the real thing issue is that we have some groups of young men *claiming* to be driven right because of problems like male isolation when the right is not actually offering material solutions to those problems. what the right is offering is social and political power over women.

me when i welcome and affirm trans and nonbinary people in Quaker spaces, respecting the dignity of each person to live with integrity, informed by the truth of their lived experience

Huh, so it's for "connection" & "routine" & not because they're mostly living in multiple-occupancy rented precarious homes often converted badly into studios and flats where there is no comfortable space to work and you can hear the neighbours breathing & feel claustrophobic? OK.

There's no part of this process that can be stolen from another. It's all writing; it's all turning you into the person who can write.

As a SFF writer who is very interested in religion, in fiction and in real life:

Any attempt to lay out rules or laws or even guidelines for "how to depict religion in fiction" has not thought the matter through, IMO.

I took a basic drawing class and most of it was "look at the thing. No LOOK."

Labour announces scheme to destroy creative industries, waste water and electricity, increase CO2 emissions, embed systems run by foreign libertarians into our hospitals and schools and gamble all our money on an economic bubble that is about to collapse.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?

Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

We have never had a serious, sustained conversation in the UK about reclaiming the billions stolen from the taxpayer through corporate tax evasion, and reinvesting that stolen money in housing and public services. Never, ever. I keep hearing “it’s complicated” but it’s really not. It’s theft.

Yeah, well the last time Nazi fuckers like Vance showed up in force, we tried to shoot them down with AA guns.

So i can see why he feels unsafe in my city.

Forget the nonsense about reviewing costs on Phase 1 of HS2, today's real news is that this government has announced in no uncertain terms that it will not be progressing with Phase 2 to Crewe, Manchester or Leeds.

Craven. Short-sighted. Hugely damaging.

I want scifi that’s MORE political. I want scifi that’s radical, and shows me things I’ve never imagined before. I want scifi that will piss someone off. I have sad, lonely, and helpless at home. What else have you got for me?

a huge part of the reason I write scifi is that it allows me to stubbornly insist that the future can be better if we make it and also that nobody gets there alone

So Lord Hendy - the new minister of state for rail - pressured
Systra to sack the uncomfortable Gareth Dennis for talking to the media about how Euston is dangerous. This is a scandal. Please contact your MP demanding Hendy's resignation.
www.politico.eu/article/uk-r...

IBM slide 1979

AI folks have now discovered “thinking”