I wonder if a bunch of racist men in balaclavas and black uniforms disrupting a major port will be declared terrorists? Or is that only for old women opposing genocide? 🤔
James Latimer has read Breath and Bone, awaiting Wolf2
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Recovering writer. Man of letters. Weltschmerz enthusiast. He/him.
There are two miracles that are recorded by all four evangelists. One is the Resurrection. The other is Jesus giving fish to lots of people
John Fugelsang@johnfugelsang.bsky.social · yesterday
Nice to have a citation for the stuff we all sort of assume to be true but question if it's just our own biases making it look that way
Mark Crail@markcrail.bsky.social · 2d ago
if this "well, actually..." reply to a line of tennyson's is any indication, charles babbage would have been right at home here
3. If some random presents me with anything in the hope of collaborating with me, I AM NOT TAKING THAT SHIT. I'm not even looking at it. It's an open invitation for that random to attempt to sue me later for "stealing their idea" or whatever. Also, fuck you, random, for putting me in that position.
I do not understand how *moving house* is something that broadband companies simply cannot get their head around. Still don't have reliable internet, to the point that apparently it's now been cut off completely, and there's still some entanglement with our previous address on the account. WTF?
books can be about bad people. the characters are not your friends. the protagonist is not you.
Outlier game deleted their whole Bluesky account , I'm going to repost this because they admitted to AI use (And then presumably decided to leave when the backlash started) Please do not go harassing them on other social media, but I think the info itself is worth passing on
Beth Howard@june-6-bug.bsky.social · 5d agoWow, looks like they nuked their whole BlueSky account. Glad I got screenshots
incredibly positive reviews for a niche genre, and everyone i know who is a fan of this type of game absolutely loves it. we'll see how a major property xcom-like actually sells whenever they deign to tell us but it's hard not to read this as an attempt to clean house ahead of an obvious success
This Week in Videogames@thisweekinvideogames.com · 5d agoGame File has brought to light that Bit Reactor, the studio behind Star Wars Zero Company, had previously furloughed the majority of its team prior to the game’s launch. Sources suggest to the publication that "80%" of the team had been affected with a "skeleton crew" remaining.
Wales has stopped ALL gender affirming surgeries! Schools have just declared an end to social transition and inclusion for trans kids. I do not think enough people are paying attention to how utterly and quickly trans rights have been stripped away in the uk!
Heather Paterson@heatherpaterson.co.uk · last wk.Deeply concerning: referrals, assessments and scheduled gender-affirming surgery through the Welsh Gender Service have been paused pending an independent clinical review. Other parts of the service remain open.
Really excited to see Prime has added HPI, the brilliant French original of High Potential...and you can even watch it in French...but there's NO BLOODY SUBTITLES available, apparently! 😠
Cobalt W H Smith (yes, I've got two middle names, because I'm posh).
Bob Johnston@bobjohnstonbooks.bsky.social · last wk.Sapphire Pontings.
Same sugar I used to help develop a freeze dried platelet with Cellphire. (In late phase human trials now) Neat stuff.
Ada Palmer@adapalmer.bsky.social · last wk.A tetanus-diphtheria vaccine that doesn’t need a fridge has passed its first human trial. UK scientists reformulated a licensed shot using trehalose, the sugar that lets desert plants survive without water, keeping it stable for up to two years at 30°C. Gavi buff.ly/1kNIUHB #ShareGoodNewsToo
Can somebody explain this shit to me? I feel like I live on a different planet to these people... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Serious disorder at Teesside balloon release unacceptable, says MP
Footage shows cars being set on fire during an event for one of the young men who died in A66 crash.
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The Narratess Indie book sale starts tomorrow and carries on through Monday, 29-31 August, 2026. I've got two books in the sale, Shadow of a Dead God and Nectar for the God, each for £1.99/$2.99/equivalent on every ebook store. And they're already on sale! Check them out.
If you believed in shadowy intelligences governing human progress like in some Sci-Fi books, then you'd have to wonder if terrible events like Covid and the current Iran War are actually events to forestall climate change because the unintended consequences have been interesting...
"But you were also a little worse - or better - for wine, and there are rules about that," says Macaulay Conner in The Philadelphia Story, 1941, just so we all see consent isn't a new concept.
I'd forgotten Tim Curry was in Legend, because he's very un-Tim-Curry in it, for the most part - and not just in looks - while still stealing (and saving?) the whole messy thing. Which is odd because he was such a memorable actor, in general.
One of the greatest proponents of literacy in American history. Such a blessing of a person.
People Magazine @people.com · 2w ago🔗: bit.ly/4qC1fWV Legendary singer-songwriter and country music icon Dolly Parton has died at the age of 80. Her nephew revealed the news in a Aug. 25 Instagram video. 📷: Getty
OUT TODAY! Fortune’s Wake by CL Clark is now live!
I wrote this piece about my my own attempt to process how & why this story has affected me so much and what it says about the state not just of our media but our entire information ecosystem. But it's also just the tip of the iceberg. 2/ broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-jason-...
The Jason Arday Reckoning
The attempts to cover up the complicity of the UK media’s role in his death may be its sickest move yet
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Interesting that this says "The greatest *fantasy* novel since Dune" which just goes to show genre is mutable especially over time.
At least it doesn't include Love Actually...
Jonathan Coe@jonathancoe.bsky.social · 2w agoApparently this is the list of British films included in the booklet accompanying the British Citizenship test. Unfortunately, if familiarity with the films on this list is one of the criteria for being a British citizen I think we're going to have to deport everyone under the age of 50.
If anyone wants to know why it's finally raining (at least, where I am), the Test Match is starting today. Should have thought of that sooner really.
SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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I didn't think I'd need my super-long ethernet cable after moving out of the house where I decided to hard-wire my desktop PC just for fun by running the cable around the exterior walls of two rooms...but apparently I still do and I can't find it!
