James Latimer awaiting sequel to The Wolf and the Wild King 🐺👑
@jameslatimer.bsky.social
Recovering writer. Man of letters. Weltschmerz enthusiast. He/him.
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My (should be) iconic 10>2000, if interested:
Snakewood - A Selby
City of Stairs - RJ Bennett
Blackdog - KV Johansen
Senlin Ascends - J Bancroft
God's War - K Hurley
Goblin Emperor - K Addison
Garden of Stones - MT Barnes
Smiler's Fair - R Levene
Hawkwood's Voyage - P Kearney
City of Lies - S Hawke
Snakewood - A Selby
City of Stairs - RJ Bennett
Blackdog - KV Johansen
Senlin Ascends - J Bancroft
God's War - K Hurley
Goblin Emperor - K Addison
Garden of Stones - MT Barnes
Smiler's Fair - R Levene
Hawkwood's Voyage - P Kearney
City of Lies - S Hawke
We'll I'd be screwed. 😕
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Handwritten and oral exams are making a comeback
econ.st
November 30, 2025 at 8:43 PM
We'll I'd be screwed. 😕
TAX HIM MORE.
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
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Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 30, 2025 at 6:27 PM
TAX HIM MORE.
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Won't someone please think of the multi millionaires in this cost of living crisis.
November 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Won't someone please think of the multi millionaires in this cost of living crisis.
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"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
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I reviewed a book!
Everyone, please clap, I've been unable to do this for 2 months due to a mental block.
As someone who almost never gets genuinely emotional about a book - this one almost made me cry.
#SPFBOchampion
#SPFBO
#SFF
#indie
#Selfpub
📚💙📘
weatherwaxreport.blog/2025/11/29/s...
Everyone, please clap, I've been unable to do this for 2 months due to a mental block.
As someone who almost never gets genuinely emotional about a book - this one almost made me cry.
#SPFBOchampion
#SPFBO
#SFF
#indie
#Selfpub
📚💙📘
weatherwaxreport.blog/2025/11/29/s...
SPFBO Champion’s League: The Sword of Kaigen by M. L. Wang
I took a three-month break from reading and reviewing. I got caught in a cycle of re-reading Pratchett and Dungeon Crawler Carl over and over for months as a self-soothing behavior for extreme anxi…
weatherwaxreport.blog
November 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I reviewed a book!
Everyone, please clap, I've been unable to do this for 2 months due to a mental block.
As someone who almost never gets genuinely emotional about a book - this one almost made me cry.
#SPFBOchampion
#SPFBO
#SFF
#indie
#Selfpub
📚💙📘
weatherwaxreport.blog/2025/11/29/s...
Everyone, please clap, I've been unable to do this for 2 months due to a mental block.
As someone who almost never gets genuinely emotional about a book - this one almost made me cry.
#SPFBOchampion
#SPFBO
#SFF
#indie
#Selfpub
📚💙📘
weatherwaxreport.blog/2025/11/29/s...
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"cancelled" comedians going on to have sell out tours and Grammy wins
November 29, 2025 at 10:09 PM
"cancelled" comedians going on to have sell out tours and Grammy wins
Oh and I picked up Blood Over Bright Haven (finally!) by the brilliant M L Wang.
Apparently there's an AMAZING SFF bookshop in Lymington and I only stumbled on it by accident - luckily they had a sign on the passage by the high street that I noticed the second time around!
November 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Oh and I picked up Blood Over Bright Haven (finally!) by the brilliant M L Wang.
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I know this petition has much more support than it currently has. Please share far and wide. Petition to require generative AI to carry a watermark and to make it illegal to use a person’s likeness in generative AI without permission.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Require generative AI watermarks & ban using people’s likeness without consent
As AI generated content becomes increasingly realistic, we think laws should be put in place to prevent misuse. All such media should carry a permanent watermark or disclosure, alongside a blanket ban...
petition.parliament.uk
November 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I know this petition has much more support than it currently has. Please share far and wide. Petition to require generative AI to carry a watermark and to make it illegal to use a person’s likeness in generative AI without permission.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Apparently there's an AMAZING SFF bookshop in Lymington and I only stumbled on it by accident - luckily they had a sign on the passage by the high street that I noticed the second time around!
November 29, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Apparently there's an AMAZING SFF bookshop in Lymington and I only stumbled on it by accident - luckily they had a sign on the passage by the high street that I noticed the second time around!
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artists and designers using ai like
November 27, 2025 at 12:35 AM
artists and designers using ai like
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I've never encountered more students who say they hate reading. Students who want to be teachers, writers, or both. I wonder if "hate" means "I have trouble reading," but I also talk with so many students who write in a genre but refuse to read in it. They can't see themselves in relation to others.
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I've never encountered more students who say they hate reading. Students who want to be teachers, writers, or both. I wonder if "hate" means "I have trouble reading," but I also talk with so many students who write in a genre but refuse to read in it. They can't see themselves in relation to others.
I feel like this could be of interest to @rjbarker.bsky.social 🤔 😅
November 28, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I feel like this could be of interest to @rjbarker.bsky.social 🤔 😅
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I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
One of my colleagues went to a seminar at Berkeley and when someone asked a question Derrida brushed it off saying ‘what you ask may be important but it is not interesting’.
This path leads to chaos.
November 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”
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If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 AM
If you think that the current state of trans healthcare in the UK is because of concern or caution, I'd encourage you to think again.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
It's not medically informed, it's a reactionary response to transphobic bigotry whipped up into a frenzy over the past few years.
And it costs lives.
I didn't even know the show even existed! Algorithms - not to mention you lot - have failed me!
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
I didn't even know the show even existed! Algorithms - not to mention you lot - have failed me!
Well I think we've figured out why there's such a backlog in the court system!
A solicitor, Andrew Milne has been bullying leaseholders across Sheffield into paying him extraordinary sums, with no legal basis.
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
Why hasn't the SRA stopped him? Because he's conducted an extraordinary campaign against the SRA. 180 complaints. Two judicial reviews.
More here: buff.ly/LmLVegM
SRA urged to take action as we reveal solicitor has ‘purposely frustrated’ investigation
Solicitor Andrew Jonathan Milne delayed an official investigation into his alleged professional misconduct by overwhelming the regulator with complaints and threatening them with two injunctions se…
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Well I think we've figured out why there's such a backlog in the court system!
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Last Christmas, you gave them your heart
The very next day, they threw it away.
This year, to make yourself cheer*
Buy yourself all of my books. (my books)
*May not be full of cheer.
The very next day, they threw it away.
This year, to make yourself cheer*
Buy yourself all of my books. (my books)
*May not be full of cheer.
It is time for a PROPER pinned tweet with a list of books in reverse order of publication and a little bit of info about each series. Buckle up buckos, here we go.
(I may even correct typos in it, but probably not, Life's too short, right?)
(I may even correct typos in it, but probably not, Life's too short, right?)
November 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Last Christmas, you gave them your heart
The very next day, they threw it away.
This year, to make yourself cheer*
Buy yourself all of my books. (my books)
*May not be full of cheer.
The very next day, they threw it away.
This year, to make yourself cheer*
Buy yourself all of my books. (my books)
*May not be full of cheer.
Occasionally remember that I made Space Nazis the antagonists in my military space opera that I once briefly published and honestly I was just thinking of cartoon villains at the point I came up with it, but I wish it hadn't proved so fucking prescient.
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Occasionally remember that I made Space Nazis the antagonists in my military space opera that I once briefly published and honestly I was just thinking of cartoon villains at the point I came up with it, but I wish it hadn't proved so fucking prescient.
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The Brooklyn Citizen
November 19,1918
November 19,1918
November 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
The Brooklyn Citizen
November 19,1918
November 19,1918
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Ye gods but humans are tribal, eh? Just love putting people in groups, assuming they're all the same, and so terrified of any perceived differences. Such a small, scared, insecure species...
November 27, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Ye gods but humans are tribal, eh? Just love putting people in groups, assuming they're all the same, and so terrified of any perceived differences. Such a small, scared, insecure species...
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Elmer Fudd is in bed with a beautiful woman, but she's sad. She says she feels all alone in the world. Elmer says, "The treatment is simple. The great bunny Bugs is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." And the woman bursts into tears. Says, "But Elmer...I am Bugs Bunny."
October 22, 2023 at 9:19 AM
Elmer Fudd is in bed with a beautiful woman, but she's sad. She says she feels all alone in the world. Elmer says, "The treatment is simple. The great bunny Bugs is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." And the woman bursts into tears. Says, "But Elmer...I am Bugs Bunny."
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Good thread, very informative. NB a key reason the traditional publishers' advance/royalties finance model no longer supports most UK authors is that assumes steady backlist sales but these days publishers don't take returns on titles more than 18 months old, so high street shops don't stock them.
I'm going to do a little thread on how the money from books works for traditionally published authors because people have questions, and this is always useful info to share IMO. First, a big disclaimer that every contract is different, and there are a million factors that can change things. 1/
November 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Good thread, very informative. NB a key reason the traditional publishers' advance/royalties finance model no longer supports most UK authors is that assumes steady backlist sales but these days publishers don't take returns on titles more than 18 months old, so high street shops don't stock them.
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When our son was 10 he would ask questions about whatever narrative we were consuming together and it took one talk like "those questions you're always asking are called the story and if you're patient you'll find that they get answered eventually" and a lot of the internet needs that refresher.
"WHY'S SHE DOING THAT?? WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN NEXT, I'M BORED" well the cool thing about following a narrative is that eventually if you keep watching or reading or listening, magical bits of information are doled out
November 27, 2025 at 5:50 AM
When our son was 10 he would ask questions about whatever narrative we were consuming together and it took one talk like "those questions you're always asking are called the story and if you're patient you'll find that they get answered eventually" and a lot of the internet needs that refresher.