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I really enjoy the @Tantallon_2001 Author Spotlights. And here they all are 👇 Preorders are still open for Call of the Isles. Out soon!

If you’ve missed any, you can catch up on all our Call of the Isles author spotlights here 👇 tantallontir.com/2026/03/29/aut…

If you’re up in Inverness, 274 Miles and Call of the Isles will soon be available to buy at the brilliant Ablekids Press Bookshop! @ablekids

‘If you hit a block, move on. Leave yourself a “to be continued” note and return later.’ Today’s Call of the Isles spotlight is on Rose Campbell-Smith, a writer with massive potential. tantallontir.com/author-spotlig…

@falkirk_herald Great, cos the one thing Falkirk needs more than anything else is more ultra-processed food.

New takeaway now open for tasty treats in Falkirk town centre

@Gibboanxious Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Which is the most thought provoking film you ever saw???

@bcdsignature "Our EXACT place in the AI timeline" 🤷‍♂️

While you’re reading this, the world is quietly handing the keys to a new intelligence. Everyone else is selling Hollywood endings. This book delivers the unfiltered blueprint: who we truly are, our exact place in the AI timeline, and what comes after.

@dom_lucre You're your biggest fan.

Anything is possible in America, one day you start off tweeting from your house and years later you’re speaking at the White one in DC.

@jeffreytucker I'm not entirely sure 🫤

Seems too late to say it: I'm completely fed up with AI generated content. It's gone from 10 percent to 90 percent in a very short time. As someone who has believed my entire life in writing as an expression of mind and spirit, the trash being cranked out today is a disgrace. What can be done?

@mister_irony @Red_River_D @jeffreytucker Are you really expressing "yourself" if they're not your words? Just my opinion, but it feels a strange thing to be fine with, especially if you're capable of expressing yourself using your own vocabulary and not being aided by a machine.

@Red_River_D @jeffreytucker But going forward we will now be able to express ourselves in ways not limited by language barriers or vocabularly.

@ToshiArte "The World Needs Your Voice" 😆😆😆

Keep Going, AI Artist The World Needs Your Voice The world can seem loud against us right now. Gatekeepers calling our work “fake,” comments trying to tear us down, friends and family still not understanding why we spend so many hours prompting and creating. Sometimes it feels like everything is stacked against AI artists. But here’s the truth I want you to hold onto: Every prompt you write is an act of courage. Every time you open the tool after a tough day and keep learning new techniques, you’re proving them wrong. You’re not just making images, you’re shaping the future of creativity. This path isn’t easy, but it’s worth it. The more we learn, the better we get. The more we share prompts, workflows, and encouragement, the stronger we become as a community. Every kind comment you leave, every artist you lift up, every experiment you try, it all matters. The hate is loud, but our creations are louder. So keep learning. Keep prompting. Keep supporting each other. The world may not fully understand us yet, but it will. And when that day comes, we’ll already be here, building, growing, and creating beautiful things together. You are not alone. Your art is valid. Your effort is seen. Keep going, friend. The best chapters are still ahead. With you in this, Keep creating. ❤️

@backstreet74 'Creation' by Stereo MCs.

Can anyone think of a song with the word Creation in the lyrics?

Looking forward to our @RandomTTours blog tour for Call of the Isles starting next week.

@jean_twenge @MrEwanMorrison Hardly surprising tbf.

Fascinating new poll: Not only is Gen Z pessimistic, but nearly half wish they lived in the past -- specifically the 90s, before smartphones and social media. nbcnews.com/politics/polit…

@batcountry1980 Superb song. I love how The Beautiful presented themselves as a happy, melodic hit-worthy band, but when you analyse the lyrics, there's so much more going on. Genius indeed 👍

The subversive genius of ‘Song For Whoever’, and it is bloody genius, is the ridiculous juxtaposition at its heart. You’ve got this lovely, lullaby like melody that carries what is, on first glance, a tender tribute to the girls who’ve inspired his music. But then your ear catches the cruelty behind the words, and it clicks that this isn’t any kind of love song, but one of the most heartless and honest reflections on the creative process you’ll hear. There’s no myth here, the romantic poet with the open heart. This is about the cruel mechanics of songwriting, the pain that feeds the machine, and the money it brings. He’s not singing about girls he’s loved, or if he did, it’s from the bottom of his pencil case, not heart. And there’s so many he forgets their names. These are girls he’s hurt and made cry, that he feeds off till his fountain pen runs dry, a vampire for verses of sadness. He doesn’t even pretend otherwise. He tells us he’s writing this very song, this song for whoever, to get a hit. To carry on up the charts. To reap the number one. So cry, lover, cry. That’s the real twist of the knife. Most pop songs play dress up. This one is uncomfortable in its exposure of the absolute bastard behind it, and still somehow makes that part of the charm. It’s such a cruel song. And yet the music is so magical, David Rotheray’s vocal so gentle, that when Paul Heaton comes in with that jaunty reeling-off of names, you can’t help but think, “this is lovely, this.” And then there’s the extra layer, a wee bit of a meta joke extending beyond the song itself. Because he doesn’t get his number one here, it stalls at two. The hit he’s chasing so openly never quite arrives. But ‘A Little Time’ is a number one. And that song feels like it’s come straight from this list. One of these whoevers, one of these half-used, half-broken relationships, gets fleshed out, given its backstory, and reaps that number one he’s been chasing. youtu.be/VwxXIPEW8aA?si…

@shinymeeki @queennaurelia Got to agree here. It also killed the high street. You want something, click on amazon and it arrives next day. Beforehand, it was heading to the shops usually with pals, maybe ending up in the pub or out for lunch, meeting and speaking to new people etc.

I think the internet killed the world. In the 90's when I was still in high school, I was outdoors all the time in my spare time. Social networking meant you had to get out there in the world. Today, people get that social itch scratched never leaving their house. All you need is a device. By making it easier to talk with people all over the world, we've created a distance.

I’ve never seen anything more accurate

@dom_lucre Well done, Dom, you admirable prophet. Give yourself a big pat on the back. There are no better thieves or spreaders of nonsense than your good self. An amazing achievement!

I predicted everything that is happening on X. Everything even my greatest haters will have to agree. As I said before it was much bigger than me and it was never about 1 video.

@dom_lucre And?

Me and Michael Jackson’s brother Randy Jackson at President Trump’s house.

@MikeBales Fine pewter portraits of general apathy and major boredom, singin whatever and ever amen. Ben Folds Five - Battle of who could care less.

Hello darkness, my old friend…

@TheExtremeMusi1 Toss up between Achtung Baby by U2, Disintegration by The Cure, Laid by James and Definitely Maybe by Oasis.

What album have you played from start to finish the most during your lifetime???