James Latimer awaiting sequel to The Wolf and the Wild King 🐺👑
@jameslatimer.bsky.social
Recovering writer. Man of letters. Weltschmerz enthusiast. He/him.
Pinned
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
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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This makes no sense…
An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto…
No thanks
If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote
Sign the petition & help make that law.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto…
No thanks
If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote
Sign the petition & help make that law.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: By-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party
When an MP decides they want to defect to another party a by-election should be automatically triggered to allow the constituents the opportunity have their democratic right to agree or not with their...
petition.parliament.uk
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
This makes no sense…
An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto…
No thanks
If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote
Sign the petition & help make that law.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
An MP can wake up one morning, ditch the party you elected them for, & sign up to a completely different manifesto…
No thanks
If they defect to a different party, we should get a vote
Sign the petition & help make that law.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Kacsmaryk uses FSC v Paxton to argue that a campus drag ban — in an indoor venue for college students! — is constitutional because a minor *might* be present on campus and the performance *might* involve prosthetic breasts.
This is everything we warned about.
This is why you defend “porn.”
This is everything we warned about.
This is why you defend “porn.”
Judge Kacsmaryk rejects challenge by West Texas A&M University's LGBQT club to drag show ban, saying the First Amendment doesn't protect "self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine 'expressive conduct' absolutism envisioned" by the group. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #168 in Spectrum WT v. Wendler (N.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00048) – CourtListener.com
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW (Ordered by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk on 1/17/2026) (vls)
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January 18, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Kacsmaryk uses FSC v Paxton to argue that a campus drag ban — in an indoor venue for college students! — is constitutional because a minor *might* be present on campus and the performance *might* involve prosthetic breasts.
This is everything we warned about.
This is why you defend “porn.”
This is everything we warned about.
This is why you defend “porn.”
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"how do your minis scale with (insert other manufacturer)?"
January 18, 2026 at 6:33 PM
"how do your minis scale with (insert other manufacturer)?"
Tomorrow or Tuesday? He's very nice, if a bit disorganised. 😅
Does anyone in London want to show a Brazilian friend of mine a few of the sights early next week? He's all alone in the big city.
(By sights I mean Forbidden Planet and Foyles and Charing Cross Road. 😅)
(By sights I mean Forbidden Planet and Foyles and Charing Cross Road. 😅)
January 18, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Tomorrow or Tuesday? He's very nice, if a bit disorganised. 😅
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Love this book
If anyone's in Oxford, the smaller Oxfam Bookshop on Turl Street has some hidden gems, like Sam Hawke's Hollow Empire. 👍
January 18, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Love this book
If anyone's in Oxford, the smaller Oxfam Bookshop on Turl Street has some hidden gems, like Sam Hawke's Hollow Empire. 👍
January 18, 2026 at 3:13 PM
If anyone's in Oxford, the smaller Oxfam Bookshop on Turl Street has some hidden gems, like Sam Hawke's Hollow Empire. 👍
Turns out Smiley's People is on there, too. Oh boy.
The original Tinker, Tailor (on iPlayer) seems to get even better with age. Some of it is that the characters get younger, and therefore more believable. I was going to rewatch the new one, but...
January 18, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Turns out Smiley's People is on there, too. Oh boy.
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The Mandalorian after removing the cheese curds from the bowl: This is the whey.
January 15, 2026 at 11:17 PM
The Mandalorian after removing the cheese curds from the bowl: This is the whey.
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Makes me feel insane to live in a world that's persecuting trans folk while simultaneously doing big billboards advertising gender affirming care to cis people???
January 17, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Makes me feel insane to live in a world that's persecuting trans folk while simultaneously doing big billboards advertising gender affirming care to cis people???
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SIGNED Pretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social.
A return to a world steeped in magic – and the Tyrant Philosophers' campaign to bring reason, logic and ‘perfection’ to it.
Out next month.
Pre-order one HERE!
www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
A return to a world steeped in magic – and the Tyrant Philosophers' campaign to bring reason, logic and ‘perfection’ to it.
Out next month.
Pre-order one HERE!
www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
January 15, 2026 at 1:21 PM
SIGNED Pretenders to the Throne of God by Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social.
A return to a world steeped in magic – and the Tyrant Philosophers' campaign to bring reason, logic and ‘perfection’ to it.
Out next month.
Pre-order one HERE!
www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
A return to a world steeped in magic – and the Tyrant Philosophers' campaign to bring reason, logic and ‘perfection’ to it.
Out next month.
Pre-order one HERE!
www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...
Bit rich of Google to keep accusing *me* of being a robot when they've put bloody AI mode in everything.
January 17, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Bit rich of Google to keep accusing *me* of being a robot when they've put bloody AI mode in everything.
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Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
The lighting!
The original Tinker, Tailor (on iPlayer) seems to get even better with age. Some of it is that the characters get younger, and therefore more believable. I was going to rewatch the new one, but...
January 17, 2026 at 10:03 AM
The lighting!
The original Tinker, Tailor (on iPlayer) seems to get even better with age. Some of it is that the characters get younger, and therefore more believable. I was going to rewatch the new one, but...
January 17, 2026 at 9:27 AM
The original Tinker, Tailor (on iPlayer) seems to get even better with age. Some of it is that the characters get younger, and therefore more believable. I was going to rewatch the new one, but...
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One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.
January 16, 2026 at 12:56 AM
One of the stories that makes me the saddest out of this ICE invasion is one out of the Minnesota Star Tribune today about ICE agents eating at a little Mexican restaurant in the small town of Willmar, Minn, —and then, when they were done, arresting some of the workers.
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One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
January 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
One of the things about people showing up to protest for the first time, that many, many armchair theorists don't grasp, is the effect of seeing what happens with your own eyes, then seeing how media covers it, and what is said ABOUT YOU by media and political personalities/office holders.
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Thinking of a few Malcolm x speeches as they tell people getting kidnapped in the streets by masked thugs to ‘remain calm’
January 15, 2026 at 5:48 AM
Thinking of a few Malcolm x speeches as they tell people getting kidnapped in the streets by masked thugs to ‘remain calm’
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Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
January 15, 2026 at 5:08 AM
Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"
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It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.
January 14, 2026 at 8:14 PM
It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.
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Yep, this.
I have never used AI in my research.
Even before any ethical or ideological concerns, the way the technology works means you cannot be sure what it says is correct, so anything you get from it needs to fact-checked anyway. So what's the fucking point?
Even before any ethical or ideological concerns, the way the technology works means you cannot be sure what it says is correct, so anything you get from it needs to fact-checked anyway. So what's the fucking point?
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
January 14, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Yep, this.
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The Hmong are here because they fought for the US in a war we lost.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The Hmong are here because they fought for the US in a war we lost.
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
AI tools costing the taxpayer thousands in enquiries, time, sackings/hirings, and furore - I thought it was supposed to save money? 🙄
WM Police chief Craig Guildford has apologised for identifying a fictitious West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv match in a police report. He’s written to the home affairs committee and blames Microsoft CoPilot for the error
January 14, 2026 at 10:58 AM
AI tools costing the taxpayer thousands in enquiries, time, sackings/hirings, and furore - I thought it was supposed to save money? 🙄
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Advert buyouts often used to get performers their deposit on their first home. This one covers a fraction of one month’s rent.
It’s called a buyout because it’s supposed to buy you out of being in competitors’ adverts for ~3 years. So this is valuing the performer at just under £7/month.
It’s called a buyout because it’s supposed to buy you out of being in competitors’ adverts for ~3 years. So this is valuing the performer at just under £7/month.
Just saw a job posting for a TV commercial with a buyout of £250. GOD that is fucked.
January 14, 2026 at 10:33 AM
Advert buyouts often used to get performers their deposit on their first home. This one covers a fraction of one month’s rent.
It’s called a buyout because it’s supposed to buy you out of being in competitors’ adverts for ~3 years. So this is valuing the performer at just under £7/month.
It’s called a buyout because it’s supposed to buy you out of being in competitors’ adverts for ~3 years. So this is valuing the performer at just under £7/month.