I may have stayed up way too late reading Reddit threads about ILR applucations of all kinds...

Well, look what showed up on my Kobo! @joshwinning.bsky.social's latest, BE STILL MY UNBEATING HEART, a gay vampire murder mystery romance that I was so honoured to beta read for Josh waaaay back when it was still a first draft. I loved it then and I'm so excited to see how it's grown and changed!

I am reviewing guidance for my upcoming ILR application and assembling the necessary docs, etc…and in so doing am reviewing all the stuff I gathered for my LAST visa application (5 years ago)…there’s so much stuff, and the cover letter to write…and things have CHANGED… Much nervous! Very excite!

Watched BELL, BOOK, AND CANDLE (1958) for the first time last night, and while a lot of it hasn't aged well, if this moment wasn't one of the absolute cuntiest things I've ever seen... Serving on levels that have rarely been achieved before or since.

As an elder millennial, one of the Great Crimes of AI (in addition to all the real ones) is that AI has poisoned the greatest of all internet creations: the funny cat video. Like, one can no longer simply enjoy a video of a cat being a weird little guy. You have to stop and interrogate reality. FFS

As a child, listening to Dolly Parton sing about the House of the Rising Sun, I had no Latin and less French, so the only thing I could figure she was singing in place of (correct) Vieux Carre was (incorrect) Bucharest and even now, knowing the actual lyrics…my brain still defaults to Bucharest…

Shine on Faros! #artsky #ocsky #scifi #cyberpunk #cyborg #artdeco

So back in 1992, Wes Craven wrote/directed a show called “Nightmare Cafe”. Dear Reader…talk about a TRIP! (We bought it last year and watched it this year) The first episode was incredible—ahead of its time, non-linear time-travel shenanigans, creepy, cosmic, horrific…and 90s AF

The thing I currently hate most about Meta is the way that when I go out of my way to tell the algorithm to block/dislike/hide alt-right content...the more of it is shoved in my face. HOW SHIT CAN YOU BE AT YOUR JOB, ALGY!?

I watched Teenage Sex and Death in Camp Miasma again tonight, and I followed even more than last time. I really do think it's one of the most Lynchian things I've seen that isn't Lynch, and not just on a surface level.

I've reached 68% of my goal* to help pay my ridiculously high fees to get indefinite leave to remain in the UK! If you can help out by a donation of any size or just by sharing, I'd be extremely grateful! x gofund.me/58206040b *the percent on the below image is slightly off for some reason

Donate to Help Me Stay in the UK For Good (After 10 Years Living Here), organized by Robert Berg

Who I Am My name is Robert Berg and I’m raising funds to hel… Robert Berg needs your support for Help Me Stay in the UK For Good (After 10 Years Living Here)

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Pride of the Southland band.🎶🎵🎸🏈 Halftime in memory of Dolly Parton.🧡🙏🏼🎶🎵🧡

Still relevant.

Covid is a mass disabling event. Just because you had it and were “fine” doesn’t mean there isn’t silent damage in your body. Multiple infections increase the risk of long covid … you never know which one could leave you disabled. This is why we mask. Why we clean the air.

Jessica Ellis@baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 2w ago

Because ignoring it, and pretending you aren’t adding another bullet to your Covid roulette gun every time you get an infection, is part of the denialism 80% of this country is living in.

AI stans keep comparing AI to cars and I think the comparison is revealing in ways they very much don't intend A technology with broadly negative impacts on society we were forced to restructure our lives around due to enormous corporate lobbying? One we are struggling to eliminate today?

1 A few of you asked for an update when I mentioned I was ditching my Kindles for the Kobo (Clara Colour). It’s been a few weeks now, and honestly? I’m never going back. Here’s why making the switch was 100% worth it 🧵👇

Rewatching Hazbin Hotel 10/10 No Notes

What is the filk scene like these days? Im over 20 years out of date. 😅 This message brought to you by research reminding me of all the Valdemar music

A reminder to our American friends that Montreal Worldcon 2027 is a great opportunity to support Canadian SFFH authors, publishers and readers, see a truly beautiful city and learn more about your Northern neighbours, and meet many Canadians (and others) who cannot as easily come to visit you.

Undertow Publications 🇨🇦@undertow.bsky.social · 3w ago

WorldCon? If you're interests skew horror/weird fiction is it worth going? I ask because it's in Montreal next year.

A new model simulates the benefits of agrivoltaic farming, in which solar panels and crops share the same land.

Planting crops in fields of solar panels is more efficient, protects the plants and helps keep workers cool, study finds

A new model simulates the benefits of agrivoltaic farming, in which solar panels and crops share the same land.

livescience.com

🌟It's my birthday!🎈 I turn 30 today, and I'd love to share some of the art from a personal project l've been working on (slowly) through all of my twenties Bronze Age, high fantasy, diverse, colourful and researched are the guiding principles for this work (hopefully you can tell!) 🏺🏛️🔮 1/15

If you see The Green Man's Debt will be published on 10th September and realise you planned on catching up with The Green Man's Holiday? Good news! The ebook is a UK Kindle 99p deal throughout September. So you could buy both titles for £5.98... just saying... 😁 www.amazon.co.uk/Green-Mans-H...

Aussie, Kiwi & Asia-Pacific Authors Who Sell Direct, (Itch/ Kofi/Payhip/your site) I'm organising a Books Direct From Asia-Pacific Authors blog post Open to: All Genres (we're SFF so far) That're: Queer Normative (don't assume everyone's cis-het) With: some LGBTQIA+ rep Bonus: BIPOC/Disability rep

"Tiny Tim, who DESERVED to die,"

The A.V. Club@avclub.com · 3w ago

The film, which stars Johnny Depp, will try to find the "gray area" in A Christmas Carol. www.avclub.com/scrooge-gray...

"maybe Scrooge was right" Scrooge wasn't real! He was invented specifically for the purpose of being wrong!

Abigail Larson@abigaillarson.com · 3w ago

"Maybe Scrooge was right-" he was not. He was a miserly asshole facing the same demise as his former business partners if he didn't make some serious changes with how he treats the people around him. That's the point.

If you're in Canada and want to tell Tim Hortons that their Harry Potter marketing campaign is shit, you can contact them here: www.timhortons.ca/support

Two of my first research purchases as a novelist working pre-Internet were from a medical bookshop. 1 - a big book of anatomical diagrams so any time a weapon went into a character, I knew what it would hit. 2 - an illustrated handbook of critical trauma care. Photos not for the squeamish.

I've reached 65% of my fundraising goal to stay in the UK, and really can't thank everyone enough for their kindness and generosity. If you're able to donate, I'd so appreciate anything you could spare, and/or if you could share it around, that would also be a massive help. Thank you so much!

Donate to Help Me Stay in the UK For Good (After 10 Years Living Here), organized by Robert Berg

Who I Am My name is Robert Berg and I’m raising funds to hel… Robert Berg needs your support for Help Me Stay in the UK For Good (After 10 Years Living Here)

gofund.me

"When LGBTQIA+ rights were once again at risk, PinkNews was given a choice: continue to serve the LGBTQIA+ community...or submit to the allure of mass-producing popular, uncontroversial content...its decision to cave to the whims of the algorithm has left it in reputational and financial tatters."

Metric anxiety is fueling a dangerous decline in quality queer journalism

Why so many articles about queer people focus on celebs, rely on pics of hypermasculine guys and use rage-bait misinformation

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