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CraigBookwyrm 📖📚

@craigbookwyrm.bsky.social

Girl dad, husband, cat dad (He/Him) Avid reader of mostly SFFH Humanist Vote Green 💚 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ rights are human rights 🚫Gen AI All thoughts are my own and subject to change, based on reasoned arguments and new evidence.

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T R Napper@trnapper.bsky.social · 2w ago

The debate has flared up again over whether chatbots are conscious. Which brings to mind this section of dialogue in my most recent book, This Machine Kills Billionaires (2026):

Excerpt reads as follows: “Sergey Bookman says that’s speciesist. He’s been telling everyone who’ll listen which is everyone—that you’re alive.” “Well he would say that, wouldn’t he?” “Hmm. Why?” “Who benefits from insisting that the toaster is sentient, Izzy? Why, the man with the toaster factory.” Huldo gestured at the space around them, the vista. “Even if I were a new form of life, Sergey Bookman would not care for me. Bookman does not care for any form of life, including human. His concerns are all instrumental.”
Humanists UK@humanists.uk · 3w ago

Few humanist authors are as well known as Salman Rushdie, who in 1989 was sentenced to death by a fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini over his novel The Satanic Verses, and in 2022 was stabbed on stage at a lecture in New York. He is our patron, and one of our heroes. #Humanistbookshelf

‘Nobody has the right to not be offended...If you are offended it is your problem, and frankly lots of things offend lots of people. I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.’
Humanists UK@humanists.uk · 4w ago

Christian Nationalism is not Christianity. It is an organised political project that uses belief to decide who belongs here and whose voice counts. We have been warning about it for years, at times as a lone voice. We won't stop. Find out why: humanists.uk/2026/09/16/c...

‘Christ is King’ protesters: Why we won’t stop calling out the threat of Christian Nationalism

On Saturday 5 September, hundreds of men in black, their faces covered by balaclavas, blocked the roads into Dover and surrounded the port for hours. Then on Sunday, they did the same in Portsmouth.…

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Humanists UK@humanists.uk · 4w ago

On 5 September, hundreds of men in balaclavas blockaded Dover. The next day, Portsmouth. As they did it, they chanted 'Christ is King'. Their leader says the tactics came from paramilitary-style groups in Northern Ireland. It is funded through an American Christian crowdfunding site.

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CraigBookwyrm 📖📚@craigbookwyrm.bsky.social · 2mo ago

10 female characters to get to know me! 1. Scout Finch 2. Lyra Belacqua/Silvertongue 3. Chrisjen Avasrala 4. Princess Leia 5. Moira Rose 6. Rikke 7. Olenna Tyrell 8. Kira Nerys 9. Rowena MacLeod 10. Ana Dolabra

Just a girl and her books@thebookwyrmshoard2.bsky.social · 2mo ago

10 female characters to get to know me! Book Edition 1. Lizanne Lethridge 2. The Path of Lantistyne All 3. Winnie and Crela 4. Cataloger Level: Unknown 5. Briar The Last Shield 6. Myfanwy Thomas The Checquy Files 7. Lamb Good Creature 8. Amina al-Sirafi 9. Tilda Bunny Goddess 10. The Rakada All

Jamedi@jamreads.com · 2mo ago

Okay, guys, girls, non-binaries, I'm starting to prepare my 2027 to-read list, what to review, what to cover, so I need your help: Authors, publicists, publishers, I would like to hear about your Science Fiction / Fantasy / Horror / Spec Fic titles releasing in 2027 (end of 2026 also accepted) (+)