M Nesce Drake
@nesce.bsky.social
SFF writer, fan, and dork - now published in Gallus: A Glasgow SF Writers' Circle anthology! (it's NESH-uh but I actually answer to Maggie) she/her. Disabled. Support my work: https://buymeacoffee.com/mnescedrake
Hand-Me-Downs by Neil Williamson: The Horror You Inherit Fifteen tales of toxic inheritance, quiet British dread and the men who refuse to change gnofhorror.com/hand-me-down... @neilwilliamson.bsky.social
This unfortunately covers much of those with power in the UK. Removing rights from people who are just trying to exist is not the path to a safe country. #transrights
Ash Paley@ashpaley.bsky.social · 3w agoThey are completely infested by transphobes
Translation: Adult Bluesky users will have to upload their ID to prove they are not under 16. The UK is such a deceitful country.
Polymarket@polymarket.extwitter.link · 3w agoBREAKING: U.K. reveals Bluesky will be included in the under-16 social media ban, affecting dozens of teens.
I wrote a thing over on Buy me a Coffee* It's not behind a paywall or anything, and you should read it, not least because it includes the line: "You are filled with high quality snot and letting it out is not a shame." #Disability #writing *Please support me so I can buy some books.
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Rhiannon Grist | HOME SICK out now! 🪓🐑@rhiannonagrist.bsky.social · 4w agoONE WEEK TO GO 🐑 I'll be celebrating the US launch of HOME SICK and @neilwilliamson.bsky.social's THE PACKET and HAND-ME-DOWNS with @beckywojturska.bsky.social at @waterstonesargyle.bsky.social next Tuesday!
Our governments don't care, they want to make more money from fossil fuels while we die in increasing number year after year. We're being cooked to death and there's ways to turn the cooker down but our governments and industries are turning up the heat instead.
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 3w agoMore than 2700 people died from heat-related causes during May and June’s record hot spells in England and Wales, experts have estimated
We need a hero! Bonnie Tyler has just died... and this is how The Mirror is choosing to remember her. (Not surprised but still disappointed)
"Corporate lobbying fights the Paris Agreement's Crediting Mechanism. This lobbying—targeting the UN Convention on Climate Change—is led by Drax, Oxy & Microsoft with industry associations: Intl Emissions Trading, Carbon Capture & Storage, Global CCS, IEA Greenhouse. They push to weaken safeguards."
Biofuelwatch@biofuelwatch.bsky.social · last mo.More attempts to water down the Paris Agreement and thwart a safe future… #Drax lobbies #UnitedNations to weaken carbon removal safeguards. Whilst the UN’s own scientific body says #BECCS is unproven at scale. Full lobbying analysis: influencemap.org/insight/Insi... #AxeDrax
Climate change is not a future problem; it's a now problem.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4w agoRecord wildfires in Europe show failure to adapt carries a mounting cost
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This attitude is alive in Scotland! (It's England that's decided it doesn't believe in society anymore.) #DisabilityUK #Disability
Amnesty International UK@amnestyuk.bsky.social · last mo.The NHS was founded 78 years ago today. It was built after the devastation of the Second World War when the country was bankrupt - but when the people demanded a society built on fairness and dignity for all. Today, we must defend the right to healthcare and rebuild our social security system.
It's not a scene until I make it a scene!!
Brandon Friedman@brandonfriedman.bsky.social · last mo.In front of fans and kids taking photos, a Dallas police officer starts shoving staff members of the Egyptian national team here for the World Cup. At one point, he even reaches for his handcuffs. The video is already being shared internationally by news outlets.
I used to know someone called Hiro, and it did not sound like "hero."
"... only existing in physical media.." With Sony and Xbox declining to continue publishing physical games, we're doomed to lose everything published after about 2028.
Pookleblinky@pookleblinky.bsky.social · last mo.gamehistory.org/87percent/ 87 percent of all classic video games are lost media, only existing in physical media long since forgotten and stashed away in storage or literally no longer extant, yet to be or possibly never archived.
The hardcover of The Shape of Monsters is out from Tor UK in three months - dark fantasy with shades of the gothic, twisted and queer! The wonderful folk at @skiffyandfanty.com reviewed the audio book version previously, if you're wondering if this is your jam skiffyandfanty.com/uncategorize...
If certain people are to be banned, *all* of us need our privacy to be invaded to maintain it. The govts and corps *need* to violate **ALL** of the privacy to enact these bans.
QueerAF@wearequeeraf.com · last mo.Youth social media bans should raise privacy concerns for everyone 👇 www.wearequeeraf.com/youth-social...
There are people who say, “can we afford net zero?” This is a bit like sitting in London in 1940 and saying, “can we afford an air force?”
Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · last mo.Letter in today's Times by climate scientist Sir Brian Hoskins: "The discourse around net-zero is increasingly decoupled from…science and our changing weather. "Net-zero is not an arbitrary slogan, rather it is dictated by the laws of physics."
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This is making me think of Stardew Valley and how you need to keep interacting with the villagers so they don't start to hate you. Quick! Drop everything! I need to go post some nonsense on bsky so my followers don't start hating me!
Lee Burton - Author | Editor@leeburton.bsky.social · last mo.Came across this graphic for the best times to post on Bluesky a while back. Think it holds true?
Oh hey, it's my 11 year Glasgow anniversary today! Accidentally celebrated by lounging in my nearest park on the grass, brainstorming some short story ideas.
The catholic church was still undecided on believing Galileo until about the 1990s!! That is, during most of our lifetimes one of the world's largest and most influential religions couldn't find it in itself to believe a scientific fact proven some 300 years earlier. #atheism #science
🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦@mizati.bsky.social · last mo.I always wonder how much science would have advanced if it wasn’t held back by religion. #Atheist
Data centres sucking up all the electricity will mean the rest of us paying extortionate prices. They also mean more environmental vandalism and more climate change.
Cara McKee@caramckeegreens.bsky.social · 2mo agoJoin our call for a pause on massive data centres: greens.scot/datacentres There are lots of plans for huge data centres, using massive amounts of electricity, and while they're supposed to be 'green', they don't have to do an environmental impact assessment. Let's stop and decide what we want.
As a new Scot, I can confirm this is exactly how it works.
Hal Duncan@halduncan.com · 2mo agohope the Tartan Army got the formal paperwork printed and distributed for use of course:
In the past 10 years, Worldcon has been alternating between Europe and Nth America. Meanwhile, Australia and Ocenania haven't had an in-person Worldcon since 2012 and are really due another.
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I just came across the line "The horizon was shitting a sun" and maybe I should just stop being a writer. I'll never be able to come up with this stuff. (It's from "This book is full of spiders," by David Wong.) #amwriting #books
I'm so dizzy and my face feels like it's about to fall off I'm so tired, but it's too early for me to go to bed. It's been like this for much of the day. CFS is a motherfucker.