Vicky Stiles

For a person from whomst nobody desires a manuscript, I don't half have a lot of dreams in which people are chasing me for a completed manuscript.

I had a lovely time and have the best, most supportive friends. That includes the ones I met tonight.

Everyone is choosing the dirgiest songs. Nobody is out at 2am on a Wursday to feel wurse about things. Pick! A! Bop!

An metalhead has gone home. I have sung karaoke for the second and third times in my life. Thank fuck for vodka, now and forever.

I am accidentally making a night of it on Canal Street with two male metalheads (both cool, don't get me wrong) and never has it been more apparent that it is a shitting Wednesday.

“Keep on writing! :-)”

Hi I represent Holes In The Ground and in a recent blog you suggested my clients wouldn’t be recognized next to a player’s own ass.

insane clown shoe posse

I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.

Three sewn-in signatures AND a tassel. There's no doing things by halves in this household.

A small open notebook with biro for scale. It is slightly shorter than the length of the pen but a double-page spread is slightly wider. Most pages are blank but one has paint marks made with brushes and a sponge, in purple, orange and pale blue.

A small, closed notebook standing on its end. The cover has an abstract pattern of purple, orange and pale blue paint markings and splatters. There is a thin plaited cord and tassel extending from the spine.

I made a chunky little notebook out of one of my painting practice pieces, and felt all satisfied and stuff afterwards.

I'm all in favour. Taxpayers could save billions if guilt or innocence could be determined with, say, a simple dice roll.

Or we could really democratise (and monetise) justice by having the British public phone in their verdict via a premium-rate Strictly Justice Hotline!

There’s a terrible tendency that any time anyone comes along and starts saying things that are popular from a left perspective, established thinking goes ‘all very nice yes, but it’s not SERIOUS is it’ even whilst all the accepted serious people fail absolutely constantly at the absolute basics.

From mandatory ID cards to arresting pensioners for holding up cardboard signs to cosy deals with US tech spy firms:

It's good to see lawyers pushing back on their increasingly authoritarian Govenrment.

We must protect jury trials.

Calling Cormac McCarthy’s authorial style a “mistake” that AI no longer makes is so funny

This 18-year-old Afghan girl nearly escaped the Taliban – then we took her visa away She resisted a forced marriage and studied in secret, winning scholarships to leave Kabul and attend a British university. But now the home secretary’s ban on study visas has removed her one chance of...

This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...

“Appel asks what would have happened if he had been shuffled into a modern gender dysphoria diagnosis system, and the answer is it would have gone nowhere—because he never stated himself that he was a girl.”

For the sake of everyone on this site, please take up journalling your thoughts instead.

I've been in such a frustrating slump the past few weeks but today I cleaned half of the kitchen (twice, as a carton of milk then exploded) and made a glorious spicy chicken casserole. Things are going to come together again, I can feel it on the breeze.

Going to a restaurant and screaming “FOOD!” at the waiter so as not to elevate my customised desires into primacy.

What do you want to bet this little tantrum on the WaPo's opinion page is because someone ahead of Professor Jakub Grygiel in the queue at some coffee shop had an elaborate coffee order and he hasn't been able to let it go ever since

Also fuck Vance and his fucked-up little pony, or whatever.

Fuck Trump, Hesgeth, Kennedy and Noem, and tne four horses they rode in on.

Hegseth needs to stand trial after this as a war criminal. Between this attack and the girls' school, there's no ambiguity. He is responsible for mass murder and must be held accountable.

this is the brain of a 14 year old that has somehow spent 25 years doing cocaine

move slow and repair things

"you need to learn how to use gAI or you'll get left behind!"

counterpoint!

the absolute fastest way to render yourself unemployable is to build your skillset around a tool that does your thinking for you, that everyone has access to, and that one company can change or take away at any time

okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.

Me: I'm unsubscribing from all your emails.
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Them: It'll be like we don't know you exist.
Me: ...
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Them: What if, though...