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GillO@gillo.bsky.social |
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Retired, escaped English/Drama teacher. Now studying for the heck of it. EM drama, kidlit, Buffy, Rejoin. Cymraeg am byth!
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Dr Eleanor Janega
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It bears repeating that part of the reason the major parties love to do transphobia because they are bigots, yes, but also because it allows them to pretend they are doing something for women and thereby get out of doing anything real or meaningful.
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gamera obscura
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I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.
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Life Is Amazing publisher
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Sauron, in The Lord of The Rings is a mysterious figure. I imagine him there at the top of his tower and suddenly see him for who he is. Today's homage to Tolkien...
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com, thought you might like this one.
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GillO
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I'm a Boomer and that is true for me too - friends from Compuserve, via LJ, FB and Twitter and beyond.
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Pookleblinky
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There's an interesting problem in digital preservation, which is that preservation only exists actively. Only the things you actively move to new formats, survives. Community is probably the same way: it has to be actively maintained in order to outlive whatever spot it's currently in.
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Peter Sturdgess
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This is getting very sketchy for the Conservatives, they are in danger of playing second fiddle to Reform and giving Labour an easy ride. The thinking Conservative will vote Lib Dems to give Britain an effective opposition.
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Wrong Hands
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Life Is Amazing publisher
@lifeisamazing.bsky.social
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The Innkeeper At The Prancing Pony's Story
Today's piece of Tolkien-related silliness takes a look at one of the Shire's more salubrious establishments...
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com, fancy a pint here? :)
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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️🌈🚀🦄 📜
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:inserts nickel for standard rant: As a rare book librarian: white cotton gloves are ONLY for handling things like photographs, textiles, sculptures, glass slides. THEY. ARE. NOT. FOR. HANDLING. BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS MADE OF PAPER. Clean, dry hands are the professional standard.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS
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Reminder. The "Reform Party" is actually a private company with Nigel Farage as the majority shareholder. It's a bit dishonest to consider it a normal political party and I think it's problematic to let a private company stand candidates for public office
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Mark Chadbourn
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For all those on here who think Labour has a secret plan, Angela Rayner told the parties debate tonight categorically: “Labour would never seek to take the UK back into the EU.” So if EU membership is your aim, it’s Lib Dems or Greens.
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Tom Gauld
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‘Politicians shamelessly chase votes from the Crime Fiction community’ (my cartoon for this weekend’s Guardian Books).
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Ursula
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@chadbourn.bsky.social looks like Labour candidate for Witney has said she will not be standing, not clear about a replacement. This could really improve chances of Lib Dems taking this strong Tory seat.
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GillO
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That is adorable. I love your miniatures.
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GillO
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I think a lot depends on region/dialect. As a Brit from the Midlands I sound the "t" very easily. Slightly more formal diction, perhaps, but not robotic. A' all.
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TC Parker (she/her)
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Cis lesbian here. Out going on 30 years, and I remember vividly how often the butch/androgynous dykes I knew in the 90s were grilled (& sometimes outright abused) by strangers in public bathrooms Obviously this is horribly transphobic. But a lot of cis women with short hair are also going to suffer
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Juliet E McKenna
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Your reminder than any rules insisting trans people are separated out in hospitals or anywhere else is actually insisting that *everyone* must be subjected to intrusive and offensive enquiries to satisfy a tiny minority of noisy bigots obsessed with something that's none of their damn business.
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GillO
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I do, and I do - so much of it is subversive and would piss off the pundits who don't know it.
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Ian Betteridge
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Someone should probably tell Rishi Sunak that if he seriously believes that young people are being radicalised, teaching them how to shoot modern weapons might not have the outcome he thinks it will.
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GillO
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Buy him the lederhosen, and say he can have the instrument next year if he wears them often enough. ;-)
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GillO
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It would be less inclined to throw its weight about. possibly alternate with Russia?
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GillO
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It's easy to forget how huge some countries are - Sudan, for example - because the Mercator projection makes it look way smaller. I wonder if we could fit all countries inside all countries in an infinite regression. Turtles all the way down.
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GillO
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Fascinating how the whole of North America fits into just part of the Eastern seaboard of the US!
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Dean Frey
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Remembering Terry Pratchett on his birthday 🎂 📷 Boris Spremo, Toronto, 1995 "Give a man a fire & he's warm for a day, but set fire to him & he's warm for the rest of his life."
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Dean Frey
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Neil Gaiman wearing a very special hat for Terry Pratchett's memorial service.
@neilhimself.neilgaiman.com
On Pratchett's birthday, read the story here:
journal.neilgaiman.com/2016/04/good...
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GillO
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I think a lot of my friends were. One reason they're still my friends!
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Peter Sturdgess
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Late entry in the Brexit Benefits Stakes ... www.ft.com/content/6d08...
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GillO
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It sounds absolutely delightful. I do embroidery classes for much the same reason, though I am far from the intense pressure of your "real world".
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GillO
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It's fun watching you have fun with this. We need more fun in this grim world. Hope you and yours are doing OK.
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GillO
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Love the baskets, especially the basket dangling from the ceiling!
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GillO
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It's decades since I checked if it even exists any more, so they can spam away for all I care!
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Randall Munroe
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Earth xkcd.com/2906
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GillO
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101540,540 I doubt revealing it matters at this juncture!
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GillO
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I can remember mine, which is crazy considering how much else I've forgotten. I was a sysop in three or four forums. OzWin was wonderful, and the move to web-based forums started the slow death.
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GillO
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She blended multiple subgenres and their tropes. Personally I feel her inclusion of sport narratives had much do with her success. No individual aspect of the series is unique or original, but the combination hit a sweet spot. I taught many boys, especially, who returned to reading thanks to HP.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow
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I think they went with reason #1 (cartoon is from January)
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GillO
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She is a very, very fine writer.
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GillO
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It really isn't diminished, and a mask is better than no mask. If he's had all the jabs, it's unlikely to hospitalise him, but it can still be very nasty. It hasn't gone away.
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GillO
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Bloody hell, that's outrageous.
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GillO
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That whole year was full of horrible news and death. Bowie and Alan Rickman died the same weekend in January, and it went downhill from there.
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Leslie Varney
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They tried to avoid Chinese government intervention by pre-censoring anything potentially anti-Chinese, ironically disqualifying many Chinese authors without cause. As a result, China lost out because the World Science Fiction Society was too obsequious. Strange brew indeed
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John Scalzi
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For the record, I really do appreciate @glasgow2024.bsky.social stepping up to address this stuff as quickly as it does. I feel they want to restore the credibility of the Hugos, and the trust that a Worldcon will do correct and honorable things. That's not nothing.
glasgow2024.org/chairs-state...
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GillO
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I'm an escaped English teacher. I feel your pain.
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GillO
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It was a very long way from even incompetent Oirish! Bless him, David should never have been forced to do it in more than one episode. It makes my ears bleed to this day!
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Neil Gaiman
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Pondering the mess of the Hugo Awards, I find myself trying to explain where the Administrators went wrong, in a way that they might hear and understand. So: If you find yourself keeping things secret because if people find out what you're doing they'll be upset, perhaps you shouldn't be doing it.
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GillO
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He sure as hell didn't have an Irish accent in the flashbacks!
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GillO
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Never a loser thing for me. I taught that age group and encouraged them to write it. (And wrote a lot mysel, surreptitiously.)
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GillO
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Never a bad choice.
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GillO
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After dusting he moved on to Wulfram and Hart. (Via Firefly)
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