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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutest Batman pitch coming up

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 14h

“Oh I thought you were from a different Birmingham”

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Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 16h

Who blogs the blogmen?

Panel of Rorschach from Watchmen, with caption.

"We do not do this thing because it is permitted. We do it because we have to. We do it because we are compelled."

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 15h

Love space marines being followed by losers

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 17h

Relevant Irish stuff here: bsky.app/profile/mike...

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 18h

Love that book, but my favourite thing is the German with the stereoscopic rangefinder in one of the SPGs.

“I can’t see them!”
“THEY’RE RIGHT FUCKING THERE FRANZ”

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 1d

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 18h

Being bored in hospital does strange things to a man

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 18h

This is fantastic Sathnam.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 18h

I hate having a canulla in, I want to bend my arms dammit

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 18h

“I’m sorry mr clegg, if we asked permission for your image rights or took down CLEGG FITS A LIVE MARMOSET INTO HIS ASS it would kill the AI industry”

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 18h

Obviously this is a sign we should all make infinite videos of nick clegg joyfully suffocating small animals with his ass

bsky.app/profile/thev...

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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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 18h

If you look at what Ireland has just done with writers tax breaks and bursaries, you can even make a really good case it benefits the country from a *purely fiscal perspective*, let alone all the actually important stuff

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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 21h

Real top of the cycle stuff imo.

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 20h

Our K-pop show - which is basically “Educating Yorkshire, but in a kpop academy, as a podcast” comes out next week. As you’d expect, the music is AMAZING.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

Mission K-Pop

Performing Arts Podcast · Weekly Series · Caty Szeto is a woman with a dream: to become a K-Pop superstar. The 23-year-old AsianAmerican is traveling from her home in LA to South Korea’s capital Seoul...

podcasts.apple.com

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 20h

Incredibly good observation on REST IS HISTORY the other day that Keir Starmer is “the modern day Ted Heath”. Such a good comparison with another ineffective bumbling leader

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 20h

It’s basically a service for idiot executives to speed read all those airside filler management self help books like IT LEFT ME SHAKING: 10 SECRETS OF HANDSHAKING THAT MAKE YOU THE PERFECT ENTREPRENEUR

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 20h

This is obviously totally pointless for fiction but under the orders of a previous (rubbish) CEO we tried it for non fiction and it was also completely worthless and you got nothing from a summary of a book you wouldn’t from the back cover

bsky.app/profile/newy...

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.

Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?

Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.

www.newyorker.com

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 1d

But sometimes it is just "thankyou". No code!

Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 1d

lol in audio and tv "with thanks to" is "we wanted to credit you for your contribution elsewhere but the broadcaster is being a prick"

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 1d

I had no idea! It’s so mad it’s a code

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 1d

The whole code is:

Nice deal - $1 – $49,000

Very nice deal - $50,000 – $99,000

Good deal - $100,000 – $250,000

Significant deal - $251,000 – $499,000

Major deal - $500,000 and up

Bonkers! Who knew???

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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 1d

I know I've bigged up her book but I'm also a big fan of @katemckean.bsky.social 's blog, which I'd recommend to anyone trying to get published.

Most recently I learned those Publishers deal announcements HAVE A CODE. A "significant deal" is $250k-$499k!

www.agentsandbooks.com/how-to-misre...

How to Misread a Deal Announcement

Hi friends, I have been a longtime reader of Publishers Marketplace, and in fact, it's deep in my lore that the Publishers Lunch newsletter is why I became an agent. I strongly recommend regularly re...

www.agentsandbooks.com

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