Israel has been dumping herbicides throughout southern Lebanon as part of a concerted ecocide campaign to render the region uninhabitable. This has been going on for months with Lebanese journalists & environmentalists regularly reporting on it. The BBC: we don’t know why the Israelis are doing it

Ebook of Loss Protocol currently at £12.99 on Kobo (and Kindle, if that's yr jam)... #JustSaying

As an example, some people will sit there consuming resources for 40 years and still spout garbage.

I suppose he won’t lose all his titles then

Whatever you possibly think this could be, it’s even better. All in the delivery.

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Explore Niall Harrison’s review of THE APPLE AND THE PEARL by Rym Kechacha: “The book is a series of such portraits: deft, distinct, filled with strong contrasts of light and shade, happiness and sorrow.”

Here Stewarts once in triumph reign’d, And laws for Scotland’s weal ordain’ d; But now unroof’d their Palace stands, Their Sceptre’s fall’n to other hands… —Robert Burns, “Lines etched on a window at Wingate’s Inn, Stirling, 26 August 1787” #poem #poetry #C18

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested, on his birthday?

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Today is the last chance to read and vote for my Galadriel essay in the BSFA Awards. Lots of other good stuff to vote for across the categories.

When Norfolk Police ask Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor if he has any special dietary requirements whilst in custody:

‘Royal Correspondent’ gotta be one of the top ten fake jobs of all time

‘Targets of Acquisition’ is a PDF supplement for The Laundry Roleplaying Game Second Edition, with in-world dossiers perfect to inspire missions, along with additional ideas for the Gamemaster on how to integrate these dangerous items into their game. Now available at https://bit.ly/4tHyM3j

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The @newscientist.com Book Club read the #scifi masterpiece THE PLAYER OF GAMES by Iain M. Banks. In this video, Iain’s friend & fellow author @amendlocke.bsky.social discusses Iain’s schooldays, his literary influences, & his idea for a final Culture novel 11/13 💙📚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7OW...

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Carsie Blanton 😎💙👏😂 "Elon Musk"

I thought I was middle class until I went to university. Then I overheard a middle class girl tell her friend “I don’t know why anyone would choose to be poor, if I were poor I’d just invest £10,000 of my savings into stocks and reinvest the dividends until I had a sustainable passive income”

@amendlocke.bsky.social Very on point.

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#SomethingBeautiful another still life from my aunt Mary Lace

ever since we invented farming the main driving motivation for basically every human who's ever lived is "how can i do as little farming as possible"

It occurs to me that being a billionaire must be an awful lot like having EVERY conversation with ChatGPT: Everything you say is a pearl of extraordinary insight, until you lose all realistic sense of your own capabilities.