@janerusbridge
Writer - mostly novels (Bloomsbury), some short stories, a little poetry. Experimenting with non-fiction. Read a lot. Love research. Spent many years in education, teaching preschool to post-grad. Usually found somewhere outside.
More on the class action lawsuit against Grammarly over their ill-advised "Expert Review" AI feature that appropriated the names and identities of writers and journalists without their knowledge or consent gizmodo.com/grammarly-al...
Front cover of Pixie by Jill Dawson.
SIGNED copies of Pixie, the new novel by Jill Dawson are available to pre-order from us!
A fictionalised story of Pamela ‘Pixie’ Colman Smith, artist, publisher & illustrator of the still-iconic Rider–Waite–Smith tarot deck.
Looks AMAZING
Order here.
www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
It’s disgusting. Martin Amis called writing “a war against cliché and herd thinking” and AI is a cliché generator built from feeding the herd into an algorithm. “We’ve sanded off all the edges that make writing interesting” should be a point of shame, not something to brag about.
"Human writing often includes some clunky phrases, like this passage from Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, caused by the author's aversion to punctuation: 'As well ask men what they think of stone.'"
This is the stupidest g.d. thing I have read all day.
Listening to the radio/tv in the UK is a sickening experience.
The presenters are literally cheering on the USA bombing Iran from UK bases while also demanding we spend 3% of our money on 'Defence' as soon as possible.
Literally the opposite of what everyone wants.
'Hope for the millions of Americans suffering from Long COVID will rely on how much the U.S. supports affected individuals and to what extent the country invests in groundbreaking research to better understand the condition'.
www.forbes.com/sites/omeraw...
“When Netanyahu – a man charged with international war crimes after killing countless civilians in Gaza – assassinates Iran’s dictator, that kills the man but immortalises the myth. Iranians wanted him tried for his crimes, not given the martyr-ending he craved.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Helm by Sarah Hall review – a mighty epic of climate change in slow motion. Top of my list of novels read last year ❤️ www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Message to men: you can date/marry way, way above your league if you will just fucking learn to cook and do some laundry, please stop hitting yourself in the face with hammers or "optimising" things and try vacuumcleanermaxxing instead...
Terrible!
And so we write to brilliant postgraduate students from Sudan, withdrawing the offers and scholarships they won in open competition with the best in the world. A sad day for the University of Oxford.
Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK
Pulling water from dry air? 💧
Nobel laureate Omar Yaghi’s solar-powered tech uses porous materials to harvest up to 1,000L of clean water a day—even in drought or disaster.
A real climate lifeline 🙌
I love everything on The Way to Blue website! 💙
A series of printed ceramic mugs by The Way to Blue. On the mugs are delicate silhouettes of nature scenes in a deep blue. The scenes include birds flying amongst branches, butterflies amongst meadow flowers and grasses and stunning tree branches.
There's nothing worse than having a technical hitch during a big event so I ask you kindly to check out the stunning work of The Way to Blue who had a bit of a clanger yesterday... www.thewaytoblue.co.uk/superseconds #ArtSky #ArtShop #WildlifeArt #Nature
OKAY BIG ONE FOR YA
NEW report out today: I dig deep into how big tech has been muddling tech types and overstating evidence to claim "AI" will make global emissions drop like a stone....
Not only will it not, it seems to be verifiably doing the opposite!!
ketanjoshi.co/2026/02/17/b... + 📼+🧵>
Early river stroll. The deep pink pre dawn clouds have faded and now the dew laden grass is silver in the morning sunlight. The bird chorus is at full strength. Pied wagtails bob up and down the riverside path. A statuesque heron watches a cormorant diving for breakfast.
Forests may look quite resilient to changing conditions if trees are still standing, but if they're not regenerating there'll be nothing to replace the old trees as they die. They are dying on their feet
And if they're not regenerating already, at 1.5C...
Two talks I'm particularly interested in 👇
(Guy Shrubsole is the author of 'How owns England?' and 'The Lie of the Land', among others. Prof Spracklen has for instance written about the climate and biodiversity benefits of reintroducing wolves in Scotland: www.theguardian.com/environment/...)
Lost species to be released as Labour seeks to stave off Greens’ election threat Push for good nature news before polls with reintroduction of white-tailed eagles, pine martens and beavers in England
Can’t tell you how delighted I am about this. Obviously it’s good news in and of itself but it’s also just the perfect example of how fucked Labour are, and their absolute ignorance of why people hate them and are looking at the Green Party
New video just dropped! Meet Cailean, a 14-year-old bagpipe prodigy from Prestonpans - and enjoy his beautiful performance on bagpipes. If you enjoyed the video, don’t forget to comment or share; it helps the algorithm recommend it to more people! #scotland #bagpipes
youtu.be/iVcL5aBPqy8
Geneva Convention 1977 Protocols:
“It is prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population, such as... drinking #water installations & supplies and irrigation works... for any other motive.”
www.tribuneindia.com/news/world/b...
NEW: Watch this report just in from CNN’s Frederik Pleitgen. It is raining oil in Tehran this morning.
A city of 10 million is being actively poisoned.
(🎥 CNN)
“Prof Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, UN Special Rapporteur on the human right to clean water, has singled out the English system for criticism, saying water should be managed as a publicly owned service, rather than run by private companies set up to benefit shareholders.”
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Let this howl be a reminder of what’s at stake. Wolves need our voices now more than ever. Stand up and speak out for wolf protections: 📣🐺 https://engage.nywolf.org/site/SPageNavigator/Action%20Center/action_center.html
Re-peopling the glens with woodland crofts rather than subsidy fuelled hill sheep or ecocidal grouse shooting.
Eco-village with crofts and affordable homes planned at loch www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This however is not what makes the headlines.
Instead the press release blurts out that the "AI-enabled stethoscopes show promise for improving diagnosis of cardiovascular conditions"
How is this possible, when the result - unequivocally - showed no benefit between the randomised groups?
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While the Newlyn and St Ives artist colonies in Cornwall are well documented, in the late 19th and for much of the 20thC, Polperro was also considered a leading art centre, described as ‘the haunt of half the artists in Britain,' including, as here, Jack Coburn Witherop.
