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Lev's Six Things are brilliant. If you get them delivered to your inbox, you'll have already seen them. Unless you don't open email at weekends. Fair enough. They are unflaggingly positive and interesting. A lot of them are funny. Honestly it's a no brainer. levparikian.substack.com/p/six-things...

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Here's a thread of verified civilians trying to survive in Gaza. Their Bsky accounts are constantly deleted, so I’ll post directly to their funds. These are real people, in desperate need of help. We’re their only lifeline due to the aid blockades. Please give if you can and share. 1/17

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Trans people warned you this would happen when 'gender-criticals' joined up their hate campaign with the far right, part 3 million...

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“We can’t control how readers, execs or producers take our scripts. If only we could! All we can do is write to the best of our ability.” - what Paul said! #scriptsky

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For wont of saying something more original than "Give it all the awards now", I'm three episodes into The Studio and... give it all the awards now.

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"adapt or die"? you guys can't even write an email for chrissakes

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I suppose if you’re proposing to torpedo British arts by wrapping our IP in a bow and giving it to Sam Altman in the hope he might let you clean his shoes, there’s no longer much call for a Culture department in government.

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I wonder how many Labour position documents right now are framed around this paper?

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Just a reminder that it’s been a month since Israel’s defense minister himself said we will do a crime against humanity. They just announced the plan to starve civilians. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

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ANNOUNCEMENT! My next novel, The Heist Of Hollow London, will be published by Tor on 30 September 2025. One of the world's largest corporations collapses. During the sale of its assets, five clone workers are bought to steal a large sum of money stashed an obscure facility in a near-abandoned city.

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One final thought on this: it took me ages to realise that I was “creative” because the word is used to described talented or special people who make works of art. This is wrong, I think we are all “creative” and just need to find ways to make things in our everyday lives.

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The extremely 80s pop combination of brilliantly catchy melodies + unfathomable lyrics + a sort-of-danceable tempo peaked with Duran Duran's The Reflex. There is no more 80s song than The Reflex. Discuss. #totp

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"adapt or die" is fuckin hilarious like die how? You think your process that can be replaced by a malfunctioning algorithm is in turn gonna replace my brain? Good luck with that one, Chuckles

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Kids are locked out of home ownership, burdened with tuition fees, suffer massive poverty, are threatened by the climate crisis and AI, had their live chances whacked by Brexit, have no healthcare support, and are constantly monstered by the press. They don't need "grit"; they need fairness.

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Anna Ganley, CEO of the @societyofauthors.bsky.social, criticised the “injustice” of the government’s stance on AI, after ministers blocked an amendment to a controversial AI bill, which would require tech firms to disclose their use of copyright-protected material 👇 #BookSky

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#scriptskyuk folks, a question. I'm a Welsh screenwriter, and I sometimes feel that as a 'regional' writer, I'm limited to the Welsh broadcasters, all two of whom commission drama in a way English writers aren't. (1/4)

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Looking forward to this! 👇

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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

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A million times this! It's partly what I write about here: www.andreamann.com/blog/trust-t...

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One of the main reasons for having an issue with students using generative AI is that when a lecturer asks students to write essays on the social impact of railways in Derbyshire in the early 19th century it's to gauge the students' understanding, not to fill an urgent essay shortage.

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Such a delight to see the living Labour legend that is Paul Dimoldenberg (yes, he's Amelia's dad) become Lord Mayor of Westminster. www.youtube.com/live/1pPhTDr...

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Completing the Hero's Journey I see

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This is the problem with X in a nutshell. You fundamentally can't trust the product, because the owner will trash it's functioning in an effort to make the world match his batshit views. It's as if Henry Ford was not just antisemitic, but stitched anti-semitic propaganda into every Model T.

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Love how this past few years have just been extremely rich people trying to fix things that weren't broken, then breaking them completely, then trying to roll back after indisputable damage has been done.

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Very sad to see the UK Labour party today vote to reject common sense legislation, introduced this week in the Lords, that would make AI companies disclose their training data - which would let British creators enforce their rights. Legislation the Lords support, and all other parties support.

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