Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 12hI put an old cherry tomatoe in the ground not that long ago, thinking there's no way it'll get anywhere in autumn... I'm conflcted about this. I'm happy I've got tomatoes growing in my garden. I'm sad that it's this warm in October. 010
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 04/10/2026The book I'm currently working on is all about the 'love of reading' and the author that got me back into reading. I guess it's not gonna be for Mary Beard. For the record, I was elated after reading Kafka. It's not about the content, it's about that feeling that I read something brilliant. #booksky 160
Reposted by Aya Vandenbussche (she/her)Satanick Panick @laidbackinsong.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The first one is so incredible, not only in terms of its writing as you say, but in terms of its practical effects too. The others that increasingly relied on CGI just cannot compare. 112
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The reason I never liked the Jurassic Park sequels is because the first one made an incredibly strong statement that is still poignant all these years later, with Jeff Goldblum accentuating it by pointing out the lack of discipline in the science... 110
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I have been to Stratford-upon-Avon this week to see an all male production of As You Like It, starring Jonathan Groff. Quite how many famous Shakespeare's quotes come from this play. 'All the world's a stage' which begins the seven stages of man monologue, is just one of many. 010
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I really hate posting so much about AI. I'd much rather post about books, about writing, about literally anything else. But it has such a direct impact on me as a writer, and as a human being, and it makes me so angry I need to scream. IT'S NOT INEVITABLE STOP IT! OK I'm done for now. 010
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 02/10/2026I might be naive, but I'm genuinely astonished by how quickly people seem to believe we cannot live a modern life without AI. Someone has actually told me I'd have to live on a desert island to avoid AI. 110
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 29/09/2026All That Jazz is such a magnificent film. Roy Scheider's best performance. He's so electric. Was trying to see if I can spot Fosse himself in the audience at that incredible last number. I'm not sure I succeeded. 210
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 27/09/2026During the heat my reading suffered quite a blow and I barely read much. Returning to read now, I am a bit concerned by how slow I've become. It takes me about an hour to read 10 pages. It is upsetting. I read slower than an audio book. 😪 010
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Finished reading Jingo this afternoon. I loved it, though it made me quite profoundly sad. 030
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Last night I was asked if I have a favourite golem and which one is it. Interesting and more difficult question than I expected, from someone who had no idea that I wrote a whole dissertation about the golem. (He might have regretted asking when he was promptly sent a copy of my published essay...) 271
Reposted by Aya Vandenbussche (she/her)Jack Bernhardt @jackbern.bsky.social · 23/09/2026it's not an original thought but the idea of thousands of people wasting the single gift of a life they have been given in service of hatred, racist charlatans and AI slop will never stop depressing me 1402
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I really need to stop trying to read while in the hammock. I fall asleep immediately. 030
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I went to see Golden Boy, a play in the Almeida starring Josh O'connor, and to my surprise also Daniel May. I was, I'm sorry to say, underwhelmed. The acting was fine, but it was a bit long, obvious, and despite the best efforts from all, emotionally uneffective. 020
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Went to see Bad Apples yesterday. It is not a bad film with some interesting ideas, but i feel it fails to be sharp enough. As it was pointed out in a review I read, it is not funny enough or horrific enough to make a strong enough point. 020
Reposted by Aya Vandenbussche (she/her)Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Don’t use pronouns for AI. It is not a person nor ever will. Sam Altman isn’t making the god computer of his wet dream nightmares. They’ve made a shitty tool built on theft thats destroying the planet & is meant to lower human critical thinking while given military weapons by rich idiots. 161114237
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Just discovered this week that a product I've been recycling for over five years at my workplace, is in fact non recyclable, despite the product stating it IS recyclable, due to contamination that is beyond our ability to control. 1/4 100
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Inside Ardman exhibition at the Young V&A. Gorgeous. Catch it while you can. 010
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 15/09/2026There's a bit of a cinematic trope when it comes to filming writers, and I don't like it. Writing is probably not the most visual of activities, so often filmmakers like to spice it up a bit with some kind of writing fever, a personification of a muse (usually a woman). 100
Reposted by Aya Vandenbussche (she/her)Sam Vimes @samvimes6.bsky.social · 14/09/2026AI is going to kill us all... www.youtube.com/shorts/sGfZO...youtube.com“Dario is right”. #ai #financeYouTube video by Chris Kohler 033
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 14/09/2026A friend texted me 'breaking news' to tell me that AI is evil. Apparently she only just discovered that in addition to all the damage to the environment and brain etc it also lies and manipulates and can kill us. 🙄 231
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Apparently Tom Thumb is the first known fairy tale printed in English. There seem to be a lot of similarities with Pinnochio, which was written 200 years later. #booksky 170
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I visited the National Museum of Film and Sci Fi in Milton Keynes. It's a wonderful place full of curiosities, from Arthur C Clark's genuine typewriter, to 1979 genuine Muppets (not the ones in this pic). Only limited photography is allowed. Excellent place to visit. 022
Reposted by Aya Vandenbussche (she/her)Adrian Edmondson @adrianedmondson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026 6819
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Reading about Hans Christian Andersen and how he revised the ending of The Emperor's New Clothes and added the child calling out that the Emperor has no clothes. Initially the Emperor just come out in procession. 130
Reposted by Aya Vandenbussche (she/her)Tamsin Wilson @tamsinwilson.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I had such an amazing time at this event. Really beautiful, and wonderful people. 0101
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I spent most of yesterday cleaning the house and doing stuff just so I'll have a quiet day today to try and get back to my writing after a long social/ life break, only to get bogged down with a malfunctioning keyboard, spilling water everywhere, and general annoyance. #realisticwritinglife #writing 000
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 08/09/2026It's Star Trek's 60th anniversary today. It is becoming harder to make such optimistic [wroke] sci fi these days when the world is literally on fire and we couldn't be farther away from Rodenberry's naive vision. But it's nice to think about. I love Star Trek. 051
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Please sign this petition to regulate AI in an attempt to stop assholes from killing us all. Thank you. stoptheracetoreplace.org/en?fbclid=PA...stoptheracetoreplace.orgStop the Race to Replace HumansA remarkable coalition is united: stop the billionaire race to replace humanity with AI. If you agree, add your name. 020
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Really loved Ann Droid. Diane Morgan and Sarah Kendall are such good writers. 020
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Started watching Ludwig recently and I'm enjoying it very much. I'm always impressed with writers who can come up with a good murder mystery regularly. It seem like a hard thing to do. 230
Reposted by Aya Vandenbussche (she/her)Darwin Woodka @darwinwoodka.bsky.social · 03/09/2026AND NOTHING OF VALUE WAS LOST 03599
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 03/09/2026And for a brief moment it was nice again. 000
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Undiscovered Country First Contact 020
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The Addams Family (1964) has been added to our TV watch rotation. Loved the first episode. 020
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Also, I don't like the turning of Frodo into Jesus at the end. 000
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 31/08/2026There are far too many battles in the LotR films! They becomes exhausting and meaningless! I'd have cut most of the battles and brought in The Scouring of the Shire to the films instead, which is a most vital part of the story. 000
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I saw some people on Tiktok suggesting to give your inner critic the voice of a man or someone you don't like. I did it for a day and immediately thought I was letting people I dislike too much in my head, and now they're criticising me. 100
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I also watched the League of Gentlemen film, aka League of Gentlemen Apocalypse, which I have not seen at the time. I liked it a lot! It is very much my cup of tea thank you. 000
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Rewatching Blackadder the Third and thinking about how gorgeous Hugh Laurie is, and that I doubt any royal was ever as beautiful as him. 🤣 010
Reposted by Aya Vandenbussche (she/her)Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The Green Party - for people and planet. Labour - for carbon emissions, droughts and tech bros. Join.greenparty.org.uk 22544190
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Google plans to bulldoze a wildlife haven in Essex – home to rare species – for a data centre. Sign the petition now to help save it before it’s gone forever 🐝🦋 you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...you.38degrees.org.ukSave Arena Essex- Tell Google to search elsewhere! Wedged between the Mar Dyke Valley and Lakeside Retail Park, the former Arena Essex Raceway is not your usual wildlife haven. Where once stock cars and speedway bikes lined up to cross the fini... 001
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Things that make me think that we deserve everything we get: hearing that someone watching a film at the cinema was asking AI to explain them the film's plot while watching it. 110
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Sometimes I read something, as part of a research, that gets me so excited, I want to go to everyone I know and give them a a profound lecture about why this thing I read is so amazing, while holding them by the shoulder. Unfortunately, it's often hard to explain my excitement without context. 110
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Not quite a storm, but I'm loving this rain. youtube.com/shorts/NhBNI...youtube.comrainYouTube video by mralistairgreen 020
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 26/08/2026When of when is this long awaited storm coming? WHEN? 010
Reposted by Aya Vandenbussche (she/her)Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Bloody hell, not Tim Curry too! What a on-two punch. GNU Tim. 1062962
Reposted by Aya Vandenbussche (she/her)Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 25/08/2026GNU Dolly Parton 💔 A genuinely wonderful human being. This beautiful artefact from the Pratchett household, circa the mid 80s, was known as the ‘Dolly Parton Eggcup.’ 880699
Aya Vandenbussche (she/her) @hiyaaya.bsky.social · 25/08/2026I can't believe Dolly Parton has left us. What an absolute legend. Little Sparrow is one of my favourite albums of hers. 000