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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2h

on consideration, nightly cocktails probably also helped, oh no

Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2h

Post-holiday thoughts: sure was a lot easier not to have insomnia when I ate well, after walking long distances, through constantly new and enriching experiences, without the burden of unfulfilling work clouding my mind, and a somewhat deluded approach to spending, in an almost-always sunny climate.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 7h

Timeline cleanse.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 12h

“The government doesn’t value the gaming industry,” I dunno, we’re living inside their massively multiplayer alternate reality game with loot boxes built into character creation and mods coming out every week to address admin bugs flagged in crunch but never fixed, I think they value it fine.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 13h

They want the product of wishing into existence something that didn’t exist beforehand, without the side effects: observation, analysis, understanding, empathy, problem-solving. Because the cumulative effect of all those qualities is a desire for justice.

Art is a means of shaping the world better.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 13h

On creative work being necessary for industry but the *study* of creativity being unserious: they want the genie without the bottle, the wish without the curse, the hocus (as @hrfmichael.bsky.social is fond of saying) without the pocus.

Anyone familiar with the art knows that’s not how it works.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 18h

Goofy Integers

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 18h

You’d think Tories would be into Mickey Mouse degrees, they love multimillion media monopolies built on aggressive lawsuits and worker abuse.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 18h

Mister, I am the freaks.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 18h

They want someone vulnerable enough to be confused about what they’re asking. Understand it’s a scam: hang up. Misunderstand it’s a scam but understand the question: hang up. Get confused by the whole situation and want someone to make it make sense: bank details please!

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 18h

Further to this, my favourite joke in all of Discworld is when Granny Weatherwax is trying to remember an “M-word” for understanding others, and Verence has to work backwards from how Weatherwax thinks, to arrive at Em-pathy.

Reading teaches the nuances of being human. Curbing reading does not.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

Whenever I get ones that ask if I’ve been in a car accident, I take a beat then tremulously tell them about how a trucker asleep at the wheel killed my darling wife. Somehow they never have a script for when they actually come across someone who has experienced the exact trauma they’re preying on.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

I say this kindly and as someone who is part of the problem.

No more sqiggly line book covers. We're reaching Book Blob levels of saturation. It's done.

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Fantômas, Le contrebandier de DEI @theefantomas.bsky.social · 1d

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

The most recent one I got did say there’d be a 10% discount for services, so they’re definitely digging. All they need is a few naive and desperate writers to reply in the hope having someone punt their work to a book group is worth paying for (which will never happen) and the spam pays for itself.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

I was only able to stop one of them responding to my OOO while on holiday by threatening to go on a murder spree if they emailed again.

Which they did, to apologise.

Still, hypothetically, how unwise would it be to write an auto-reply threatening terrorism that only AI bots take seriously?

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

(Unfortunately Marvel tried this with Secret Invasion, and fucked it so hard nobody's going to try that again, at that scale, for a long time, so I might as well go back and watch Doctor Who's Zygon Invasion/Inversion instead.)

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

Body-snatchers in the age of deepfakes? A paranoid invasion thriller while in the grip of fascist institutional capture? Pointing and screaming incomprehensible gibberish en masse? I'm there, I'm sat, I'm buying the novelty popcorn tub.

JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 1d

feel we're culturally about due for another INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS remake

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

Bitch better time my bread
Bitch better time my bread
Pay me what you owe me
Bitch better time my (Bitch better time my)
Bitch better time my (Bitch better time my)
Bitch better time my bread

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 1d

I don't believe she's read a single word, she just knows he's the last non-problematic writer left on these cursed isles. "Except for the last one" is the tell. Does she mean Raising Steam? Shepherd's Crown? A Stroke of the Pen? Her Pratchett collection goes to another school, you wouldn't know her.

Paul Haine @paulhaine.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

he 👄 me would I 💦 to say 💦 my 🌮 and first I put my 💪 around him 💦 and drew him ⬇️ to me so he could ✋ my 🦉 all 🌺 and his ❤️ was going like mad and 💦 I said 💦 I will 💦

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

Soft Brutalism

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

None of these words mean anything to me yet but I am hyped for when they do.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

You feel bad putting a mug on them then you take a drink and you feel like you’ve saved their life. William Morris florals just don’t hit like that.

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Ryan Vamps @ryanvance.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t like coasters - if the table is too nice to weather a mug ring or two, it’s too nice to be a table you put mugs on - but we are a coaster household. I got three botanical ones that I felt I could stomach, and one that would make Andrew happy, and now it’s the only one I actually like.

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