Oh no the signature on tonight’s SU2C Bake Off is mini rolls. One of my MANY weaknesses, definitely going to have a bash at these tomorrow (and eat the lot) 😅🔥🔥

THIS IS WHAT’S AT STAKE. If we cede Oxford comma to AI, the entire language will fall like a meaningless house of slop.

Hoppy Easter, everybun! Annual reminder that these delightful shitbags are terrible pets who constantly try to die. They’re a 10+ year commitment who need specialist vet care, annual vaccinations and (like Violet) often need regular dental surgery. (P.s. no chocolate was eaten in this pic setup!)

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Happy Easter weekend! #UKsnow #Scotland

Somewhere up in heaven, Richard Scarry is like “fuck yeah, told you so”: www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

yeah seriously everyone just block @pinknews.bsky.social. bluesky is a queer platform and they're anti-queer. they favourably platformed a politician who is forcibly detransitioning ppl and embedding conversion torture on the nhs. repost this. let's starve them of an audience.

Still this one (I hear the angel voiced as Samuel L. Jackson):

I did this on Twitter years ago and got some amazing answers. Let's see if we can get #LibrariesChangeLives trending and show what amazing things can grow from properly funded public services and the value of providing free access to books, reading and educational resources for all.

The only good April Fools joke was when a library posted a headline saying “Study Shows Literacy Problems BC People Reply To Articles They Didn’t Read” When you clicked the link “lol April Fools there is no article. Tell no one” Then people who had not clicked the link argued about literacy all day.

It’s Autism Acceptance Month. Here’s your reminder NOT to donate to Autism Speaks. This is a great article summarizing how they speak over autistic voices rather than amplifying them. #NHPolitics #NH01

L. Ron Hubbard: hello friends it's me Hubbard: your old pal, Honest Ron! Hubbard: and have i got a deal for YOU! King: wow! a deal for me?? Poe: careful steve Poe: we've been burned before on one of honest ron's deals

There’s a post circulating out there today comparing AI refusal to vaccine hesitancy, and that’s obviously bullshit but got me thinking, what is the correct analogy? And it’s teetotalism. All kinds of folk don’t drink for all sorts of reasons. Drinking is socially normalised in many spaces. 1/n

Can we all collectively agree not to do April Fools tomorrow? My reasons for asking are a) the world is beyond parody atm and b) I’m really tired. Thanks.

I just found a really cool-sounding production in the latest batch of EdFringe releases, went to learn more and was immediately confronted by an AI slop poster image. If you don’t care enough to create a proper poster, why would I pay to see your show? Really disappointed!

[at space coven] Andy Weir: beep boop submitted for the approval of the space coven, i call this the story of the martian Weir: it is a story about the cold triumph of science, with no distracting theme or motif Weir: only science Weir: beep boop

Left the holiday flat 11 hours ago, just sitting down on my own sofa with a cup of tea ❤️🔥❤️

Anyone who complains about the singular “they” should be deprived of the use of the singular “you”.

Well - yeah, that's exactly what Wes Streeting thinks. He's currently paying a pair of known charlatans to write a fake review about ADHD & autism as well, despite expert testimony that both conditions are underdiagnosed.

Hilarious how for years serious people have said that you can't rely on renewables because they are prone to disruptions in supply www.ft.com/content/19f1...

It's becoming more and more obvious that the goal of Labour's immigration reforms are not to much the system fairer but to get rid of the immigrants already here who are in paid work. This will be to the detriment of the UK economy.

for #transdayofvisibility here's a print I made a few years back. just a couple left. shop.frankduffy.co.uk/product/tran...

Bluesky introduces Attie, a new AI slop app that lets users vibe-code their own social feed Launched yesterday, it has overnight become the SECOND-MOST blocked account on Bluesky, behind JD Vance at 180,684 blocks. Attie has 138,880 blocks in 24 hrs. You can block it here: bsky.app/profile/atti...

I’ve watched this four times and will not be stopping anytime soon

I used to do a commute like this every day (6:43 into London) but I’m out of practice so I feel like a dead thing??? 🫠🫠🫠 Anyway we are ON A FERRY back to the mainland and I’m trying not to feel the responsibility for the office being shut today 🫣

So. Scott Mills..... youtu.be/qQPSoRPmoso?...

This time of the day should be ILLEGAL 😅

They: Hi! Through our unhallowed ransacking of the world's knowledge, your computer can now talk to the dead. Me: Can it talk to my printer yet? They: haha no

Today is the birthday of #AnnaSewell, English author of #BlackBeauty, one of the most beloved children's stories of all time. #💙📚 #Booksky Have you read this "autobiography of a horse?" What other books about horses have you read and enjoyed? www.librarything.com/author/sewel...

I love this for them.

I mean, all pointing and laughing aside, I wrote THE BUTCHER OF THE FOREST to be *extremely* political, and I would love someone to a) option it and b) turn it into a weird stop-motion animated movie of about 85 minutes (what, I'm allowed to be specific when I manifest things into the universe)

On a totally unrelated note, I have just opened a completely legal kitkat shop as a distant uncle just left me 12 tonnes of kitkat in his will.

Books on baking banana bread available now 🍌 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

That sound you can hear is the editing of every rumoured cast list for the second series of Celebrity Traitors.

What if Scott Mills nicked all them KitKats

The people seem to have spoken. Heckuva job, devs

I don't think the general public cares about my field enough to have hot takes on it (children's books and publishing in general). At least, that's what the level of media coverage of children's books would suggest.

Oh man this person got absolutely rinsed in the comments. But then I deep dived the ‘publisher’ she mentioned and realised these AI ghostwriting companies are going to make absolute bank out of these people, aren’t they.

Okay, overly personal thread because I genuinely think some people need to understand that mental health is something we need to talk about. It is not a cry for help and you don't need to say nice positive things in the mentions. So, buckle up it is a story time, with every trigger warning. 1/10

Weeding is a necessary function of any library Audiobooks are reading ALL READING IS GOOD READING (And yes, librarians are so very tired!)

Gotta say it's *astonishing* the extent to which all of bsky's higher ups seem to actively loathe their user base and what we actually want?

Still stranded in Orkney thanks to poor weather for the ferries, so I’m starting this. Wishful thinking perhaps 😅

Absolutely nothing on the impartial BBC website. Why are they so against reporting on the UK public’s stance against the far right? Shameful.

Starting work soon on a new 3 year book project. People keep asking me if I’ll use AI to help me? I would rather wear a hornet’s nest for underpants than ever delegate thought to a plagiarism engine

Right, here comes the library soapbox. The work of evaluating and categorizing books belongs to—if not a credentialed librarian—adequately trained staff. Not AI. Not volunteer parents. Not a council. Not a principal or headteacher. Libraries being what they are is because of careful education.

Countries banning all teenagers from social media because "their brains aren't developed enough to handle it", meanwhile nobody's talking about the percentage of retirement-aged adults who have irreversibly cooked their fucking brains on Facebook since 2020.

I hope all the leopard eating people's faces party fans are keeping track of the slide from "you aren't a woman if you weren't born one" through "you aren't a woman if your genetics you've never known about say so" to "you aren't a woman if you don't look pretty" because that leopard is very hungry

nostalgia is remembering when you didn’t have to pay bills and attributing that feeling to mario

They’ve named the school. A shameful episode - deciding to remove any books at all; the lazy use of AI; the appalling treatment of the librarian; the head’s arrogance and ignorance in deeming certain titles ‘inappropriate’; and the idea that books in a library could be a safeguarding concern…

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