This marketing video for the Royal Armouries in Leeds has made my day. 😂

Did her mum name her “Black actor” ??

Culture Sector Crisis Scotland: This is only the beginning. The sector is going to be brought to a standstill with so much uncertainty. How can anyone fully focus on meaningful work when there is so much fear?

The solutions to nearly all the problems on this planet are obvious. They're just not profitable.

democracy was never made to withstand this combination of money and disinformation.

Alice Lowe: “There are so many people who just need a first chance to make a smaller-budget film ... Why don’t we embrace a more punk aesthetic with how we make British films?” theguardian.com/film/2024/oct/…

A video listing names of Palestinians killed in Gaza is 59 minutes long. It takes over a minute to get through “0 years old.” This is genocide.

I’m in this article The Guardian about how median author pay has fallen 60% since 2012: theguardian.com/books/2024/oct… What the piece doesn’t get into is *why* author pay has fallen when revenues across publishing are the highest they’ve ever been. So here’s a bit more about that 🧵

This is a gorgeous post-apocalyptic world. I really took my time over this novel so I could savour each page. There's such a soft sad beauty here, Wilson has created an end of the world I kind of want to live in, and Katerina is such a wonderful guide into it.

I don't really care to debate it but ChatGPT is fundamentally evil and by using it you are slowly enslaving yourself to a pallid life of inarticulable misery.

Read The Outsiders for the first time and almost swallowed it in a single sitting. By page 2 I was already thinking this book had become part of my personality. Felt like a real wonder.

Beyond thrilled that horror legend Kim Newman gave Hostile Dimensions a shout out in this months Empire Thank you! Our first time in Empire 😭

‘The last stage of grief is acceptance. But we can only accept what has already passed. In Gaza, the death is so constant, there can be no acceptance – only rupture, withdrawal, disorientation. There can be no accommodation with what is happening.’ theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Wow read this. Boycott PayPal

I borrowed this on a whim because it's often the answer to quiz questions and I wanted to know why. I don't think there's much I could say about it that hasn't already been said tho, I was bereft when I finished it; a stone cold masterpiece. Gonna be carrying this one with me.

🎂 🎉 Happy UK Book Birthday to Dr Lorraine Wilson (mostly on Bluesky)' WE ARE ALL GHOSTS IN THE FOREST! A stunningly written, literary and lyrical examination of our world after a digital collapse. Hopeful and heart-breaking in equal measure, it's a novel for our times. Buy now: geni.us/weallghost

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