llamaperson.bsky.social
SFF reader, fanfic writer, currently studying planetary science, keen on boardgames, linguistics. Keeper of dogs/cats/goats/tortoise and a grumpy python. Schizoaffective.🦖
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I'm not sure whether to feel pleased or furious. All that damage caused for a position they won't even defend.
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Good morning. On audio there's Written on the Dark (GGKay), one of his definite hits. About to start Stone (Roberts), a fortunate charity shop find.
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The Silver Brumby series (Elyne Mitchell) were my favourites. Bonkers- a toss up between The Starlight Barking (Dodie Smith, teleporting dogs) and The Brothers Lionheart (Astrid Lindgren, dead children).
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Finished Rolling in the Deep (Mira Grant) on audio which really grew on me. Looking for a good audio book to follow it.
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I always think of him in Earth 2 (the one season deeply unsuccessful 90s SF series).
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Afternoon! I thought Lake of Darkness was excellent. Currently finishing off Mira Grant's Parasitology series, eager to know how it untangles (or not) by the end.
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The new entity bought the business assets from the administrator, who is obliged to sell them to the highest (or only) bidder, often a company run by the previous directors. It's lousy for the creditors.
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Ex HMRC here, hard to prove that a co is deliberately trading while insolvent rather than just floundering around incompetently while going broke. Even then the directors personally seldom have enough funds for a significant % of debt. Being disqualified as directors tends to be the only result.
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It's not that the royalties aren't contractually due, it's that the entity that is obliged to pay them has no money and is going bust. The new company only takes on assets, not obligations so they don't have to pay old debt.
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Ordered, thanks, and a monthly donation.
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Let's go with [email protected] and Samuel R Delany for writing their own particularly weird but so brilliant things.
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June 1968 according to this article alexcoxfilms.wordpress.com/2014/07/17/a...
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I'm a little surprised about Lloyd Biggle Jr. From his writing he always struck me as basically a humanist.
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"Fewer" is countables only, "less" is used for countables and uncountables. If a word is regularly and consistently used in a particular way by native English speakers, it's not 'wrong' to use it that way though it may not be appropriate in some contexts.
- an MA linguistics graduate
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I've found her posts reliable and well informed when it comes to topics I know about. That doesn't mean she can't be wrong but I certainly wouldn't jump to the conclusion that this is bad faith or grifting.
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Among all the other problems, it means that every trans police officer will be obliged to declare their 'biological sex' to their colleagues and the people they are dealing with.
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Morning. Really enjoying the Parasitology series by Mira Grant. Rakesfall isn't quite working on audio book for me, possibly because I'm not picking up on names and places - I think I'll try the text version instead.
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It is a small consolation that nobody is buying this crap from Labour. I haven't any hope for Starmer but maybe the party will take heed next time it chooses a leader and direction.
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I have pet goats. They are about as smart as dogs but without any of the innate desire to please humans. Great if you like animal -watching, less good as bosom companions.
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You pay your cleaner on time, every time, regardless of your bank balance. Incur overdraft fees if you have to. They have bills to pay too and it's not their fault that you can't budget.
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It's a book I love and the cover suits it perfectly.
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I liked Shroud a great deal. I've been tempted away from the audio of When the Moon Hits Your Eye (Scalzi) which didn't seem to be going anywhere in particular, in favour of Rakesfall (Chandrasekera) which has finally come out in the UK.
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I think our instinct tends to be to assert our right to be there, but it would probably be better to assert our right not to answer questions from strangers. It risks police involvement but if you're cis the worst you should end up with is everyone's time wasted.
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Morning. Just started rereading Foucault's Pendulum (Eco). It seems to fit the times.
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I love All the Colors of Darkness hugely, but I wouldn't describe it as chilling! Great covers, great author.
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Which leads to the inevitable next step. You can't implement laws based on biological sex without some way of knowing who is bound by them. A legal requirement to declare your 'biological sex' to anyone applying sex-based rules surely has to follow.
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An "interim policy" of maximum harm, rushed out with unseemly haste to be the first and make the papers. If the police think I'm going to tell them my "biological sex" to facilitate their transphobic practices they can go whistle.
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New puppy slept on my foot long enough for me to revise solar system volcanism and write some Blake's 7 fic dialogue, so I'll take that as a win.
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So if you see a trans patient with, say, symptoms of poor kidney function and they tell you they're on HRT you wouldn't bother to run any tests because you didn't prescribe the meds that could have caused it? I'm pretty sure my GP doesn't operate that way.
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Just finished Borne (Vandermeer) which was captivating, and failed to finish Hot Sky at Midnight (Silverberg) which was misogynistic garbage. Swings and roundabouts.
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And here was I thinking that chess was way too simple for Musk? No tech tree, no fog of war...maybe he should have tried a Path of Exile 2 analogy instead?
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The police are legally obliged to act lawfully, proportionately and reasonably at all times, including when making decisions about how, when and where they arrest people. Breaking into a place of worship isn't automatically illegal but if it's disproportionate and unnecessary it is.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviol...
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Except for the UK govt of course, which is too scared of tariffs to criticise Trump's admin in any way. Apparently we're confident that shared info is being handled appropriately even though it obviously isn't.
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There are far more comments here about Twitter than about the Turkish protesters. I guess boycotting Musk is a great deal safer and easier than taking to the streets.
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Good morning! Reading The Night Manager (le Carre) and listening to Borne (Vandermeer), which I'm finding utterly captivating. This may be the quickest I've ever gone through an audio book - I need to know what's happening next.
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It's not really a deal at all. There is nothing at all in it to stop Trump insisting the firm concede something else tomorrow. The EO costs him nothing to impose and he can and will use it as leverage as often as he likes.
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I'm fascinated to find out which mental illnesses aren't going to be treated in Streeting's NHS and just how this is going to keep the relevant patients in work.
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Its the principle that superpowers can do whatever they have the military power to do and they consider in their interest which benefits both the US and Russia. The US can have Canada and Greenland and Russia can have Ukraine (and possibly the Baltic states)- win/win.
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Vaccines are public health. Public health is about collective benefits. Collective benefits are anaethma to the Right. They'd rather other people die than they suffer minor discomfort for a disease they probably won't personally get.
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Morning! Just returned from travelling with plenty of reading time, finished A Seditious Affair (Charles), Shroud (Tchaikovsky) and halfway through the audio of Time of Changes (Silverberg). All great books in rather different ways.
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What is the penalty for deliberately sabotaging a Federal computer system, as many of these posters suggest? It's hard enough to lose their jobs and openly defy the most vindictive man in the US but demanding they also risk prison for your satisfaction seems excessive.
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It's a pretty bad sign for Greenland when both Russia and the US abandon the concept of territorial integrity and self determination in favour of taking what they want.
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It's not just listening to him, though. These will be orders that are coming down the chain of command with very immediate consequences for disobeying your officers. Armies are deliberately designed to make individual choices as difficult to implement as possible.
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Good day! Still reading Shriek An Afterword (VanderMeer), after a slightly difficult start I'm completely caught up in it now.
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It's not going to do much for her career to have to tell filmmakers that she can't film outside the US for the foreseeable future because she doesn't have a passport. And if I were trans in the US right now I'd really want to be able to legally leave.
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She applied for a duplicate passport because she lost hers. How does that 'context' change the situation?