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A generational gasp… Image by Author, created in AI. Note: This is a snippet from a much-longer tale that may or may not be (I change my mind every day) the last entry in my short-story book-in-progress. Setting the Scene: Two employees...
For those of you who are interested, my new novel Radical Magic comes out on 1st September, and it’s available for reading and requesting on NetGalley right now! It is 1808. In Great Britain King George’s health is precarious. Magic is...
A better day today. Did H car making 90 to date. Cleared all the rubbish out of the labs. Cut the squares with scythe by the fruit trees.
London, drawn A Isometric NYC appears to have started something of a trend. In the last few weeks alone it has inspired both Isopolis - San Francisco and now London, drawn, another sprawling AI-generated city rendered in the style of a...
Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto...
My blog disappeared from the web for close to 24 hours this week, which was a shock and a worry. Google removed it for breaking community guidelines, something I strongly dispute 😀😀😀. I asked for a review, and was re-instated without...
Here are two pretty nice photos from Main Street, USA - undated, and probably from the early 1960s.Here's Vesey Walker and the Disneyland Band performing in front of the Opera House, which was not used for much until the sets from "Babes...
Up in the windI’ve featured a number of windmills on this blog, because they fascinate me as ingenious structures in which a distinctive architectural form is well adapted to do the job it needs to do – housing heavy machinery such as...
By: Jessie Wiegand Why Do Stories Matter? “Remember the story about the boy who didn’t do anything and nothing ever happened to him?” I asked my teenage son who was facing some major life decisions. “No, Mom, that’s ridiculous,” he...
The arrival of the Rapido 009 models alongside the latest commission layout build have reignited a long dormant flame for narrow gauge modelling in my heart…This undated sketch recalls a simpler time in my modelling where East Works was...
When you get promoted to a new role in a school, whether it's as Key Stage Coordinator, Head of Department, Head of Year, or a Senior Leader, you probably don't get any training on how to do that role. If you're lucky the previous job...
Back in 2024 I posted a few of these on Twitter (thread reader) after digging out old photos from the dot-com boom. I was working in London at a digital agency called Blueberry. Please take a seat for peak translucent plastic frutiger...
Milk Rolled oats into a cold pot, then milk poured straight over them. Water makes oatmeal. Milk makes it creamy, and it is the one swap here that changes everything downstream of it start +1 min Vanilla ground in at the start rather...
Another AI evaluation resulting in real world harm. I feel the brazen way these AI escapades are described rejects both human accountability and that the operators are responsible for the criminal acts undertaken in their care. If I pass...
Source The American badger digs rattlesnakes out of their dens, absorbs their bites, and eats them. In South Dakota, it is considered the rattlesnake’s most important predator. A rattlesnake in its den is supposed to be safe. The burrow...