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Dr. U. Whitcher (U. is for Bear)
@yarntheory.bsky.social
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There's still a couple of hours left to bid on math + fiction expertise!
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Ann Leckie@annleckie.com |
7771 followers 93 following 985 posts
Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
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Dr. U. Whitcher (U. is for Bear)
@yarntheory.bsky.social
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There's still a couple of hours left to bid on math + fiction expertise!
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
@shengokai.bsky.social
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Over at the Bad Place, I made a tradition of posting Douglass' "What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth of July," and I intend to carry on that tradition here. Since most versions you read in classes or in textbooks have parts omitted, the link below has the full text of the speech.
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Alex Blechman
@alexblechman.bsky.social
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July 4th is very rough on my dog (he is a royalist and considers George Washington a traitor)
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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social
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Among other things … this isn’t true in terms of the history of power. The idea of an absolute sovereign totally unrestrained by law is rare rather than common.
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Ann Leckie
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Holy shit. I was also asked, said no, and clearly it was the right decision.
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Proof of Burden
@proofofburden.bsky.social
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I think it is very bad strategy and oblivious to what fascism *is* to concede that we should hold this conversation entirely on the terms of aesthetics. Governance by optics is bad, it is what fascism promises, and you should kick "optics" narratives like they owe you money
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Hal Duncan
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If you're having to use authorial fiat (effect without cause) & idiot plotting (cause without effect) to crowbar action into following a planned sequence of events, that's not a plot, but the breaking thereof. The non-cop-out move is to go back & rejig initial conditions to tweak the narrative logic
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Hal Duncan
@halduncan.bsky.social
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I like this a lot. We often talk of "plot" as a skeletal substructure of story in ways that reduce it to a summarisable sequence of events, but it's no bad thing to see plot as a causal chain it's your job to uncover in which every turn is determined by narrative logic from the initial conditions.
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John Scalzi
@scalzi.com
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Dinosaur crossing
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Janel Comeau
@verybadllama.bsky.social
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"we never used to have all these women in their 30s suddenly getting diagnosed with ADHD" listen, I wouldn't have even noticed I have ADHD if I lived in an era where my doctor could ask if I want to lose 5lbs and then hand me enough amphetamines to see the face of God
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Daniel Abraham
@abraham.bsky.social
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I feel like there were a bunch of guys who read the story and thought “What would it do for Omelas’s stock price if we shoved a bunch more kids down there?”
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Anna Phylaxis
@quatoria.bsky.social
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that's the whole idea, yes people lose their jobs, their health care, and their homes, and then, once they get arrested for sleeping rough or nonpayment of tickets, they become slave labor for prison jobs.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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Writing is not linearly productive. You can write something no one wants and spend months or years on it; it’s not wasted time. It’s time spent learning how to do things you’ll put into practice elsewhere, so long as you don’t get discouraged and stop.
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Michael Bazaco
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You shouldn’t have been drinking raw milk before H5N1. You definitely shouldn’t be drinking it now.
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Runalong Womble
@runalongwomble.bsky.social
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On the blog this week - excellent inventive fantasy awaits in The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera www.runalongtheshelves.net/blog/2024/6/...
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Melissa Wong
@favomancer.bsky.social
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I don't watch television (ADHD attention span things) but I would like to introduce the world to Ancillary Crossing, a magical world where you and your sapient warship and your crew and the Geck and the Presger and all the Miaanais can plant flowers and hunt seashells.
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Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
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Resident Palian
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Hey Mickey
@heymickey.bsky.social
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Just read a post suggesting that Troi's empathy is just an ability to hear the episode's background music when someone is speaking. This is now my personal canon.
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Lev Mirov
@thelionmachine.bsky.social
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I think, deep down, it causes fights because it is a colonial interpretation of an American superfood but that colony is in America, it is an inversion of the relationship the US prides itself on having with pizza. People don't do this about ranch pizza with buffalo chicken.
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olivia is 🪻🪻 bluebonnet core 🌸🌸
@mioris.bsky.social
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the masters thesis this is based on is so good ny.eater.com/2019/1/18/18...
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Ann Leckie
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I am most emphatically NOT saying that your like or dislike of hawaiian pizza is a sign of your ethnicity or class or desire to belong to any group. I am saying that the extent to which you sneer at it, or fight over it, is a sign of exactly that.
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Ann Leckie
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Nine times out of ten, they're declarations of affiliation to one or another group. Usually ethnicity or class, but also city of origin/adoption, or other similar things. But it's nearly always ethnicity or class or a combo of both.
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Ann Leckie
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Ok, so, when I asked this question I was not asking "why does anyone not like pineapple on pizza." I wanted to know why it caused fights. Folks saying "well people like to fight over random stuff" are closer to what I was asking. Thing is, by and large, those "random things" are not random.
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Lili Saintcrow
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From Michael Whelan, an artist you know if you love SFF book covers: "We have no desire to support platforms who openly disregard artist’s rights." www.michaelwhelan.co...
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Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
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In stl, since at least the mid 70s
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Elaine Chen
@elainethebrain.bsky.social
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Team pineapple! But seriously, I don't get why pineapple in your typical Chinese resto sweet-and-sour pork is fine, but not on pizza. Is there a perceived exoticism?
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Ann Leckie
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Disdain for ketchup is pretty certainly a class thing.
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Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
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Yeah, when I saw it on menus as a kid I was hesitant to try it. As an adult I tried it, and it's so good! I like other pizza toppings, too, but I will not turn down pineapple!
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Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
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Also, by now, American pizza is...very American, and there's no Pizza Authenticity Council anyone answers to.
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Ann Leckie
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Maybe it's a regional thing? Here in STL, with a huge Italian community, you could get pineapple on pizza at the most very italian pizza places since I was small. What's changed? Or is it all Sicilians here or something?
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Ann Leckie
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Except, at least in STL, people--including VERY italian places--have been putting pineapple on pizza--and offering it on their menus--since forever.
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Ann Leckie
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Shower thought after yesterday's conversation--I wonder, what is the ethnic and/or class association that makes pineapple on pizza a thing that people lose their minds over? ("It's just Wrong" earns an insta-block did you learn nothing from yesterday)
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Martha Wells
@marthawells.bsky.social
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Some help for a fellow SF author who to pay for medical treatment and tests:
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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That teenager swimming the Rio is not less of a human than your own teenager. That guy CBP rounded up, dumped in a cell in 110F heat, and deported without trial to Ecuador is your husband, or your son, but for chance. That family torn apart by evil immigration policies is *yours*, in another life.
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Doctora Malka Older
@older.bsky.social
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quick reminder that the audio book for THE IMPOSITION OF UNNECESSARY OBSTACLES, sequel to the Nebula, Locus, and Hugo finalist THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES, will be out in August, read by the same reader as the first, the amazing @lindseydorcus.bsky.social! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...
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J. P. Gownder (கவுண்டர்) ☮️🕊️🏳️🌈
@jgownder.bsky.social
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Sure, Democrats are the lesser of two evils. But that gap in evil helps promote LGBTQ rights, climate action, clean air, abortion rights, science (not religion) in schools, and much more.
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Dan Hon
@danhon.com
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Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions
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Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
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Well, I know at least one person who has been advised by their Dr not to get the jab because of their compromised immune system--not a person who is anti vaxx, or who would tolerate an anti vaxx dr, so.
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Ann Leckie
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I'm sorry you don't like it. I find it super delicious and I might just have to have some for supper tomorrow. I will take your share.
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Ann Leckie
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I line up for a covid jab just as soon as the authorities say I'm eligible for one. You should too, if you can. (I have friends who can't get jabbed because they're immunosuppressed. I selfishly do not want them to get sick.)
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Veronica Roth
@veronicaroth.bsky.social
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A thousand times yes
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Preeti Chhibber
@runwithskizzers.bsky.social
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omgomgomgomgomgmogomgmogomgogmgomgmg YELLING WORKS BULLYING UR GOVT WORKS LET'S GOOOOOO
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Serge Bénard (supportive)
@sergebenard.com
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Look at this beautiful piece Let's get it back
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Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
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And STL style pizza, and toasted ravioli, were definitely created by those folks. It is, indeed, STL fusion food.
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Ann Leckie
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There were indeed tons of Italian immigrants in St Louis. The whole neighborhood called The Hill was (still is I think) filled with them and their descendants and special grocery stores and restaurants. I went to grade school in a parish right on the edge of the Hill. So many Italians.
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Annalee
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Really love how people are responding to/quoting a thread about not judging other people's food with comments about how Americans shouldn't comment on people's food because American food is disgusting. Have you people tried being normal to strangers online
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Tade Thompson
@tadethompson.bsky.social
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If you've ever been to a hospital, Healthcare Support Workers do a lot of the heavy lifting (sometimes literally) in looking after patients. Notice them. Thank them. They're underpaid.
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Ann Leckie
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Writers block is trying to tell you something. Sometimes you need to not write this project this way. Sometimes you need to know something you don't. Sometimes you're suffering from a writing injury and need to recover. Step back and rest for a while, read fun stuff, take walks & naps. Eat good food
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C. L. Polk
@clpolk.com
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Oh god yes. I'm currently so frustrated with a culture who is bent on being able to say, authoritatively, what a work of art *is* because the point is that art needs the room to be not completely knowable, so you can let yourself have the gift of thinking about what you're unsure of.
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Ann Leckie
@annleckie.com
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Cut in squares instead of in triangles.
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