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Ian Pattinson
@spinneyhead.bsky.social
People who support the Green Party aren't attacking Labour from within. They're joining the Green Party. Who are focused on making the country better.
Labour would do well to pay attention. The Green party has the policies the country needs, and that more people are voting for.
(YP are a shambles.)
November 29, 2025 at 8:59 AM
I've started declaring that my books are available from all good ebook retailers, and Amazon.
Still make most of my sales on Amazon, but their percentage share is slowly dropping.
November 26, 2025 at 6:13 PM
I enjoyed them at the time, but rereading them recently, I was annoyed by all the clumsy retconning in the replacement pages and bonus stories.
November 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Most of this is remembered from stuff I read decades ago, and I almost completely stopped reading the X books in the early noughties. So there's a lot I could have missed, or haven't even read yet.
I believe she and Colossus are finally married. I just hope she's significantly older now.
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
100 or so issues, and another team, later, Kitty, now 15, is mooning over a supporting character who has to be in his late twenties or early thirties.
Later on in Excalibur, Warren Ellis introduced another older man, who got to have a relationship with Shadowcat that Megyn Kelly would approve of.
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
There's hints of a relationship with a boy her own age around this time, but I forget how it plays out, so will learn as I reread issues.
Anyway (spoilers) Doug ends up getting killed, so....
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
I've reached the 190s of Uncanny X-Men, and Kitty, 14, has just been dumped by her 20-something boyfriend, who she's been having 'special cuddles' with since she was 13.
Canonically (I hope), their relationship wasn't consummated, but he had wished she was older so they could do it.
November 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Reposted by Ian Pattinson
LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.
November 19, 2025 at 2:22 PM
As a reader, I often have only a vague idea what I'm going to buy, only deciding when I see what's on the shelf.
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
What would probably help me would be some proper therapy around the problem. But I'm not going to be offered that, and I can't afford it, because I don't have a job.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM
My overall experience of employment is negative. Money's good, but rarely have I felt I was given enough for what I had to go through to get it.
It feels like I have low level trauma, holding me back from applying for more of the same.
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 PM