Really looking forward to when oil goes to $200/barrel and all the people who bought those giant stupid trucks start crying
Really looking forward to when oil goes to $200/barrel and all the people who bought those giant stupid trucks start crying
Cloud Carrier proposes gas-fired power station to power Moss Vale AI data centre. New data centres should be banned from requiring fossil fuels to operate www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
next time you're in the room with Albo ask him why he's being such a lickspittle
this is the first time I heard that such a novel existed, so now I'm off to buy it - thank you sir!
YESSSSS π€
This thread is golden β
I watch this trailer and I can smell Impulse Incense Body Spray, see the tube of Maybelline Great Lash that I opened to put on my mascara, and taste the Bubble Yum Rockin' Raspberry I was probably chewing when I saw this movie
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4e2...
yep!
Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM
I love it, but it's like putting a quilt together sometimes
Crunchtime is hard - love how my reward for writing this chapter is that I get to write another chapter.
Armageddon tired of this bullshit
If you're writing about or designing spaceships, particularly spaceships exploring strange alien worlds, the first thing you should look into is mobile Arctic research stations. There is no closer realworld equivalent.
Sean Connery and Alec Baldwin in their costumes sitting next to each other, Connery's arm on Baldwin's shoulder, inside the Hunt for Red October's tilting submarine interior set
a contender for my favorite behind-the-scenes photo: The Hunt for Red October crew built their submarine set(s) on top of a hydraulic gimbal, 45 ft above the stage floor, capable of tilting 45 degrees to mimic a sub's movements - Sean Connery said it made him seasick. even the gauges inside worked.
Today's writing research tabs:
NYC Mapped trees website
NYPD "find your precinct" page
Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Theatre Design
NYC Parks website - Madison Square Park pages
Ghostbusters (1984) full cast & crew on IMDb
Explanation of "depth of field" at photographylife website
I mean yes, but also my brain is clearly turning into mush π
what the fucking fuck
I've got maybe 40 pages left to go on this manuscript, which means if the wind is blowing right, I'll be finished by the end of the week.
But also I'm writing so hard that today I told some friends that I was glad spring had started, and I live in south-eastern Australia.
Today's writing research tabs:
Wikipedia page about the Bleecker St Cinema, NYC
History of now-closed St Vincent's hospital, Greenwich Village
New York Songlines - 14th Street
Youtube clips of It's A Wonderful Life
For the record, today I wrote some more of the next book, cleaned my office, and spent some time with friends.
It has been a good day π
Feeling verklempt at the number of people who liked my post about my book releasing today - thank you, you are all so very kind! ππ€
thank you, my little black heart is glowing ππ€
omg THANK YOU that is so kind ππ€π
social media tile - Ellie Marney's new book NO ONE IS SAFE is displayed in three formats (digital, audio, paperback) in a cover mockup on a teal background, with the words OUT TODAY IN ALL FORMATS in large yellow and blue font surrounding the covers
Terrible timing (when isn't it these days??) but I refuse not to celebrate that I have a book releasing today.
Happy book release day to NO ONE IS SAFE, now available in all formats ππ I hope you all like it very much!
This morning's writing research tabs:
The history of surgical glue
How to safely use a tourniquet
A PubMed article about nonoperative management of arterial lacerations of the forearm
80s.nyc - the tax dept's pictorial street-view record of every building in Manhattan in the 1980s
against a teal-washed background, a picture of the kindle version of NO ONE IS SAFE, by Ellie Marney, with the text 'First Reads - Last Day!' in exaggerated 80s-style yellow font
Friends, it is your πlast dayπ to get a free/cheap digital copy of my upcoming release NO ONE IS SAFE - it comes out tomorrow! - while it's still in the First Reads program.
If you like the idea of "amnesiac serial killer - Dexter meets The Bourne Identity in 1987 NYC" then this might be your jam π
Graph: Gorton & Denton by-election results. Labour vote share plummets as Green share rises. Similarly Reform rises and Conservative falls. End result: chunky Green win, Reform slightly higher than Lab, Cons dismal.
Eager to see what lessons Labour draws from this.
Is this...the new Lynch?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA5N...
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.