James Latimer awaiting sequel to The Wolf and the Wild King 🐺👑
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Recovering writer. Man of letters. Weltschmerz enthusiast. He/him.
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jameslatimer.bsky.social
My (should be) iconic 10>2000, if interested:
Snakewood - A Selby
City of Stairs - RJ Bennett
Blackdog - KV Johansen
Senlin Ascends - J Bancroft
God's War - K Hurley
Goblin Emperor - K Addison
Garden of Stones - MT Barnes
Smiler's Fair - R Levene
Hawkwood's Voyage - P Kearney
City of Lies - S Hawke
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.
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lutherevers.bsky.social
Calling this a gross miscarriage of justice drastically understates how awful it is.

This is a perversion of the very concept of sexual assault by deception.

The UK has somehow become even more hostile to the existence of Trans women. Their very existence is somehow deception.

Fuck this world.
esqueer.net
A man gets a blowjob from a trans woman and his friends make fun of him so he goes to the police to claim she lied about being a woman. She was convicted of sexual assault and sentenced to nearly 2 years in prison because of a man's shame.

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Thornaby transgender woman jailed for deception sex assault
Ciara Watkin's victim says he would not have agreed to sex had he known she was biologically male.
www.bbc.com
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jbensonink.bsky.social
Loved this read!
stephanieburgis.bsky.social
A quick reminder for everyone in the UK (and mainland Europe, too!) that Wooing the Witch Queen's British edition is currently on sale in ebook for 99p!

Snap it up: www.panmacmillan.com/authors/step...

#romancelandia
An open e-reader shows the gorgeous UK cover of Wooing the Witch Queen in color on its screen. The e-reader is set on a rustic wooden table beside candles and a pine cone and a cup of hot chocolate with marshallows. A bubble reads: 99p!
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mwduff.bsky.social
If you make a mistake a post genAI bullshit and then take it down once someone points it out to you, that's fair.

If you don't acknowledge your mistake & refuse to take down the post, that's what the block button is for. The stakes are too high right now. Spreading disinfo is not okay.
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sardonicus.eu
Dedication in PG Wodehouse’s autobiography, 1957
To Who 
J. Alastair Frisby
Who
Told Me I Would Never Have A Book Published
And 
Advised me 
To
Get a job selling jellied eels 
SUCKS TO YOU, FRISBY
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kbgraubart.bsky.social
Moving quickly to a world where students use AI to complete work, profs use AI to grade it, no one learns anything and we will live in a world of mediocrity and incompetence where only the billionaires benefit.
biblioracle.bsky.social
I strongly urge everyone to not just read this warning from @marcwatkins.bsky.social, but heed it, and be vocal and forceful pushing back against using AI to grade student writing. This must be anathema if we're going to have a world where learning means something. substack.com/inbox/post/1...
The Dangers of using AI to Grade
Nobody Learns, Nobody Gains
substack.com
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samatlounge.bsky.social
I'm planning to set up a food delivery business, but don't want to pay the people who make the food. If they won't give me free food, they'll kill my business.
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planetoffinks.bsky.social
this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime
nikigrayson.com
the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault
jameslatimer.bsky.social
I've heard a lot of praise but was never sure I liked the premise somehow...ah well, the TBR is long enough!
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dsquareddigest.bsky.social
I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
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weratedogs.com
This is Denni. She took an unexpected babysitting shift when she found a baby koala in her yard. She cheerfully delivered the joey to her human, who put them back in the tree to be reunited with their mom. 14/10 (FB: Steve Lamplough)
Denni, a golden retriever with a sweet face, sits and looks up at the camera with a smile. she has a passenger clinging to her back. a baby koala. the joey's eyes peak over the top of Denni's head. Denni is standing and looking off to the left of the frame. the baby koala on her back looks at the camera. a super zoomed photo of the baby koala and their mom high up in a tree. the adult koala holds onto her joey and looks down at the camera with what we would like to think is appreciation for caring for her baby.
jameslatimer.bsky.social
Isn't it also/actually plural? So the singular would actually be bucatino...
jameslatimer.bsky.social
Sorry not to reply sooner. If you're happy with some TLC it might work for you. Can you collect from Swindon though?

Here's a picture of the vintage machine:
A white 1960s Kenwood Chef stand mixer with powder blue details, also has blender and juicer (maybe?) attachments.
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chibdm.bsky.social
Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop
jameslatimer.bsky.social
I mean, it's more of a collectors/restorers project right at the moment. It works, but needs a bit of maintenance. Just looking for a good home.
jameslatimer.bsky.social
Anyone know anyone who'd like a proper vintage Kenwood Chef stand mixer? Seems a waste to chuck it out...
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kithrup.bsky.social
Cached US Kindle giveaway: 10 copies of Terry Prachett's Lords&Ladies, which is the 2nd DW book I read that I loved (right after Small Gods). This is the book that says you should not listen to demagogues. Also, why pet frogs are good.

#KindleBookGiveaway #GNUTerryPratchett
jameslatimer.bsky.social
Did not know this!
legalweasel.uk
Public Order Act 1936, s.1:

"Subject as hereinafter provided, any person who in any public place or at any public meeting wears uniform signifying his association with any political organisation or with the promotion of any political object shall be guilty of an offence"
jameslatimer.bsky.social
They'll probably blame protesting for this - sorry commuters, but those thoughtless anti-genocide campaigners (not the racists) are taking too much of our time. 🙄
jameslatimer.bsky.social
If you don't like the protests - DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE CAUSE. It isn't the responsibility of protesters to stop just because it's inconvenient.
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sturdyalex.bsky.social
Many pundits today are pushing the line that everyone who protests the genocide in Gaza is basically either antisemitic or tolerant of antisemitism. But isn't that precisely the conflation of the actions of the Israeli gov't with all Jewish people, which is at the heart of this wave of antisemitism?