Hey @alice@lgbtqia.space @koalou@lgbtqia.space @h3mmy@lgbtqia.space
May I ask one question - would it work if I make the hyena trickster god in "Mightily Milly", an ENBY?
I started with Hyena as female, but does it work better if Hyena is ENBY?
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-0660+ three-time immigrant, whose life in Africa, Australia, and America, work with industrial and medical quality & safety, and obsession with mortality data and accidents, results in morbid short stories.
I write fiction #shortstories that are like “Final Destination” meets “The Monkey’s Paw” (W. W. Jacobs, 1902). A little bit Poe, a touch of Dahl, and a hint of Gorey.
When I am not writing, I do bare-bow archery, walk a husky, and pick up other people's litter.
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@DJDarren@mendeddrum.org
:)
I shall also amend it to "four dimensional spherical bastard" for people who also have always been, and will forever be bastards
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What I've found over nearly seven decades of living on this mudball, is that what someone looks like is far less interesting and indicative of "who they are" than their beliefs, attitudes, principles, and behavior.
You can see the most gorgeous woman or man, and find out they are nasty to wait staff and underlings, and create toxic environments. They can be shorter than the norm, have scraggly hair, and have a broken voice, and be absolute darlings
If I were to peg ONE attribute, it's kindness
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OK, I have a request of everyone.
I want you all to report these arsehole channels and influencers who are making rage-bait videos on YouTube that are designed to make men angry with women.
They steal and edit clips by women and frame them with narration that makes it clear to insecure men what to get angry about.
This isn't just harmless gouging of the men, because this shit leads directly to women in the ER, ICU, and morgue
I will drop images here with examples
#women
#abuse
#WritersCoffeeClub 7/27 What's a writerly growing pain you're experiencing right now?
Getting off Google and Microsoft for writing, ditching GoodReads, and struggking through the learning curve of Libre Office and Collabora.
It's been a thing
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
I don't think they understand that they are *supposed* to hide it
Hey, human
Indie #writer here
No, I am not going to ask you to buy my #books - even though that would be grand
I'm also not going to ask you to review my books - ditto
What I AM begging you to do is glance at my stuff, and bump any friend who you think would like this kind of writing.
If your friend likes short and tight stories about murder and misadventure: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-machinery-of-fate
If they prefer novels with endearing but murderous ladies: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-book-of-joy-8
Please boost
Just completed writing chapter 39 of a scifi novel
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I also just want to postscript here that in the history of the species (except maybe during Bacchanalia) it has never been easier to meet, befriend, and date women. So many social barriers have dissolved, women have more to share and are eager to do so, and all a guy needs to do is be a person and not be a fascist.
Like just don't be a dick
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 1: What can we do to support and protect other writers, not only now, but in the future as well?
Introduce and welcome them to writing groups
Buy and review their work
Sabotage corporates and AI Trolls who undermine literature
Kick grammar trolls in the shins
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@trinityblair
"did you set fire to the Tesla showroom?"
"No sir, that is just my fireside parfum"
@Gargron
@alice@lgbtqia.space @h3mmy@lgbtqia.space do you have any really geeky friends who might like #betareading a few chapters of a science fiction novel I'm busy writing?
Bonus would be someone with an astrophysics kink
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@sundogplanets
If it weren't for the various categories of pollution and risk here, I would be 100% behind Sam and others blowing investor's fortunes on silly parlor games.
Like sure, go put a data center in orbit where a service call to replace a pump will cost a million bucks, and sure, expose your computers to radiation, and please, by all means find out the hard way that space is cold, but has very low specific heat capacity. Be my guest, play stupid games.
But sadly, the pollution costs
It is going to be so ironic if what saves us from facism is the fact that they are such bumbling imbeciles
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@cyb3rkitties@infosec.exchange
Mine is passed out in front of the aircon, and there is fur in little drifts pushed by the air currents
I have known a few psychopaths. Some by virtue of work or research for books, and some by accident.
A few things stand out to me
1. They are very unlike Hollywood or common depictions
2. There is something very fucked with the diagnostic criteria, and it's painfully obvious that if anything psychopathy is a syndrome comprsing a cluster of different things
3. Most of them are invisible
4. Some of them are extraordinarily violent and aggressive with scant regard for outcomes
5. Some aren't
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@phocks
TBH, as long as monied people are buying residential property as investments, prices and inequality will be driven up.
Tons of well-heeled Australians who have a second, third, or fourth "investment" house are surprised to learn that their kids can't afford to buy anywhere near them, if at all. Once in that investment mindset, they also can't easily pull out and will fight any effort to reduce scarcity or pricing
Hey @alice@lgbtqia.space @h3mmy@lgbtqia.space how should Adele refer to you?
May is Auntie May
Deirdre is Aunt Deirdre
So you are...?
Cousins? Aunts? Something we else?
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It is in fact, mostly made of magnesium, and is an arson tool
You light fires with it by scraping off magnesium flakes, and then striking a spark off the ferrocerium rod
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@joshsutphin@wandering.shop
True enough, but when your writing is niche, then the chances of local support grow slim
This is not going be a universal solution to being heard above the slop machines
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop
Public transport
K-PhD education
Healthcare
Should all be free at point of use
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Like this
Don't be tapping away on a spreadsheet evaluating the woman you are on a first date with.
It's obnoxious
It's foolish
It's fucking weird
Don't do weird stuff
Get your shit together and don't be a weird dickhead
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kristatorres/first-date-evaluation-tiktok
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop
I hear you.
The money is certainly not my *primary* motive, and being a bestselling author also holds little interest.
However, reaching the kind of reader who is eager to consume dark short stories about murder and misadventure, or novels about delightfully lethal female psychopaths, is tricky unless one goes wide
I don't fancy myself as a brilliant writer, but I do craft stories that are enjoyable to a specific narrow audience
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@alice@lgbtqia.space
I had to google "gooners", because when I was a lad, "goonies" were testicles, which is not all that far off tbh
You know what vessel can sail right through the dualling blockades of Hormuz?
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop
I'm creative about my writing, but my creativity about marketing doesn't extend farther than the odd "hey, read my books" post
If someone said "pull in for shots", you would assume they meant that you should...
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@samy@eupolicy.social
Yes
You can blame it on solar farms and wind turbines, unless there is a way to blame trans people and immigrants
@disco3000@climatejustice.social @Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
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@mattly
I think Hanlon's Razor is a reasonable rule of thumb for one-off events with no frequency history.
Because the razor is meant for informal and a posteriori use, we can also use tools like control charts to ask whether there is a trend, a run, or upper/lower control limit being exceeded, etc.
If there is a progression or history of events, I think you can safely put aside Hanlon's Razor, and say, wait a minute, we've been here before
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@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy
Ah. The time-honoured approach to hazards and risks of simply ignoring them
Dear #women
Do you modulate your voice higher or lower when you are with men?
Like, does your voice rise around men and get more "girly" or do you maybe go down and fry around men?
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@hausfath@fediscience.org
This is a very weird graph. It mixes industry, provider, and energy modality in the same bar
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@susankayequinn@wandering.shop
What content do you usually have in your zine?
@joshsutphin@wandering.shop
Things you might consider drinking
I'm on a conference call, and some sneaky person is occasionally muting speakers mid flow, or just kicking people off the call.
It is hilarious
I'm looking for #Italian speaking #betareaders to see if I've handled Southern Italian phrases and culture right
Sorry, no money for this
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@joshsutphin@wandering.shop
Care to elaborate?
Are you setting up a stand with a box of books and a cash box?
@susankayequinn@wandering.shop
Do you also get a bit of melacholic sadness when you finish #writing a story or book you enjoyed writing?