There are these data centers that use minimal amounts of electricity and don't need millions of gallons of water, to cool them. They're called libraries.

The worst thing about AI train announcements in Italian is that they mess up all the accents of place names (incorrectly assuming that the stress always goes onto the last syllable). Roma Termíni non se po' senti'.

I didn't hate my birthday today. Have also discovered that a scops-owl lives near me 🦉 a rather nice present 😊

If you're looking for ways to support creatives, writing positive reviews of their work is 1. Free 2. Full of compliments that encourages them 3. Marketing they can reshare to promote their work 4. Just a decent thing to do, thank you!

I'm watching Death Comes to Pemberley (2018) on Prime. The subtitles are "auto" (read: AI) and they are soooo wroooong all the time. Darcy is "Dossie", Wickham is "Wake up" and Mr Alverston is "His Majesty". But this one tops them up! #AIslop

posting this 'ol thing again for no reason

BREAKING: “It is increasingly clear that as the world continues down this volatile path our long term national interest requires closer partnership with our allies in Europe and with the European Union.. Brexit did deep damage to our economy” Prime minister Keir Starmer 👏

O M G 🦐 Shrimp bowl (close-up). Bowl. Peru: Ica, Nasca. 100 B.C.E.-800 C.E. MOA Collections 2990/180. Photo by Joshua Doherty. myvancity.ca/2026/02/27/m...

Reminder to any authors thinking of starting a Substack www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

Revealed: How Substack makes money from hosting Nazi newsletters

Exclusive: Site takes a cut of subscriptions to content that promotes far-right ideology, white supremacy and antisemitism

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Two books published in two days! 🤩 The Big Bus and Us, and Dinosaur Playtime are available now! Both published by HarperCollins (Collins and KumushaBook repectively). Written and illustrated by yours truly. #kidlitUK

The narrative about London crime is truly so BORING to Londoners. Those of us who walk & travel around our city safely every day, every night. The likeliest daily risk to Londoners is of being ripped off by our landlord or somewhere charging us £4.50 for a coffee. #r4today

🎶 I don’t want a lot for Christmas I just want one thing from you. For that A.I. bubble to burst, And all the tech bros get sued. 🎶 🎄

Authors including Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman have backed plans to give newborn babies automatic library cards, following a proposal by think tank the Cultural Policy Unit. Read more 👇

Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman back proposal to give newborns automatic library cards

Authors including Kate Mosse, Richard Osman and Philip Pullman have backed plans to give newborn babies automatic library cards, following a proposal by think tank the Cultural Policy Unit.

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Ok. So, if OpenAi can buy a 3-year licence from Disney, then all AI companies can afford to buy licenses from all artists worldwide and stop stealing people's work. FFS.

NPR@npr.org · 8mo ago

It's a whole new world for Mickey, Simba, Stitch and more as Disney brings hundreds of its characters to Sora, the short-form video platform from OpenAI, as part of a three-year licensing agreement. n.pr/44ph9KC

This entire grift relies on convincing people that they don't know how to do the things they have always known how to do, and ironically, if it works, we will, in a very short amount of time, forget how to do all the things we have always known how to do.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?" Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."

I often think I don't know sh*t because I didn't go to art school...but I've got over 10 books under my belt, and over a decade of work in the design industry too (which helped a lot in making my illustration practice eddicient).. However, I never know *how* to share my knowledge..

Lo 🎨🔞@lodrawsfilth.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Share your knowledge if/when you can. Teaching other people how to do what you do doesn’t lessen your art - it just means more and better art for everyone. I appreciate when people are willing to tell me about their brushes, how they study, etc… I want to put that back out into the world.

1. The European Parliament’s attempt to ban plant-based foods from being sold as “sausages”, “burgers” etc is a direct response to livestock industry lobbying. This is a short thread on how utterly bleeding ridiculous it is. 🧵1/6

It's #NationalIllustrationDay in the UK! www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Informative, beautiful and deeply human: it’s time to cheer the underrated art of illustration | Oliver Jeffers

We do judge books by their covers. Illustrations spark young imaginations, solve problems, present information - and shape our world, says the children’s author on National Illustration Day

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London #kidlitUK folks! I'm giving away my small collection of the last 9 issues of Carousel magazine (from Winter 2016 to Winter 2019). Pick up from E3 or can meet in Central. Any takers?

Two days of not being able to work because Photoshop isn't able to open a single JPG. @adobe.com I'm this much away from ditching you forever. (Yes, I did update my graphics driver, yes I did update the app). #photoshop

Got my Irish PLR. My books were borrowed over 800 times! That's a little over £50, but you know what, it's a huge increase from last year!! Thank you so much Irish librarians and little Irish readers 🇮🇪 💕✨️ #PLR #kidlitUK #IrishPLR

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

Booker prize launches £50,000 children’s award

Children will help judge the new prize along with children’s laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce • ‘The Children’s Booker prize will tell kids that they matter’: Frank Cottrell-Boyce The Booker prize foundation has launched a major new literary award, the Children’s Booker prize, offering £50,000 for the best fiction written for readers aged eight to 12. The new award will launch in 2026, with the first winner announced in early 2027. It will be decided by a mixed panel of adult and child judges, a first for a Booker award. The inaugural chair of judges will be Frank Cottrell-Boyce, the children’s author and current children’s laureate. He will be joined by two other adult judges, who will help select a shortlist of eight books before three child judges are recruited to help decide the winner. Continue reading...

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That AI video must be the most unhinged meta thing I've ever seen: sh*t depicting a giant sh*t sh*thing sh*t.

So many jokes going around all my social media things right now about the prez' neck and what bothers me the most about it? They compare it to a vagina. People! It looks like a vulva! A vulva! Get your anatomy right, please.

gene kelly is antifa

I think there should be an imprint called Star Fucker Books that only signs celebrities and social media stars. I mostly think the purpose is for big 5 publishers to have the odd famous person at their events and for their corporate promos.

No work for months and then ALL the work AT ONCE. Thankful to past me for all the afternoon naps I've taken.

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

‘Catastrophic decline’ in Black representation in children’s books

A report by charity Inclusive Books for Children found that of the 2,721 books surveyed, only 51 featured a Black main character, down by 21.5% since 2023

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Went to see Éiru, Cartoon Saloon's latest short, last night. So so good. 13 minutes of beautiful entertainment packed with meaning, from fellow compatriot Giovanna Ferrari. #éiru