I am getting so sick of AI assistants in apps. I want to read my document, not have AI summarise it. I don't want Alexa to recommend stuff to me. I want to easily turn the AI bot off, so that it stays off. Is that too much to ask?!

There's nothing worse than getting to 90% in a book, as the tension builds, and realising there's too much book left for the next few chapters to go well 🫣 I'm scared, and there's no way I'm stopping now even though there's still an hour and a half to go. Who needs dinner anyway...

Why, when I go to buy a book online, is this the product ⚠️ warning?

What is the point of telling me when my delivery will be, if you then fail to meet your own estimates?-Royal Mail Edition Please note the timestamps. And you didn't leave it in my porch. You left it outside, because having missed the window you gave me, I'd locked my porch & gone to do something.

me lately 🥲

Also a problem for single dads with daughters and single mums with sons. The only thing this will do is make the queue for the only ungendered toilet longer. BTW... that's the disabled toilet, that there's never enough of. Stop making it difficult for people to use a toilet.

How A Publisher Almost Killed The Book I Waited My Whole Life To Write: a thread My novel Villager came out in 2022. It was published by Unbound, who had little marketing/sales power. But I was excited & proud, since I worked so f-ing hard on it. Here's an extract: www.tom-cox.com/the-village-...

Me having yet another existential crisis 🖤

And making theft illegal would “kill” the thieving industry. Good. Make theft illegal again.

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

This... #AuDHD #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #WhoTheAuDHDAmI

Pride and Prejudice is my comfort blanket. Also...(a hill I will die on 😜) Autistic vs Narcissistic

How do you answer your phone?

That perennial, primal urge to pick up horse chestnuts from the garden…

Video by @ellecordova.bsky.social Remove RFK Jr! #RemoveRFK

For anyone who thinks Amazon's Teacher's Picks are genuinely picked by teachers and not AI, please be warned. Their age ratings often miss the mark by miles. Suggesting Graham Greene's Brighton Rock is suitable from years 1-9 is recklessly misleading at best. Year 12-13 maybe, but year 1, never. 🤬

Not sure anyone can help me,but I want one of those mini thermal printers. You can pick the printers up cheap, but the paper is quite expensive. Worst of all, it appears you can't actually use the printer without a subscription app. I don't want a subscription. I just want a mini thermal printer.

Okay. *Deep breath* Instead of yelling I'm too old for this 💩 at the TV, I finally need to admit I'm too old for occasional HIIT and daily dvd workouts like 30DS, So I found this guy, and now I'm sad because this *is* my pace. But I need this, so I can feel less old. 🙃 youtu.be/JzjOoTI_Gu0?...

On 27th August 2015, The Shepherd's Crown, the last book Sir Terry Pratchett completed before he died, was published. To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins:

This is the reason I write.

celebs as fictional characters: thread

This is Hudson. If you'll excuse him for a moment, he needs to call the church. 13/10

Yesterday's dog walk. Too soon the season of 'can you spot the dog' has arrived. I'm going to need to get a new light up collar this year.

Woke up today and it feels like autumn. I also had a strong feeling that I need to buy a new jumper. I've worn my favourite heavy hoodie all year so far, and now I want something similar. My problem is I now have a very exacting idea of the jumper I want, and it's going to take ages to find one.

It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as the novelist who is over certain of his plot. — Paul Theroux

Today's mood

To all melting Brits, an ode to the cost of aircon. I'm surviving; wishing away summer with arms and legs stuck out of the covers. The citrus smell of insect repellent and air so thick the fan judders and rattles with the strain. Sleep deprived muggy days of watering garden pots one can at a time.

I'm overdue a rewatch of this...but I'm also considering a reread of the trilogy before I read Time's Convert...which I found in a second hand bookshop a while ago and haven't read yet.

This is Haha. He had to socialize multiple times today. Gonna need a couple days to recover. 14/10 (IG: thegoldenhaha)

Post a random television GIF 📺

I still need to finish the posts for the rest of my trip, but this is my book haul from the lovely NT secondhand bookshops.

Day 1 of my trip to Cornwall. The long drive with one lovely stop at Barrington Court and an overnight stop in a pub in Devon.

Why is planning to go away so stressful? I want to go, but I feel like I'm not ready. Like I haven't planned enough and everything might go wrong. And please don't ask me 'what's the worst that can happen' because my brain has already run a few billion scenarios. #AuDHD #Anxiety

Stop hating... He's just a character!

Drop some snacks...

One photo to explain how my brain works...

Ableism isn't just the obvious slurs and refusal of adjustments. Most of it is in subtle language choices. Such as a SENCO continuously using the phrase "will not" when the truth is a disabled child "cannot". Disability is not a choice. #Autism #Anxiety #ADHD #AuDHD #Ableism

I just spent half an hour scrolling through old photos from 2019... OMFG my life was good back then. I feel the need to make some photo books, and save that year on every platform I have. So now I'm trying to remember what I did in 2018 that gave me such a good 2019, so I can do it all again 😊

Drop some CHOPPERS IYKYK 😜

I am really not sure how I feel about this 😬🙃

I told you guys

Need help peeps... My brain needs to relive the 2018/19 #Loki era. So I need music recommendations that give full TTDW Loki energy.

The lawwwwwwww!

They look like prisoners of war.

Happy Father’s Day to Pedro Pascal in particular, daddy to us all in so many ways

Music to get me off the sofa and out into the garden. Time to go rip some weeds out, move some big pots, and plant up some seedlings that badly need more space and soil 😁🌱 open.spotify.com/track/2lYWgS...

Honestly kind of fitting that this level of catty public breakup between two aging divas is happening during pride month

I have had a slow week, of trying,but not managing to do much at all. Burned out from doing too much last week? Or the week before? I spent most of yesterday on Facebook and most of this morning on Instagram. There's a buzzing in my head and I have no idea how I feel other than overwhelmed.

The alternative? Kill creativity. Kill art. Kill music. Kill the ability for one of the most productive industries in the UK (according to GDP) to earn money. Why allow big American corps to steal from UK creatives? Also AI has other more beneficial uses than thieving from artists.