Very Terry 🔥
@bookseditorial.bsky.social
Publisher. Of books - critical/creative/cultural management and the like. Once known as @RoutledgeEditor on the other place. From Southport to London, via Cardiff. YNWA.
Pinned
Very Terry 🔥
@bookseditorial.bsky.social
· Sep 18
What's that? You'd prefer a one page visualisation of what an academic & professional publisher needs to see in your book proposal? Here's one I made earlier.
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
“When we can no longer immediately assume any of the media we encounter was made by a human, the act of using social media or browsing the web is transformed into a never-ending procession of existential double-takes.”
www.404media.co/slop-evader-...
www.404media.co/slop-evader-...
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
“When we can no longer immediately assume any of the media we encounter was made by a human, the act of using social media or browsing the web is transformed into a never-ending procession of existential double-takes.”
www.404media.co/slop-evader-...
www.404media.co/slop-evader-...
"What went on at the break? A screening of Threads? A group listen to Automatic For The People? Cormac McCarthy gives the teamtalk?"
I am a Slot defender, but he's never looked like a team talk guy, and his assistant pick for this term was basically unsound.
I am a Slot defender, but he's never looked like a team talk guy, and his assistant pick for this term was basically unsound.
November 27, 2025 at 7:26 AM
"What went on at the break? A screening of Threads? A group listen to Automatic For The People? Cormac McCarthy gives the teamtalk?"
I am a Slot defender, but he's never looked like a team talk guy, and his assistant pick for this term was basically unsound.
I am a Slot defender, but he's never looked like a team talk guy, and his assistant pick for this term was basically unsound.
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
The best thing I learned from Macaulay Culkin at last night’s Home Alone screening is that his 4yo son loves the movie, thinks of himself as Kevin, and has no idea that that’s his dad. Culkin is attempting to hide that fact for as long as possible
a young boy is smiling and says `` i made my family disappear '' .
ALT: a young boy is smiling and says `` i made my family disappear '' .
media.tenor.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:45 PM
The best thing I learned from Macaulay Culkin at last night’s Home Alone screening is that his 4yo son loves the movie, thinks of himself as Kevin, and has no idea that that’s his dad. Culkin is attempting to hide that fact for as long as possible
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade but all the lyrics are 'are you hanging up your stocking on your wall'
Slade - Merry Xmas Everybody but all the lyrics are 'are you hanging up your stocking...
Merry Christmas Everybody by Slade but all the lyrics are 'Are You Hanging Up Your Stocking On Your Wall?'Crooned by @MichaelMisDisappointing More: http://li...
youtu.be
December 1, 2023 at 8:28 AM
Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade but all the lyrics are 'are you hanging up your stocking on your wall'
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
this is SO good, not least for the unexpected reference to the Yorkshire Rider bus company
People are calling my lede here "appalling," "nightmare fuel," "actively evil," and "a desecration of the human spirit"
The Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr. Affair Is Messier Than We Ever Could Have Imagined
Inside the most important, and also least important, story of our time
www.theringer.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
this is SO good, not least for the unexpected reference to the Yorkshire Rider bus company
The latest MS Windows update has largely seemed to focus on updating MS Office icons such that every file type now looks like a jpeg. Well done boys, good process.
November 25, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The latest MS Windows update has largely seemed to focus on updating MS Office icons such that every file type now looks like a jpeg. Well done boys, good process.
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
"Catering to a heightened sense of “above it all” importance among editors instead of requiring them do their jobs — drudgery and all — is one way to have your editorial systems become less effective." www.the-geyser.com/ai-defends-t...
AI Defends the Status Quo
When Big Tech is the status quo, is AI going to defend them first and foremost?
www.the-geyser.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:03 PM
"Catering to a heightened sense of “above it all” importance among editors instead of requiring them do their jobs — drudgery and all — is one way to have your editorial systems become less effective." www.the-geyser.com/ai-defends-t...
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
the darvo government
'im abusing immigrants; criticise me you are racist' - mahmood
'im killing trans ppl; criticise me you are homophobic' - streeting
'im murdering disabled ppl; criticise me you are mansplaining' - reeves
'im segregating trans ppl; criticise me you are misogynist' - phillipson
'im abusing immigrants; criticise me you are racist' - mahmood
'im killing trans ppl; criticise me you are homophobic' - streeting
'im murdering disabled ppl; criticise me you are mansplaining' - reeves
'im segregating trans ppl; criticise me you are misogynist' - phillipson
November 24, 2025 at 6:17 AM
the darvo government
'im abusing immigrants; criticise me you are racist' - mahmood
'im killing trans ppl; criticise me you are homophobic' - streeting
'im murdering disabled ppl; criticise me you are mansplaining' - reeves
'im segregating trans ppl; criticise me you are misogynist' - phillipson
'im abusing immigrants; criticise me you are racist' - mahmood
'im killing trans ppl; criticise me you are homophobic' - streeting
'im murdering disabled ppl; criticise me you are mansplaining' - reeves
'im segregating trans ppl; criticise me you are misogynist' - phillipson
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
Exactly the same as the Iraq Inquiry though: straight in the bin and never spoken of again, not least because none of it would’ve happened this way without the close, hand-in-glove cooperation of the British press. Don’t want to look to hard at that stuff.
November 23, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Exactly the same as the Iraq Inquiry though: straight in the bin and never spoken of again, not least because none of it would’ve happened this way without the close, hand-in-glove cooperation of the British press. Don’t want to look to hard at that stuff.
David Runciman on a rambling rant (a rantling, if you will) about depopulation in the lrb. This section on the "pro-natal argument" using the weasel word "alt-right" tells you most of what you need to know.
November 22, 2025 at 11:57 AM
David Runciman on a rambling rant (a rantling, if you will) about depopulation in the lrb. This section on the "pro-natal argument" using the weasel word "alt-right" tells you most of what you need to know.
Who is OpenAI’s auditor? Surely it won't be any firm that is selling OpenAI products to its clients... on.ft.com/4oTrTsW
Who is OpenAI’s auditor?
Just asking
on.ft.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Who is OpenAI’s auditor? Surely it won't be any firm that is selling OpenAI products to its clients... on.ft.com/4oTrTsW
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
My longread from the latest edition of our mag about the razing of Gaza in this war. One man who grew up in Rafah, the city in southern Gaza that has been largely destroyed, told me this: “you can say you miss your city if it still exists. It’s gone, you know”
“Soldiers testify that they have been told to burn down houses they have stayed in by pouring oil on curtains, books and mattresses.”
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.
Read @aloner.bsky.social’s report on the destruction of Gaza’s cities.
‘The directive was nothing left’: How Gaza’s cities were destroyed
Israel has razed large parts of the Gaza Strip since the war began in October 2023. The evidence points to systemic destruction
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
My longread from the latest edition of our mag about the razing of Gaza in this war. One man who grew up in Rafah, the city in southern Gaza that has been largely destroyed, told me this: “you can say you miss your city if it still exists. It’s gone, you know”
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
It's rare that a neologism lands so fully-formed you wonder why it didn't exist sooner but here we are:
Gone down a weird rabbithole with far-right Facebook slopaganda* about celebrities cancelling things as a result of the New York election result.
*I just invented this word: AI-generated disinformation content pumped onto social media by right-wing think tanks, and "slopaganda" was right there.
*I just invented this word: AI-generated disinformation content pumped onto social media by right-wing think tanks, and "slopaganda" was right there.
November 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
It's rare that a neologism lands so fully-formed you wonder why it didn't exist sooner but here we are:
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
I'll be honest, one of the easier ways to not be perceived as racist is to not stand with a party that is openly doing incredibly racist things.
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 PM
I'll be honest, one of the easier ways to not be perceived as racist is to not stand with a party that is openly doing incredibly racist things.
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
It is a serious problem for our political discourse that the most consistently astute commentator in the country is someone posting anonymously on social media behind a rat avatar.
June 2016 here. Do you notice how this has been proven correct: there really is no way to appease the reactionary right, who take every concession to their fucknut demands as a new base camp to strike out for more and nastier?
November 17, 2025 at 11:39 AM
It is a serious problem for our political discourse that the most consistently astute commentator in the country is someone posting anonymously on social media behind a rat avatar.
The long history of hostile environment policies - endless failure that nevertheless itself migrates into new territories beyond migration.
Mahmoud has listened to same clique of senior Home Office officials who have advised for 30+ years that loud announcements of punitive policies will deter refugees from coming to UK to seek asylum.
Labour did this extensively last time. It didn’t work.
A history thread. +
Labour did this extensively last time. It didn’t work.
A history thread. +
November 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The long history of hostile environment policies - endless failure that nevertheless itself migrates into new territories beyond migration.
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
The way Labour are talking about migrants validates far right narratives of dehumanisation *at a time of far right riots and racist violence*. The leadership group responsible needs to be removed right now as a matter of public safety. This is simply a factual description of the situation before us.
Honestly, the potential case for getting rid of Starmer before was the lack of any political project and absence of charisma. But now No.10 is creating a moral imperative for the PLP to act as well.
November 17, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The way Labour are talking about migrants validates far right narratives of dehumanisation *at a time of far right riots and racist violence*. The leadership group responsible needs to be removed right now as a matter of public safety. This is simply a factual description of the situation before us.
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
Massively impractical, a death trap and its mere existence is costing £81 million a year. Turn it into a museum or a hotel or something and move parliament somewhere more central in the nation, everybody's life will be better.
A final decision on how to repair Britain’s crumbling parliament is likely to be postponed beyond the next general election, according to four people familiar with the matter.
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s
It’s a fire-hazard that’s prone to tumbling masonry — but fear of a public backlash is again delaying repairs to the world famous building.
www.politico.eu
November 16, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Massively impractical, a death trap and its mere existence is costing £81 million a year. Turn it into a museum or a hotel or something and move parliament somewhere more central in the nation, everybody's life will be better.
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 PM
props to WSJ for once on a useful notion, ADMIN PARTY for everybody
"students aren’t failing at friendship, the system is failing at social architecture."
This week on Wonkhe: Amid rising reports of student loneliness, Mack Marshall explores how UK universities are failing to design for connection - and why social isolation is no longer just a pastoral issue but a structural one
The one where they still don't have any friends
Amid rising reports of student loneliness, Mack Marshall explores how UK universities are failing to design for connection - and why social isolation is no longer just a pastoral issue but a structural...
buff.ly
November 15, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"students aren’t failing at friendship, the system is failing at social architecture."
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
![[Scene is a kitchen - a middle aged woman called JANET is boiling peas at the stove. A younger more colourfully dressed woman named LIZ approached her.]
JANET:
Ugh...
LIZ:
What's up?
JANET:
I am so bored of cooking peas!
LIZ:
Have you tried...
AI peas?
JANET:
AI peas?
LIZ:
They're peas with AI!
[Liz holds up to us a packet of peas labelled: Pea-i AI - Peas with AI].
LIZ:
Al-powered peas harness the potential of your peas
JANET:
What
LIZ [Now a voiceover as we cut to a whizzy technology diagram of peas all connected by meaningless dotted lines]
Why not take your peas to the next level with Al Peas' new Al tools to power your peas?
[Show a techno diagram of a pea with a label reading 'AI' pointing to a random zone in it]
LIZ:
Each pea has Al in a way we haven't quite worked out yet but it's fine
[Show Janet and Liz now in a Matrix-style world of peas]
LIZ:
With Al peas you can supercharge productivity and make AI work for your peas!
JANET:
What
LIZ:
Shut up
LIZ:
Our game-changing Pea-Al gives you the freedom to unlock the potential of the power of the future of your peas workflow
From opening the bag of peas
to boiling the peas
to eating the peas
To spending millions on adding Al to the peas and then having to work out what that even means.
JANET:
Is it really necessary to-
LIZ [Grabbing Janet by the collar]:
THE PEAS HAVE GOT AI, JANET
[Cut to an advert ending screen, with the bag of peas and the slogan:
AI PEAS: Just 'Peas' for god's sake buy the AI peas.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreiayqa37f7kik7l7s7fbtfp2sir5ckb662ry2lylinyjrfa2rkvvka@jpeg)
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
November 14, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school
December 26, 2024 at 8:45 PM
(living in a country where the most successful people are obscenely rich and shameless perverts and psychopaths) Time to teach my children to be honest and study hard in school
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
📕NEW BOOK📕
AI in the Cultural and Creative Sectors
Eds: Marta Massi, Marek Prokůpek, Alessandra Ricci & Maria Carmela Ostillio
"Extremely rich ... [with] detailed insights into creative and cultural organisations in theory and practice." @mcbfranklin.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Artificial-I...
AI in the Cultural and Creative Sectors
Eds: Marta Massi, Marek Prokůpek, Alessandra Ricci & Maria Carmela Ostillio
"Extremely rich ... [with] detailed insights into creative and cultural organisations in theory and practice." @mcbfranklin.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Artificial-I...
November 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📕NEW BOOK📕
AI in the Cultural and Creative Sectors
Eds: Marta Massi, Marek Prokůpek, Alessandra Ricci & Maria Carmela Ostillio
"Extremely rich ... [with] detailed insights into creative and cultural organisations in theory and practice." @mcbfranklin.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Artificial-I...
AI in the Cultural and Creative Sectors
Eds: Marta Massi, Marek Prokůpek, Alessandra Ricci & Maria Carmela Ostillio
"Extremely rich ... [with] detailed insights into creative and cultural organisations in theory and practice." @mcbfranklin.bsky.social
www.routledge.com/Artificial-I...
Reposted by Very Terry 🔥
The full scandal of Maitlis, Barnes & Cohen at newsnight is gobsmacking. Theyre responsible for so much harm. Details, including multiple articles of proof, here: bsky.app/profile/mimm...
Emily Maitlis brags about her, Deb Cohen, and Hannah Barnes getting the Tavistock GIDS service shut down.
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
What she doesn't talk about is how Newsnight journalists manufactured outrage and concocted "scandals" based on unethical journalism - which they were called out for, but tried to hide...
🔥🧵
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The full scandal of Maitlis, Barnes & Cohen at newsnight is gobsmacking. Theyre responsible for so much harm. Details, including multiple articles of proof, here: bsky.app/profile/mimm...