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John (he/him) aka. John Berkeley; Leovinas. UK-based writer of SFF, player of RPGs, Classics/archaeology/ancient history PhD, process/telecoms specialist. The sort of gay lefty Liberal your mother warned you about. Views my own, etc. (no TERFs or AI, ta)
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submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

It's worth noting that the last Labour government issued an apology for imposing precisely this treatment on Alan Turing.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

*cheers him on * www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Colleague 1, on chat about the latest silliness: "This is just corporate ragebate though, isn't it?" Me and Colleague 2: "Yes, but also yes, but also no..." 😶 👀

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

bbc.com/news/article... In the times of the Mabinogion, these rainforests would have been much more prevalent. Throughout the stories, the ancient woodlands were places of magic and transformation. 1/2

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

One thing I've come to realise, sometimes the hard way, is that shame is a *really* terrible motivator. Given the state of the world, we need more people on side, not fewer. If they want to speak up but only see friendly voices shouted down for Doing It Wrong™, they'll stay silent or walk away. /1

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

I RAGED at this on the radio yesterday, and will repeat my mantra: you cannot (MUST NOT) ask people to develop 'resilience' or 'grit' against those things that are in your power to change. 'Develop resilience' so often means 'your disability is inconveniencing me, please be less disabled' 🧵

submitted 13 days ago • 19 comments

Anyone else think #IDAHOBIT should have actual Hobbits? Just me? Oh, well. 😅

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Just heard an advert for a breakfast cereal called 'Mornflakes', but because I'm me, my brain immediately gave me 'Mornflakes' as in the character Morn from Deep Space 9 (eminently suited to radio, I think you'll agree), and simultaneously, "Mournflakes' which sound like Wednesday Addams' breakfast.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

The problem with being a writer– –Okay, fine. *A* problem with being a writer is that you spend ages working on something, get about as happy as you can be about it, submit it, and... immediately have to start thinking and talking about something else for a while. But... but..! Aw. 🥺 #Writesky

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Just saying, the quiet, dignified life isn't for *all* of us trans folks. Some of us want to make the world a better place, don't take ourselves too seriously, and aren't worried about being loud if we need to be. We're definitely here for the glorious multitudes, though. More of that, please! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

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submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Ahem. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk @cajardinemp.bsky.social @markpackuk.bsky.social

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Creative workers in the UK are in the curious position of being protected from hostile Labour legislation by Tory peers.

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

Really important that MPs hear from trans legal experts about what the Supreme Court ruling actually means for trans people, not what the papers are reporting. Ask yours to attend 👇

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Worth reading this thread through. For what it's worth, Charley is an amazing person.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Love this. 💜

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

are they telling boys it's bad to be boys, or are they telling boys it's bad to be misogynistic, which you consider to be the same thing

submitted 26 days ago • 12 comments

While revising my sci-fi WIP, I just accurately guessed that the 9th of April in a particular, somewhat distant, future year, will be a Tuesday. Somewhat smug about this, for a number of reasons. #WriteSky #Scifi

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

submitted 27 days ago • 50 comments

Oxfordshire: "Let's go amber!" Banbury: *rotates 90 degrees*

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Given what it was like politically as recently as ten years ago, I'm pretty pleased with my home county today. 🧡

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Labour are shit, pass it on.

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments