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DDOwen@llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social |
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Un sy'n ceisio cerdded i ffwrdd o Omelas. Ffuglen wyddonol ac yn y blaen. "Lies written in ink can never disguise facts written in blood." -Lu Xun
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Lincoln Michel
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"Being a brilliant writer does not elevate one above the common smallness of being a person."
Brandon Taylor on Alice Munro is a must read
blgtylr.substack.com/p/what-im-do...
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DDOwen
@llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social
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Yeah, I think there's definitely a problem with being unwilling to obtain and exercise power on the left to a degree that even the classical anarchists would have found confusing, but there's good reasons that we wound up here that don't have much to do with the USSR, and neither do the solutions.
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@samuelwade.bsky.social
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Nine years since the demolition of China's community of rights lawyers, which had offered some hope for holding the CCP to its own laws. Excerpt from our recent ebook, detailing the crackdown, censorship surrounding it, and ongoing suppression since, including collective punishment of families:
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DDOwen
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If anyone at all has to use a car to access a city, it's a massive policy failure. They're a thing that should be for the deep rural where even with the best will in the world you'll have patchy public transport.
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DDOwen
@llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social
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*Jon Williams
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DDOwen
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Yeah, something like Walter John Williams' Hardwired would fit the bill so well it's surprising no one has adapted it already.
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DDOwen
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I would give my front teeth for an adaptation of Effinger's "When Gravity Fails", Nicola Griffith's "Slow River" (set in Hull!), or Paul McAuley's "Fairyland" and its related novellas and stories.
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DDOwen
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Yeah, though I guess part of the problem is the Hamlet issue wrt apparent cliche, alas. Though in fact literary CPunk including Gibson diverges a fair bit from the standard plot templates cyberpunk RPGs wound up establishing.
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DDOwen
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In my case, dyspraxia and the focus on team sports or cross-country running were not a great mix.
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Robert McNees
@mcnees.bsky.social
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A thread about the value of the fine structure constant in Quantum Electrodynamics. (1/137)
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Bleddyn Bowen
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A fair amount of newspapers and broadcast journos have utterly lost the plot RE: UK, France, and Biden. They can’t grasp the rise of far right populism/fascism not quite happening so straightforwardly, or actually being effectively fought back against. Modi/India has vanished off the radar too…
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Noah Shachtman
@noahshachtman.bsky.social
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bobby (frociaggine)
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anyone who says electoral politics will lead to a just world is misleading you. but so too are the people who say electoral politics doesn’t matter
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Zoomer Antimillenarian
@surcomplicated.bsky.social
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Now this is the coolest thing I've heard all week.
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DDOwen
@llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social
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Or rather, how 'sensible' it might appear to be, because it's not as sensible as it looks.
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DDOwen
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The fastest way to break up the UK would be to force there to be a single UK team for football and rugby, however sensible the reasoning for doing so might be.
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hilzoy
@hilzoy.bsky.social
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“I personally would happily pay high H.O.A. fees to be in a neighborhood where I have to drive by an architecturally significant church every day, and I can hear church bells,” he said." My neighborhood is like this, but has no HOA fees. He might not like the Pride flags on the churches, though.
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Sean Jones
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It will require Labour to put faith in us, the voters, to look beyond our instincts and the comforting self-empowerment of tough-talking and instead focus on what does and does not, in reality, work. I'd love to think we deserve that faith /end
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Sean Jones
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So if Labour decides to take this on, it will need courage, a willingness to stare down the newspapers and TV stations that will attack their "weakness" and a strategy for defeating simplism. If it can do that, the populist authoritarian threat itself might recede. /14
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Sean Jones
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Listening to James Timpson's interview, it is clear that he would like to see a sea-change in sentencing policy. That will not be his remit, but if the new PM supports such a change, I think it would have very significant ramifications for our political culture. Let me explain. /1
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Dave Hutchinson
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Political commentator: “Earlier, I spoke to a minister in the new Labour government. We talked about his party’s historic landslide victory, and I asked him why they’re so shit. But first, let’s spend half an hour discussing why Nigel Farage is the real Prime Minister.”
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DDOwen
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AIUI it's still used as a self-identifier over here; the really offensive term is something else which I'll not repeat.
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DDOwen
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Handwritten is probably ideal, but you will generally get a response if you email them. (I've done both, which has depended on urgency.)
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DDOwen
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"My dear fellow, as a gentlemanly comrade of my late friend Peter Kropotkin, I never vote at all. Now be a good undertaker and help me hide this, er... item I'll be needing to use for propaganda of the deed against galactic tyranny a few incarnations down the line..."
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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important to do this before Hunter starts some kind of heresy
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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Instead of switching candidates, they should try building a special chair for Biden. Maybe deep underground, under the Himalayas. You hook him up to that and it keeps him alive, somehow. Maybe it's made of gold and powered by psychic energy from human sacrifice
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Helen De Cruz
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probably my most focused on American politics post that I've written is on the good of retirement, stepping aside, rather than raging against the dying light (a fav line for Biden), and on Le Guin's later Earthsea novels.
helendecruz.substack.com/p/le-guins-e...
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Andrew D Thaler
@drandrewthaler.bsky.social
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Academia's original sin is forcing the most knowledgeable, talented, and passionate scientists, educators, and scholars to move every 1 to 4 years chasing postdocs. The kinds of community level changes we need to fight climate change need people who can commit to those communities.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness
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DDOwen
@llyfrgellbabel.bsky.social
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Kind of a parable about the need for self-reflection, that one.
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DDOwen
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(It is pretty much the opposite of how The Legend of the Condor Heroes imagines it to be.) It's part of the background of the tragedy in Guy Gavriel Kay's River of Stars, but I dunno if there's been a wider take on the dark comedy of it all.
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DDOwen
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Would like to see a take on Song dynasty literati nationalism, as it existed pretty much amongst that stratum and nowhere else, so they'd be constantly invading the Liao or Jin in the hopes that the local Chinese peasantry would patriotically rise up in support and being defeated when they didn't.
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DDOwen
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Anyway, Joe Abercrombie's ongoing series touches on it I think, in part because it's early modern going on industrial revolution.
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DDOwen
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Was going to say that that's because it's anachronistic for most medieval fantasy, but then I realised that most medieval fantasy doesn't really deal with how bizarrely complicated the networks of fealty in medieval politics get and gives most characters a very modern mindset, so it's a fair point.
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simone
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i am also not okay with the way people seem to play detective by hunting for clues that somehow should've told us this person was abusive. a lot of abusers get away with what they do because they are good at covering it up. it doesn't help victims to pretend that there are always signs.
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DDOwen
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Yeah. Though more 'mythic' things from the period like the substories in the Silmarilion or Lord Dunsany just cry out for an animated adaptation, because the inevitable stylisation gives you more freedom in depicting both heroic action and extreme emotion (and in Dunsany's case, wry irony).
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David Forbes
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Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change." Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil
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DDOwen
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You gotta at least *try*. And tbh I can see this mattering to someone with Starmer's particular legal background a lot more than it would for someone who's entire career has been politics.
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DDOwen
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Absolutely. It's hard to imagine this sort of appointment under Blair even in the bright, idealistic early days of the ethical foreign policy etc.
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DDOwen
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Yeah, I am genuinely impressed and pleasantly surprised with this appointment; we could get some lasting, genuinely great changes from this. He's got a hell of a job ahead of him with the state of things, mind.
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DDOwen
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*a'i griw
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DDOwen
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Mae cael gwared o'r polisi Rwanda yn gwych wrth gwrs, ond heblaw bod na llwybrau saff diw nifer y cychod yn y sianel ddim yn mynd i leihau, a dwi'n ansicr iawn bod hi a Starmer yn bodlon i dderbyn hyn.
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DrDeclanKavanagh.bsky.social
@drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social
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Great to hear that the Rwanda policy has been binned. #Starmer
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☀️ Starshine
@starshine.bsky.social
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i love how nervous looking the adorable mech pilot looks
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DDOwen
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Ynglŷn â ffoaduriaid, dim llawer o obaith yn anffodus, heblaw bod yna newid anferth rhwng rhethreg a pholisi yn fuan. Gyda mewnfudo yn cyffredinol, falle bach yn well, ond mae'n dibynnu os wnewn nhw baglu mewn i gystadleuaeth o bwy sy'n llymach gyda Farage a'i chriw.
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James Davis Nicoll
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Happy birthday, Vampire the Masquerade. Wasn't my jam but it sure appealed to a demographic other games ignored.
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DDOwen
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An actual lawyer rather than a lawyer turned politician or some rando. The sort of peerage I'm kinda fine with if it means we get someone who knows what they're doing.
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Shiv Ramdas
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watching this Chandrashekhar Azad docu-& just the absolute cheek of this guy lol, theres a bit where the English authorities know he's in disguise on a train so they stop the train, get the conductor to take them from car to car searching, still don't find him & leave sadly. The conductor was Azad
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Emma Payne
@fedbybirds.bsky.social
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Wtf appointing people who have a longstanding interest in & knowledge of an area, who remembered that that was ever even a possibility
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