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Podcasting about medieval history at https://humancircuspodcast.com/ Writing about Philip K Dick and other SF at https://androiddreams.substack.com/ Writing fiction, mostly SF Living with cat in Vancouver, BC
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With almost the entire Western system of suppression against Palestinian stories working against him, Rasheed has still managed to bring Dreams on a Pillow to 75% of the campaign goal with two weeks left. Please don't let this dream fail in the last stretch. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

How often does a story about prisons use "former prisoners say" as framing?

The illustrations are by the Polish artist Jerzy Czerniawski. They are wonderfully enigmatic.

Applying for jobs in Vancouver has really given me an appreciation for the relatively humane and gentle process of having my short fiction repeatedly rejected. More of the latter please, I guess I’m saying here.

Back to work day #catsofbluesky

Alaa was studying engineering when the destruction of Gaza upended her life. Her family, including her children Mosa, Ellen, & Ella, have lost their home & income, & desperately need healthcare & essentials to survive Israel's imposed famine & genocide, & escape. Please share or give:

Wouldn’t mind a little Blue Jays addition in the new year. A signing maybe, or perhaps a trade? Someone who isn’t off the glove-first shelf? Surely I do not ask too much?

Good for Martinelli. The finishing numbers have not been there for quite a while, but I’d love to see him turn that around and this period without Saka would be the time to do it.

Brand new year, still the same old genocide.

lemon pig of 2024 before and after absorbing all my bad luck over the calendar year like a fucked up little yellow dorian grey. it is nearly time to rest, my faithful child.

Resisting the urge to comment on another blisteringly stupid thread about “the left.”

Advance boldly, like the potato

Howard here is a board member of a major Canadian press freedom organization. They threw a press freedom luncheon a little while back attended by basically every major political journalist in Ottawa. Canada is so cooked man.

Without evidence, Israel has arrested the last doctor at the last hospital in North Gaza and declared that he's a "militant". Here is his piece from earlier in December for NYT Opinion www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/o...

Israel’s genocide continues. Biden’s genocide continues.

A waitress, her lover, and a retro diner take off from Roswell, New Mexico. A storyteller uses poetry as a tool for colonial resistance. Just a few of the stories you’ll find in STASIS, an anthology or retrofuturisms! Available now: #smallpress #scifireads bellpressbooks.com/product/stas...

The family cats have exchanged gifts #catsofbluesky

At least 201 journalists have been killed by Israeli military since Oct 7th. Now babies are freezing to death in what are completely avoidable deaths. 50,000 are reported dead. The real toll doesn’t even bear thinking about. Don’t forget about Gaza.

📚 💙 This is really good. A series of linked closeups that give you a sense for the rich world in the background.

B. Kliban

weird to focus entirely on the activity related to gaza and not the weird argue bots and random link repliers! also saying it’s suspect to claim to be a gazan and post in english is uh, something.

Coffee time with tired baby. I am the tired baby.

A four year old boy. A FOUR YEAR OLD boy. This is an op-ed on how IDF soldiers are acculturated to brutalize Palestinians long before October, 2024, by an Israeli army psychologist in an Israeli newspaper.

Would really like to find this again. Love his illustrations throughout, and it’s been a long time since I’ve read it.

This is great!

All of these daily articles about 20 Palestinians killed in Gaza, 15 killed, 43 killed, 10 killed, day after day… and the number of dead cited in news stories and headlines has hardly changed in months and months.

"After shootings, bodies are not collected, attracting packs of dogs who come to eat them. In Gaza, people know that wherever you see these dogs, that's where you shouldn't go." www.haaretz.com/opinion/edit...

Also, consider this festive 1847 illustration. You need to expand to really drink the whole thing in.

The Blue Jays are distressing me again. In December.

he elaborated

get in losers, we're re-branding hundreds of bombings, novel land grabs and open-ended military occupations as "moves"

Also, consider this festive 1847 illustration. You need to expand to really drink the whole thing in.

New seasonal listening up on the Patreon, everywhere else tomorrow:

Meanwhile his wealthy cousin in Copenhagen is absolutely thriving.

An oil painting I made of my friend's cat Kabira

In my heart, I still believe that this was a good idea.

And Jesus is at it again. Incredible stuff.