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SFF author, triple Hugo award winner, over a million books sold. Mostly on Mastodon: @[email protected] Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
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Well, @policescotland.bsky.social , why were these people not arrested and the scene cleared?

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

www.thetimes.com/article/f383... Kathleen Stock arguing for the police to do more race based stereotyping on sex crimes despite the fact that we know full well that sex abuse happens among all ethnic groups.

submitted 14 hours ago • 50 comments

For Caturday, this is Menhit. Nominative determinism is real: her name means "She Who Massacres", for an obscure ancient egyptian lion-headed war goddess (not a variant of Sekhmet). Menhit wants to eat your face, even though she's not a leopard and she's too tired right now.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

My big news, in the Bookseller!

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

New blog entry: Meanwhile, in real life … www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

I'll repeat: the problem is HE DOES HAVE A PLAN. It's to use every tool at his disposal—including crashing the economy if need be—to end democracy. It's been the only through-line of the past 10 years and yet people still think it's happening by accident.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

i don't even think anyone who cites the cass report as an authority actually read it. it could have just been 12,239 pages of lorem ipsum and its proponents would talk about it exactly the same as they do now

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

yknow every once in a while i think wow. nobody could be this stupid. surely no one in human history was this dumb and then i remember this is word for word what happened to the athenian empire

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Welp, I haven't had a "can't stop writing, clowns will eat my fingers" day like that for YEARS. And cataracts make everything harder! But at last I did it: I managed to fit a mass execution of Mister Blobbies into a fic. (By crucifixion, then set on fire.)

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

LONG LIVE EVIL was the only book on both @nytimes.com 2024 Best of Fantasy and 2024 Best of Romance lists, with praise for both a ‘careening meta-fantasy delight’ and the ‘gorgeous, smoldering rage at the heart of this story’

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Me: Do you know where I hid the fuckofftopus and the dildosauruses? Brown: Sadly, yes.

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