My god the idea my workday in any way requires AI, let alone the idea I couldn’t live without it. bsky.app/profile/darr...
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 22h agoGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Willard Foxton
@willardfoxton.bsky.social
Creative Director in audio. Ex telly. Made things like KILL LIST, HARSH REALITY and THE GIRLFRIENDS happen (and many others!). Won Ambie, BPA, Aria, Signal, RTS, Grierson and Ed Murrow Awards. Toy soldier enthusiast.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · 22h agoI know people who’ve failed tory selections for admitting the voted against brexit and for owning a wind farm. But a neo-Nazi so extreme he spent years in jail? Absolutely fine. bsky.app/profile/step...
Stephen Bush@stephenkb.bsky.social · yesterdayThere are newborn children with greater survival instincts than moderate Conservative MPs.
@premeemohamed.com hey just wanted to say, read BUTCHER OF THE FOREST and adored it. Thank you!
Meanwhile, in bucolic Vermont
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Cover illustration for 'The Odyssey' by Homer that I had the immense pleasure of painting for @wraithmarked.bsky.social 's Special Limited Edition 🏺🌊
Enjoying an authentic rural French holiday experience - panicking as my kids walk on foot wide pavements as men driving white vans at 110kph while chugging cans of monster energy roar past
“Condolences? They pile up in the house, I have to pretend I’m devastated by all these family tragedies. Expected to wear black, weep holding candles. Pure tedium. My inheritance can’t come quickly enough.” Diary of Lavinia Mornington-Drent bsky.app/profile/char... @char-roleplay.bsky.social
#Char_Roleplay@char-roleplay.bsky.social · 3d ago#Char_Roleplay - August 3, 2026 Greetings, Antagonists! Please introduce yourselves, and then tell us, in your own words: What feeling or memory is evoked when you hear the word ‘CONDOLENCES'? #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Worldbuilding #CharacterDevelopment #AmWriting
I wrote about Ravenous preparing to commission freelance (yayy!!!) and realizing that means having to plan for AI scams (boooooo) www.weareravenous.com/ai-freelance...
AI Is Fucking Over Freelancers
Watching what AI is doing to the process of commissioning freelance work is making us depressed and angry.
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“Oh hi, im errrr, Paige? Omg embarrassment?! It’s my whole life! Like just now, when I paused before saying my own name? Self identifying as a side character? PURE cringe. I say I have like, two modes - awkward silence and awkward talking.” @char-roleplay.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/char...
#Char_Roleplay@char-roleplay.bsky.social · 4d ago#Char_Roleplay - August 2, 2026 Hi there, Side Characters! Please introduce yourselves, and then tell us, in your own words: What feeling or memory is evoked when you hear the word ‘EMBARRASSMENT'? #WritingCommunity #WriteSky #Worldbuilding #CharacterDevelopment #AmWriting
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
I wrote this for the Guardian about the Couch to 5k for Reading. You can start today, I have a whole 'read across August' idea in this week's post: naomialderman.substack.com/p/ovids-exil... and here is my Reading Clinic: substack.com/chat/2882751... www.theguardian.com/books/2026/a...
Could a couch-to-5k for books get you back into reading?
With smartphones stealing our attention, we’re picking up fewer books than ever. A novelist shares her eight-week scheme to get you back into the habit
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"No new author will ever be able to prove to anyone other than themselves that they can do it alone' This thought has stayed with me hughhowey.com/the-end-of-a...
The End of an Era - Hugh Howey
We knew this day would come. Some of us have known for decades, have been writing and pontificating about this since Ken Jennings lost at Jeopardy and Kasparov lost at chess. The writing was on the wa...
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Mrs Miller at the Harvey Grammar. Broadly a horrible school but she taught me to expect more from myself bsky.app/profile/loui...
Louie Stowell@louiestowell.bsky.social · 5d agoWho was YOUR great english teacher (if you had one)? For me it was Hugh Epstein at Richmond college (RUTC). I hope he's well, wherever he is!
Who was YOUR great english teacher (if you had one)? For me it was Hugh Epstein at Richmond college (RUTC). I hope he's well, wherever he is!
Danie Ware@danacea.bsky.social · 5d agoMy old English teachers did the same, instilled a love of the language and of reading that persists well into my fifties. Good teachers are worth their weight 💖
My old English teachers did the same, instilled a love of the language and of reading that persists well into my fifties. Good teachers are worth their weight 💖
Sometimes when doing genealogy research you stumble upon stuff that leaves you speechless.
My school had a teacher paedophile ring AND produced Richard Huckle, “Britain’s worst paedophile” (in the year below me) and I’m convinced the two things are linked. bsky.app/profile/youn...
Marie Le Conte@youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 5d agohello from Britain where I'm in the pub with a group of friends and I would say we're now on minute 20 of them sharing stories about the nonce teachers they had at school
This is such a killer for not just AI writing but that whole category of AI writing apps: deadline.com/2026/07/ai-q...
AI Questions Spoil Book & Movie Heat On 'Call Me, I'll Hide The Body' Novel
That screeching sound you heard from international publishers and film rights buyers was an abrupt application of the brakes after a fevered pursuit of the unpublished debut novel.
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it's crazy how wikipedia pics of food can be so spiritually nsfw
This is your semi-regular reminder that you live in a cyberpunk dystopia.
I'm Willard Foxton, I write a lot about bodies, selfhood and what systems do to both, often with strong queer themes. My favourite plant horror is the BBC adaptation of DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS. I remember being absolutely terrified! #horrorwriterschat bsky.app/profile/vamp...
Artemis Quinn 🏳️⚧️🎨📚@vampireantihero.com · last wk.Howdy, #HorrorWritersChat ! The leaves whisper secrets at the edge of a forest that melts into a garden. Its quiet murmurs guide you. You take a step. Q1 - Introduce yourself, the horror you write, and... share your favorite piece of horror media with plants, poisons, forest, or eco-horror.
One of the things I find mad: We had this decades long consensus you shouldn’t advertise exploitatively to children (which still exists in statue, to an extent it cripples commercial operators doing kids stuff) but just decided to let it slide *specifically for youtube*
The other thing about this is that guy will know SOME FUCKING GUYS. Like friends come to me with early modern warfare Qs but I am in WhatsApp groups with people who own their own falconets and bombards:) bsky.app/profile/alix...
alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · last wk.said it before and i'll say it again: the number one writing hack is just to make friends. you can either spend an hour in an obscure & contentious reddit forum trying to figure out what a 2012 camaro sounds like or you can ask your buddy, the Car Guy
said it before and i'll say it again: the number one writing hack is just to make friends. you can either spend an hour in an obscure & contentious reddit forum trying to figure out what a 2012 camaro sounds like or you can ask your buddy, the Car Guy
the ideal academic life is being an eccentric Victorian lord. Invent a stamp licking machine at 22. Get elected to the Royal Academy for counting the beetles on your estate. Die in an arsenic explosion. The perfect life.
I'm loving the Goalhanger Book Club, it's such a good podcast, so well put together.
Nolan’s review of Wilson’s review is going to be LIT. Especially if he does it as an art film with Saoirse Ronan as Wilson
