Louise Richardson
@lourichardson.bsky.social
Audiobook girlie. CR: Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer 📖 CL: The South by Tash Aw 🎧
I don’t envy the designers who have to make this arena work on screen #SunriseontheReaping
March 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I don’t envy the designers who have to make this arena work on screen #SunriseontheReaping
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Perhaps we *do* need to start anthropomorphising LLMs - not as reliable researchers or trusty assistants, but as familiar spirits or demons. They WILL lie and deceive, and twist your words, and seek to get you into trouble, while following the letter of their instructions.
February 19, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Perhaps we *do* need to start anthropomorphising LLMs - not as reliable researchers or trusty assistants, but as familiar spirits or demons. They WILL lie and deceive, and twist your words, and seek to get you into trouble, while following the letter of their instructions.
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In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊
February 8, 2025 at 12:20 AM
In a sentence never before uttered by humans, I am delighted to share that an alligator stole my conservation instructor’s hat by jauntily walking into the water while wearing it 🐊
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We're having a discussion about which interesting animal behaviour would be terrifying on a different species. The rules are
a) it can't be an immediate danger to you
b) it has to be so scary you would stop filming and leave.
Feel free to play along. The current winner is vulture murmuration.
a) it can't be an immediate danger to you
b) it has to be so scary you would stop filming and leave.
Feel free to play along. The current winner is vulture murmuration.
January 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We're having a discussion about which interesting animal behaviour would be terrifying on a different species. The rules are
a) it can't be an immediate danger to you
b) it has to be so scary you would stop filming and leave.
Feel free to play along. The current winner is vulture murmuration.
a) it can't be an immediate danger to you
b) it has to be so scary you would stop filming and leave.
Feel free to play along. The current winner is vulture murmuration.
A small piece of good news 🐝 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Government overturns Tory measure and bans emergency use of bee-killing pesticide
Emergency use of Cruiser SB, a neonicotinoid pesticide highly toxic to bees, to be outlawed in UK in line with EU
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:51 AM
A small piece of good news 🐝 www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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hi! my annual video countdown of the year's best movies will be up on monday, january 13.
on the advice of "No Other Land" director Basel Adra, the annual fundraiser i launch along with it is in support of The Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the fundraiser is now live:
gofund.me/ae3c2b9f
on the advice of "No Other Land" director Basel Adra, the annual fundraiser i launch along with it is in support of The Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the fundraiser is now live:
gofund.me/ae3c2b9f
January 6, 2025 at 4:57 AM
hi! my annual video countdown of the year's best movies will be up on monday, january 13.
on the advice of "No Other Land" director Basel Adra, the annual fundraiser i launch along with it is in support of The Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the fundraiser is now live:
gofund.me/ae3c2b9f
on the advice of "No Other Land" director Basel Adra, the annual fundraiser i launch along with it is in support of The Palestine Red Crescent Society, and the fundraiser is now live:
gofund.me/ae3c2b9f
God, this is beautiful - and because I've listened more than three times, I've bought it. open.spotify.com/album/632eFn...
Surface Tension
Annahstasia · Single · 2024 · 3 songs
open.spotify.com
January 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
God, this is beautiful - and because I've listened more than three times, I've bought it. open.spotify.com/album/632eFn...
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It's been a long time since I was so swept up by a book that I read it all in one swoop--but I started MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe when I got up this morning and didn't put it down until I finished it right after lunch. Totally delightful read.
December 30, 2024 at 3:48 AM
It's been a long time since I was so swept up by a book that I read it all in one swoop--but I started MARGO'S GOT MONEY TROUBLES by Rufi Thorpe when I got up this morning and didn't put it down until I finished it right after lunch. Totally delightful read.
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Goodnight from Max Yates, perturbed his great-grandfather’s watch has begun to tick after more than 60-years of silence. Goodnight from the Weychester Theatre Royal, where the ghosts of the pit orchestra that died in the fire of 1887 are playing to the dark. Goodnight from Hookland.
December 29, 2024 at 9:49 PM
Goodnight from Max Yates, perturbed his great-grandfather’s watch has begun to tick after more than 60-years of silence. Goodnight from the Weychester Theatre Royal, where the ghosts of the pit orchestra that died in the fire of 1887 are playing to the dark. Goodnight from Hookland.
Favourite books of 2024 💫
December 27, 2024 at 10:49 PM
Favourite books of 2024 💫
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Goodnight from John Bend, pondering why he has never seen certain regulars of The Salt-bride pub during daylight hours. Goodnight from Gerald Carpenter, putting his ear to the priest hole to listen if the ghost of Fr. Luke is praying the rosary again. Goodnight from Hookland.
November 18, 2024 at 10:03 PM
Goodnight from John Bend, pondering why he has never seen certain regulars of The Salt-bride pub during daylight hours. Goodnight from Gerald Carpenter, putting his ear to the priest hole to listen if the ghost of Fr. Luke is praying the rosary again. Goodnight from Hookland.
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What's interesting about this trend for book marketing AI companies—who secure £Xmil in seed funding, get a write-up in the Bookseller, and will now wither away, leaving only a slime trail of AI generated goop across the surface of culture—is mainly what it says about capital’s engagement with books
Least surprising photo line up of all time
November 25, 2024 at 12:21 PM
What's interesting about this trend for book marketing AI companies—who secure £Xmil in seed funding, get a write-up in the Bookseller, and will now wither away, leaving only a slime trail of AI generated goop across the surface of culture—is mainly what it says about capital’s engagement with books
Show me your pet and what they were named after.
(Wish it was Spider-Punk but it’s not)
(Wish it was Spider-Punk but it’s not)
November 26, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Show me your pet and what they were named after.
(Wish it was Spider-Punk but it’s not)
(Wish it was Spider-Punk but it’s not)
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I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)
When I was a buyer at a large indie, my rule of thumb was:
1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display
1 preorder: huh, let me take a closer look at this one
2 preorders: we need to stock this book
3 preorders: we should order enough to face this out
4+ preorders: this should be on front-of-store display
More detail: When booksellers get pre-orders, it's a quantitative and qualitative signal that there is like *something here* about a book. The avalanche of new books out there is hard to communicate if you're not in the industry, and pre-orders are one of vanishingly few signals. It is a real thing!
November 19, 2024 at 7:16 PM
I never get over how small these numbers are. Look how easy it is to help out your favorite authors! (And your local bookstores!)
No more Greek myth retellings, I want the story of the disappearance of the Entwives.
November 17, 2024 at 8:53 PM
No more Greek myth retellings, I want the story of the disappearance of the Entwives.
A pox on the person at Audible who introduced random samples when you finish a book! No! Let me contemplate the ending in peace!
November 13, 2024 at 11:22 AM
A pox on the person at Audible who introduced random samples when you finish a book! No! Let me contemplate the ending in peace!
I still think of the opening of this article by Tom Mustill about a humpback whale breaching onto his kayak.
November 11, 2024 at 8:24 AM
I still think of the opening of this article by Tom Mustill about a humpback whale breaching onto his kayak.
Still not over Snoop's signature scent being Delina.
October 18, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Still not over Snoop's signature scent being Delina.