*puts head round the door* Does anyone have a copy of David Gerrold's "The World of Star Trek" handy? We can't find ours, and I want to learn the context of a quote ("Thou shalt not waste".) #startrek

I think this is my very favourite story in the collection. Deliciously strange!

Scylla Publishing@scyllapublishing.bsky.social · 4w ago

Our "Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose" anthology releases on Oct 30! Do you love weird, sapphic stories that interrogate the human condition? You just have to meet Mango Rango, Puppette, and Eevie... #sapphicstories

I'm having a lovely time at my blog, posting quotes about writing, and wittering on about my novel in progress and the craft in general. Come and have a sticky, especially if you have any questions about your own writing! kateorman.wordpress.com #writing

Kate Orman@kateorman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For years my Wordpress has just been for announcements, but I've started properly blogging there about writing -- what I'm writing, the craft itself, etc. Fer yer interest: kateorman.wordpress.com

This is happening! “Who Am I?” officially releases on October 30 in ebook and paperback on our website and from online retailers globally. #sapphicbooks #smallpress

TN librarian Luanne James, fired for refusing to move children's queer books into the adult section, is bringing a federal suit against the censors. I hope she kicks their collective ass from here to next Wednesday. www.gofundme.com/f/fsg98-help...

Donate to Help Luanne James in Her Time of Need, organized by Dianne M

On March 30th, the Rutherford County Library Board terminated Luanne James from her pos… Dianne M needs your support for Help Luanne James in Her Time of Need

gofundme.com

COVER REVEAL! The amazing @annalisejensen.bsky.social worked on this, along with @ellatholmes.bsky.social, and the result is astounding. It truly captures the essence of the book we and all the contributors created. Here is 'Who Am I? Sapphic Speculative Fiction of Identity & Purpose! So proud. 📚🪐

For years my Wordpress has just been for announcements, but I've started properly blogging there about writing -- what I'm writing, the craft itself, etc. Fer yer interest: kateorman.wordpress.com

I'm in this! 😁 Put my rusty biology degree to good use, or rather, bad use. ellatholmes.com/why-arent-yo...

Meet Lia - she’s a succubus in a symbiotic relationship with the city she prowls in, trying to save the woman she loves from a desperate bargain with a demon. Meet her in the @scyllapublishing.bsky.social anthology “Who Am I?”. Thanks @kholbatar.bsky.social for the pic straight from my brain!

Popping in to commend to you this thoroughly interesting read: rimonhadassah.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...

Who's Afraid of Looms?

I'm doing transfeminist readings of obscure Doctor Who expanded universe novels now.

rimonhadassah.substack.com

The cruel punchline. Australia's usual solution: go and die somewhere else.

Deadline arrives for homeless to leave campsite

People living at a homeless hotspot in Wagga were given until today to move on, but some say they still have nowhere to go.

abc.net.au

Kate Orman@kateorman.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sometimes I think that Australia, for all our posturing about family, doesn't actually give a fuck about children. The tragedy at Wagga Wagga, where an Indigenous newborn died in a homeless tent, bears that out, as does the below. This is how we manage stray cats, ffs -- women pick up the slack.

The dogpile is increasingly distressing. Too many times, *I've* been the fan whose unwise words have loosed the dogs. *I've* been the person about whom it is permissible to say anything you like. In the dogpile, you show everyone your ugliest face. Blocking isn't helping. Time for a Bluesky break.

When the guvmint brought in a law forcing ISPs to retain a record of what Web sites we visit, I installed a VPN, purely to give them the finger. Recently I've been using NordVPN. Now that I've switched it off, my laptop has stopped constantly crashing. 🤦‍♀️

Another day, another YouTuber unsubscribed from for pimping AI *if there was a middle finger emoji it would be here*

No national ban on "conversion therapy", no protection for intersex kids against unnecessary surgery, amongst other failures.

Human Rights Concerns Raised After Australia Rejects UN LGBTQIA+ Recommendations

Human rights advocates have expressed disappointment after the Government declined any recommendations relating to LGBTIQ+ Australians

starobserver.com.au

Time is a funny thing. I read a little about the violent dispossession of Indigenous Australians of their lands by English settlers. Apparently the last incident in the frontier wars, a massacre of 31 Aboriginal people, took place in 1928, the year my maternal grandmother turned 21.

It's Disability Pride Month? yay *falls over*

Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️@alice.averlong.com · 4mo ago

We all like to joke about July being "Gay Wrath Month" but it's actually Disability Pride Month, so have the Disability Pride Flag from VGAPride and my AST Premmia LX MS-DOS machine

I'm intrigued by the idea that women's categories were added to sports not to encourage women to participate, but to avoid any risk of men sometimes being beaten by women.

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 4mo ago

I do not understand the "fairness in sports" thing, in part because it isn't a thing, but also "fair to who" is always the question. People who are taller have an advantage in basketball. Does that mean we ban tall people? Why would THAT be fair?

Just saw someone use a metaphor to make a point, and someone else contest the metaphor instead of the point, and now I'm going crazy trying to remember a quote like "all right, so most metaphors don't stand up to close examination". The Young Ones? TNG?

As a target for bullies, whose big mouth has sometimes outraged people, I want to post a word of caution. When you react with shock, hurt, anger -- those are natural human feelings. When you egg each other on, sitting in judgement on the worth of someone you know nothing about -- -- I see you.

Start of day: depressed, no idea for novel End of day: energised, quite a good idea for novel Yay for coffee and Jon for letting me bruise his ears with my rambling thought 😁

BREAKING: Pride Month Extended Indefinitely

I'm hijacking Ian's post to show you the state I was in when I wrote most of my Doctor Who novels.

Ian Greaves@greavesian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Going off grid for a month to get something quite difficult written. DM only if urgent. Find me on WhatsApp if your life depends on it. Take care. x

What I'm enjoying are landscapes of my childhood -- all those long driving holidays on dodgy, narrow country roads, past reflector posts and yellow fields.

Kate Orman@kateorman.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Watching Mad Max (1979). It would suck being Mrs Max, waiting to get fridged or have a line of dialogue, whichever comes first.

Watching Mad Max (1979). It would suck being Mrs Max, waiting to get fridged or have a line of dialogue, whichever comes first.

Dr West described a rash guess as "temerarious"! What a word! "Marked by temerity"!

"... the text presents so many oddities that the reader is reduced to the conclusion that the writer was simply baffled by much of the text which he was supposed to be translating." -- Classical scholar Stephanie West, in 1969, about Richard Reitzenstein's 1923 translation of the legend of Tefnut

EOFY looms and the charity begging emails are coming thick and fast

Thanks, God

I thought this was funny for one and a half seconds.

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 4mo ago

NEW: Meta paid hundreds of contractors to pretend they were kids—and then prompt rival chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT to talk about subjects like suicide, sex, eating disorders, and self-harm. From @dmehro.bsky.social and @joelkhalili.bsky.social