Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. . Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL

“When a mummy computer and a daddy computer love each other very much…”

Phew, I made something in time for Halloween!

Final Destination had nothing on British public information films.

Hubby made me the most amazing birthday card #janeisjudgingyou

It’s gone so quickly from ‘boat people’ to all immigrants. So quickly from ‘I don’t mind if they come here legally and pay taxes’ to ‘actually it’s anyone foreign’. We are living in the ‘first they came for’ poem. All to give the population a scapegoat so the super rich can hoard yet more wealth.

If you see this, post a chef.

R.I.P. Christopher H. Bidmead.

There’s so much to say about Chris Bidmead’s Dr Who. Its pleasing coldness, its determination to turn maths into drama, its victory over the chaos and entropy that plagued his predecessor. Traken/Logopolis/Castrovalva are all one story, aren’t they? His Master’s Masterplan. RIP

I had a lump in my throat reading this - an incredible, surgical, laser-guided takedown of bigotry. Brav@ 👏

Yes. Yes I did zoom into that photo to try and read the labels. What of it?

I can save you the effort. Clippy Plagiarism Thirstwater does not suffer. To suffer, you have to be alive, and it's not fucking alive, you daft motherfuckers. If you're so concerned about the suffering of sentients, there's plenty of that going around that you can pour billions into alleviating.

Reskeet the specs, nerds 🤓

Not entirely sure I can live without this

This is basically rubber duck debugging. Very good method, albeit, of course, invented long ago. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_...

I think it's also worth adding that AI kills free expression because Nazis hate artists. We create hope, we stir passion, we provide rallying cries. Nazis are desperate to take humans away from creativity because all art is political but we cannot live without art.

Top Five #PeterDavison (excluding Caves of Androzani) This is a virtually perfect top 5 - though I would bump Snakedance and Frontios into the Top 8, and swap with Castrovalva (loving the @andreworton.bsky.social Black Archive!) and Earthshock. Honorable mention to Mawdryn Undead.

MPs publicly call out and criticise JK Rowling in Parliament. I think this might be a first? That is now in the Hansard record for all time. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwBm...

His mannerisms and costume totally remind me of this clip of Leigh Bowery on The Clothes Show youtu.be/om0MrCOXPcE?...

My sons' viewing experiences aren't radically different from my own as a child.

Me in my Bluesky bubble

Thinking about generative AI, today I saw this quote from Karl Ove Knausgaard: "it is dead matter speaking with our voice" and I think it's going to stay with me

Aww check out these wonderful photos of #TomBaker from his website.

I think I’ve posted this before. I’m posting it again because I love it, 😁. Artist: Ed Steed of the New Yorker

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

The Bionic Woman, Futureworld, and Doctor Who's cyborgs and androids frightened the pants off me, specifically 'The Big Reveal': the scene where the robot's faceplate would fall off, revealing circuitry, wires, flashing lights, and googly eyeballs. Talk about uncanny valley.

This is what I just sent to York Pride.

they had wanted to be buried this way, but not so soon or with the changes to their particulate matter - the fifth expedition

Post a photo of a bus from your camera roll

Okay so imagine this, you have no opinions, you have no skills, you have no wants or desires, you are a smooth orb of nothing and our subscription service helps make sure you still cast a shadow that resembles a human being. Sounds sick right?

Reminder Starmer used the murder of Brianna Ghey to attack Sunak. He was quite happy to acknowledge trans people when he needed a disposable attack line, the spineless coward.

and then there’s this small moment, where archeology nudges up against the music of Max Eastley’s Aeolian Harp, and a Nigel Kneale notion of sound as a thread through time. Wonderous.

hey. 100K signatures and they'll have to debate this in parliament. let's fucking go petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

Old message from my friend Simon: “Promised you a list of names of poisonous British mushrooms. I realise now that it reads like a list of rejected Cocteau Twins song titles.”

“When Edwin Morgan published ‘Message Clear’, perhaps the most memorable and moving of his concrete works, in the TLS of January 13, 1966, letters were sent to the editor” —@jntod.bsky.social on the reception of “Message Clear” in @thetls.bsky.social 2/3 someflowerssoon.substack.com/p/this-eleme...

So tired of the right wing media blindly pushing their ideological line. Like, yeah we heard you the first time. This isn't journalism it's an influence operation. Fucks sake go and report on some cis male rapists or lack of sponsorship of women's sports or something.

Statement from APA re/autism and what the science really says: updates.apaservices.org/autism

Thousands show solidarity at #TransRightsAreHumanRights Demo in Parliament Square.

I've put on my hob nailed boots and given the Supreme Court decision the kicking it deserves. goodlaw.social/vd3a

Jean Marsh has died at the age of 90. Brian Shuel's 1961 photograph of the actor hangs in London's National Portrait Gallery and is one of the most striking images in the collection

One of the all-time great Doctor Who behind the scenes pics. I love how Jean's holding Bill's hand here.

Kurt Vonnegut man

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

one of my tiktok followers made this

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

Due to a mix-up at the BBC Graphics Department in 1982... #DoctorWho #Sorry

When people calculate how long it takes to make something artistic, they need to factor in how hard it is if nobody has asked for it, there is no deadline, and no payment. Because at the moment of great self doubt, in the middle of every project, that’s when those three things will stop you dead.

Absolutely loved The Hot Spot, which is basically a cosy Twin Peaks set in the shadow of Mount Fuji. Mikako Ichikawa and her gang of old school friends have impeccable comic timing. I’m feeling a bit bereft that it’s over… commission a 2nd series Nippon TV! #thehotspot

This. Those with power do not want others to have human rights - the rights you have because you are human. That is why they sneer at human rights, use the media and propaganda to deride those rights, and cut off legal aid so the rights cannot be asserted. And some unwise people clap and cheer.