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Can the letter now be sent by post? (NB @societyofauthors.bsky.social, don't ask for a signature/proof of delivery, they won't sign for it). Note to Meta: it's just a letter, it won't bite, you're not being served court papers or anything... (Or did you think you were?).

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The irony, that Meta wouldn’t open its doors to take a 500 word letter of complaint from writers, when they’d already taken millions of words from us. Apparently they’ve got enough now. Thanks.

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

META could afford to do otherwise but chose to steal all our work. They must be made to compensate for the theft, and only use copyrighted work with express written permission going forward.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Meta, directed by Mark Zuckerberg, stole the work of millions of authors - including me - to train its AI. Truly outrageous theft. #MetaBookThieves #MakeItFair #SOADayOfAction

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

If the UK government agrees to a wholesale undoing of copyright, to excuse Meta's massive theft of books, art, movies etc as 'data', then the creative industries and all of us working in them are finished. All viewers and readers will get in future is unoriginal, derivative slop. #MetaBookThieves

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Meta can afford it. They just prefer to steal.

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On my way to protest at Meta’s London office. Why? Pirate site LibGen ripped 7.5 million books. Meta used this stolen content to train AI systems to write books #campaigning #makeITfair #DotheWriteThing @alcs.co.uk @writersguildgb.bsky.social @authorsguild.bsky.social @societyofauthors.bsky.social

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

...but I think the FN/RN can still field a candidate in 2027, if they can find one (Bardella), and today's ruling will probably boost support, so... #France #LePen

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

You should also watch Seeger singing THIS LAND... at Obama's first inauguration, w Springsteen and a Diverse, Inclusive gospel chorus 🥹

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Australian newspaper "The Sun-Herald" opinion piece calls it out. American msm, take notes.

submitted 45 days ago • 884 comments

youtube.com/watch?v=wnvC... Saw A COMPLETE UNKNOWN & sobbed as a young Pete Seeger sang this 👇. America isn't the Trump White House & may never be greater than this (old Pete Seeger w Springsteen & a Diverse, Inclusive gospel chorus at Obama's inauguration) 👇. Hoping this can be equalled again soon.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Well Trump & esp. J.D. showed their hands in ways we can all see this afternoon. The clearly calculated good cop/bad cop trolling of Zelenskyy can still backfire... They're never going to sign anything that counters Putin's interests, as we now all know, if we didn't before (which we actually did).

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

...and two from the terrific @andotherstories.bsky.social ! Hurrah! 👏👏👏 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

So French leads the field for the 2025 International Booker! ❤️🇫🇷📚 Three titles longlisted, including Vincent Delecroix's painful, timely SMALL BOAT, from @hoperoadpublish.bsky.social, tr. Helen Stevenson. Great to see such a fresh list of largely new names, too :) Congratulations to all 👏👏👏

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youtube.com/watch?v=pIQh... This is really quite extraordinary: a notably diverse, inclusive US Army chorus belting out a call to revolution, to an assembly of State governors, in the White House. Palpably electric atmosphere. Watching and waiting...

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

What a great (quite long, very enjoyable) read! Based on this, I'm really looking forward to the International Booker judges' longlist this year ❤️🌏🌎🌍📚 thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-l...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Dear #BookSky can you help us find our lost audience? We left 140,00 people behind on X and we want to reconnect!

submitted 57 days ago • 13 comments

Ummm, Robert Harris just breathtakingly swept Isabella Rossellini aside on @bbcradio4.bsky.social ??

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Two pieces of lovely news here: the re-publication of a gorgeous livre d'artiste by Nikki de Saint-Phalle, from @gallimard.bsky.social and a blockbuster summer exhibition on the theme of animals in her work, at the marvellous #HôteldeCaumont in Aix-en-Provence! www.beauxarts.com/lifestyle/qu...

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

In the run-up to London Book Fair, a different view of Olympia 😯

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Valentine's Day hugs and kisses from Monsieur Matisse ❤️ These postcards of his settings of love poems by Pierre de Ronsard decorated my student room and led me to write MATISSE:THE BOOKS, 35 years later 😍

submitted 61 days ago • 1 comment

Lots of acknowledgements of the value of support & community among translators, & expressions of thanks to the @societyofauthors.bsky.social from the winners of tonight's translation awards, streaming live from the @britishlibrary.bsky.social So true! ❤️🌍🌎🌏📚🍾👏👏🥂 www.thebookseller.com/news/soa-ann...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

"Attention is a form of respect for people and places"... Fine words read by the co-winner of the 60th Scott Moncrieff Prize for translation from French, online tonight from the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Translation is of course the closest firm of attention www.thebookseller.com/news/the-soc...

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Some very important messages from the winners of tonight's @societyofauthors.bsky.social translation prizes so far. #freespeech #resistance Watch them on the Society's Youtube channel! www.thebookseller.com/news/the-soc...

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Breaking my dry February (I have a birthday in January) to enjoy a glass of wine with the online 2024 @societyofauthors.bsky.social #TranslationsAssociation prizes for work published (mostly) in 2023 :) 👏👏👏🍾🥂 ❤️🌍🌎🌏📚

submitted 62 days ago • 1 comment

#amtranslating a v cool guide to Capri: colourful characters, outrageous villas (or vice versa), topless taxis w. sunshade roofs, towering cliffs, sparkling sea. And memories of a trip there w our boys, c.20 yrs ago. Perfect antedote to a freezing, drizzly afternoon www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SJe...

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments