That thing where your publisher sends you a congrats card for making an award shortlist. And it comes with a gift box full of amazing artisanal macaroons.
Which would be great if not for the fact that (a) I'm diabetic and (b) my spouse is vegan (hint: macaroons contain eggs, which are not vegan) and (c) spouse is also allergic to eggs.
(This is a subset of the "my aunt always sends me a pair of socks she knitted for Christmas, and they don't fit" etiquette problem!)
10 authors, of whose books I've read at least five:
Ursula Le Guin
Kim Stanley Robinson
Octavia Butler
N. K. Jemisin
Becky Chambers
Iain M. Banks
Martha Wells
M. R. Carey
Lois McMaster Bujold
Vonda McIntyre
@SallyStrange@bookstodon I find Novik a little hit and miss but Spinning Silver is very good and the Scholomance series is a good effort at the genre my friend calls "screw you jk rowling". Yoon Ha Lee is superb.
Plotting the curve of increasing home broadband speeds I've had since I first got cable in 1998, I expect this to be the speed of my home hook-up some time around 2040. I wonder what I could use it for …? https://social.edu.nl/@SURF/112274114167483854
Longitudinal cytokine and multi-modal health data of an extremely severe ME/CFS patient with HSD reveals insights into immunopathology, and disease severity
I’ve started using Speechify again and I’m really finding it useful for reading textbooks/long PDFs that I wouldn’t be able to otherwise.
It was created by someone with dyslexia, and the service has grown a lot over the last 3 years that I’ve used it. It’s also designed for us ADHD folks.
If you are neurodivergent like me and need support with reading, I highly recommend checking it out.
@britt thank you for this prompt. I can't afford the speechify sub right now but I have finally sorted out the Android default text to speech on my phone.
Imagine a world where you work three or four days a week. In your free time, you play sports, spend time with loved ones, garden, and engage with local politics. Overnight shipping, advertising, private jets, billionaires and SUVs no longer exist, but health care, education, and clean electricity are free and available to all.
We must massively reduce our energy and material consumption to have any hope of saving our environment.
@gerrymcgovern I want to see degrowth supporters set out visions for how we will support the most vulnerable in our society. This piece is pitched to the middle classes (and I do understand the need to appease the middle classes) but I need to see how we will support disabled people, homeless people, poor people, refugees (economic, climate, and otherwise).
@Syulang@gerrymcgovern I think what the degrowth rhetoric increasingly glosses over in an effort to appease the middle classes is the need for concurrent radical redistribution. Not just from the private jet owning classes either. That article gives me the creeps because it's very much "you'll still have your lawn and white picket fence, you'll just work three days a week".
I am, yet again, travelling across the country for work, and I haven't written anything for weeks, and my bestie is still in hospital with some post-birth complications (she's ok, but she's sad and I miss her), and my washing machine has broken, and I'm SO TIRED.
So I'm sorry this is becoming less of a smut account and more moany, I hate it too.
@robyneatseverything you're allowed to be tired and you're allowed to be human and you don't owe people, esp on here, anything. Hope things improve for you.