They—!!! ♥️

I think the key to understanding Britain is that JK Rowling’s oddball fantasy about an elite class of special people - far apart from the scum mass of regular humans - being trained by mad, cruel bastards to be weird, unpleasant, superior judgy wankers, is more or less accurate.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

With many authors treating writing as their second job, they should not need a third job as social media influencer and become a walking brand in order to have, yknow, a chance at a career.

Also bring back the midlist.

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

“Concerns over an AI bubble bursting have grown lately, with analysts recently finding that it’s 17 times the size of the dotcom-era bubble and four times bigger than the 2008 financial crisis.”

Hang onto your butts. This “correction” is gonna hurt.
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just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

"Portland is full of crime"

The online verification explicitly stated that no information would be held and that it would be deleted as soon as you age verified. Does this mean they can be sued under GDPR? 🤔

Authors - need a cover artist? This pack has you covered (lol) and is a great starting point for getting human made arts for your writing!

Paypal is now playing harder ball on artists, going after anyone even mentioning commissions.

Artists, send invoices. That way, no one has to say what the money is for on Paypal's paper trail.

Customers, SAY NOTHING about commissions. Just say "thanks" on donos.

Everyone: INCREASE THE CALLS.

@poppihin.bsky.social #theebonywitch fan art
pilot premiers Oct. 4 ✨

Gorgeous!!! ✨♥️

What a cutie pie ⭐️

Ooh, that's something to chew on. People are going to be actively looking for weird, gnarly, unpredictable.

I try to focus this account so it's for my readers, but hey writers:

NEVER sign a contract where the publisher keeps your rights indefinitely. For short stories, there should be a point when you can sell reprints.

and NEVER sign your movie/TV/etc adaptation rights to a publisher. Those are yours.

Hope you feel better soon! 💛 🐝

Little moomin soriku sketch for today 🐈💕 #soriku

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Jack Black is very much one of those people I look at him and what he does and the insane amount of energy he continues to apply to everything he does and, yeah, I fully believe that's the child of a rocket scientist.

If I controlled an animation studio- any animation studio- I would jump both feet forth. Alas- for good or bd- I do not.

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I’ve been asked quite a lot over the years about how I remain calm when responding to trolls and bad actors. Some day I’ll do a bigger write up, but one of the biggest things that has helped me a lot is to remember:

“When you’re easily offended, you’re easily manipulated.”