Danie Ware 📚🎲 🇪🇺 💙 ⚜️

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#Author Titan, Black Library, Aconyte, Rebellion. Waterstones #Manga #bookseller, prev PR/events Forbidden Planet. #ttrpg gamer, ex-Viking, likes cats, hates AI. Views my own.

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Shock follows shock! Exit poll puts Le Pen’s right wing National Rally in THIRD …behind the left wing NFP and Macron’s Ensemble.

Late in the day to realise that I should’ve raised my son to be John Connor.

Sassy, classy and a little kick… (Parasyte,by Hitoshi Iwaaki #Manga) #booksellerlife

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Meanwhile, Biden HAS quietly delivered $1 billion to communities for climate shocks resilience. 👇 (My previous post had "trillion", an autocorrect. It would be good to imagine what level of funding could do, on the USAID budget too.)

Campaign news has overshadowed this. For all those who missed it: the administration announced $1 billion to help communities be more resilient to climate change/natural hazards. www.dhs.gov/news/2024/07...

President Biden Announces $1 Billion in Project Selections to Make Communities More Resilient to Climate Change and Natural Hazards Through His Investing in America Agenda | Homeland Securitywww.dhs.gov President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas and FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell today announced the 656 project selections for $1 billion in clim...

To all these papers talking about Sunak and a ‘disastrous campaign’… A reminder that the #torywipeout was a team effort, by the whole Party, and over many years of sustained horror. The end was just the cherry on the icing on the cake 🍒 #fuckthetorirs

The Daily Commute. Happy Sunday, from a very peaceful #Carshalton Station #bookseller #booksellerlife

Sorry.

Losing the Tories is like coming out of a toxic relationship - it doesn't feel quite real. Starmer is an actual PM. His Manifesto makes sense. He's appointing ministers who know what they're doing. He's cancelled Rwanda, and is talking about re-nationalising the railways. Is this happening?

Workin' in a bookshop Sellin' books, books, books Workin' in a bookshop Oops, about to shelve bo-ooks Workin' in a bookshop Sellin' books, books, books Workin' in a bookshop Oops, about to shelve bo-ooks Seven o'clock in the mornin' I'm already up and gone Lord I'm so tired How long can this go on?

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This July would be a great time to submit something to Kaleidotrope. Because after July, the zine will be closed again until October. kaleidotrope.net/guidelines/

Also: random train station fish

Pinched from threads, and really good to see ministers being appointed according to their knowledge/skill set, and to jobs they should actually be able to do

Early shift. Needing ALL the #tea, but also means I have a couple of hours to get stuff done before the store goes mental :) #booksellerlife

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We've been pressed into using GPT and imitaters more at work, and as a senior writer asked to review a lot of this work, I 100% resent being asked to edit its garbage output. It's not only generic, it's chockful of filler words and plagued by superfluous use of adverbs and prepositional phrases.

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I laughed SO HARD Georgia Tennant, queen

Georgia and David Tennant mock the Tories with hilarious Doctor Who reference after election flop https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/georgia-david-tennant-tories-doctor-who-reference-election/

Tennants mock the Tories with hilarious Doctor Who reference after election flopwww.thepinknews.com Trans allies Georgia and David Tennant have mocked the Conservatives with a six-word Doctor Who reference after the party's election loss.

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This whole thread is hilarious.

So to confirm, now we have near-final numbers: Every time 19 Tory MPs get a bit grumpy this parliament and stick their letters into the 1922 Committee... ...it'll automatically trigger a leadership contest.

Larry. The most reliable occupant of Downing Street 💖

Getting word that Larry the Chief Mouser of Downing Street has coasted to another peerless victory with no opposition and 100% of the vote, truly Britain’s greatest statesman

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This is where I have a small, boring bit of advice, from my time managing a customer contact centre for a central government department: write letters to your MP asking them to raise issues with secretaries of state; make the letters unique, not copy-and-paste campaigns; be direct, not cranky.

So how do we stand up and make a government take notice? Writing to your MP? I mean… It’s nice when they reply but it feels ineffectual. Mass mobilisation? Cool story bro, but unlikely. No revolts please, we’re British. How do we become the prick it’s hard to kick against? I’ve no idea. -11

Anyway, back to the bookstore for me. Hopefully a quiet day, because rain, and curious to hear what my colleagues think! :)

I remember my Mother saying, in early 2015. a month or so before she passed away: 'I won't be around for the next election Dan, but if I was, I'd be voting UKIP, for that nice Farage man'. My face must've been a picture, because she looked at me and said, 'Why? Who do you vote for?' I told her...

Wonder how much BBC/etc coverage that filthy frog-faced fascist Farage will get, now he's actually got a seat? And whether the Greens will get the same amount? This must be the Age of Lobbying. Write to your MP, complain if you see that racist toad bloody everywhere. Make your feelings known.

And Truss has gone as well. Frabjous day!!

Waking up to the labour landslide, and to the loss of such delightful characters as Mordaunt and Rees-Mogg. Delighted to see that Carshalton & Wallington has gone back to LibDem, as as Sutton (which has a hefty Gammon contingent and looked like it may turn Reform). No LibDem Opposition, sadly...

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Giant mysterious alien "angels" to destroy train lines also announced

Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lineswww.theguardian.com The 12-metre high machine has coke bottle eyes and a crude Wall-E-like head, as well as large arms that can be fitted with blades or paint brushes

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Done 👍

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis. www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

The voting record of the (former) Tory MP for Carshalton and Wallington. Other than his support of gay rights (and welfare, oddly), it's time he hit the road, Jack... www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25907/ell...

Elliot Colburn, former MP, Carshalton and Wallingtonwww.theyworkforyou.com Read Elliot Colburn's contributions to Parliament, including speeches and questions

Good news: both Nintendo and Vimeo and have said #fuckai gameworldobserver.com/2024/07/03/n...

Nintendo has no plans to use GenAI in games, instead delivering value that “cannot be created through technology alone” | Game World Observergameworldobserver.com AI is a hot topic in the tech industry, with more and more companies talking about their plans to use LLMs and similar technologies in game development. Nintendo, however, has its own view on the matt...

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Good. That’s saved me some cut and paste work on the computer today. Just hit Print.

How many will you get?