"You are wrecking the environment so that terrible people who make bad decisions can be enriched. You are destroying entire fields of creativity so that unsuspecting people can get bad information and “advice” from inaccurate, dumbly predictive slop machines. "
Location of Sandy Lane Recreation Ground, which is the proposed site for these homes
Map of Oxford Cowley Station
331 affordable homes are set to be built on Sandy Lane Recreation Ground in Blackbird Leys. 79% of the new homes are planned at Social Rent, and the rest offered for shared ownership. The site is planned close to the new Oxford Cowley Branch Line station. The football pitches are to be relocated.
Two lambs head to head in a sunlit field. Two adult sheep can be seen behind
Two baby goats nestled together in the straw. They are white and brown.
Cygnets in the grass. There are at least four. One stands up stretching its neck and tiny wings
Two fallow deer by a tree. They are turned facing the camera.
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This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
It's hard to believe that just 15 years ago, this was virtually empty space, with none of the native trees, epiphytic mosses, yellow flag, reed buntings, bullfinches, or other life now present, and increasing in diversity year on year.
Rewilding is how we reverse nature loss in Ireland.
Please read this eloquent expression of the fury so many of us feel.
The cover for ROSES IN AMBER, a retold version of Beauty and the Beast by CE Murphy, features a headshot of a lovely young woman with her gaze downcast. She's surrounded by roses, and a threatening arch with glowing eyes is in the darkness behind her. Cover art and design by Fringe Element.
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A sketch of a small pile of books with the words “Meet the Author” superimposed
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Secret of hedgehog hearing discovered at far beyond human range. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Grammarly will probably find that this ploy doesn’t work in court. If I was one of the authors whose identities they’ve stolen, I’d make it my mission to burn the entire company to the ground.
Btw there's a difference between "I enjoy your work, thanks," and "I have extensive notes on how you can improve this book that is already in bookstores," the first is always nice to hear, the second will get you a dead blank expression and utter silence
Words I did not expect to utter in 2026:
There was a fair amount of activity in the garden last night, as four or five hedgehogs came and went without encountering each other. And one curious cat stopped by to investigate the hedgehog hut. This is why there's an interior partition, so the hedgehogs have to turn around to find the food.
If AI developers wish to use our copyright work to build their software they can ask us for permission. If we agree, they can pay us to license it on clearly defined terms.
Tech companies ignoring copyright is theft. The UK government should uphold the existing law.
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No, he lives over the road. We've seen him pass through the garden fairly regularly, but this is the first time he's investigated the hut.
A wooden frieze. The photo focuses on a face with a large nose, mustache and staring eyes. But look closer and there seem to be animal-like pointed ears and whiskers from the nose. It has mouse-like qualities. We can also see some scrolling foliage carved in the wood.
Look closely at this carved wooden frieze. It's at Tredegar House, Newport and the delicately crafted head is reputed to be a caricature of King Charles I as a mouse.
📷Andreas von Einsiedel
There was a fair amount of activity in the garden last night, as four or five hedgehogs came and went without encountering each other. And one curious cat stopped by to investigate the hedgehog hut. This is why there's an interior partition, so the hedgehogs have to turn around to find the food.
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This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?
WGGB is a proud partner of Women in Theatre, a five-year research project which laid bare the disadvantages faced by female creatives in the arts
So we're delighted to see this next chapter unfold in the drive for greater representation across the sector
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The midweek Clarion newsletter has politics, university news, and…
🏛 Biggest change to the city centre this century?
🔥 5G mast arson
🍻 One pub saved as another is lost
👩🎤 Climate choir do K-Pop
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Cover of Wiz Duo Book 2. Art by Roz Clarke. The images are of a shield superimposed on a flying dragon, and a girl with a hole through her belly.
Love novellas? How about two in one book? In Wiz Duo 2, Juliet Kemp sends a reluctant knight on a quest, while E M Faulds gives her heroine a superpower that totally sucks.
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Thread! (I'm one of the authors involved.)
If AI developers wish to use our copyright work to build their software they can ask us for permission. If we agree, they can pay us to license it on clearly defined terms.
Tech companies ignoring copyright is theft. The UK government should uphold the existing law.
www.dontstealthisbook.com/about
There are only a few spaces available on this September's Milford workshop! Read more about how it goes here:
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And find a link there to instructions on how YOU could be part of a new critique group meeting at @gladlib.bsky.social in six months' time!
You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.
