha, good one!'

This is excellent >> Mark Lewisohn on the race to save the Beatles' story from AI and algorithms www.thenewworld.co.uk/jeremy-black...

The special signed limited edition hardback copies of #1996book, wot I rote with the legend himself Tony Adams are here. And they look gorgeous. Exclusive to @floodlitdreams.bsky.social website. Buy here, and it'll be with you ahead of April 14 publication date. floodlitdreams.com/shop/1996-re...

Well, if it isn't the annual occasion when journalists decide against all evidence and advice that they're actually hilarious comedy writers. Oh goody.

If you see this drop a hero with a sword.

Did you know Thora Hird was once in a movie with Marlon Brando?

Celebrities of Scotland: Hercules the Bear at the Loch Lomond Bear Park Festival with Pete Shelley of Buzzcocks, Lee Brilleaux of Dr Feelgood and The Stranglers' Hugh Cornwell. (1979)

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

Fascinated by Marco Rubio’s hairline. It’s almost entirely without substance or form. It is liminal, unreachable: a madman’s lilo. A cow’s memory of war

Benny Hill – Hit Parade. A 1961 EP, featuring Gather In The Mushrooms, Pepy's Diary, Gypsy Rock, and Transistor Radio

For #worldtheatreday I shall be promenading wearing my badge tribute to sock and buskin.

This looks fine.

For the time that’s in it, a beautiful version of one of the most beautiful songs. youtu.be/E1oyW6yP3Gk?...

Barbara Woodhouse training a pig.

the afternoon tea menu at Carton House is one of the funniest things i have ever seen in my life

I was never a "Dynasty" fan, but had I known Carrington Manor was a death trap I would've probably watched this show.

A #painting you might like. "Pier Fishing" came out of all the times I've gone to a pier and some young woman or young man was there before me owning the world and its oceans, and I would quietly watch. While this particular scene was in Antrim it was inspired by many piers. #art #SpeirGhorm #scape

In Wrong (1914). #SilentFilm

Dundee looking fine in the spring sunshine.

The End and the Beginning by Wislawa Szymborska, trans. Joanna Trzeciak.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

77 million people voted for this arsehole.

Some opening paragraph to Joanna Biggs’ review of the On The Calculation of Volume series in the LRB.

Adored the TV adaptation of ‘Break In The Sun’ when I was a kid so am excited about this.

These are cringe and they are stubbornly incurious of English placename traditions. The towns that are named after individuals are in colonies.

New newsletter out luvs - click for motorcycling sea lions, a pickled egg update and a chair made from a shipwreck. charlieconnelly.substack.com/p/north-atla...

New newsletter out luvs - click for motorcycling sea lions, a pickled egg update and a chair made from a shipwreck. charlieconnelly.substack.com/p/north-atla...