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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 1d

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 1d

!!!

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 1d

I KNOW

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 1d

We just launched the final season of Within the Wires so I wrote a small farewell of sorts.
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A farewell

The first episode of the tenth and final season of Within the Wires is out today. I have been working on this show for ten years, which makes absolutely no sense. I cannot imagine working on somethin...

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, there's no good reason

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 1d

Paperback releases don't get broadsheet reviews

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 1d

I was going to say read the alt text but I checked it and there's a typo so don't

Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 1d

Advances should be capped

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 1d

We've had a productive evening

Two small pumpkins carved, one with three eyes, one with the weight of human suffering. In the background, King of the Hill plays

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 1d

Look, I think he's beautiful

A small pumpkin carved to look like he has just achieved sentience and regret it

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Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 7d

In short season 10 of @withinthewires.bsky.social needs some music! It's the final season too, which is sad because @happierman.bsky.social and @j9andif.bsky.social are BRILLIANT colleagues and this has been a really wonderful world to be part of. <3

Mary Epworth @maryepworth.bsky.social · 7d

Once a year, the lesser-spotted Mary Epworth manages to drag herself into a Logic session, to actually record some new music. Today is that day.

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 7d

Wild to claim that we're the ones risking killing an industry that operates at a loss of several billion a year

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 7d

The industry can't afford to do *anything* on its own but all the other costs are expected to be covered by continued investment, weird that the art it relies on is the only thing these people think should be free

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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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 9d

Yeah, like for my serial, which is set in the 20s and has a posh lead character, I would use fewer, but in contemporary commercial fiction I'd use less

Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 9d

I would argue that nowadays fewer is kind of formal speech, so if this is for work, it'll depend on who's saying it, but then that's true of all "correct" grammar

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 9d

Oh, I can count my hates. They are many.

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 9d

Ofc language is an ever evolving, uncontrollable force and linguistic prescriptivism is a fool's game, and in modern use using less instead of fewer is perfectly acceptable because it has been used like that for long enough that its meaning has shifted, tyfyt

Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 9d

Fewer! Fewer is for things you count, less is for things you measure

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 9d

Baffling news, honestly; surely he is already contracted to keep doing this till the heat death of the universe

Chortle @chortle.bsky.social · 9d

Graham Norton Show renewed for three more years

Talk show pulls in 2.9m viewers

dlvr.it

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 12d

Anna, I would only want you to be a journalist in 1924. Notebook in your hat, trenchcoat on

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 12d

Taking at least one statistics class should be a requirement for journalism

The Independent @the-independent.com · 13d

Nearly a third of Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

1 in 3 Americans have had a ‘romantic relationship’ with an AI bot, new survey says

www.independent.co.uk

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 18d

The first five chapters of my serial novel are still free to read! Have you read them yet?
calamitystrinket.ghost.io/a-stranger-a...

Chapter I: A Stranger Appears

367BCE, somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea He woke in a cold sweat and, for a moment, he didn’t know why. His cabin was still and empty. The wood of the small ship creaked around him; he could hea...

calamitystrinket.ghost.io

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 18d

The first five chapters of my serial novel are still free to read! Have you read them yet?
calamitystrinket.ghost.io/a-stranger-a...

Chapter I: A Stranger Appears

367BCE, somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea He woke in a cold sweat and, for a moment, he didn’t know why. His cabin was still and empty. The wood of the small ship creaked around him; he could hea...

calamitystrinket.ghost.io

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 18d

The whole industry also has leaned far too heavily on social media for years, and that just doesn't work unless you are influencer level successful on social media. And often not even then

Tajja Isen @tajjaisen.bsky.social · 19d

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

The Publishing Industry Has a Gambling Problem | The Walrus

Companies keep betting on the next bestseller. Literature is poorer for it

thewalrus.ca

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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 19d

I read @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com's newsletter about film masterpieces and it made me have thoughts about film masterpieces
ihavenoplanforthis.ghost.io/art-vs-enter...

Art vs. Entertainment or; how to be a film guy

Look, I wasn't going to write a newsletter today. I was going to be a few days late, which, given my intention is to be a week ahead, is already very late. But then my friend Marie's newsletter came o...

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