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Why can’t Kindle allow you to buy single short stories and then anyone can create their own anthology like playlists on Spotify.

#books #Kindle #booksky
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August 26, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Why can’t Kindle allow you to buy single short stories and then anyone can create their own anthology like playlists on Spotify.

#books #Kindle
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August 26, 2025 at 8:30 AM
@richardosman1.bsky.social Watched ‘Game of Throws’ on your recommendation. Very good. Once I eventually found it.

Me: Game of Throws
Sky: Games of Thrones
Me: Game of THROWS
Sky: Game of THRONES

#therestisentertainment
December 3, 2024 at 10:31 AM
@nasibov.bsky.social I thought you’d find this interesting. I saw this sign for a barber shop and I thought what a missed opportunity. Why not have the two blades of a pair of scissors as the two hands of a clock.
December 2, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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Perfect soft poached eggs - put two eggs into boiling water, uncracked, for 15 secs. Take out and crack carefully into the water. Boil gently for one minute and turn off the heat.
Put in your toast, and when done, serve with the eggs. It is very simple, and it works.
November 22, 2024 at 9:39 AM
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I recently discovered this drink at a beautiful little Mediterranean restaurant I visited a few months back - they called it an Arabian Night Orange. 250ml fresh squeezed orange juice, 60ml dark roast or espresso, 1 tsp simple syrup. It’s quite fantastic.
November 21, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Playing Battleships with son. I won by sinking his destroyer on square B 10. I told him it was quite apt because I had just ‘beaten’ him.
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November 21, 2024 at 4:40 PM
I saw a brilliant thing the other day. I was queuing up to take some rubbish to the dump when a man drove past on a motorbike. He didn’t seem to have any rubbish. But as he drove past I saw he had a little plastic bag of maybe ten batteries strapped to the back of his bike.
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November 21, 2024 at 4:38 PM
It’s like a good idea. It’s so obvious once you’ve seen it.
Can you see the hidden tiger?
November 21, 2024 at 9:40 AM
From my book Brainhack
November 21, 2024 at 12:06 AM
I’ve got 99 problems…

They’ve run out of flakes!
November 20, 2024 at 11:50 PM
Can you see the hidden tiger?
November 20, 2024 at 11:48 PM
The ‘keep it up’ Balloon World Cup or a new game in series 2 of Squid Game youtu.be/Iiigz06_lvM #SquidGame
Peru wins the first ever Balloon World Cup
YouTube video by Guardian Sport
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November 20, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Creativity is the man who invented the wheel.

Innovation is the man who invented the other three.

#innovation #Creative
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November 20, 2024 at 11:01 PM
I saw this in the window of sports shop in Barcelona:
“They can’t be proven, the sports of expository.”

Anyone got any other good examples of bad translations?
#WritingCommunity #Barca #Barcelona #translation
November 20, 2024 at 11:00 PM
Can you get Alphabetti Spahettti in Arabic or Chinese?
#FoodieBeauty #Chinese #Arabic
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November 20, 2024 at 10:37 PM
“Copying is taking someone else’s solutions. Learning is taking someone else’s problems.” Twyla Tharp

‘The Creative Habit’ is one of the best books I’ve read on creativity. You don’t need to be a writer, to write.
November 20, 2024 at 10:34 PM
Write a little every day, without hope and without despair.
Isak Dinesen #writing
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November 20, 2024 at 10:31 PM
True story. A friend of mine took a new girlfriend to see some famous ancient stones. When they got off the train and asked the taxi driver to take them to see the stones, the driver said, “you do realise this is Aylesbury, not Avebury.”
November 20, 2024 at 10:26 PM
It’s great you can download the start of a book on Kindle, but here’s an idea, why not make it longer. Why not let people read the first 50 pages or even half the book for free. let readers get hooked. #BookTwitter #WritingCommunity #BookLover #Read
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November 20, 2024 at 10:22 PM
Here’s an idea. Why not have car parks with diagonal spaces? You lose one space per row, but it will be so much easier for drivers to get in and out. #innovation #ideas #CarParking #Creative
November 20, 2024 at 10:19 PM
Beautiful simple idea from Saul Steinberg from 1954 but still stands out. youtu.be/n4PKZhdx_MY

#social #communication #art #ideas
Saul Steinberg - The Line
YouTube video by Nieves
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November 20, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Here’s an idea, it’s so much easier to learn a board game from YouTube videos, so why don’t the manufacturers make videos for their games? #boardgames #idea #inn
November 20, 2024 at 10:16 PM
I went to a Japanese restaurant and they told me they were going to Chuck me out because they were closing and I said, “Yeah you and whose umami.”
November 20, 2024 at 10:14 PM