90s dance music is apparently enjoying another revival - my latest novel is set in those halcyon days when the millennium promised global love & peace and the smartphone had yet to invade the dance floor https://t.co/kHuudBcV4R
A @ChrisAndCosey Newsletter from 1999 provided the spark for these reflections on the current state of the Internet (many thanks @coseyfannitutti for all those mailings!) https://t.co/0ZGGBhvln8
In the new series of 'Drowning Street' - the Return of Doctor Death! Following an unexplained error at the Cyborg Clinic, the new PM is programmed to look for black holes while endlessly chanting the Black Hole Mantra...
Authors whose books have been banned from public school libraries in the state of Utah include @MargaretAtwood, children’s author Judy Blume, and poet Rupi Kaur https://t.co/E7iH6HUUQd
"This dropping of explosives on the chance of hitting one soldier among fifty victims was surely the most monstrous development of the whole war" Arthur Conan Doyle, 'Memories and Adventures', writing of his experiences on the Italian front, 1916. What would he make of #Gaza?
New Labour, New Austerity? But pensioners do have some good news: the Christmas Bonus, which has remained static at £5 per annum since prehistoric times, has not been scrapped - or has it?
Can @goodreads be trusted? A growing number of authors (including me) have discovered books by other authors wrongly attributed to their profile and asked for their removal; @amazon is also implicated. A misguided attempt at using AI to collate info on books and authors?
The Sunak ‘plan’ is to fund tax cuts by penalising those on benefits. Here’s what I wrote about this dreadful tactic ten years ago. I can’t believe we’re back here again. https://t.co/C9CmklQKVD
"This is the time. And this is the record of the time." Laurie Anderson, 'From the Air', from the LP Big Science, 1982. A classic - for OUR time https://t.co/psbB3NSDg5
The Write Share campaign, launched by @ALCS_UK, is promoting several initiatives designed to ensure writers receive a fair share of remuneration when their works are used online https://t.co/Hw7OKnmJJF
Well done to @MuteUK for posting this tribute to Damo Sazuki. I was fortunate to see Can live in Swansea way back in 1973 and immediately bought #TagoMago on vinyl. For the immersive experience, the remastered CD is superb - Damo in peak form!
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