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Ph.D Classics. Reviews @ Reactor Magazine (ex. Tor.com) and Locus Magazine. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hawkwing_lb Wordpress: https://lizbourke.wordpress.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hawkwing_lb
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okay, class, next time we use the Monkey's Paw to ask for a wonderful genie that will answer all our questions, let's remember to include the word 'accurately'.

submitted 1 hour ago • 1 comment

Does anyone here have an actual real life "they worked in my home and I'd love to have them back if I needed" recommendation for a painter (of wood indoor furniture) - preferably one that does spray painting) in Cork? One where we can go see work they did etc...

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President of UMN: It's hard budget times President of UMN: So we're going to cut instructional support down to 19% of total budget (down from 30% in 2001) President of UMN: And I need 500K to hire a Vice President for Strategic Initiatives* President of UMN: You know, austerity *yes this is real

submitted 2 hours ago • 21 comments

Bloody hell, Derrida. Spectres of Marx, pp99-100: "The same media power accuses, produces, and amplifies *at the same time* this incompetence of traditional politicians: on the one hand, it takes away from them the legitimate power they held in the former political space..." (cont'd)

submitted 2 hours ago • 1 comment

The thief has been found! His name is Guðmundur Pedro and Nettó gave him a bag full of dried fish.

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

This is the second time this woman (“Britain’s strictest headteacher”) has claimed there’s a secret school in London she won’t name that has replaced Shakespeare with me. It’s complete bullshit of course but why’s she so obsessed with me

submitted 15 hours ago • 142 comments

The new @lastweektonight.com piece on juvenile incarceration featured several @ProPublica stories. First up was our 2021 investigation with @wpln.bsky.social about young Black kids in Tennessee jailed for a crime that doesn't exist: www.propublica.org/article/blac...

submitted 10 hours ago • 73 comments

This is, objectively, a lethal deployment of "less lethal" weapons. The directions for the use of these weapons expressly tell folks NOT to do this.

submitted 17 hours ago • 11 comments

As always, fantastic essay by Devereaux. Everything's gold, but NB the correction of gibberish "general of the Felix legions"; firm statements re soc history of Rom army; link to K. Coleman interview (complete w screenwriter saying "historians have an agenda too"). ("Barbaren" good on equipment)

submitted 16 hours ago • 0 comments

There is a "mobile sauna" down by the local beach these days. I'd never been in a sauna before. Certainly never been in one and then gone for a swim. In possibly unrelated news, I'm very tired tonight and feel weird in a vaguely pleasant way?

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Too many people have taken and run with this as "ha ha white sox fans knows about that" but I think we can discard the cynicism and talk about how this is all extremely good social guidance. And there was this part too!

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

this means the life cycle carbon emissions from just one Rivian electric SUV are greater than ONE THOUSAND frog bikes

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

If anybody is wondering why the British especially are laughing so hard at the US Army "marching", this below is Monty Python being both extremely silly and taking the piss. Notice how much effort they've still put into getting it exactly right.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

What cowards these brave companies are, to be sure.

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

A quarter of major US corporate backers pull out of Dublin Pride over Trump fears

submitted 23 hours ago • 5 comments

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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The other piece I would like to know more of is information. Some friends asked me the other day how my new book is doing; I get zero information about sales until my royalty statement, 45 days after the end of the quarter. I once tried to get that data a few days early to support an apt rental app+

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

You know, I've spent far more time in my life than I ever really wanted to trying to deal with wanting to peel off my own skin/run away from my own life/just fucking stop. What could I achieve, without needing to constantly work around that, I wonder.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Hey, @mordant.bsky.social, @mkhardywrites.com: your Gothic novel is pretty damn good. What are you doing next? (Seriously, lads, The Needfire is weird and compelling. Though maybe it's only weird to me because I'm not much for the gothic mode. Compelling af though.)

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The violence referred to: 1. Someone driving into marchers in VA, 2. Someone driving into marchers in SF, 3. Threat to legislators planning to march in Austin, 4. Hours before, the assassination of the former MN speaker (a Dem), her husband, and shooting of a Dem state senator and his wife.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment