I'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.
@reginasbread Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy, The Fresco and Gate to Women's Country both by Sheri Tepper, The Kingston Cycle books by CL Polk, Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon are a few ... @bookstodon
@reginasbread I can rememeber a steampunk/victorian space opera novella, where a middle-aged lady became a leader of a colonial planet uprising, because the government forces burned her cannabis lot.
If anyone can give me author and title, I will do a pot ceremony for you.
Can't wait to try them at the office. If they are as incredible there as they are here with just my wife and kids, it might make me waver in my belief that there is no God.
My next novel is #TheLostCause, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through #Kickstarter:
Interesting staging, having Counselor Troi enter in the background, looking at consoles and displays, and making a circuit of the outer bridge before she enters the discussion with Picard and Riker.
@BBC_News_Labs I read the blog post and saw nothing about how they are measuring the performance of LLMs at this task, or how they are validating the results.
Also no info about the resources that would be required to catalog this data the "old-fashioned way" with human indexers using a controlled vocabulary, or a "formerly novel" approach like crowdsourced tags.
From having processed the RMFI, yes, it is hard. It is deliberately so.
It is a shame that UK news organisations don't just commit to creating and maintaining a joint, open, shared, structured version of the RMFI where journalists clean up and tag the data using their actual domain expertise.
Wow, Frisco ISD is just swingin that ban hammer like a drunken monkey, and they appear to hate fantasy with a special kind of hate. Gotta admire young Cameron Samuels. This is what courage looks like. #books#BookBurning#texas#censorship
More Than 430 Books Banned in Texas Schools. | Dallas Observer
> Texas led the nation, followed by Florida, in banned titles in a list created by PEN America, a literary nonprofit. Many surprising titles are included in this list.
@aralqprf thanks for posting that link. Possible, certainly plausible but debated. I wish the Smithsonian had actually included or linked to the dissenting views. @RustyBertrand
"Nah, I don't stim!"
"Is THIS stimming?"
"I stim, therefore I am"
-from "Initiation Rites for the Late-Identified #ActuallyAutistic "-
I really thought I don't stim. I don't rock or flap my hands or jump or chew things or make stimmy sounds.
Of course, I do softly grind my teeth (sometimes I may wear night guard during daytime too), wiggle my toes or legs, enjoy knitting simple patterns (= the same repetitive motion), fidget like there's no tomorrow with any small object I can get my hands on and may start picking my nails if I can't find anything else, doodle, I might undo my hair and braid it while watching TV, or braid tassels of my throw blanket...
Stimming is healthy and good for you. Do it.
If -as is the case with many late-identified autists- you have suppressed your stims or been pressured to stop and feel like you have forgotten how to stim, then try to start again. Learn about different stims and just try different ones until you find something that does the trick for you.
@ReimanSaara@btaroli@actuallyautistic it can also be in allistic society’s interests to minimise or dismiss the effects or visibility of autistic being. There is emotional, mental, cultural and literal cost to them in accepting us and adapting to us.