Craig Weldon

Hills, history, and havering. Inventor of the high five oven glove. I wrote some books:

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@AlyssaMatesic 'Alyssa sighed as the alarm on her bedside table went off at 7:05.'

Immediate DNF

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@ao3atmidnight You've got 'cheese sub' though, so, that sounds pretty authentic to me!

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@ProfeSteve1701 Enjoy!

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@MadelaineLucyH I think you'd like Pride and Prejudice. I mean, you've probably seen the film, but I think you'd like the book even more.

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@PaulWhitewick Does it have to be a street? There's an old drovers track in Badenoch-Lochaber called Thieves Road. And the Cateran Trail in Perthshire. https://t.co/f1Ve2sAUk4

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@fesshole For a while I had a 1987 Saab 900 with a cassette player, and had a rule to only play music from the 1980s in it.

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@DNicholsAuthor No, don't think I have, read plenty bad books though! I am always happy to offer constructive criticism in private if an author wants it.

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In Tokyo, it seems only Colm O'Quinn, hard-drinking Irish ambassador to Japan, abandoned by his government and anyone of wit or common sense, can save the world from complete assimilation to the Japanese way.

The book is Embassy, available in your imagination, now. [AI image]

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Across the globe, Japanese ambassadors have so charmed their host countries that an unstoppable clamour emerges for unpopular Prime Ministers and Presidents to be deposed in favour of rule by ambassador. But what seems to be a benign coup ...

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... of well-mannered competence by people who actually seem to give a shit about their host cultures, with trains running on time, streets made safe and clean, and karaoke bars on every street corner - soon becomes unveiled as a deeper Japanese plan to take over the world. 😲...

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@Helen_Fields Difficult. The kids I know round here who've got work have parental connections in trades, I don't know how that translates to law. But I got my first break from a friend's mum whose husband's work was hiring. Modern recruitment is broken, only networks remain!

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@HDunn_Writer The words my tailor used was "I'm afraid sir is too successful for that suit." Successful - that's the best way I've heard it put!

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@MadelaineLucyH I like A because it completes a story I read at an impressionable age, https://t.co/sbv3KY21VA

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So not a lot of people know I co-own a charcuterie. We also sell cheese on the side. In fact our most popular-selling product is a cheeseboard for one, which we market as 'Your Own Personal Cheeses'

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@techtoby__ I had a graduate friend in the geekier side of defence, and one of the phrases the company HR dept specifically barred them from saying in public was replying to the question "what do you do?" with "I could tell you, but I'd have to kill you."

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Love this. If you are a poor writer, LLM prediction machines can raise your work to the level of mainstream mediocrity. And if you are a great writer, LLMs can reduce your work to the same level.

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@MadelaineLucyH AI - "unleash the superpower of mainstream mediocrity"

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There's a lot of moaning on twitter about Muslims stealing our country today in the wake of #GortonandDentonByElection and it reads *exactly* like the complaints being made in the 1930s about Irish Catholics. #ScottishHistory https://t.co/zvkSFxgOIj

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@AmbJapanUK Ah God I could go a pint of mild right now!

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26 years ago I read an article that reckoned the three most likely disasters to befall the USA in the near future were a terrorist attack in New York, a hurricane in New Orleans, and a major earthquake in California - and the most likely was the earthquake. 😲

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@theiaincameron My understanding is the oldest written description comes from Pytheas in On the Ocean, he describes Britain as a triangular island with corners at Kantion (Kent), Orkas (Orkney) and Belerion (presumably Cornwall).