glenatron.bsky.social
GM and producer and music composer for Crudely Drawn Swords, lead guitarist for The Patient Wild, Game Designer for The Hallowed Walk and Trilogy, Programmer, Horse Trainer, dork-ass-loser and now apparently novelist?
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There was nowhere south of the river worth going to back then.
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The Knave was named in the London fashion - a Knave's Lute meaning "safe route."
The homing pearls are not entirely forgotten today - after all, why else would one navigate modern London with an Oyster?
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Inside London you either had to seek one with The Knowledge or beg a Pearly King to loan you a Knave - a single pearl that would guide you to your destination. The price was often high, and failure to return the Knave within the agreed period would have Consequences.
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It does!
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Not a parent but I've noticed "I think I own them but they think they have personhood" is often people's core challenge in a lot of animal groups. A flaw in how most of us are taught to see the world I suspect, combined with selection bias because this attitude causes problems so you need the help.
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I once won £2.40 on the Euromillions and it felt like they were laughing at me.
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This definitely won't make deploying the currently-US-dependent even more complex and confusing.
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I have seen fascism described as what happens when colonialism comes home and that is absolutely what this looks like.
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La Belgium epoch.
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Dive! Dive! Dive!
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These days the first question I apply to any "was it a ghost or ..." scenario is "was there any plausible source of Carbon Monoxide around?"
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That book framed that idea in a way that makes so much sense it immediately became part of how I look at the world.
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Ah yes, French beans.
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He certainly doesn't have any policies, just gripes and grumbles. A reform without him would be better unless they found someone else charismatic and if they did that we'd be seeing them every five minutes already.
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As you observe, Labour could easily stop him, but they don't want to.
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I think he started that way but now he's getting closer to power - by the next election reform and the conservatives will have merged into a horrible Torage Tufton Street blob and will be hoovering up all the voters Labour inexplicably insist on throwing to them.
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You're probably all over these, but they're all sci fi I've picked up in the last year. We're definitely in a fantasy phase, though.
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Some nice queer sci-fi I've read lately: Lady Eve's Last Con, The Red Scholar's Wake (most of Aliette De Bodard's books are very queer), Unconquerable Sun/Furious Heaven from Kate Elliott (less foregrounded but inspired by Alexander The Great), Malka Older's Mossa and Pleiti books.
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It's a godawful small affair.
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I'd love to believe it but there's nothing you can say about Farage that isn't also true of Trump and the American media seem as enthusiastic about him as ever. Just because a threat is mindblowingly stupid doesn't mean it's not real.
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It has a real benefit when you come to a series as a completed work because you can just skip the recap instead of having to endure it being smooshed across the first five chapters.
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Politicians used to at least try and lead rather than desperately attempting to follow public opinion and I miss those days.
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Another serious challenge to human research into life on Mars is the impact of researchers being subject to a constant Bowie earworm for however long they're working.
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Built like an elf, heart of a dwarf.
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The ramblings of a dementia patient being treated as news takes you some weird places.
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But the deer will need constant feeding if you put them in a cage!
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"Let them eat cake with or without whatever utensils they want." The editors really did her a dirty on that one.
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Holy shit you're hitting the big time!
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Indie night classics all. Daisy Chainsaw is a band I occasionally spontaneously remember and it brings back that moment on the cusp between Madchester and Grunge when I was first getting into music thanks to The Chart Show and my friend lending me albums by the Neds and the Pixies.