johnshirley2024

@johnshirley2024@wandering.shop

Author of numerous novels & 11 story collections. Won the Bram Stoker Award. Writes sf, horror, fantasy, westerns, thrillers. Yes, westerns. Worked in TV & movies, eg Star Trek: DS9 and The Crow. Created Instantfuture.org site. Fronts rock bands. Very progressive Democrat. Socialist. Environmentalist. Pro LGBTQ. Writes weird, rhyming poetry & lyrics. Tired of arguing. Watching world burn and trying to think of a way to put out the fire. Interested in spirituality. Supports NASA and SCIENCE.

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mcnees, to random
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Lynn Conway, electricial engineer and computer scientist, co-architect of the VLSI design revolution, and transgender activist, was born #OTD in 1938.

She invented Dynamic Instruction Scheduling at IBM, but IBM fired her when they learned she was transitioning.

Photo: Lynn Conway

4mc,

@mcnees This was surprisingly out of character for the IBM that I worked with and for from 1974 onwards, they had and remained always on the side of progressives, they had the largest number of women, African American, and other minorities in meaningful positions. So reading about this was very disappointing.

Here is the conclusion of the IBM side. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeremyalicandri/2020/11/18/ibm-apologizes-for-firing-computer-pioneer/?sh=359185d667d5

johnshirley2024, to random

As I mentioned the other eve, I'll be canceling my Mastodon account later today. No big deal, I know, but I mention it for those few who might want to keep in touch. And also you can always reach me through the authorized website, the person who runs that forwards me email through their contact form: https://john-shirley.com/

johnshirley2024, to random

These politicians denied democracy on Jan. 6. Now, they want your vote.

free link

https://wapo.st/4aUeV7N

auschwitzmuseum, to Israel
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2 January 1924 | A Dutch Jewish woman, Marie de Vries was born in Amsterdam. A nurse.

She worked in a Jewish mental hospital in Apeldoorn.
She was deported with the patients to Auschwitz on 22 January 1943. She did not survive.

johnshirley2024, to scifi

My newest novel, from Titan Books, is now in an audiobook edition. https://www.audiobooks.com/audiobook/suborbital-7/720279

Lizette603_23, to random
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/mutiny-erupts-michigan-gop-overtaken-153605170.html
Keep talking to people, they are eating their own

johnshirley2024, to random

Elon Musk promised an anti-‘woke’ chatbot. It’s not going as planned.

Grok, launched this month on X, has angered conservatives by endorsing diversity. Musk says he’s trying to fix it.

free link https://wapo.st/3H4exWy

futurebird, to random
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I feel like we need some kind of rule for elections and primaries that says if you are going to publicly question and deride the results and refuse to concede you need to promptly (within 6 months) take your concerns to court and after that contradicting the results from recounts and court disqualifies you from future participation in the process.

If the process is fake and broken explain it, fix it, expose it. Or shut up and leave.

johnshirley2024, to random

Applesauce lead cases in kids surge amid questions on FDA oversight

A Washington Post investigation found that states are examining 118 cases linked to lead-tainted cinnamon applesauce pouches

free link https://wapo.st/3TJxvcg

andrew, to random

I’m going to try my damndest to be positive this year. Not toxic… not denying… just, looking on the bright side.

Life Of Brian GIF by Monty Python

johnshirley2024, to random

Warnings grow about risky IV drips and injections at unregulated med spas

Infectious disease and ER doctors say they are seeing more severe infections and other injuries associated with the facilities, which can operate with little oversight.

The Food and Drug Administration warned last month about reports that consumers developed severe infections and skin deformities after they got unauthorized shots touted to dissolve fat at med spas across the country.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/warnings-grow-risky-iv-drips-injections-unregulated-med-spas-rcna131495

SocietyofRockets, to jazz

RIP Les McCann https://youtu.be/QdDZXKe9QPA?si=O_Nfjo5_YWER_1RB he made it real goddammit

bolts, to random
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Democrats in November won control of Dauphin County, home to Pennsylvania's capital city of Harrisburg, for the first time since the Civil War. The majority flips tomorrow. https://boltsmag.org/dauphin-county-commissioners-jail-deaths/

johnshirley2024, to random

"FUN IS DEAD.

"It’s become emphatic, exhausting, scheduled, hyped, forced and performative"

free link https://wapo.st/3vqVD9r

BertSgroggins, to Birds
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First walk this year on the Duddon Estuary turned into a Goosander session. Random pic from the15 that I've decided to keep (for now), must remember to come back to these to thin out further. Still sorting last years snaps!

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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Real
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/real-3 (click for full comic)

LindaCollins11, to random
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johnshirley2024, (edited ) to random

This is why I'm leaving Mastodon on Jan 2. "Some of your posts have been found to violate one or more community guidelines and have been subsequently removed by the moderators of wandering.shop." I disagreed with some on trans nomenclature. I felt that cis was often used as a slur rather than as a category. It had gone from category to slur. For example this was removed: "It's how cis is used now that concerns me. I'm LGBTQ myself. I lived with a trans gf ...I support all trans rights." That!

johnshirley2024,

Anyway when this latest wave of covid has died down (though I am fully multiply vaccinated) I intend to do more volunteer work. I do that as a literacy volunteer to help people learn to read in prisons and elsewhere, and I help out at foodbanks. So I'll need more time away from social media for that.

johnshirley2024,

Things I SUPPORT:

All rights for women, including a woman's right to choose.

Reparations for Black Americans & Native Americans. An end to all Confederate memorials. An end to all racist policies. An end to environmental racism.

Trans rights in every respect. I support them all. LGBTQ+ rights.

Socialized medicine.

Separation of church and state.

Free higher education.

LGBTQ+ openly in the military.

Strict environmental regulations & an end to polluting industry.

Democratic socialism.

johnshirley2024,

@lienrag Couple years ago at mastodon.cloud I objected to someone, who claimed to be an anarchist revolutionary, calling for liberals to be killed. I certainly don't object to anarchist revolutionaries ...but calling for liberals to be killed? So I reported this person which got me some pushback from an admin guy of some instance who called me a liberal handwringer & I was banned.

bodhipaksa, to random
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Donald Trump: "The economy does better under the Democrats."

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-economy-better-under-democrats/

johnshirley2024, (edited ) to random

NEWS: My anti-fascist cyberpunk trilogy, A Song Called Youth: Eclipse, Eclipse Penumbra and Eclipse Corona, will be out in a new and print on demand edition from Open Road Media early in 2024. The Dover edition has recently gone out of print but--these books, warning of deepfake tech & a resurgence of neofascism and an American theocracy, and predicting much that has happened, have never been out of print long. For now, used copies are easily found.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eclipse_Trilogy

johnshirley2024, to movies

On Prime you can find I MARRIED A WITCH (1942), with Veronica Lake -- directed by the French auteur Rene Clair. It's based on a novel by Thorne Smith (Topper, etc) and is very witty and though released post-code surprisingly sexy. Remarkably good special effects for the time. Delightfully wicked witches. Wonderful costumery, wry twists...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Married_a_Witch

johnshirley2024, to random

Israeli media derides ‘worst government in history’ on its anniversary

“Terrible and bloody: the worst government in the history of Israel marks a year,” wrote journalist Ben Caspit in the Maariv newspaper. Yossi Verter wrote in his weekly column in Haaretz: “On the anniversary of this failed government, the public is united in wanting to see its leader go.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/12/30/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news-palestine/#link-NNST3GM3SVDT7JOAYETGACAWPQ

lienrag,

@johnshirley2024

I've just read that 15 out of 18 wounded IDF soldiers that Netanyahu wanted to visit refused to meet him...
https://nitter.cz/NTarnopolsky/status/1740094868322693410#m

(I didn't know Noga Tamopolsky but apparently she's a respected journalist)

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