They do it with lasers
13.03.2026 10:34
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They do it with lasers
Just two days left to bid on this 1st edition fairy book - and to help dogs in need at the same time. The book will be signed by Wendy & Brian Froud and me, and can be posted to you anywhere. Please share to help spread the word about this auction - it's SUCH a good cause. More info in the 🧵 below.
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I just... can't. We need to be better.
Jesus H Christ. In whose mad world was this ever a good idea.
I mean, he doesn't even bother with personal markers of any kind for the Rabbit family, it's just 'friends and relations'
Fully... 😆
Surely, like any good public schoolboy, our Winnie goes by his family name. ('De Pooh') I wonder if all of them go by family names, and if Mr Rabbit or Mr Owl have first names, too. Piglet must be using his first name, as his grandfather's name is Trespassers William. These are IMPORTANT POINTS
The House of Lords Communications and Digital Committee have published a report on AI, copyright and the creative industries, which includes a number of welcome recommendations.
Read about it here 👇
www.alcs.co.uk/news/alcs-re...
In addition to being an excellent fiction writer, Jo Walton is one of the finest critics of the sf/fantasy field -- so I feel honoured indeed that The Wood Wife is listed here, alongside four brilliant novels that use tradition fairy lore in vastly different ways.
Authors Guild in the US did this about 18 months ago. www.instagram.com/p/DBLJvVXgIU...
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I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
Stanford University Press (where I used to be an academic editor) has put out a list of their books on Iran which I 100% recommend:
blog.sup.org/middle-east-...
The spice / oil must flow
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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How many milliseconds closer to the present does this war bring a global environmental collapse event? How much stronger is it making future storms? By how many millionths of a millimetre higher is it dragging up the sea level?
The need to rally to the defence of monsters...
What's wrong with some people? Sorry to hear this.
Truth.
Ye gods. He would have spared NO ONE. It would have been one long dry screed. Probably his main character would have been a starry-eyed 25-year old flunky who finds himself spinning social media posts for all he's worth and scrambling to save what's left of his soul
🫠 This truly is a time of decadence.
It's doubleplusgood
What is this 'warfighters'? Surely that's an AI invention. The word is 'soldiers'
To Shabana Mahmood and Keir Starmer: Either let immigrants in, be secure and settled or don't let them in. But to wait 20 years for any sense of security is a cruel and stupid proposal. I am an immigrant to the UK myself, and married to an immigrant. What sort of crazy world is this now? #UKLabour??
“The Doubtful Guest Came Seventeen Years Ago.”
🎨 Edward Gorey
Nominations have opened for the Ursula K. Le Guin prize!
Anyone can nominate book-length speculative fiction that embodies "hope, equity, and freedom; non-violence and alternatives to conflict; and a holistic view of humanity’s place in the natural world."
www.ursulakleguin.com/prize-nomina...
Honestly? I just watched a movie with Cary Grant and a chimpanzee that made more sense
