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Books, theatre, food. Not necessarily in that order.
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Royal Mail postal service made £194m pre-tax profit.
Didn't meet 1st/2nd class letter delivery targets. Regulator lowering them. 2nd-class letters every other weekday, none on Saturdays.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Didn't meet 1st/2nd class letter delivery targets. Regulator lowering them. 2nd-class letters every other weekday, none on Saturdays.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Royal Mail returns to profit as takeover brings ‘year of change’
Rise in profit comes a year after parent company IDS agreed to acquisition by Daniel Křetínský’s EP Group
www.theguardian.com
September 1, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Royal Mail postal service made £194m pre-tax profit.
Didn't meet 1st/2nd class letter delivery targets. Regulator lowering them. 2nd-class letters every other weekday, none on Saturdays.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Didn't meet 1st/2nd class letter delivery targets. Regulator lowering them. 2nd-class letters every other weekday, none on Saturdays.
Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p.
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.
Yes, I wasn’t ready to go home yesterday and hung out in a tiny bookshop at London Bridge. Loved it, lovely people. Brilliant recommendations shelf.
#booksky 💙📚
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March 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yes, I wasn’t ready to go home yesterday and hung out in a tiny bookshop at London Bridge. Loved it, lovely people. Brilliant recommendations shelf.
#booksky 💙📚
#booksky 💙📚
Someone else was looking for The Three-Body Problem but as it was unavailable wanted AI that wasn’t Asimov.
I suggested Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro as it was a train station bookshop with slim SF pickings and there’s the social aspect. Turns out it was a gift. They bought it.
#booksky 💙📚
I suggested Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro as it was a train station bookshop with slim SF pickings and there’s the social aspect. Turns out it was a gift. They bought it.
#booksky 💙📚
March 23, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Someone else was looking for The Three-Body Problem but as it was unavailable wanted AI that wasn’t Asimov.
I suggested Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro as it was a train station bookshop with slim SF pickings and there’s the social aspect. Turns out it was a gift. They bought it.
#booksky 💙📚
I suggested Klara and The Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro as it was a train station bookshop with slim SF pickings and there’s the social aspect. Turns out it was a gift. They bought it.
#booksky 💙📚
Recommended Kindred by Octavia E. Butler yesterday to someone - they asked for reassurance it was nothing like Station Eleven
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March 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Recommended Kindred by Octavia E. Butler yesterday to someone - they asked for reassurance it was nothing like Station Eleven
#booksky 💙📚
#booksky 💙📚
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International Women’s Day in numbers: How the fight for equality is still lagging behind
International Women’s Day in numbers: How the fight for equality is lagging behind
As International Women’s Day is marked around the world, The Independent crunches the numbers on women’s lives at work and at home
www.independent.co.uk
March 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
International Women’s Day in numbers: How the fight for equality is still lagging behind
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What does it say about the state of transit in the United States when Disney World operates the 10th largest transit agency in the country—and the largest in a state of 23 million people with a GDP equivalent to Australia?
February 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What does it say about the state of transit in the United States when Disney World operates the 10th largest transit agency in the country—and the largest in a state of 23 million people with a GDP equivalent to Australia?
Love it when the library showcases an indie publisher! (Bonus points as Charco Press tends to be in translation.)
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#locallibrary #libraries #independentpublisher #charcopress #literatureintranslation
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#locallibrary #libraries #independentpublisher #charcopress #literatureintranslation
January 5, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Love it when the library showcases an indie publisher! (Bonus points as Charco Press tends to be in translation.)
#booksky 💙📚
#locallibrary #libraries #independentpublisher #charcopress #literatureintranslation
#booksky 💙📚
#locallibrary #libraries #independentpublisher #charcopress #literatureintranslation
Can’t be sure as I haven’t read The City And Its Uncertain Walls yet but it seems like double unicorns going into 2025 (look in the window, The Last Unicorn is!)
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January 1, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Can’t be sure as I haven’t read The City And Its Uncertain Walls yet but it seems like double unicorns going into 2025 (look in the window, The Last Unicorn is!)
#booksky 💙📚
#booksky 💙📚
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 20/20
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#bookchallenge
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December 29, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 20/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 20/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
December 28, 2024 at 7:58 AM
OpenAI doesn't report a single number for its climate impacts - not anywhere, in any way, shape or form.
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
It sounds kind of obvious but the fact that a company with such incredible electricity hunger isn't disclosing basic information about its energy consumption and associated emissions is v bad..
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 19/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 19/20
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#bookchallenge
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December 28, 2024 at 10:41 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 19/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 19/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 18/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 18/20
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#bookchallenge
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December 27, 2024 at 12:05 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 18/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 18/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 17/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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December 25, 2024 at 1:15 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 17/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 17/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 16/20
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December 24, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 16/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 16/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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A snowy London for Christmas is off the table.
December 23, 2024 at 6:06 PM
A snowy London for Christmas is off the table.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 15/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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December 23, 2024 at 12:16 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 15/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 15/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 14/20
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December 22, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 14/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 14/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Must practice one-liners.
December 21, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Must practice one-liners.
It’s nice to have posts without extra media when most of the feed is bulked out with pictures/links making 2-3 posts visible at a time. Seeing 7 posts at a glance is a nicer experience.
December 21, 2024 at 3:42 PM
It’s nice to have posts without extra media when most of the feed is bulked out with pictures/links making 2-3 posts visible at a time. Seeing 7 posts at a glance is a nicer experience.
Advice to live by.
How to gift wrap a book… my cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
December 21, 2024 at 2:31 PM
Advice to live by.
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 13/20
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#bookchallenge
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December 21, 2024 at 2:30 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 13/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 13/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12/20
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#bookchallenge
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Day 12/20
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December 20, 2024 at 10:29 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 12/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 12/20
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#bookchallenge
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11/20
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Day 11/20
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December 19, 2024 at 6:59 PM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 11/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 11/20
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#bookchallenge
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cool, shut it down
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 3:52 PM
cool, shut it down
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 10/20
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#bookchallenge
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December 18, 2024 at 8:46 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Day 10/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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Day 10/20
#booksky
#bookchallenge
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