Laurence Sullivan

I am proud to announce the publication of my first chapbook, ‘Bouquet of Goodbyes’, with @SampsonLow! Included inside are seven short stories, with five fabulous illustrations from Alban Low. 📖 For just £2.99, you can grab a copy online: sampsonlow.co/2023/10/24/bou… #amwriting

Very glad to be part of this project. Utilising someone’s work without their knowledge or permission (or even providing credit, an immutable moral right in British law) is stealing, it’s as simple as that. All writers should support this initiative! 📚 #authors" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">dontstealthisbook.com/home#authors

Today, we're publishing Don't Steal This Book - a (mostly) empty book from almost 10,000 authors, protesting the theft of their work by AI companies. The UK government is considering upending copyright law to benefit AI companies. Don’t Steal This Book urges them not to. Apart from the list of authors involved, the book is empty, representing the effect the government’s plans would have on authors' livelihoods. We're handing out 1,000 free copies at London Book Fair over the next couple of days. If you’re there, pick up a copy! A huge thank you to the thousands of authors involved. Read more here: theguardian.com/technology/202… #DontStealThisBook

Incredible haunted house bags by Zack Frisbie, each one a functional work of art! 👜👻💼 Also a clever commentary on the legacy of the art we leave behind, but the spooky vibes are immaculate. youtube.com/shorts/x0JVXtz…

BioShock

G'oiiaoiia 💚

WICKED x LONDON NEW YEAR’S EVE FIREWORKS “Hello fellow Londoners, as we travel the yellow brick road into a new year, let us stand for positivity and hope and embrace the magic that we all have inside and come together for good.” - Cynthia Erivo

the first song ever sung by a computer, 1961

The jump in storage capacity from Nintendo 64 cartridges to GameCube discs allowed the developers to be astonishingly generous with the storage in comparison. A Super Mario Sunshine cutscene of a single image fading in and out is larger than the entirety of Super Mario 64.

@wickedmovie @jonmchu @UniversalPics Sorry, excuse me, did they ad lib the exchange when they were talking over each other? No wonder it felt so authentic! Cynthia and Ariana really did share something special on set. The addition of ‘Not with your eyes. With theirs’ also added some depth over the stage version.

I present to you all, one of the greatest TikToks ever. 🍂 ❄️

if anyone is interested here's 5 minutes of Idina singing every line in the Defying Gravity climax in different ways

Here is the fax from Miyamoto-san approving Banjo-Tooie for release in Japan. Nice of him that compliment (in my mind anyway). Faxes were like emails before emails existed, which came very slowly out of a printer

Sound on! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@d4mitajo It’s stressful just watching it, must be so overwhelming having all those competing noises and things being thrust at you. Does make me wonder why her assistant/manager doesn’t carry a pen for her to sign things, though? Surely that would be easier than relying on the fans?

Reading @katie_rose_o’s ‘I Wanted to be Close to You’, published by the wonderful @fly_press, is akin to a smooth railway ride with endlessly interesting, ever-changing scenery - there is no weak link on this literary journey. A 5* moving, lyrical read! tinyurl.com/ed3eae8x

here's something i picked up along the way that i often think about:

We are lending Britain an iconic jewel of our shared history: the Bayeux Tapestry. This is the first time this national treasure will leave French soil. It marks an unprecedented cultural partnership between our two countries — a powerful symbol of our Entente amicale.

On Saturday we installed 75 replicas of Feathers McGraw around London. full story below