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Dr. Divya 🇵🇸's avatar Dr. Divya 🇵🇸 @divyampersaud.com
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& remember that the NHS does have a price binder and that other migrants pay up to 150% for services! Delivering your baby can cost up to £30k! And if you have outstanding payments they will deny care and report you to the Home Office!

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Tim Carvell's avatar Tim Carvell @timcarvell.bsky.social
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"Jonathan Chait, a full-time columnist for New York Magazine, was lightly criticized by a person posting for free on Twitter. This shows that the scale of public debate has tilted too far to the left, and you can take that from me, a person with a column in the New York Times."

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Strange Horizons's avatar Strange Horizons @strangehorizons.bsky.social
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And! We've already hit our first milestone of $1K (thank you!), and so, we can now unlock the first piece in our fund-drive special issue!

"The Roots of the Genre" - an interview by Will Shaw, of WFA winner Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, about translated Bengali SF: strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/...

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Aisha's avatar Aisha @actuallyaisha.bsky.social
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Support us through another year + help us do some cool stuff that we're excited by!

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gawdzie (potato, again)'s avatar gawdzie (potato, again) @gawdz0rz.bsky.social
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Lincoln Michel's avatar Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social
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"Protesters want to give defense contractors less money, but have they tried giving them more money?"

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Vajra Chandrasekera's avatar Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me
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Kuzhali Manickavel's short story “The Statue Game”, originally published in AGNI, translated into Tamil by Appadurai Muttulingam as “சிலை விளையாட்டு”, பார்த்து மகிழ்ச்சி www.andhimazhai.com/literature/s...

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Aisha's avatar Aisha @actuallyaisha.bsky.social
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I never tell people what to vote for for the Hugos, but will make this one exception because can you imagine the acceptance speech? (and I continue to love this book)

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Vajra Chandrasekera's avatar Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me
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THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS is a finalist for the Lammy Awards in the LGBTQ+ Speculative Fiction category. I'm grateful for this unexpected and difficult joy. As a Lammy nominee—so very strange!—I have three painful things to say. I'll try to keep it short. vajra.me/2024/03/27/t...

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Vajra Chandrasekera's avatar Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me
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I’m incredibly happy to announce that THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS has won the IAFA Crawford Award for a first fantasy novel! vajra.me/2024/03/04/t...

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Jibblescribbits 's avatar Jibblescribbits @jibblescribbits.bsky.social
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Man, this succinctly describes how fucking obnoxious using tech is in 2024

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Smart Bitches's avatar Smart Bitches @smartbitches.bsky.social
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We have heard from Lady Jersey's most bosom friend that this puzzle has had its vouchers revoked.

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Aisha's avatar Aisha @actuallyaisha.bsky.social
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I want to talk about academic work on portal fantasies with you at some point! (Really enjoyed this piece.)

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Aisha's avatar Aisha @actuallyaisha.bsky.social
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This special issue is full of excellent pieces, please do not be put off reading them by my refusal to sound positive about anything.

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Aisha's avatar Aisha @actuallyaisha.bsky.social
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Me and Dan writing an editorial and doing a podcast for an SFF criticism special issue: "criticism is actually quite suspicious and we're not sure what value it has, but. Jazz hands?"

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Kip Manley's avatar Kip Manley @kiplet.bsky.social
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The incalculable impact of the weekly incantation of "A mighty princess, forged in the heat of battle!"

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Ed Morland's avatar Ed Morland @edmorland.bsky.social
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Final part of the @strangehorizons.bsky.social Year in Review is up.

Lots of interesting stuff mentioned but best is that someone else has enjoyed Unknown Language by Huw Lemmey and Hildegard von Bingen, a gloriously weird bit of SFF.

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Vajra Chandrasekera's avatar Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me
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“Novelist, poet, and educator Heba Abu Nada, a beloved figure in the Palestinian literary community and the author of Oxygen is Not for the Dead, was killed in her home south of Gaza City by an Israeli airstrike on Friday. She was thirty-two years old.” lithub.com/read-the-las...

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Aisha's avatar Aisha @actuallyaisha.bsky.social
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I don't know, I feel like I wouldn't really have appreciated Lolly Willowes, at least, if I'd read it a lot earlier. I did love Lud in the Mist in my early 20s, but I'm definitely a better reader of it now.

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Lud in the Mist feels like an obvious addition to this list, except I'm pretty sure Wm's already read it ...

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Aditya M's avatar Aditya M @almostinfamous.bsky.social
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I hate every part of this but it's still so fucking funny

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