I am a fan of British sci fi author, Peter Hamilton.
One trope he consistently returns to in his universes is the group of humans who buggered off somewhere to try to build a post scarcity society of some kind.
And each new iteration, it feels like the seed group gets closer and closer to a transsexual polycule.
And I’m utterly here for it.
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Trans? Leaving the UK?
Useful to know which countries are on Rowling’s radar and which ones she doesn’t think about.
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@Z̈oé ⛵ @Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ @Katie Fenn “hold the trim button until the force goes away then follow the runaway stabiliser checklist”.
So few words to not kill 300 people 😞
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Bluesky: say what you like about it, but it’s nuclear block combined with the zero tolerance blocking culture that’s developed there has made it far less combative than most social media platforms.
And I think it’s superb. Honestly, I’m gonna get a lot less fussy about blocking at the slightest provocation.
Gonna start with the Reddit wankers who downvote every comment you make while ostensibly trying to have a conversation with you. That’s just rude and they can fuck right off.
Sadly confirmed, lemmy suffers from being beset by tedious playground bully wankers just as much as Reddit.
“Why is there so little content here?” Maybe it’s because you treat posts as an opportunity to exhibit your superior dixkhead prowess?
Asked a simple question on a Lemmy ADHD forum. Plenty of people answering questions I didn’t ask. Nobody answering the one I did ask.
So that’s a thing, I guess 🤷🏻♀️
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Εμμηνόπαυση (Eminopause) was the Greek word for menopause, so, while I don’t know what the -archy word be, but one would clearly refer to the rulers as “Your Eminence”
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@David Mankins @Steve Gisselbrecht works for me.
“Your eminence wants to know if you can just not”
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Asthma attack of a great time to discover that your inhaler fell out of your pocket in the car.
It’s ok. I have it now.
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New British House of Lords appointments announced. UK politics is just a contest to see who can run the most transparently nihilistic grift and still get cushy life tenure in Westminster.
Sordid fucks
There needs to be a way to restrict the number of political peers who can sit in the Lords at a time. Either they can elect some number of their own body similar to the hereditary peers or have a first-come-first-served each day to allow them in.
The subject matter experts are useful, they help beat legislation into some sort of usable shape. That's the Lords serving a useful function.
Be American. Vote in Trump. Catch polio. Yell at stars and plane.
They’re having a bit of a funny turn, aren’t they?
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@David Hough the “hoping it crashes and burns” thing doesn’t work.
Exact same thing happened with Hitler. They don’t go quietly.
On a smaller scale, see Brexit. It was a clusterfuck but they ploughed ahead anyway and now the country is just coming apart at the seams.
Useful questions that in-universe characters could ask:
What kills the people sent out to clean?
Why, despite us clearly having been down here a very long time, does it seem that everyone sent out to clean dies after about the same amount of time? Why is the threat not diminishing over time?
Why were these very well stocked silos ready and waiting and apparently very well matched to the threat outside? (In the books, Lukas does ask this question and gets an answer, and the answer is correct but incomplete).
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It’s quite astonishing to watch the Bluesky people keep digging that hole.
Now apparently they auto remove any post that has the house number and street of Jesse Singal in. As a result, literally everyone on the site now knows what they are, thanks to the Streisand Effect.
Muppets.
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Juliette: “Your generator is under water so how do you have power?
Solo: “IT has its own power source”
Juliette: “From where?”
WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER. THAT IS THE RIGHT QUESTION TO ASK!
By the way, Juliette, how’s that nasty wound on your arm?
It’s fun watching this having read the books.
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@A Spectre, Haunting but then there’s no point to any of it.
It would be like sealing off Barnsley for 500 years to create a society that didn’t know about, say, plastic, and leaving a vault outside the sealed off area with loads of stuff in that nobody else touched because of the reason, and also you were so scared of your future civilisation knowing about plastic that you were willing to kill your self and your coworkers because you know about plastic, and by the way, the rest of the world is out there knowing about plastic and could rescue you at any time by just walking up and knocking and just decides not to, and by the way you literally have radios which you could use to call for help and they could hear you and you would hear them, and planes, which you would see in the night sky flying past, etc etc etc.
Humanity being dead is a central plot point. The entire premise makes zero sense if it’s not.
Local DIY barn is full of Christmas tat, except most of it looks like it’s been designed by generative AI. Upright boxer dogs wearing 19th century military uniform while looking vaguely cutesy and shit like that.
It’s all very uncanny valley.
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@Christine Burns MBE 🏳️⚧️📚⧖ This is Portugal, but the tat is just … tat. The vibe is “festive, but off”.
Black Mirror shit.
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Apparently there’s an outbreak of Americans thinking that aircraft are alien spaceships.
First they elect Trump, and now this. Is there something in the water over there?
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Bluesky T&S have shat the bed and basically told all trans people on the site to go fuck themselves.
I've turned off my fediverse-bluesky bridge. Still have the capability to crosspost there, but I'm not planning to now. Am getting better engagement here anyway.
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@Matt Hodgkinson The only weapon Russia has that actually works properly is the ability to throw expendable human flesh at a target until it gets exhausted. It’s low tech as hell, but very effective.
The rest of their shit is junk. Sadly they have so many nukes that at least some of them probably work.
Apple Intelligence just dropped and, on the one hand, generative AI is a blight upon humanity.
But on the other …
Been watching the HBO Max Dune prequel thing and I’m thinking, Paul Atreides is like, “I am the product of a 10000 year breeding programme to produce turbo Hitler. I have enough morality left to avoid being tubro Hitler. Phew!”
“It’s probably fine if I have kids, right?”
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Hey @Zoë O'Connell
Look!
AhWe have a TGV station (Valence TGV Rhône-Alpes Sud) that has a train line to the town (Valence Ville)
How should we connect the two in the middle of the morning?
SURE! A BUS! 🤦♂️
@jon ah, French railway timetabling. Otherwise known as “just rent an effing car”.
Even South Western are better than this.
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Apple: We’re releasing the British version of our thing on Monday
Monday is now more than half over. There is no thing.
Apple: We meant California Monday.
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Philosophy question: a randomly selected UK journalist or medic is told that a 40 megatonne hydrogen bomb will go off in London unless they write 5 sentences about trans people without deliberately lying.
How many people die in the blast?
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If you are a cis woman athlete, and trans women have been banned from competing in the women's category in your sport, a good way to show solidarity would be to refuse to compete in the women's category too.
It would be nice to see people doing this to help an entirely unjustified attack on us, but I feel it's unlikely to happen 😞
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In fairness, have you seen space elves recently?
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Interesting to watch American oligarchy join the “Charles Stuart, Louis Bourbon, and Nicholas Romanov club of having learned nothing and now wishing to explore the consequences of that”.
Only with a proletariat that’s armed to the teeth.
Fetch the popcorn.
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in reply to Sarah Brown • • •He sets his books in parts of Leicestershire and Rutland where, as an uneasy adolescent, I cycled for pleasure and peaceful hours.
Some of his stories are set there directly: some of them borrow the place names; and some of them have sly little hints that put me back in a particular lane or copse or village, with the realisation "Oh, it's *there*" which makes me smile, remembering.
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in reply to gz • •@gz Commonwealth Saga (Pandora's Star), or the Salvation trilogy (which is my favourite, but opinions differ).
Lots of people like the Night's Dawn trilogy, but it's early work and I think he concentrates on world building at the expense of plot there.
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