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Rhianna Pratchett

@rhi.bsky.social

There are loads of great items from genre creators to bid on. And the auction is organised by the wonderful @laurenbeukes.com and @ngjeannette.bsky.social. Please get bidding!

www.32auctions.com/genrefortran...

Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA

Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.

www.32auctions.com

April 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

It feels like every few days as well. Only no, its just the same update I told you to install already! Argh!

Maj @lif3asmaj.blacksky.app · Mar 5

Dear MacBook.

Thank you for asking me to download a new update while I'm working for the 3rd time this week despite me asking you to update it at night, yet refusing to do so.

I love the anxiety you give me knowing you'll randomly start trying to do the update mid work project.

Maj.

March 5, 2025 at 9:19 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

This has to be one of the better written (and angry) privacy policies for an app I've seen. Also a little eyeopening for what the company who once claimed they didn't want to be evil have become...
www.jwz.org/xscreensaver...

XScreenSaver: Google Store Privacy Policy

XScreenSaver is a collection of free screen savers for X11, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android.

www.jwz.org

February 21, 2025 at 4:21 PM

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Carausius

@carausius286.bsky.social

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.”

👍🏻

February 20, 2025 at 3:51 AM

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James Latimer awaiting sequel to The Wolf and the Wild King 🐺👑

@jameslatimer.bsky.social

I'm in print!

A photo of part of the letters page of today's Guardian, with the heading "Why fantasy fiction doesn't need reclaiming for women" including (most of) one from me and one from Yvonne Williams. Mine reads:

I was disappointed to read your view on romantasy fiction (Editorial, 7 February), which seemed to imply that the fantasy genre needed reclaiming for women. This does a huge disservice to the many excellent female fantasy authors – some recent, some around for decades – who have been a mainstay of the genre despite not writing romance or teen fiction.

These women do not seem to get the recognition, and readership, that they deserve – despite some, such as NK Jemisin, Ann Leckie, Charlie Jane Anders, RF Kuang or Martha Wells, dominating genre awards. These authors also have to fight the continual misperception that they only write romantic or young adult fiction, which is exactly the fantasy that your article perpetuates. And this also erases all the female fantasy readers who are not (solely) here for the romantasy, and have always been here.

While I am glad that romantasy has sparked more interest in fantasy fiction, made the genre more inclusive, and made fantasy publishing more lucrative (though usually for the publishers rather than most authors), perpetuating the myth that the (non-romance) genre is only for boys – and that romance is only for girls – is unfair.

Sorry to have to mansplain this to you, but from what I’ve seen the writers themselves are too tired and appalled at having to continually wage the battle of the sexes to take up arms once more. Dragons are easier to defeat, it seems.
James Latimer
Swindon, Wiltshire

February 15, 2025 at 5:10 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

The view sure is prettier here though than my normal day to day

February 15, 2025 at 3:27 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

All week I spend my time trying to make sense of complex systems and turn them into some kind of order (fun coding). So then the weekend I spend time looking at complex systems and trying to make them build the silly parts I need for phase 4 in #satisfactory. This is entirely normal and fine yes?

February 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

I miss when their motto was "Don't be evil". I guess they really have thrown that one away

Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com · Feb 5

*head desk*

*endless screaming*

*Gen X face*

wired

Today, Google announced that it is overhauling the principles governing how it uses artificial intelligence and other advanced technology. The company removed language promising not to pursue “technologies that cause or are likely to cause overall harm,” “weapons or other technologies whose principal purpose or implementation is to cause or directly facilitate injury to people,” “technologies that gather or use information for surveillance violating internationally accepted norms,” and “technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.”

February 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

Today in software engineering fun times I have fun geospatial issues. If I have two .tif files, how can I tell if they're the same for a check in a build? I can load them into qgis and use my eyes, but that's not really going to work in an automated way! #qgis #geospatial #githubactions

January 28, 2025 at 5:40 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

That's... thats not how any of it works. Even in america.

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Jan 27

I had to screenshot this.

Tweet from 'MAGA Michelle S' says, "I will be filing Police Reports against anyone that takes a screenshot of my Twitter posts.
This is a warning to all liberals. Take a screenshot and you will be getting a visit from the State Police and FBI."

January 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

Still love these - they were a part of my PhD research with navigation in virtual worlds and always make me smile when I see them. People just will go where they want to go

Chaz Hutton @chazhutton.com · Jan 15

A little comic about desire paths.

Ok so…
There’s a nice little park on a corner, and a path running directly to one edge of the park. That’s the first image, but there’s 12 other images here. In the second image, there is now a desire path running diagonally across the park. Next image, the path has been blocked by a park bench that the council has put in as a deterrent. Unfazed, in image 4 the path now deftly avoids the park bench. In images 5 and 6 the process is repeated, this time with a strategically placed bin which the desire path also avoids. Presumably in a fit of rage, the council plants an entire hedge to stop people creating new desire paths but eventually this too is defeated and a new path find a way. Finally, the council admits defeat and turns the desire path into a proper paved pathway. After a little while, a new desire path curving off this new paved pathway begins to emerge…

January 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

Time for some Thomas the tank engine fanfic. I have no idea what to expect! Trains and rollerskating maybe? #starlightexpress

December 14, 2024 at 2:16 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

The most important of #Christmas decorations are out!

December 3, 2024 at 10:29 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

It is done! 280 bulbs planted and protected from squirrels and cats. The next pile say "Autumn or Spring" so they are very definitely for planting in spring. There's another 100 or so there to go!
#springplanting

November 30, 2024 at 12:34 PM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

"ERROR: The 'coordinates' in GeoJSON are not sufficiently nested" - me too little coordinates. Me too.

November 28, 2024 at 11:51 AM

Kat

@kizzie.bsky.social

Today has been a day of doodling while thinking or in meetings. It has also been the day of trying to figure out the ocho cortado. The doodling went better!