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First time I’ve actually seen the trans symbol denote space segregation and it feels fucking bad chat

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

I really like the new Mario Kart. Races feel tighter and closer, while also being far more hectic.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Uh oh whoops said the quiet part out loud quick put it back in the tube quickly quiclkly

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Get tae fuck ye wee fuckin bastard.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

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submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

The broad reaction from vapers to the disposable vape ban is frankly, pathetic. Honestly, using disposable vapes at all even prior to this I think is pretty fucking heinous - reusable ones are barely any more expensive, especially when refilled, and of course are way less wasteful.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Hello! I’m still very actively and urgently looking for new full-time work (or regular freelance), ideally in the charity sector, creative production, digital media, or community management. I’m completely broke and am going to lose my house very soon if I don’t find something. Wheeeeeee.

submitted 18 days ago • 5 comments

Well I knew we were on Fucking Evil Street but apparently Boundless’s offices are at the corner of Fucking Evil Street and How Fucking Stupid Are You I Mean Jesus Christ Matt Hancock?! Boulevard

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Beef is one of the most environmentally damaging things humans produce, and it’s incredibly frustrating to me how arrogantly dismissive people are to that fact. Even if you don’t want to cut out meat, cut at least beef. People will fucking virtue signal environmentalism but not change their diet.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

truly, wickedly horrible

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I just want to say that now all this Unbound shit is out in the open, this was one of the major factors in my being made redundant. I was constantly budgeting around promised money that never materialised. Everything was always a couple of weeks away.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

These past few years I've been dreading the month of June because that's when right-wingers carry out their most brazen attacks on trans people

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Here we go…. let’s hope these clowns implode before they get far

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

The Simpsons episode ‘Much Apu About Nothing’ (S7E23) has not aged a day. I watch it at least once a year and I’m forever sad at how perpetually relevant it is.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Time to clarify something. When authors say “Unbound haven’t paid me” that makes it sound like Unbound had some money, which they used to buy authors’ writing. Unbound had no money. The authors did: we had raised that money. They were holding it in trust. Unbound stole our money.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

How to torch global standing and soft power in six months.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

By any reasonable definition, southern Gaza is now a concentration camp. Or, as the New York Times would call it, “an Israeli-backed Aid Distribution Site”.

submitted 11 days ago • 35 comments

imane khalif is a cis woman from a country that has entirely forbidden transition. this is literally just racism.

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

Every job I apply for I either get knocked back for due to being under qualified, or I get stuff like this: “unfortunately, we will not be proceeding to the next stage as we believe you are overqualified for this position and this role will not meet your expectations.” I CAN’T WIN.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

A slightly tricky tightrope to walk as a standard bearer of freedom of speech when you’re also sending cease and desist letters to the PM for mildly criticising your economic record.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Jordan pointed out to me that sometimes they might go to authors not just to publish but also for blurbs and other support, so please be wary here from all angles -- this publisher is not paying its authors, is abandoning its obligations, and must be held to pay what is owed.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

submitted 8 days ago • 603 comments

@hankgreen.bsky.social Hey Hank - this is probably going to get lost in the noise, but I’d really appreciate if I could speak to you over DM. I’m very eagerly looking for value driven work and you’re like, the best dude to talk to about that, especially with me working for YouTubers for 14 years!

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I discovered yesterday, in a mass email sent at 3am, that I will not be receiving the roughly £40,000 that my publisher Unbound/Boundless owes me for pre-order sales of The Paradox Paradox. The payment for five years of work, gone. #unboundless

submitted 8 days ago • 52 comments

something that stands out about this is just how cheap it is for us to have world-leading scientific capacity we spent ~6.75 trillion last year, and the combined budgets for NIH, NSF and NASA are barely more than 1% of that what an incredible waste to lose it all for a drop in the bucket

submitted 8 days ago • 45 comments

Gonna burn some bridges and talk about Unbound, since it's unlikely that they'll sue me at this point. They seem to have spent money that was supposed to go towards royalty payments, expecting money to come in, which then didn't bsky.app/profile/laur... (thread) #unboundless

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Have to contact the publishing houses that licensed Virtual Cities from Unbound/Boundless and ask they stop all payments. Also, do not buy from those people. They owe their authors (lots of) money.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Painting over the progress flag with white paint is… a choice

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

kind of obsessed with 2025 pride merch...I'm calling it cowardcore.

submitted 9 days ago • 254 comments

I can’t overstate how much of a fucking scandal this is. Agents, publishers and other authors should be rallying to do everything we can to help.

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

It’s time for us to rally as an industry. If you’re an agent who will take submissions from unrepped Unbound / Boundless authors or a publisher interested in completed manuscripts, please post in this thread with your details & the kind of work you rep & I’ll repost.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

submitted 8 days ago • 102 comments

So, this Unbound/Boundless fiasco. I was going to be polite about it, but after this morning’s email: no

submitted 9 days ago • 55 comments

Elon Musk “apparently did not anticipate that it would be bad PR for the world’s richest man to take food and medicine from the world’s poorest children” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 9 days ago • 47 comments

If your business cannot stay in business without stealing from others, then you're not a business: you're a criminal organization. No other "industry" has ever demanded rewriting the actual legally established definition of theft in order to keep doing what it does. www.theverge.com/news/674366/...

submitted 13 days ago • 8 comments

So there you have it. My ex-publishers who last year stopped paying me for the seven books I'd written for them, have today gone back on their promise that some of the money that they owe me and their other authors would come through. I should have guessed.. www.thebookseller.com/news/unbound...

submitted 9 days ago • 123 comments

NEW: Day 600. Thousands of starving Palestinians walked for miles to an aid station in Gaza this morning. They were greeted by a drone overhead announcing there will be no food distribution today. A dystopian nightmare. A genocide. (🎥 Gaza photojournalist, Belal Abu Amer)

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Heads up for authors. Publishers (companies or people) who use royalty money for their cash flow or their big expansionist dreams should never be trusted again. Past behaviour predicts future performance.

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Obviously it's hard to imagine this being said if he wasn't white. But also I know many people who would probably be described similarly who casually threaten extreme car violence on vulnerable road users because that behaviour is generally tolerated in a way that threatening other violence isn't.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Download Festival confirm that they will be toilet policing this year, so please consider giving them a massive kick in the wallet…

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

Like others, I understand why they released the fact that the perpetrator of the horrendous Liverpool attack was a white British man. But it is a bad sign of where our country of at. Nationality or ethnicity are not the causes of crime & should not be our first concern #r4today

submitted 12 days ago • 84 comments

As someone who lives in Liverpool City Centre, I want to state that today was not a ‘peaceful day of joy’. I spent the day screaming at people who had climbed up several stories onto my fucking balcony, all the while red smoke bellowed into my house for 6 hours straight while the city got trashed.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

tl;dr — this EO co-opts the language of open science to implement a system of political control wherein presidential appointees are given broad latitude to designate any number of reasonable scientific activities and inferences as scientific misconduct, and to penalize those involved accordingly.

submitted 15 days ago • 108 comments