Phil Dyson
@phildyson.bsky.social
I used to study wars but I don't any more. Leftie. Conrunner. Cats. 90s guitar music. Harnessed in slums and wants to be free. If you're a TERF, fuck off
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The Devil: I don't know what these motherfuckers are talking about. I went on strike with other workers for better conditions and rotatory leadership in heaven. Scabs and strike-breakers flung us out. That's all. Next thing I know, they're writing me into the Bible, blaming me for everything. Meh.
October 28, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The Devil: I don't know what these motherfuckers are talking about. I went on strike with other workers for better conditions and rotatory leadership in heaven. Scabs and strike-breakers flung us out. That's all. Next thing I know, they're writing me into the Bible, blaming me for everything. Meh.
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Given that the economy is not shrinking by a trillion every year, I think it's reasonable to assume Nigel Farage is talking out of his arse.
Let's see if professional journalism can make note of this little glitch in his maths.
Let's see if professional journalism can make note of this little glitch in his maths.
September 22, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Given that the economy is not shrinking by a trillion every year, I think it's reasonable to assume Nigel Farage is talking out of his arse.
Let's see if professional journalism can make note of this little glitch in his maths.
Let's see if professional journalism can make note of this little glitch in his maths.
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May 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.
May 8, 2025 at 10:46 AM
One of the strangest ironies of the last ten years has been watching Britain immersing itself as deeply as ever in memories of WW2 while proudly turning its back on the project that emerged from it.
Hi @ngjeannette.bsky.social & @laurenbeukes.com - I spoke to you both briefly in Belfast. I'm the chair of next year's Eastercon and we want to donate a membership to your amazing auction. Who do we talk to about the practicalities?
April 24, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Hi @ngjeannette.bsky.social & @laurenbeukes.com - I spoke to you both briefly in Belfast. I'm the chair of next year's Eastercon and we want to donate a membership to your amazing auction. Who do we talk to about the practicalities?
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“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”
AOC 🔥🎯
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You should read this, it's one of the best works about the anthropocene, up there with Ian McDonald's Hopeland and Stan Robinson's The Ministry Of The Future.
I write novels. Here's my latest, in which another species has inherited the Earth, and a scholar becomes entangled in a kind of UFO mystery that threatens to undercut everything he thought he knew about the history of his people and those who came before.
www.gollancz.co.uk/titles/paul-...
www.gollancz.co.uk/titles/paul-...
Beyond the Burn Line
WHAT WILL BECOME OF US?
In the deep future beyond the burn line of the Anthropocene and the extinction of humanity, the city states of an intelligent spec...
www.gollancz.co.uk
December 3, 2024 at 12:39 PM
You should read this, it's one of the best works about the anthropocene, up there with Ian McDonald's Hopeland and Stan Robinson's The Ministry Of The Future.
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The fact that UCC hid a 3000-year-old mummy under the floorboards of a lecture theatre on a campus where two and a half tonnes of uranium rods were being stored in a basement nearby and DIDN'T end up with a zombie-pharaoh apocalypse is both a mystery and endlessly disappointing
November 18, 2024 at 9:17 AM
The fact that UCC hid a 3000-year-old mummy under the floorboards of a lecture theatre on a campus where two and a half tonnes of uranium rods were being stored in a basement nearby and DIDN'T end up with a zombie-pharaoh apocalypse is both a mystery and endlessly disappointing
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Even more amazingly, Michael Sheard played Hitler five times and yet never remilitarised the Rhineland.
November 14, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Even more amazingly, Michael Sheard played Hitler five times and yet never remilitarised the Rhineland.
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I see the Church of England's manager has left by mutual consent.
The tabloids are tipping Pope Francis for the job - he's had success in Europe and is used to managing big clubs - so I guess it's either him or Frank Lampard.
The tabloids are tipping Pope Francis for the job - he's had success in Europe and is used to managing big clubs - so I guess it's either him or Frank Lampard.
November 12, 2024 at 2:48 PM
I see the Church of England's manager has left by mutual consent.
The tabloids are tipping Pope Francis for the job - he's had success in Europe and is used to managing big clubs - so I guess it's either him or Frank Lampard.
The tabloids are tipping Pope Francis for the job - he's had success in Europe and is used to managing big clubs - so I guess it's either him or Frank Lampard.
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I know everyone says this, but the amount of STUFF libraries have available digitally is just breathtaking. My library system here in Baton Rouge has thousands of Udemy courses available. And they're free! They're so free.
Libraries are cool. Librarians are cool. Support your libraries.
Libraries are cool. Librarians are cool. Support your libraries.
November 12, 2024 at 2:10 AM
I know everyone says this, but the amount of STUFF libraries have available digitally is just breathtaking. My library system here in Baton Rouge has thousands of Udemy courses available. And they're free! They're so free.
Libraries are cool. Librarians are cool. Support your libraries.
Libraries are cool. Librarians are cool. Support your libraries.
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Bad Taxidermy as a FB group is a delight.
August 14, 2024 at 3:54 PM
Bad Taxidermy as a FB group is a delight.
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Hooray for authors’ copies!
May 16, 2024 at 7:04 PM
Hooray for authors’ copies!
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The cat design was created by Vera Zvereva, art director at Depot, using her own cat Brunhilde as inspiration.
Milgrad Milk, Bryansk Dairy
Milgrad Milk, Bryansk Dairy
May 17, 2024 at 10:06 PM
The cat design was created by Vera Zvereva, art director at Depot, using her own cat Brunhilde as inspiration.
Milgrad Milk, Bryansk Dairy
Milgrad Milk, Bryansk Dairy
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the b&w version of 'Barbie' is wild 📽️
February 22, 2024 at 3:59 AM
the b&w version of 'Barbie' is wild 📽️
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What Gen Xers/Millennials/Gen Z are doing right is allowing for the OPEN recognition that being adult doesn't mean you have to give up things that give you joy, in exchange for being an adult. The "childish things" we're meant to put away are things like lack of care, not things that give delight.
im 53 and still have plenty of giggling like a 12 y o moments, so IDK if i qualify as an adult or not,
February 19, 2024 at 5:10 PM
What Gen Xers/Millennials/Gen Z are doing right is allowing for the OPEN recognition that being adult doesn't mean you have to give up things that give you joy, in exchange for being an adult. The "childish things" we're meant to put away are things like lack of care, not things that give delight.
Works for me:
February 20, 2024 at 8:40 AM
Works for me:
THIS. This is why it won’t change unless we rip it down and start again. And it’s not one boomer retiree it’s a whole fucking generation who’ve consistently refused to change in anyway shape or form. Now we reap what they have sown.
So, one the one hand you have yourself who wants to make change, on the other hand you have a tech boom retiree with nothing else to do with their time but argue about the good old days and how we shouldn’t disrupt things and they will email spam you literally all day about it.
February 19, 2024 at 4:28 PM
THIS. This is why it won’t change unless we rip it down and start again. And it’s not one boomer retiree it’s a whole fucking generation who’ve consistently refused to change in anyway shape or form. Now we reap what they have sown.
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Pondering the mess of the Hugo Awards, I find myself trying to explain where the Administrators went wrong, in a way that they might hear and understand.
So: If you find yourself keeping things secret because if people find out what you're doing they'll be upset, perhaps you shouldn't be doing it.
So: If you find yourself keeping things secret because if people find out what you're doing they'll be upset, perhaps you shouldn't be doing it.
February 17, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Pondering the mess of the Hugo Awards, I find myself trying to explain where the Administrators went wrong, in a way that they might hear and understand.
So: If you find yourself keeping things secret because if people find out what you're doing they'll be upset, perhaps you shouldn't be doing it.
So: If you find yourself keeping things secret because if people find out what you're doing they'll be upset, perhaps you shouldn't be doing it.
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Lenin: died on 21 January, 1924
Benny Hill: born on 21 January, 1924
Reincarnation: "historical entities appear two times, the first as tragedy, then as farce" — Karl Marx
Benny Hill: born on 21 January, 1924
Reincarnation: "historical entities appear two times, the first as tragedy, then as farce" — Karl Marx
January 25, 2024 at 12:02 PM
Lenin: died on 21 January, 1924
Benny Hill: born on 21 January, 1924
Reincarnation: "historical entities appear two times, the first as tragedy, then as farce" — Karl Marx
Benny Hill: born on 21 January, 1924
Reincarnation: "historical entities appear two times, the first as tragedy, then as farce" — Karl Marx
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I went to a well funded State School, had a grant to study for an arts degree, left uni into a world of opportunity, and have seen every one of those advantages eliminated for today’s young people. Shame on anyone of my generation who votes for this shower
January 29, 2024 at 9:40 AM
I went to a well funded State School, had a grant to study for an arts degree, left uni into a world of opportunity, and have seen every one of those advantages eliminated for today’s young people. Shame on anyone of my generation who votes for this shower
Well said:
As I said earlier, watching Dave McCarty et al be exposed is all good fun, but we should also be celebrating those people and stories who won Hugo Awards this year. They deserve better than to have people mentally attach asterisks to their work.
So let’s celebrate them!
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So let’s celebrate them!
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January 26, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Well said:
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There's been a lot of nerd-related drama today, so let's have a cat photo to leaven things out.
January 22, 2024 at 9:53 PM
There's been a lot of nerd-related drama today, so let's have a cat photo to leaven things out.
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UPDATE: after declaring 2023 hugo awards invalid, the french cardinals have voted to initiate the WSFS schism and elect an antihugo
January 22, 2024 at 8:42 PM
UPDATE: after declaring 2023 hugo awards invalid, the french cardinals have voted to initiate the WSFS schism and elect an antihugo