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A shorter book where I managed to avoid any protagonist having a royal title or being the local warlord on a redemption arc or otherwise acting with privilege to spare. Scrappy group of retired veterans, a low ranking soldier on the run, and village farmers/specialists out to protect their community

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"Daylighting" is the practice in urban design of restoring buried rivers to the surface. The River Sheaf been unburied in Sheffield city centre, after 100 yrs in the dark. Fabulous. A small light in the great gloom. “It is starting to make its own meandering path…” www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

I've been too tired and distracted to do proper marketing this month, so I'm phoning one in: If you enjoy our magazine or podcast, please consider subscribing/supporting us today: clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/ Each new or returning subscriber makes a difference.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

Getting through the mid day routine and then going up to the Annex, possibly for some books.

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Moved the walking pad aside to test the best continuous time I could get on the elliptical. About 120 seconds. My main concern is really my right knee and how it feels, so I ordered a running support for it and hopefully that helps more than the compress sleeve I have now.

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The world is bad but #IndieBooks are awesome and we want to celebrate them! Reply with a pitch for your book + a link and we'll give it a boost! (If you include images please remember to use alt text for folks with low vision)

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there's mass civil disobedience going on in Serbia right now btw. we could maybe take some notes newlinesmag.com/spotlight/se...

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Sometimes, failure is what will save you. For example, if you're being evaluated for what you might be worth to terrible people, and they "fail" you by labelling you "worthless", so they pass you by and leave you free to be good. This type of fail is highly recommended.

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In today’s Vatnik Soup, I’ll introduce how the Elon Musk’s Election Interference Machine™ (EIM) works. Since Musk and his broligarch allies won the presidency for Trump, they’ve now harnessed the machine to interfere in European elections, including the ones in Germany and Romania. 1/23

submitted 9 days ago • 63 comments

Tired rough feelings day, but when I think about it, nothing bad happened to me, it was all just feelings. Did laundry, covered responsibilities, physically no different than a many regular days, just felt off.

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Canadians on here actually being like "I can't believe how bad things are getting in the US" without acknowledging Alberta just passed some of the harshest anti-LGBTQ+ laws and are about to vote Doug Ford back into power. Wakeup because the far right are in inside the building

submitted 6 days ago • 320 comments

Application sent. Productive day, ending in some live stream monitoring while also monitoring a hockey game in another window.

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Passport photo acquired. Off to vote early in the provincial elections.

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Hey friends. So, I run a speculative fiction writers group (writers of sci-fi, fantasy, horror, etc) on Discord. It's a chill space where we talk about writing, share our writing, and just generally hang out. We are looking for new members. Feel free to comment if you are interested. 🧡🥹

submitted 15 days ago • 76 comments

I posted a copy of the 3 minute version of my speech from yesterday (with citations) if anyone is interested. Feel free to steal from it if you want! (also, this is literally less than half of the Nazi shit they're currently pulling)

submitted 7 days ago • 148 comments

ONTARIO!! Advance polls are OPEN!! Today, tomorrow & Saturday you can vote against Doug Ford & show folks watching the election forecast that there IS hope Find your polling station here: www.elections.on.ca/en.html If you haven't gotten your voter info card, you'll need ID to register on site

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Off to pursue passport photos - renewal year.

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I was back and forth about resharing, because I have no idea about much of the content and can't vouch--but here are 2 key takeaways why I'm sharing it: 1. Outlines the co-opting of a broad movement for nefarious (i.e. MAGA Republican) ends. 2. Accurate info on billionaire puppet master technocrats.

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INDIE AUTHORS ✍️ SELF-PROMOTION Drop an image, blurb, and link to where we can find your book(s). Save this post to reference in the future and support more indie authors. 📚📖 #indieauthors #booksky #booklovers #selfpublished

submitted 7 days ago • 13 comments

So close to 90 sales of my new story!!! 🥳✨ It’s got: 🤍 estranged husbands 🥺 close brothers x2 🗡️ an mc who is 100% done 🐺 a love interest ready to grovel 👻 small town spooks 🏫 a haunted school 🔍 buried secrets 🔖 book link: mybook.to/aBMB 📖 goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/22...

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I am so moved to get to share this with you all: the fourth installment in the Love Letters essay series. Nell, or: This Is Practically The Way It All Happened (give or bloody take), Peter S. Beagle's reflections on a thirty-five year romance with the woman he still calls "my one love".

submitted 8 days ago • 16 comments

Folks. I need you to prepare yourselves for this Youtube comment. Anglo Canadians? You might need to sit down.

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

If you're a federal worker impacted by any of the Trump executive orders, Elon Musk's OPM/DOGE efforts and firings, please reach out to us On Signal 518-727-7964 Email [email protected] www.theguardian.com/securedrop

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I asked Gemini to critique less than 30 lines of clear, working, tested, code. It resulted in 17 pages of back-and-forth with Gemini as it repeatedly suggested things that would introduce bugs or make it perform substantially worse. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

strongly agreed with Cara. some of y'all talk like you have hidden a spare population of unproblematic, unpropagandized people to build a mass movement out of under your couch cushions or something.

submitted 9 days ago • 25 comments

"A series reading order" - latest blog post discussing my current plans and how it came to that. dylanmadeley.com?p=47 #WritingCommunity #IndieAuthors #IndieBooks #BookSky #BlogSky #IndieSky #FantasyIndies

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Fascinating profile of a park ranger in San Francisco who works with unhoused residents and has adopted the novel tactic of treating them like human beings, building relationships, and helping them access resources on their own timeline.

submitted 10 days ago • 147 comments

I suppose I should hurry up and conjure a blog post, as surely those 200 attempted logins in the past day are people trying to help out by posting something.

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NDP Candidate stepping down to avoid vote splitting. If this were to happen in many more ridings, Ford would be gone for good. #cdnpoli #onpoli #peipoli

submitted 11 days ago • 101 comments

“No one who says ‘Canada is broken’ will ever put Canada first.” 💯 — Mark Carney 🇨🇦 on Pierre Poilievre

submitted 11 days ago • 25 comments

Canadians: This is your semi-regular reminder that Pierre Pollievre, Doug Ford, Danielle Smith & Scott Moe love Trump and Elon Musk more than they will ever love us & every one of those bastards should lose their seats And Doug Ford in particular should be investigated for election fraud

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Minor adventure installing 3 new case fans on my computer. I knew the same company made two different fans but thought I was in trouble when the controller cable wasn't compatible with the new fans. Nope--the new fans are meant to plug directly into the motherboard, as I did.

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Never let them tell you billionaires are better or smarter than you. They sit around, decide CEOs should be Caesars, and with all the self-congratulation of 15 year old boys in a CoD lobby, they call it the “Dark Enlightenment.” These are just not creative or interesting people we’re dealing with.

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

if we had to listen to SPEECHES from A LITTLE GIRL, surely it’s fine to give the richest person in the world free rein to shutter and dismantle US agencies with global impacts and grant him unchecked access to all the confidential information held by the government.

submitted 12 days ago • 81 comments

MAGA and their Conservative collaborators are the biggest threat to Canada right now

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments