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Up and on the Tube hideously early. 8am pre-surgery appointment at the eye hospital…

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How the influential comics anthology Métal Hurlant was rebooted with modern readers in mind. www.avclub.com/metal-hurlan...

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On the roof. Sunset across west London.

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one of the best tech conferences in the US opens applications for its 2025 DEI program. we'll cover your ticket and provide a travel and accommodation stipend if necessary. @monktoberfest.com is a lovely intimate event in Portland, Maine, October 1/2. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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This is true for all freelance writing careers. We all earn less every year; rates are lower now than they were when I started writing in the mid-90s.

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So today is release day. I Think I'm in Love with an Alien is out in the world. It feels awkward to talk about this book with... *gestures at everything* but if I don't talk about it, you won't know about it. It's a love letter to fandom, to science fiction fantasy conventions, to cosplay.

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Big news today - Docugami continues to grow! Announcing Docugami Europe based in France. Docugami Europe will help us expand #R&D collaborations with scientists and institutions, recruit top #AI talent, and support #DocumentAI customers all across Europe. www.docugami.com/blog/europe-...

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Today's writing music is 1980's 12" mixes. Currently listening to what was the second cassette from The Thompson Twins' Quickstep and Sidekick. "Frozen in Time" remains a classic...

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Ooooh! The Tintin Rocket made it out of Lego Ideas review and is going to be a product... beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

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Reflected flight. A herring gull at the confluence of the Wandle Delta and the Thames. #birds #birding #wandle #thames #wandsworth

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As a journalist who has been published online since the 1990s, there are going to be hundreds of thousands, maybe millions, of sentences of mine in those n-dimensional semantic spaces that LLMs explore. I do wonder how many of them have been regurgitated.

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Pretty sure that @washingtonpost.com can't tell the difference between London and Washington. Someone send them an atlas, please. (Hint, the Trooping the Colour was held in London.)

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Bloomsday

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We spent last weekend in Margate at Rewind by the Sea. As the first notes of Heaven 17's first track sounded out, I lookd over at @marypcbuk.bsky.social and said, "They're going straight there." Reader: they went there, hard.

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Starting to send epub beta files out for Bones & Betrayals. If you’re a reviewer and would love to read this funny fantasy whodunnit written by myself and @ericamarks.bsky.social — then please do get it touch!

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The @github.com Summerfest swag arrived this morning. The wallet pouch has an excellent lining… Hey @martin.social, you should get some printed up at Spoonflower or similar for GitHub-using crafters!

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Monday needs a moody cormorant on a piling in the middle of the Thames. #birds #birding #thames #wandsworthpark

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Recent Reads: Victory Disc. The third of Andrew Cartmel's Vinyl Detective mysteries takes us into the world of the 78 and WWII dance big bands. A commission to track down the recordings of an RAF band leads to murders old and new, as well as a neo-Nazi conspiracy. The past has a way of coming back.

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Out in September from @averyhill.bsky.social , Who Killed Nessie from me and @rachaelsmith.bsky.social ! averyhillpublishing.com/articles/lat... Lots of new pages on the link!

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My dad was a shopkeeper. He taught me how to make change; the mental arithmetic tricks that gave me have been useful in so many places…

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A weekend of 80s music and it reminds me just how political it was; so many of the anti-Thatcher and Reagan lyrics are relevant for today. From Heaven 17 to Nik Kershaw to Midge Ure and more.

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View across London as our train home makes its way in Victoria.

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Switch off the mind and let the heart decide Who you were meant to be Windpower Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy Windpower

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Hat from a company I worked at 25 years ago…

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