Now that Book 2 is right around the corner there's never been a better time to get into The Necromancer's Apprentice series. www.amazon.ca/Oathbound-Su...

It continues to amaze me that Nestle still exists. There's no news story attached to this, it just pops into my head every now and then.

cc: @nytimes.com

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We have reached a point where we cannot have sane discussions about what is happening because it is so insane that any rational discussion about it would likely be illegal.

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

People need to remember, too, that these are the *successful* authors. The ones who are traditionally published trade authors. Those trying to break in, those published once and then couldn't get another contract, self-published authors and so on are not included. This is the top 1% of authors.

There's something kinda terrifying about putting a map to your fantasy setting because... that's it. No more room to fudge. No more handwaving. Readers now know where things are and have a rough idea how long relative travel times will be, and they will pay attention.

So the US is just randomly murdering people who happened to be within literal miles of someone.

Has anyone got any advice on how to persuade someone to seek anger management?

AI is doing so much damage in terms of misinformation. My father is a very sceptical person, but when he's watching physics documentaries with famous physicists giving interviews, he's going to believe them. The problem is the physicists in question never gave those interviews.

One of the big struggles as an autistic person living with other people is the lack of control I often have over my own environment and my own time. It makes it very hard to ever relax or to properly plan.

Final edit on Book 2 is done.

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When you're finally able to get rid of the toy cars your parents would never let you touch as a child because it would depreciate the value and they're worth around £3 each...

I don’t think unconditional surrender is imminent.

One day I actually need to go back and finish my first novel. It was a sci-fi/fantasy novel about a guy who wound up working for the Grim Reaper in the Afterlife Design section. Got 40k words in and then just kinda lost interest.

So the USA has engaged in perfidy. Literally the oldest war crime on the books.

Now that the US has destroyed a desalination plant, I have to ask why on Earth Iran should obey rules of war when the US acknowledges none?

Some disabilities are invisible. They may see me at work gritting my teeth through each day but they don’t see me taking two naps every day I’m not working and one every day I do

With such a necromancy heavy setting at some point I really must use the line "Your first mistake was trying to kill me. Your second mistake was succeeding."

Nigel Farage's simpering towards Trump continues to prove he is little more than a latter day Lord Haw-Haw.

He really is a semi-sentient sack of month old blancmange.

So it's now very clear that the US military operates entirely at the say so of Israel.

I think I speak for everyone with a 3 digit IQ that the NYT can get fucked.

I get my news from a reliable source.

WHO THE FUCK DECIDED CLOUD COULD OVERWRITE LOCAL COPIES!

I would like to encourage any writer, no matter what their editor or publisher says, to do no business with Microsoft. Today I lost six months of work. For no reason than that MS randomly decided my Cloud file which had not been updated for some time, should supercede the file on my computer.

It really is not too much to ask that a word processor doesn't randomly delete half a year of work for no reason other than that it wasn't uploaded to the cloud.

Seriously, how hard is it to not just randomly delete six months of work Microsoft?! Why?! Just why? This is a level of incompetence I am barely able to understand.

I love when Microsoft just randomly deletes six months of work for absolutely no fucking reason. Just go and die you piece of shit company!

I am so very tired of living through history. We have the resources and technology to give every human being on Earth a standard of living that would have been unimaginable two centuries ago, and to do it in a manner the climate can sustain. And we just don't do it.

I hate how accurate this tweet is.

If we're returning to a 'might makes right' world, then I don't see why any nation wouldn't pursue nuclear weapons. They seem to be the one way not to be invaded by a military superpower as things stand.

Just going to leave this here for absolutely no reason at all... www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJQq...

Hasn't aged a day.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

It's small consolation but at least this is one war in the Middle East the UK has kept its nose out of for once. For now at least... give us time.

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

I just can't with the BBC right now. 'Iran is claiming self-defence' No the fuck it isn't, Iran is defending itself, there is no claiming, there's no doubt, there's no ambiguity and any journalist saying otherwise should be fired on the spot.

Congratulations to Hannah Spencer MP. A massive win for the Green Party that shows they're truly taking over from Labour as the left wing party of the UK

Tells me to cite my sources, also prevents me from posting. Smh.

Apparently it's wrong to call out another author when they support the abuse of the disabled. Well now you've brought it up, here it is, nice and public rather than in a comment chain. And yes it is a choice.

Covid showed that even self identified progressives have no tolerance for disability. It is preferred that disabled people die rather than have abled people wear masks to a doctor's office, so a line of reasoning that demands ppl with tourettes not leave the house is par for the course.

When did it become normal to celebrate just straight up not loving your child?