“[Young] trans people deserve care that is based on science, not fear.”

No surprise to My colleagues, but seemingly anti SW organisations have no idea what an essential role they play in human trafficking.

I have no fewer than FOUR books coming up for order next Saturday! (if you count two translations) - GHOST LEGION! Special super shiny and regular editions - paperback of HURON BLACKHEART: MASTER OF THE MAELSTROM - French VOIDSCARRED - German VOIDSCARRED www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

Got an old Mek model from 1989 for when my Gorkamorka mob can afford a second Spanner. Also decided to build a birthday present, the new plastic Big Mek. “Never talk to me or my son ever again.”

Angel Down. Against the thundering, bloody backdrop of WW1, five lost and traumatised men are sent careening through the trenches on a desperate mission to save a downed angel in hopes she can end the war. Beautifully written in one long, breathless sentence like a never-ending scream 🩸📚💙

The score is still Q to 12.

I’m an Ambassador for this brilliant charity, Bookbanks, giving away books with food parcels at food banks. There are two part-time jobs going for Regional Leads in London and East Anglia. Link below. Please share far and wide :)

Reasons to journal: - Good for mental health ❎😡🤮 - Record precious memories ❎😡🤮 - Provide valuable enrichment for future historians ❎😡🤮 - Can buy more notebooks ✅ 🥳👍

Presumably 'Downing Street has refused to say' is now code for 'yes'. If the answer was 'no' they would say it.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

"Once it hit its stride it became a genuine page-turner, one that provided a breezy and entertaining mystery without getting in its own way. If you found the humor in Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves hilarious (as I did), this one will be right up your alley." #BookSky #BlackLibrary

"The British Olympic Association... is understood to be relaxed that Kenworthy has given a personal opinion on a subject that sits outside the Games." www.thetimes.com/sport/winter...

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Apropos of this: it's Bandcamp Friday, which means if you buy anything from Bandcamp today the band gets the full revenue, and the platform takes nothing! So if you *happened* to want to buy any songs by my punk band, Interplanetary Trash Talk... interplanetarytrashtalk.bandcamp.com

This is probably a very foolish thing to say for reasons I have no doubt someone will point out, but if you want me to pay for journalism (reasonable) then let me pay a small amount for the specific article I want to read, don't make me sign up for the entire damn paper.

One of the comments called this “Beige Against The Machine” and I made a noise that startled the dog.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Red Ogre (@ogre.red) gets rights to your work upon *submission*. And those rights are ridiculous. They can change your work, not credit you, use your work for advertising, or put it in an anthology. Don't submit to this one, folks.

RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.

1. What I'm about to post is going to sound egotistical - because it is - but it has a point, so please go with it for moment: I've learned over time that, at least in my own communities, I can no longer rely on how people approach and treat me as an indicator of their own personality.

This is only related in a sideways manner, but: the story of any small slice of humanity is the story of humanity, just boiled down and distilled. So: In 2020, we had a lot of conversations about harassment at SF/F conventions, and Isaac Asimov came up several times.

When you kick a pirate in the crotch

This letter is brutal; I’ve been so impressed by Zack Polanski and the Green Party. This is what we need.

Damn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things

You want 'British values', here's national treasure Ian McKellen performing a speech by national hero William Shakespeare about how we should be humane and welcoming to migrants and refugees. bsky.app/profile/lala...

I've only been loosely following developments in this, but didn't the judge just throw out the charges that could have led to the death sentence, so the "perish" part of this isn't even a directly related outcome anymore?

Man gets shot, he goes to the doctor. Doctor says the cure is simple, here's a referral to a specialist in Reno. Man says you'll never believe where i just came from

I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Pelgrane Press seeks Customer and Platform Relationship Manager

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Neil Gaiman: it's me neil gaiman, imagineer and dreamweaver Gaiman: have you ever considered Gaiman: the incredible power of story? Gaiman: but perhaps even more powerful are the stories that we don't tell Gaiman: anyway here's my NDA

I’m physically incapable of not answering this with ‘Long Song Titles Aren’t Cool Anymore Because The Rest Of You Fuckers Are No Good At It’ by Crime In Stereo (even if the song itself is only 33 seconds).

Tonight’s game of #marvelcrisisprotocol saw my Guardians of the Galaxy go up against Magic Tom’s Black Order, and… wipe the floor with them, tbh. A combination of good scenarios and friendly dice allowed Nova and Angela to wreck shop, with Rocket, Groot, and Star-Lord cleaning up.

Also blocking doesn't unfollow So people block but then still show up as following Unblock - unfollow - block

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

Neil Gaiman is crawling out of his bog two years after sexual assault allegations to play the sweet old fantasy uncle again -- complete with name-dropping that book you like & his twee "make good art" catchphrase -- all in order to (of course) sell you his upcoming book. Don't you dare fall for it.

It's 1998. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2001. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2025. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour. It's 2026. Peter Mandleson has resigned in disgrace from Labour.

Thread up, and especially this part. No one in a creative field should be using gAI in *ANY* way. You don't get to sell out other creatives just b/c it's not "your" field. No gAI writing, art, narration, music, etc. Just. Don't.

This is a great *paid* opportunity for larp designers from @makeascenemn.bsky.social! Submit a short pitch and if selected get $300 to write the scenario. First-time designers and BIPOC are especially encouraged to pitch – and you can be from anywhere!

This is the Mail. Both the Times and the Mail spend a lot of time and money telling us regularly how much they care about women and girls in sport. Just only when a trans person is involved, it seems.

In a Downton Abbey/Gossip Girls mash-up, Bunty Cutler would be an absolutely fantastic pen name for the mysterious source that’s all over the society pages revealing juicy secrets from inside the house.

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Writers of Bluesky! I'm currently organizing a set of workshops for *next week* that'll fundraise for Minnesota food banks. Shoot me a DM or comment here if you're interested in running a workshop--signups will be open soon. Reblog this for visibility! (But reply to THIS skeet so I can see you.)

Astonishing that the tech sector response to a deep text processing tool that also has an autocomplete function is to hand over control of vast sections of their lives to it, and then start bugging the rest of us to do the same.

Americans will really use anything but the metric system (complimentary)