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ILLEGAL ALIEN VS. SEXUAL PREDATOR

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It shouldn't be down to the House of Lords to prevent a government from legitimising theft, but here we are

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“If writers are asked to pay someone for something that they should themselves be paid for, that is always a red flag,” says WGGB General Secretary Ellie Peers, quoted in this Deadline expose of a scammer targeting #writers deadline.com/2025/06/scam...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

It’s publication day for The Penguin Book of Polish Short Stories. It took 39 authors 100 years to write, and me about 4 years to compile and translate, with the help of 11 other translators. It aims to show the variety and brilliance of modern Polish literature.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Reading Jude the Obscure. A lovely Hardy novel to cheer myself up. No spoilers! :)

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Hi, I'm currently looking into the impact of the PIP cuts on carers for the Big Issue: I'm interested in speaking to anyone receives PIP and Carer's Allowance, and who is potentially at risk from the new "four point rule" please repost for circulation

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

By far my favorite part of South Korean elections: election night graphics. SBS television station kills it EVERY. TIME. They play these clips all night and they get more and more unhinged and creative as the night goes on.

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

all I see is this

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

He looks like a cormorant about to be cleaned by RSPB volunteers.

submitted 8 days ago • 72 comments

Blimey these are good!

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Astérix et Ozempix

submitted 11 days ago • 20 comments

Dear Sir or Madam, I'm an author, see; Took me twenty minutes with CHATGPT It's made from other stuff I didn't write It's a load of shite, but I wanna be a Piggyback Writer...

submitted 16 days ago • 12 comments

Smoking and Drinking in the English music hall in 1872 - I wonder what the ladies are drinking? #MusicHallVarietyDay #MHVD2025 #FoodAndDrink

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

Marvel: 'Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover event in history' ITV:

submitted 24 days ago • 24 comments

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

A superb article by Wendy Webster - VE Day for the Poles, and what victory needs to look like for the Ukrainians. theconversation.com/by-ve-day-in...

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Remembering Sidney James, born this day in 1913.

submitted 30 days ago • 2 comments

Very disappointing that the UK govt today rejected calls to make AI companies disclose their training data. Big opportunity right now for opposition parties to stand with artists & the general public. The UK should not be beholden to big tech. www.wandsworthguardian.co.uk/news/nationa...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon

submitted 40 days ago • 72 comments

Really looking forward to listening to this in the sunshine. An afternoon well spent, I think: @kenbentley.bsky.social such a fine director of voices

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

Flying saucers, invented by communion wafer manufacturers and containing a product brought back from the Crusades (sherbet), are surely the most intensely Tradcath sweets in existence

submitted 51 days ago • 17 comments

Here's what I include at the bottom of every freelance invoice I send - and I've cashed in on this! Know your rights as a freelancer! The full text is in the alt.

submitted 73 days ago • 11 comments

British Steel employs 3.6k people. Coventry Uni group, which auditors say may not survive, employs 7.7k. But there is an emergency debate in parliament for British Steel and nothing for the whole HE sector imploding

submitted 56 days ago • 35 comments

New issues of both Film Stories and Film Junior magazines have gone up for preorder on our shop. Details/covers incoming shortly. Please spread the word and help support independent publishing! Ta x buff.ly/3wkp8HR

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

Is this a photo of a woman and child in mourning and / or traditional dress? Any thoughts on what the item on the left is or signifies? Photographer George Tear lived on Loughborough Road. CDV photo c. 1870? #OnePlaceWednesday questions. 🙏 for any thoughts.

submitted 59 days ago • 1 comment

I aspire to this level of petty fuck-you response to corporate surveillance www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 60 days ago • 6 comments

We go now live to our economics editor who has broken out the good whiskey and seems to be playing with a revolver. How are the markets reacting Greg

submitted 65 days ago • 37 comments

@ScandiTina 😂

submitted 66 days ago • 6 comments

The full report by the Tony Blair Institute is out, in which they detail how copyright should be "rebooted" in the AI age. It reads like a big tech lobbying document. I hope they will be asked serious questions at its launch in London today. Some very brief highlights: 🧵 1/8

submitted 66 days ago • 38 comments

He drinks a whiskey drink He drinks a vodka drink He drinks a lager drink He drinks a cider drink He sends a text that remind him of the war plans He sends a text that reminds him of the war crimes #Hegseth

submitted 74 days ago • 353 comments

If you’re in the UK and have ever published anything, you really need to join ALCS!

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

21 across. Lovely stuff.

submitted 77 days ago • 3 comments

We are disappointed but not surprised that Meta has used millions of pirated books to develop its AI systems. As a matter of urgency, Meta needs to compensate the rightsholders of all the works it has been exploiting. But what can authors do? Read here: societyofauthors.org/2025/03/21/t...

submitted 78 days ago • 25 comments

Went to see the absolutely stunning reconstructions of Nubian early and high medieval textiles at the Dress to Impress exhibition that is now visiting Bode Museum in Berlin. The Warsaw team has done a splendid job bringing one of the most impressive bits of medieval history to life.

submitted 78 days ago • 6 comments

Over on X, someone just referred to Musk as “Lex Loser” and I’m still chortling.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

We're aware that some of our members have found that their work has been used without consent in LibGen, a pirated books database Meta has used to train AI We've put together advice for those affected + you can also find out about our campaigning work 🔽 writersguild.org.uk/libgen-datab...

submitted 79 days ago • 2 comments

UK folks, go check your NI contributions before April so that if you think you might do topups to previous years, you get in the queue to discuss if that's worthwhile; after April, the topup window gets many years smaller so doing the placeholder now is worth it

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Good Morning.

submitted 79 days ago • 4 comments