www.daphnelawless.com Red Plenty/solarpunk technosyndicalist. Autodidact movement librarian. "Generalist and polymath". A renaissance woman trying to start a renaissance at the same username on mastodon.social
How would I get by without AI? If I need a factually-dubious opinion expressed in a cliched manner with unearned confidence, I’ll just talk to a straight white cis man. I can get by on small-batch, locally-sourced, artisanal mansplaining, the way we always used to.
Douglas Adams: life seems harsh and cruel. i feel all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain Barker: i got great news for you! Barker: the treatment is simple Barker: the great humorist douglas adams is doing a reading tonight. go see him. Adams: but doctor
The City and the City by China Miéville The Alteration by Kingsley Amis Hyperion by Dan Simmons The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley Imperial Earth by Arthur C Clarke (allegedly). And, while deploring Gaiman, I still love most of his output.
BeijingPalmeralright let's do real discourse: five books *by bad people* that are still good or great books V.S. Naipaul, A BEND IN THE RIVER Allison Pearson, I DON'T KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT Kevin Myers, WATCHING THE DOOR Yukio Mishima, CONFESSIONS OF A MASK Neil Gaiman, BRIEF LIVES.
Good lord I wish some of you could read on this text based social media website.
The VergeBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
Here we go, an amended bingo card with the Australian references localised to Aotearoa references, which does double duty for all your NZ First and ACT candidate needs!
Byron C ClarkWild how you could use this card this side of the Tasman for NZ First candidates and barely have to change a thing
