'We have built a trillion-dollar system to externalize thought, then act astonished when the interior world collapses.' onepercentrule.substack.com/p/under-40s-... I'm not so worried about 'declining memory' as much as the 'collapse of the interior world' (which is why my WIP is about exactly this)

Under 40's Declining Memory

A Large US Study Finds Memory Decline Surge in Young People

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Donate to Support Jamaica – Hurricane Relief & Recovery Fund

Help rebuild Jamaica. Contribute securely to the national relief and recovery fund. Your donation supports disaster response and community rebuilding.

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"At its core, [Heroneering] is about focusing less on ourselves and more on the wider world that surrounds us..." A beautiful outlook from @easybynature.bsky.social Bill Davison billdavison.substack.com/p/birdwatchi...

On the eve of Halloween, WORDTheatre turns the lights low for A Horror-Filled Halloween in Santa Monica. Curated by Patton Oswalt Directed by Cedering Fox Reception at 6:15 pm • Performances at 7:15 pm Tickets available through the link in our bio.

How sad if we've lost the Edge Hill Prize. It's been important to so many people, including me. We were talking about it at the Leicester Writes event last month with Abi Hynes and Malachi McIntosh, both shortlisted last year.

Jan Carson@jancarsonwrites.bsky.social · last yr.

First time in Private Eye. I just wish it was for something a bit more positive.

“We’ve seen reprehensible behavior by DHS agents against journalists in all three of America’s largest cities. There’s no reason to think it will stop there, so it’s critical that we refuse to normalize this,” FPF's @adamrose.bsky.social told amNewYork.

ICE attack on reporters: Press freedom and civil liberties groups condemn assault of amNewYork journalist, and others | amNewYork

Press freedom and civil liberties organizations sharply condemned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on Wednesday after journalists, including

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The included story is from Ruby’s collection THIS PARADISE which is all bangers. One of the best short story collections I’ve read in years. Available from @boilerhouse.bsky.social!

Ruby Cowling@rubycowling.bsky.social · last yr.

My spine is tingling as a short from my @boilerhouse.bsky.social collection is in Ghost Box IV: a deluxe coffin of spooky/horror stories from Canadian publishers of gorgeous box sets Hingston & Olsen w/ texts selected by excellent human @pattonoswalt.bsky.social 🙏 Out today, print run very limited!

My spine is tingling as a short from my @boilerhouse.bsky.social collection is in Ghost Box IV: a deluxe coffin of spooky/horror stories from Canadian publishers of gorgeous box sets Hingston & Olsen w/ texts selected by excellent human @pattonoswalt.bsky.social 🙏 Out today, print run very limited!

Ghost Box IV — Hingston & Olsen Publishing

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Why do people think creativity is like turning on a light and BANG, you have something new, interesting and able to be sold? I try to explain this to my beloved wife: “Every meaningful act of creativity is the sum of thousands of quiet decisions, risks, revisions, and mostly failures.”

There Is No Meant to Be" is available for preorder! My publisher promised that if I have 250 preorders that I get a case of prosecco left over from last year's Christmas party. 500 preorders before March & they'll go halfsies on a vintage George Foreman! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/ther...

For when people tell you 'oh but AI's great for coding!' secondthoughts.ai/p/ai-coding-...

Not So Fast: AI Coding Tools Can Actually Reduce Productivity

Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains

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Overhyped uplit in turns out to have all been lies shocker

The Short Story - Experiments In The Not Normal with the beyond brilliant @rubycowling.bsky.social is now available for booking! Saturday, 5th July 2 – 5pm Cost £49 Two reduced price spaces available for those on a low income. More info & booking: www.hastingswritersworkshop.com/courses/p/th...

I'm very much looking forward to this workshop in Hastings on 5 July for @hastingswrites.bsky.social - might you come along? Bring your abnormality!

Hastings Writers Workshop@hastingswrites.bsky.social · last yr.

We're thrilled to announce our first summer masterclasses! Featuring @catwrote.bsky.social on character, @rubycowling.bsky.social on the short story, sarahbwestcottpoet.bsky.social‬ on poetry & Emma Petfield on promoting yourself & your writing! More info: www.hastingswritersworkshop.com/courses

Politicians During Mental Health Awareness Month

Here to report the first two swifts 🐧🐧

In addition to tutoring their Writing Short Fiction course, I’m giving 2 workshops for @grantabooks.bsky.social Writers’ Workshop on translation + writing about art Translating Literature for Beginners tixoom.app/pwalecturer/... Writing Creatively About Art tixoom.app/pwalecturer/...

Jen Calleja: Writing Creatively About Art

On Jul 1, 2025 - get a ticket now!

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Alexandra and Ainsworth Estate, London - in spring r/brutalism

I suspected I'd love this, so pre-ordered. I was right. So good. Nice one Claire Baglin, Jordan Stump and @dauntbookspub.bsky.social

Aaaaand we just hit 2,000 followers on Bluesky! 🫶 Help spread the word to fellow writers!

DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING??

Keith Boykin@keithboykin.bsky.social · 2y ago

Rodney Taylor is a beloved Georgia barber who came to the United States from Liberia with his mother when he was only two years old. He applied for citizenship but was denied. But this year, ICE arrested him, locked him up, and has scheduled him to be deported to a faraway country he's never known.

I was at USIP tonight to conduct congressional oversight over DOGE’s break in. I spoke with Acting President & CEO Moose. USIP is an independent, non-profit entity and I will work to stop DOGE’s illegal power grab.

NBC4 Washington@nbcwashington.com · 2y ago

DOGE broke into the U.S. Institute of Peace headquarters in Northwest D.C. Monday evening, the independent nonprofit’s CEO said.

Once again I am fruitlessly and pitifully calling for us (England) to boycott the men's World Cup finals. We never have (Russia?! Qatar?!) and we never will but I have to make my small squeak into the dark. (Yep still on about the football, sorry)

Might've missed something but I think that's the first-ever set of Premier League fixtures (i.e. a weekend or long weekend when all teams play) in which no goals were scored before the 30-minute mark.

We need to stop lumping together technologies, none of which are actually intelligent, under the name "AI". Machine Learning can be useful when properly trained. GANs and LLMs are just bullshit-creating plagiarism machines.

Discuss & explore a range of approaches & practical tasks. Some reading before the sessions & a reading list provided at the end. £110 (max. 12 participants, min. 6 participants) or £135 to also have a 1hr feedback meeting over zoom on up to 3,000 words. jenniferannecalleja [at] gmail [dot] com

Recommendations? Great retreat for writing - with food - ideally in UK? (no teaching, just quiet space to write)

Who's heading to the @edgehillprize.bsky.social do this Thursday? 👀

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

Hello, all. Because of the entry system screw up last night and we're a little low on entries, we'll reopen for 24 hours as soon as we can make it happen on Monday morning, so you have the weekend to get your entry ready, and we'll announce Monday when we're open! Share?! bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk