Pat Cadigan
@patcadigan.bsky.social
SF/fantasy/horror/whatever writer living in London, defying the odds & kicking the sh!t out of terminal cancer. ‘Heaven doesn’t want me & Hell’s afraid I’ll take over.’
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No Defeat is Final: Kerry Ryan interviews Pat Cadigan @patcadigan.bsky.social and Nicola Griffith @nicolaz.bsky.social
No Defeat is Final: Kerry Ryan interviews Pat Cadigan and Nicola Griffith
Science fiction people—they’re my people.
strangehorizons.com
June 20, 2025 at 5:45 PM
No Defeat is Final: Kerry Ryan interviews Pat Cadigan @patcadigan.bsky.social and Nicola Griffith @nicolaz.bsky.social
Reasons to be cheerful:
www.buzzfeed.com/sienaegiljum...
www.buzzfeed.com/sienaegiljum...
The Tide Is Turning": This Person Drove Across The US And Was Shocked By The Drop In Trump Signs
"This week, I can count on LESS than two hands how many Trump signs/stickers/flags I saw. Last year, they were EVERYWHERE."
www.buzzfeed.com
May 16, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Reasons to be cheerful:
www.buzzfeed.com/sienaegiljum...
www.buzzfeed.com/sienaegiljum...
Woke up this morning: Found the Minions up on the roof stuffing Mortality into the trebuchet. Wow! So long, Mortality, won’t miss ya!
All-Day Monday PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like A Boss Party! Yeah, what the hell—no matter what, we all gotta show up, might as well show off, too!
All-Day Monday PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like A Boss Party! Yeah, what the hell—no matter what, we all gotta show up, might as well show off, too!
April 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Woke up this morning: Found the Minions up on the roof stuffing Mortality into the trebuchet. Wow! So long, Mortality, won’t miss ya!
All-Day Monday PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like A Boss Party! Yeah, what the hell—no matter what, we all gotta show up, might as well show off, too!
All-Day Monday PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like A Boss Party! Yeah, what the hell—no matter what, we all gotta show up, might as well show off, too!
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The biggest thing we could do to upset #Putin is to declare we want to rejoin the #EU.
Remember the words of former #Russian Ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, after #Brexit:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time.”
Remember the words of former #Russian Ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, after #Brexit:
“We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time.”
March 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Macron made Trump “the first president in history who had to be interrupted and corrected by an ally when the president of the United States was lying and lying about that ally”
www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...
www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...
Trump Dragged After Being ‘Fully Humiliated On The World Stage’
Donald Trump was “humiliated and exposed in a way that no previous president ever could be," said MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell.
www.huffpost.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Macron made Trump “the first president in history who had to be interrupted and corrected by an ally when the president of the United States was lying and lying about that ally”
www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...
www.huffpost.com/entry/lawren...
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A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
March 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
A reminder in dark times: kindness, mercy, decency, and respect towards the least of us enrages Trumpists. It burns them. It’s like a mirror that shows them how they fall short of humanity.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
Kindness and decency towards the people Trumpists hate is not just right; it torments Trumpists.
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Just as the end of Nazism did not extinguish all Nazis, the end of Apartheid did not extinguish all white supremacists. They left South Africa and spread around the world. But I never expected that one would gain control of the United States.
#Musk
#Musk
March 16, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Just as the end of Nazism did not extinguish all Nazis, the end of Apartheid did not extinguish all white supremacists. They left South Africa and spread around the world. But I never expected that one would gain control of the United States.
#Musk
#Musk
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"You'll never have to vote again," Trump said last July.
Are most Americans okay with this? I don't think so.
Time to take this threat seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Are most Americans okay with this? I don't think so.
Time to take this threat seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Trump tells Christians they won't have to vote after this election
It was not clear what the former president meant by his remarks.
www.reuters.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:33 PM
"You'll never have to vote again," Trump said last July.
Are most Americans okay with this? I don't think so.
Time to take this threat seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Are most Americans okay with this? I don't think so.
Time to take this threat seriously.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
March 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.
Woke up this morning: Trash day! The Minions already have Mortality trussed up & stuff in the bin. Bye, won’t miss ya! Coffee!
All-Day Wed PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Trash-Dance Party! B/c sometimes, you just gotta trash it up!
All-Day Wed PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Trash-Dance Party! B/c sometimes, you just gotta trash it up!
February 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Woke up this morning: Trash day! The Minions already have Mortality trussed up & stuff in the bin. Bye, won’t miss ya! Coffee!
All-Day Wed PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Trash-Dance Party! B/c sometimes, you just gotta trash it up!
All-Day Wed PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Trash-Dance Party! B/c sometimes, you just gotta trash it up!
Woke up this morning: Tuesday already? Where did the week go? Let’s send Mortality there, too! Coffee!!!
All-Day Tue PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Crazy Party! The only way to dance when the world has lost its mind—everybody conga!
All-Day Tue PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Crazy Party! The only way to dance when the world has lost its mind—everybody conga!
February 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Woke up this morning: Tuesday already? Where did the week go? Let’s send Mortality there, too! Coffee!!!
All-Day Tue PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Crazy Party! The only way to dance when the world has lost its mind—everybody conga!
All-Day Tue PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Crazy Party! The only way to dance when the world has lost its mind—everybody conga!
Woke up this morning: Still stuck in the timeline where Trump was re-elected. Kicking Mortality extra hard. Coffee!
All-Day Mon PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Thunder & Lightning. Kick out the jams! Call out the preserves!
All-Day Mon PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Thunder & Lightning. Kick out the jams! Call out the preserves!
February 17, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Woke up this morning: Still stuck in the timeline where Trump was re-elected. Kicking Mortality extra hard. Coffee!
All-Day Mon PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Thunder & Lightning. Kick out the jams! Call out the preserves!
All-Day Mon PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Thunder & Lightning. Kick out the jams! Call out the preserves!
I survived measles, rubella, & chicken pox. When I became a mother, vaccines were available for my son. I wept w/relief that my little boy wouldn’t have to spend weeks being as sick as I’d been. Thank you, medical research scientists, for working so hard for our benefit
The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.
February 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I survived measles, rubella, & chicken pox. When I became a mother, vaccines were available for my son. I wept w/relief that my little boy wouldn’t have to spend weeks being as sick as I’d been. Thank you, medical research scientists, for working so hard for our benefit
‘You shall not pass!’
February 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
‘You shall not pass!’
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2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign.
4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe.
881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and made Trump a dictator.
4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe.
881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and made Trump a dictator.
February 15, 2025 at 9:12 PM
2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign.
4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe.
881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and made Trump a dictator.
4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe.
881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and made Trump a dictator.
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Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.
February 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Gutting the CDC right as we’re on the cusp of major outbreaks of transmissible diseases is a very bad idea.
Woke up this morning: In time to see the Minions & the Eels line the half-pipe w/Mortality for the exhibition games. Here come the boards & bikes! HA-ha
All-Day Sun PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like It’s Your Day—b/c it is, so shake it like you stole it!
All-Day Sun PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like It’s Your Day—b/c it is, so shake it like you stole it!
February 16, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Woke up this morning: In time to see the Minions & the Eels line the half-pipe w/Mortality for the exhibition games. Here come the boards & bikes! HA-ha
All-Day Sun PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like It’s Your Day—b/c it is, so shake it like you stole it!
All-Day Sun PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like It’s Your Day—b/c it is, so shake it like you stole it!
Woke up this morning: now it’s afternoon. Çaturday. As you were.
February 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Woke up this morning: now it’s afternoon. Çaturday. As you were.
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“A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.”
- Henry Fielding
- Henry Fielding
February 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
“A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.”
- Henry Fielding
- Henry Fielding
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I'm on an SNRI for chronic depression and anxiety. It is one of the only things that has kept me from gaming myself or truly sliding into the depths of despair (and I have tried so many things). The EO terrified me last night. This morning, all I feel is rage.
Time to redouble calls/emails/letters.
Time to redouble calls/emails/letters.
I take an SSRI.. Along with therapy & a lot of work, it's helped me stave off terrible anxiety.
So RFK, Jr.'s coming for me, personally. And probably a whole bunch of other people you care about.
Call your R senators & rep and tell them to fight this creep.
HANDS OFF OUR MEDICINE. reps.fyi
So RFK, Jr.'s coming for me, personally. And probably a whole bunch of other people you care about.
Call your R senators & rep and tell them to fight this creep.
HANDS OFF OUR MEDICINE. reps.fyi
"assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs"
good time time become an antipsychiatry grifter in the US
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
good time time become an antipsychiatry grifter in the US
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
February 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
I'm on an SNRI for chronic depression and anxiety. It is one of the only things that has kept me from gaming myself or truly sliding into the depths of despair (and I have tried so many things). The EO terrified me last night. This morning, all I feel is rage.
Time to redouble calls/emails/letters.
Time to redouble calls/emails/letters.
Woke up this morning: In time to see Mortality launched over rooftops via trebuchet. Bye, Mortality, won’t miss ya! Coffee!
All-Day Fri PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance-Dance-Dance Party! B/c sometimes it’s the best thing you can do! So do it—everybody conga!
All-Day Fri PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance-Dance-Dance Party! B/c sometimes it’s the best thing you can do! So do it—everybody conga!
February 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Woke up this morning: In time to see Mortality launched over rooftops via trebuchet. Bye, Mortality, won’t miss ya! Coffee!
All-Day Fri PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance-Dance-Dance Party! B/c sometimes it’s the best thing you can do! So do it—everybody conga!
All-Day Fri PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance-Dance-Dance Party! B/c sometimes it’s the best thing you can do! So do it—everybody conga!
Woke up this morning: To find the Minions playing Motorball w/Alita & her crew, using Mortality as the motorball. Winners play the Octos! Go, teams!
All-Day Friday Eve PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Anything Party! B/c you can! So you might as well!
All-Day Friday Eve PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Anything Party! B/c you can! So you might as well!
February 13, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Woke up this morning: To find the Minions playing Motorball w/Alita & her crew, using Mortality as the motorball. Winners play the Octos! Go, teams!
All-Day Friday Eve PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Anything Party! B/c you can! So you might as well!
All-Day Friday Eve PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like Anything Party! B/c you can! So you might as well!
Woke up this morning: Kicked Mortality out the front window on my way to coffee. Minions stuffed the wretch in the trash in time for collection. Yay, us!
All-Day PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like You Mean It Party! Because I know you do! Now everybody conga!
All-Day PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like You Mean It Party! Because I know you do! Now everybody conga!
February 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Woke up this morning: Kicked Mortality out the front window on my way to coffee. Minions stuffed the wretch in the trash in time for collection. Yay, us!
All-Day PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like You Mean It Party! Because I know you do! Now everybody conga!
All-Day PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like You Mean It Party! Because I know you do! Now everybody conga!
Woke up this morning: Kinda drifted. Fortunately, the Minions kicked Mortality’s arse—right off the roof. Good one, guys! Coffee!
All-Day PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dancin’ on the Sofa Party. Turn it up!
All-Day PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dancin’ on the Sofa Party. Turn it up!
February 11, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Woke up this morning: Kinda drifted. Fortunately, the Minions kicked Mortality’s arse—right off the roof. Good one, guys! Coffee!
All-Day PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dancin’ on the Sofa Party. Turn it up!
All-Day PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dancin’ on the Sofa Party. Turn it up!
Woke up this morning: To find Minions on the roof, attaching Mortality to a drone, to drop into the canal. Good one, guys! Coffee!
All-Day Mon PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like A Boss Party! B/c you *are* one & we all know it! Dance, Boss, dance!
All-Day Mon PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like A Boss Party! B/c you *are* one & we all know it! Dance, Boss, dance!
February 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Woke up this morning: To find Minions on the roof, attaching Mortality to a drone, to drop into the canal. Good one, guys! Coffee!
All-Day Mon PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like A Boss Party! B/c you *are* one & we all know it! Dance, Boss, dance!
All-Day Mon PJ/!!!WORK!!!/Dance Like A Boss Party! B/c you *are* one & we all know it! Dance, Boss, dance!