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Yesterday's appalling ambush of Zelenskyy by Trump and Vance - absolutely shocking behaviour and treatment of another world leader, and yet Trump's comment said it all ... 'this is going to be great television' ... #StandWithUkraine

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The couple behind me are stuck on their crossword and I'm pressing my lips together so tightly. " 'Hill producing lava (7).' Mountain?"

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“Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder'." Geoffrey Willans (1911-1958). Molesworth, who is timeless, first appeared in 1939.

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If you're in desperate need of a comfort read, this is the absolute best. Sapient swords with opinions, housekeepers with questions, non-binary holy lawyers, a very patient ox, and a sweet romance. If you wish more cozy fantasy cared about worldbuilding and supply chains, here you go!

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Every major UK newspaper - left, right, broadsheet, tabloid - is running a front page campaign against copyright carveouts for AI training. I can't remember the last time any political cause had such broad support, let alone one so anti-big tech and so economically consequential.

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Just completed the #AIConsultation. 50+ qs, including "estimate the effect on the economy of..." Was there a question that asked (the equally suppositious), "how much happier will people be if..."? No. But that's really what's at stake. Now, back to editing the book to be scraped in due course.

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This is the tortured #hero par excellence. (We'll overlook the hair—1949 was not a good year for hair.) More fuss should be made of Pietro #Annigoni whose portraits are detailed & sensitive—his was the romantically cloaked portrait of the (last) Queen. But who the tragic Mr Rydy was—???

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Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale, "The Pale Complexion of True Love" (1899)

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"And after adding a fingerful of blood, just a little tease of angostura bitters..." #GirlsOwnCC

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Cross Over, #Shakespeare 2/2 "Hamlet and Juliet" Juliet asks, "Wherefore art thou Hamlet?" & Hamlet spends the rest of the play trying to work out what the existentially correct answer is. Juliet has fun with Mercutio ("'tis not so wide as a church-door, but 'tis enough, 'twill serve") instead.

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Time, I think, to re-introduce Cross Over #Shakespeare. 1/2 "Much Ado about Hamlet" Beatrice sets Hamlet up with Margaret, & Dogberry follows Claudius around, licking his pencil stub carefully before recording everything Claudius says & asking him to spell the difficult words. Claudius goes mad.

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Edwardian author Ian Hay (John Hay Beith) invented txt speak for dinner parties: FHB - Family Hold Back & MIK - More in Kitchen I can't remember where I came across: LIC - Lecture in car & LIB - (which is worse)

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I spend much of my school years wishing just one of all the boys there would look like this. Exactly like this. Yes, Cary Grant, in a suit or armour, with a book. Photo taken on the set of "The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer" (1947). Via Classic Movies Digest.

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I came across this again today: A gerund and an infinitive walk into a #bar, drinking to forget. Still funny.

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DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE: 1. Chickenpox 2. Diphtheria 3. Measles 4. Pertussis 5. Pneumococcal Infection 6. Polio 7. Tetanus 8. Typhoid 9. Yellow Fever 10. Smallpox DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

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Today's the day I write the last chapter of my book. I've taken 9 years to get here and by this time tomorrow I'll have finished the first draft. (God willing and provided nothing hinder.) Which is obviously why I'm meandering through BlueSky. #amwriting for only a little longer.

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How much Elon Musk makes from the government a day: $8 million. How much a senior on Social Security gets a day: $65 Guess which budget Musk and Trump want to cut?

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This is just one of thousands of harrowing stories told about the U.S. Government abandoning Americans abroad in the USAID shutdown. This is Benghazi times a million. 1/

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Tonight's research? Can "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" be played on the #bagpipes? Yes, it can. And #Beethoven incorporated it in "Wellington's Victory", because it's an old French tune, often called "Malbrook". I'm generally glad I let myself be distracted—at least, at the time.

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Just some lovely tickets to 18th-century masquerade balls 😍🎭 www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o... #18c

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I'm back on stage this evening at 8pm (virtually) speaking to the East Surrey FHS. We'll be considering the impact of illegitimacy on family history research and talking about Lying Bastards...

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More reasons not to trust AI…

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#HackneyCarriages in #Year1819. How did one communicate with the driver? Some (fiction) books have passengers knocking on the roof; did that mean only 'Please Stop'? I think I read something about a trap in the carriage roof, which the coachman could open. But that might be later? #C18th #C19th

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#Scotland in #February. T-shirt weather. I can hear a dog barking on the mainland. 'Course, it's too nice to actually do any #writing, which is what I'm here for.

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Release day for A Queen and Her Knight: Short Stories from the Being(s) in Love Universe. (Basically a bunch of little previously published side stories that are like bonus content) books2read.com/u/bMJrA8

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Me: Why is there a pair of ladies' pants in your car boot? Him: Oh, there's an interesting soil acidity test. You bury the pants, dig them up occasionally & see how long they take to rot. I think I believe him.

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"I just want to be clear about what's going on here." - @warren.senate.gov www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHN...

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Our #lawyer, poor chap, was in hospital: "I had scepticaemia". Being a doubting Thomas is in his blood.

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Just sayin' #Rugby #Scotland #CrowingWhileICan

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