Vikki Patis

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

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Oh thanks so much!

Vpatis's February 2026 reads: WOOL MONSTRILO THE STARVING SAINTS FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC THE ECHOES HIDDEN PICTURES THE FIRST GIRL

February was a month for mood reading. Some bangers, though Monstrilio wasn't quite what I was expecting, and there were too many Harry Potter jumpscares in Hidden Pictures for my liking.

Really concerned to hear the Defence Secretary refuse to rule out UK's involvement in future strikes on Iran.

Iraq lessons must be learned.
Further escalation in the Middle East makes us all less safe.

Starmer must rule out UK involvement immediately.

Pearl smiling and crying at the camera

Me every time I read the news

Jellyfin is also a great option for your own media streaming!

Out now! In paperback, hardback, ebook and audio!

Gorton & Denton by-election, 2026 Source: Britain Elects SIAIS r EFTIES Green GAIN from Labour 40.7 28.7 25.4 1.9 1.8 Grn 427.5 Ref 414.6 Lab 725.4 Con 76.0 Lib 72.0 1.4 Oth 78.9

Starmer:

“If you don’t like our policies you can leave.”

Voters:

Waterstones event poster: Lucy Lapinska in conversation with Vikki Patis at Waterstones Aberdeen. Saturday 14th March at 5:30pm

Hardback of Some Body Like Me by Lucy Lapinska on a bookshelf

V excited to be interviewing @ldlapinski.bsky.social about their excellent new book in just a couple of weeks! My hardback copy arrived today and she is STUNNING. I'll be first in line at the signing table! Be there or be square 😘

Can he please be charged for the noncing too

what is a writer? a miserable little pile of unpublished secrets.

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

And a truly abysmal one at that

Watched Predator Badlands today. What in the male loneliness epidemic was going on there?? Disneyfied nonsense.

Far-right thug Tommy Robinson flees UK after police warning over terror threat Far-right thug Tommy Robinson took to social media this evening to proclaim himself a 'priority target' for ISIS, adding he had fled the UK after receiving a call from Bedfordshire Police

Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

A cream golden retriever lying on a bed, close up of her face

A cream golden retriever sitting in a garden with an orange and blue ball in her mouth

Vikki, a white plus size woman, leaning down to kiss Ivy, a cream golden retriever

A cream golden retriever puppy lying in a garden, snuggling a cat toy

Ivy is 6 🎈
Happy birthday to our sweet, gentle, mischievous girl 🤍

Literally!! And how she took their shit for 'losing' the map, when one of the boys had actually thrown it in the river?? Just say you hate women and move on JFC

Just watched The Blair Witch Project for the first time since I was a kid, and wow, some of the reviews are just DRIPPING in misogyny. These men see a 'hysterical' 'demanding bitch'; I see a young woman trying to keep it together (and taking the blame) for the other two dickheads.

I'm considering this just now. I run a homelab on an old Windows laptop and need the functionality (might roll back to Windows 10 though), but I could probably switch my work laptop to Linux.

Look, I'm a hater of generative AI. But harassing authors for unconfirmed use of AI in their books, particularly marginalised authors, has got to stop. Meanwhile you're all still using products by the companies that scraped our books for profit. Behave.

Peter Mandelson issues secret notice demanding press leave him alone – read in full LATE on Friday evening, this notice was circulated from representatives of Peter Mandelson, via press regulator IPSO and the Press Association news…

BREAKING: Peter Mandelson just sent this secret notice to all UK media, demanding they leave him alone.

He uses IPSO clauses designed to support grieving families in a bid to stop scrutiny of his relationship with Epstein

We have published it in full.

www.thenational.scot/news/2583451...

The author is a TERF, sadly (also the ending sucked!)

I don’t know why Rowling is being treated as a hero for paying tax just like everyone else. Everyone who works pays a proportionate amount of tax. Same when these celebrities give to charities when it’s peanuts to them. People are too easily impressed by rich people doing the bare minimum.

I'm sure you've checked out all possibilities, but in case this isn't one of them, you can let it lapse to a free domain which just has [dot]wordpress[dot]com in it. Not ideal as you'd also lose some functionality, but might be better than it disappearing completely!

One of the most disgusting, brutal and unpunished child‑abuse networks in the world…

And the usual voices who claim to care about ‘women and girls’ have nothing to say.

We see you.

Oh I didn't realise that either! It'll be interesting to go back to his books via that lens.

(Love how he's described as 'openly gay' — bet nobody was ever described as being 'openly straight' 😂)

I bet he’s sweating now.