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Which is evidence that they don't care enough about queer rights to take a stand for what is objectively the ethically correct position.
nostr:npub1u80axgatavnjlxg2w8rz60tvxm2s58w8kgv33jlnfc786r6vu6asjut6ad If you expect them to burn their careers to the ground for someone else—anyone else—you're an optimist. 99% of people just won't *ever* do that. (I'm not saying they shouldn't: I'm saying they won't, and nobody you can find to replace them will do that either.)
#WritingWonders Aug/9: Does your MC have children? If not, do they want one?
Can't answer that question for "Ghost Engine" without risk of spoilers.
nostr:npub1s8j05w6vxz0n2jy62dqsu4g9q009pf2xq7d830gt8xkaep28qxssn0k8k0 You might do better to ask why corporate HR is so stuck on bullshit credentialism over demonstrated practical proficiency ...
nostr:npub1ej0fn7ypaldw5s3fe6qhm35ty6yxskd5xxsahpy330w640jg2heshm26ur "Lively", "Bouncy", and "Chad"?
"Lively" is named for her penchant for practical jokes involving hopping vampires, "Bouncy" because of the unfortunate incident with the plague pit in wizard school, and "Chad" answered the wrong job advertisement and can't actually raise anything larger than a quokka, but got the management post anyway because he was a member of the right fraternity.
nostr:npub1hw3vfnyhmg4pydxmxl894nw8umg3xss0ms6h57uke7qn6dpw7r4stzapg6 Now do that for Panamax container ships and aircraft carriers going in and out of Lake Gatun instead of the existing locks …
nostr:npub1tcwn9tl3ya4g3qh6he4dle4037a6hvzxfvkvnxkws39sm7w2659qmpkkca You forgot Feersum Endjinn, The Algebraist, Transition, and (more arguably, because they have mainstream elements) The Bridge, Walking on Glass, and The Business.
#WritingWonders 6: MC POV: Have you ever kept a secret from your closest friend?
Can't answer this one because it would be a HUGE spoiler for the entire novel (Ghost Engine). Let's just say, Secrets Were Kept (by everyone).
nostr:npub1ke68qh59qkyeel06lqg32kr29yud4tk6dm4lxp7624lefqr74xdqazz7av "Joint Cybercrime Taskforce SSID Sniffer 6205" should do the trick!
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 the "Block direct messages from people you don't follow" setting under notifications might be useful for you, unless there's a reason you need it unchecked
nostr:npub1u445s55epxn33f53e9qcymnjvms7y7vprud4wkjswughs920t5pqv8hc5x Leaving it unchecked because the Fediverse is still 2-3 orders of magnitude smaller than twitter/arsebook, and I want to grow my social graph. May start blocking if it becomes problematic.
Welp, just got my first "hello, I hope we can be friends"-type come on private message via mastodon. Instant block for the user, whose name was of the form four letters followed by eight random numbers—I mean hello, this isn't Discord?
But I suspect it's a harbinger of the bigger instances getting overloaded by spammers. Again. In this case, not the crypto bros but the dating scammers.
nostr:npub1lr8y3suc3tqp77txq3s4r3xqey5n0y89wqa7k4e9y468wewk0ewsxl2lqn No. (Whether there'll be a 4th New Mgmt book is not solid yet (my next novel is a Laundry spin-off title anyway), but NM4 is tentatively titled "Banquet of Consequences", aka "Space Jesus Lion". It's about what happens when Imp takes a camera crew to Narnia via the dream roads to film amateur furry porn. But they end up in the wrong Narnia: one written by William Burroughs, and the mugwumps are enthusiastically fucking the corpse of the lion king ...
nostr:npub1lr8y3suc3tqp77txq3s4r3xqey5n0y89wqa7k4e9y468wewk0ewsxl2lqn Truly this is turning out to be a thing of horror and beauty.
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 sigh, you're an evil, evil person :P Is that dark essence (to give it a name) that passed from George to Eve during their final kiss going to play a role in the next novel in the series??? Thanks!!
nostr:npub1lr8y3suc3tqp77txq3s4r3xqey5n0y89wqa7k4e9y468wewk0ewsxl2lqn No. (Whether there'll be a 4th New Mgmt book is not solid yet (my next novel is a Laundry spin-off title anyway), but NM4 is tentatively titled "Banquet of Consequences", aka "Space Jesus Lion". It's about what happens when Imp takes a camera crew to Narnia via the dream roads to film amateur furry porn. But they end up in the wrong Narnia: one written by William Burroughs, and the mugwumps are enthusiastically fucking the corpse of the lion king ...
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 I was finally able to get to Season of Skulls (love it!).So, George is ... Old George??? 😭
nostr:npub1lr8y3suc3tqp77txq3s4r3xqey5n0y89wqa7k4e9y468wewk0ewsxl2lqn Yup! (Separated by about 200 years of bleak I-am-a-vampire-now shit, which essentially means killing 200-400 people just to survive.)
nostr:npub1psyu32rex4g3h8zvnqsf5jculys07nq7gsuuvv6wme4j0r7qd9lsh3pasy don't get me wrong, I'm all for bicycles and greener ways of moving people around.
it's just that "bicycles in the netherlands" should never be used as a run-of-the-mill example to which one should aspire.
the NL famously is a flat country. of course biking is great there! most of us, though, have the misfortune to live in hilly areas. that NL example doesn't apply as well to us as one may think.
it's as good as asking us to stick our finger into a wall.
(bicycles still rule, though.)
nostr:npub14sk8q8nv99ttqzdux3hs4pw5tu4048c528mfystn3dnp2zagjwnq5t0hp3 nostr:npub1psyu32rex4g3h8zvnqsf5jculys07nq7gsuuvv6wme4j0r7qd9lsh3pasy e-bikes may be leveling those hills a bit, metaphorically at least. (Not for me—I'm pushing 60 and my sense of balance is gone and I have no peripheral vision on the side cars overtake on. So all cycling is off the menu for me. But if I didn't have those disabilities I'd totally be on an e-bike.)
nostr:npub1fj4xc7hzqyj7qhu3rt3tcjqxwzku5wjdtmvpa2mkp7q60dppcu8sgnfeel nostr:npub14fsvcpaz035k0em73djzuwaanxdzxwjvkzcp8t22c82wat7sysesj5vpwq I haven't re-read that bit of the Narnia corpus yet. (Got bogged down in TLTWandTW, b/c I read out of sequence, and the patronising authorial voice got on my tits after a while.)
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 The Lost Boys on Mars, John Carter style, maybe?
nostr:npub14fsvcpaz035k0em73djzuwaanxdzxwjvkzcp8t22c82wat7sysesj5vpwq Nope, not going to Mars. (Going to Narnia. Narnia as written by William Burroughs. You're welcome.)
nostr:npub1psdfxfpxz2cwmmnsk60y3nqpn2tqh9n24h4hstvfkwvr6eaek9js499sr7 Have you seen Tiger, Tiger? (secondary world set aesthetically around our 1770s, there are two twins heirs to a shipping family, the girl hijacks her brother's ship to pursue her career as a marine biologist and there's also a cosmic horror involved)
nostr:npub1sggsalpd2w6jgcxvccrx9yw0gqsntshuvk56222a5uv6rrt5cfwsw5f748 That's the title of a rather famous novel by Alfred Bester (different title in the USA)
The giant frog-like thing clinging to the window frame mugged at Del, giggled inanely, and did a backflip into the night garden.
"Fuck's sake," Game Boy complained, "Imp goes looking for extras for just *one* skin flick and this happens."
(Because the New Management can only be improved by adding mugwumps out of William Burroughs.)
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