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Thomas D. Lee

@thomasdlee.bsky.social

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Sunday Times bestselling author (he/him) Buy PERILOUS TIMES, it has a talking squirrel Visiting Lecturer at City St George's University London Worried about climate stuff Repped by Harry Illingworth at @dhhlitagency Linktree: https://t.co/psdOEXpR3h

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 19d

I've just handed in the copyedits for MY NEXT BOOK! It's a book about the Knights of the Round Table killing Nazis whilst living messy queer afterlives and trying to be better people to each other, even in dark times. I'm very proud of it, and I can't wait for everyone to be able to read it.

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 1m

Typical Green erasure 😉

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NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

doomscroll break

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 21h

The opposite of nominative determinism

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 23h

Has anyone spotted a gammon-faced King Arthur in the wild?

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 23h

You'd have thought that misspelling the word 'Britain' on her conference pamphlets would demonstrate the benefits of studying English

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 1d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

Can't wait to hang out with cool author friends in Brighton at @worldfantasy2025.bsky.social 🥳

I'll be on the Politics in Fantasy panel with @elizachanwrites.bsky.social and other exciting people at 13.00 on Halloween itself (because there's nothing scarier than politics in 2025 🤣) See you there!

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

'Hengist, if we murder Vortigern, where are we going to put his corpse?'

'Ah, I'm glad you asked, Horsa. I've invented something called a 'barn...'

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

Oh cool!! Backs up the whole Susan Oosthuizen hypothesis about 'The Emergence of the English', that the Saxon settlement was largely peaceful and gradual. If they're building barns in Oxford in 6th c. then they're not violently fighting the Britons.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 2d

The Greens requested an interview on the Laura Kuenssberg Show with Zack Polanski when he was elected leader, but were denied, with a promise to interview him during Green conference instead.

This was then scrapped citing the Manchester synagogue attack. Polanski is both Jewish and from Manchester

BBC Laura Kuenssberg Show Accused of Anti-Green Bias After Cancelling Zack Polanski Interview

The new Green Party leader was the only major party leader not to have been granted a conference interview on the flagship BBC show

bylinetimes.com

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

Email [email protected] with the name of your works and ideally a screenshot proving that they've been stolen

(I'm not the first person to share his address here, but I hope he's not getting too much spam!)

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

I've added my name to Michael Coyle's case against Anthropic in the UK. If you've had your work stolen by Anthropic, if it's on LibGen, then I encourage you to do the same. We can make these fuckers pay. (And even if they don't pay us what we deserve, it might cover the rent for a month or two!)

a bald man in a red shirt is making a funny face and saying `` i will make them pay '' .

Alt: A gif of Captain Picard from Star Trek: First Contact saying 'I will make them pay!'

media.tenor.com

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

A stubborn old idea which only really benefits writers who are independently wealthy and who don't need to make a living out of this gig. Wanting to be fairly remunerated for your time and labour doesn't make you a sellout or an arch-capitalist, it makes you a socialist!

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

We can say 'it's not about the money' and focus on the injustice of the crime but I think we should be wary of thinking that it's somehow vulgar or obscene for us to demand remuneration for having our work stolen. That's getting into 'all writers should live in a leaky garret' territory.

The Poor Poet by Carl Spitzweg, which depicts a starving poet living in a leaky garret and burning his books to keep warm

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not some millionaire, I did reasonably well out of my first book, I can just about cover the rent and food and living expenses by living off my advance and doing teaching work (which, fortunately, I enjoy). But my financial situation looks like this, and I'm sure many other authors can relate.

a cartoon dog is carrying a train on its back .

Alt: A gif from Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers of Gromit riding a model train and hurriedly placing track in front of the train

media.tenor.com

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 2d

Anthropic stole my work. I have complicated feelings about piracy and the value of art and so on, but in summary:

a cartoon of a man asking where 's the money .

Alt: A gif of a Fat Tony from the Simpson's asking 'where's the money'

media.tenor.com

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 3d

I know they've been replaced with something worse but let's still take a moment to celebrate the demise of the Tory party as a political force

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 3d

The bar of the Midland Hotel, lunchtime on the Sunday of Tory conference.

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 3d

RIP Jane Goodall.

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 3d

I love the little bell on his hat

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 4d

It could be on a space station. Maybe near Cardassian space. I'm thinking a Ferengi bartender? Oh, wait....

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 4d

How often do these transphobes actually use the pond, when they're not wearing fake moustaches and doing bizarre publicity stunts? I'm guessing not very often.

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 9d

"single-use plastic of the mind" had me GAGGED

But a still graver scandal of AI— like its hydra-head sibling, cryptocurrency-is the technology's colossal wastefulness. The untold billions firehosed by investors into its development; the water-guzzling data centers draining the parched exurbs of Phoenix and Dallas; the yeti-size carbon footprint of the sector as a whole—and for what? A cankerous glut of racist memes and cardboard essays.
Not only is the ratio of Al's resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, Al-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.

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Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me · 5d

Currently at:
— only buy tech too old to have AI built in
— painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well
— if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool
— if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts
— patiently wait for the crash

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5d

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How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More - Consumer Reports

AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

www.consumerreports.org

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Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 5d

First plane to cross the Atlantic!

Thomas D. Lee @thomasdlee.bsky.social · 5d

See I'm an old plane nerd but I'm a big fan of the Vickers Vimy Commercial, which looks like a child's drawing of an aeroplane

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Wangle-BOO-ry @wangleberry.bsky.social · 5d

The thing about AI is that it ultimately doesn't matter how realistic it gets, or looks, or sounds, or seems - those are all red herrings. The problem at its heart is that nothing it produces comes from a real person, and it therefore has no aesthetic value. That's it. No more needs to be said.

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