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Sunday March 22nd, 2026

Shy Girl Dan Lyke / comment 0

George Orwell's 1984, Part 2, Chapter 3:

Julia was twenty-six years old. She lived in a hostel with thirty other girls ('Always in the stink of women! How I hate women!' she said parenthetically), and she worked, as he had guessed, on the novel-writing machines in the Fiction Department. She enjoyed her work, which consisted chiefly in running and servicing a powerful but tricky electric motor. She was 'not clever', but was fond of using her hands and felt at home with machinery. She could describe the whole process of composing a novel, from the general directive issued by the Planning Committee down to the final touching-up by the Rewrite Squad. But she was not interested in the finished product. She 'didn't much care for reading,' she said. Books were just a commodity that had to be produced, like jam or bootlaces.

Hatchette Books cancels release of Shy Girl by US author Mia Ballard over claims of LLM use.

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Saturday March 21st, 2026

Bainsky sounds like the anti-Banksy Dan Lyke / comment 0

walkies enthusiast @scattapilla@jorts.horse

I think we should start referring to bluesky as Bainsky


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