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NYT bestselling and BSFA award-winning writer. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
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We were very sorry to learn that actress Pik-Sen Lim passed away earlier this week. @barnabyedwards.bsky.social, who directed her at Big Finish, pays tribute here: https://bgfn.sh/rippsl

There's a kind of male violence that is often misinterpreted as being in defense of women when it's actually in defense of who has the right to harm women (in a "we do; they don't" mode, see KKK, southern lynching, etc.)

Best sign

Turns out all of Peter Gunn is on Prime. 30 minute detective stories with a Henri Mancini soundtrack that is in many ways a prototype for those ITC shows like Danger Man and The Saint.

If you've now left it too late for a physical gift/card for Fathers' Day, you can get a personal message from me to claw back some sort of credit. Greg and Alex aren't available on this service. www.cameo.com/watsoncomedian

Why, it contains no king.

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

No kings, no tyrants, no gods, no masters

This is a fantastic article, and the last line is a kicker, as I skulk at home literally hiding from the summer sun. reactormag.com/lets-talk-ab...

This is a great Crooked Timber discussion about how empathy is framed within certain Christian circles as a sin. A lighter variant is framing it as female-coded and therefore needing to be contained and controlled by men. I heard this view as a child. crookedtimber.org/2025/06/11/e...