thebrainofchris.bsky.social
Writer of Fermi's Progress (& Wake), the Star Trek: Lower Decks Crew Handbook, the Doctor Who Jokebook, words for Spire: The City Must Fall, Film Stories, Den of Geek, the Radio Times and quoted on Barbenheimer's Wikipedia page.
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Did the reverse of this recently (the character, rather than the world) and it was a weird experience but with much the same effect
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bsky.app/profile/kevi...
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The Lake of Souls by Anne Leckie. Just a really great assortment of short stories. One of those proper Quality Street Boxes anthologies.
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The Hard Switch by @odpomery.bsky.social. A cool Firefly-ish vibes graphic novel set in a universe that has passed Peak FTL. Loved it and really hope to see more from this world.
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This isn't even an ethical stance. How many gigs is that toxic stink going to put off? How many people who'd otherwise pay for your work are going to not want to touch that with a barge pole?
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We spent out (rainy, windy, freezing cold) Valentine's Day going on a Julian or Norwich History Walk. A surprisingly large amount of it was about riots.
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I'm an atheist, a rationalist, someone who will hold to no superstition or yield to anything beyond a materialist empirical view of the universe, but no fucking way would I dare jinx something like that.
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Dude, we grew up. We have jobs now. Some of us even have relationships. Honestly it's a bit weird to obsessing about a show about time travel when we know that time travel isn't even real.
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Yeah! Sort of like Life on Mars but without that John Simm character bringing everybody down.
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We can complain, or we can make a killing now by pitching "Luther But It's A White Guy".
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Is a little bit of empathy too much to ask?
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I didn't ask to be the one person who knows the precise level of confrontational this situation demands. This is hard for all of us.
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Hasn't occurred to him to try his own birthday yet?
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Yeah, those cops thought they were shooting a civilian in the back who *didn't* work in TV.
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I mean, I admit I've never actually read the Geneva Convention, but I'm willing to bet the price of a pint that "shooting someone who is unarmed and has their back to you" is widely frowned upon in pretty much any context.
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Oh, no, don't worry, this was about something else. I'm giving you the silent treatment.
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Aside from anything, it's just a really dumb argument for someone attempting to engage with *science fiction*?
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I have made clear my feelings about being told "We are writing about the future, though, and AI is going to be a big part of that future."
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Relatedly, if you have contributed anything to "Project Abeona" you should know it makes use of and defends the use of generative AI for its visual assets.
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Historically, there has been a great deal of money in tits. So they're not keeping Nazi views on the platform for the cash.
So what other possible motivation could there be?
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I showed this to my girlfriend and she slapped the phone out of my hand in a fury. But she is playing it right now, so who can say if it's bad or not?
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I got malletted by Timmy Mallett as a kid. Does that make me a Bond villain?
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Hoody and headphones lad, actual action hero that one, hope they have a nice chill night and all their fruit purchases are somehow perfectly ripe
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Carb heavy food and a Predator animated movie! The fruits of victory are mine!
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What? It'll be fine so long as children just take really good care of their clothes for years at a time.
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No Man's Sky has that, allowing you sort by value, type and colour, but it doesn't do it precisely the way I want it.
Why no, actually I'm the only person in my household without an autism diagnosis, why do you ask?
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Although I have sometimes de-stressed by carefully sorting my entire No Man's Sky inventory into categorised and colour-coded sections...