Ste Cook

@Polypompholyx
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#Plant #botany enthusiast. Life sciences #teaching fellow 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #queer #gay #lgbtqia Less good half of @alexlomas

[alt-text: avatar is my face with orange hair against a background of ginkgo leaves in rainbow and trans pride flag colours; header is a fig leaf backlit to show the veins]

Pronounshe/him (stiː kʰʊk), EO: li/lin (Steĉjo)
Websitehttp://www.polypompholyx.com
LicenceCC BY-SA Ste Cook
Location🍂🌸💜 but actually UK, ugh
Smashed my event PB at Eden Project #parkrun by one whole second 😆 The course is beautiful and fun but the zizgag upward paths are a killer

Today's highly professional behaviour in the London office is playing Cuntissimo by Marina at an objectionable volume.

https://soundcloud.com/marinadiamandis/cuntissimo

CUNTISSIMO

☆ PRINCESS OF POWER ☆ OUT NOW https://marina.lnk.to/PRINCESSOFPOWER MARINA returns transformed on PRINCESS OF POWER — a euphoric, high-energy exploration of healing, empowerment, and self-reclamation

SoundCloud

And the utter bastards have decided to use “AI” to read, and presumably ignore, half of those responses.

The time and emotional energy that everyone put in.

For nought.

https://goodlawproject.org/the-ehrc-is-ignoring-trans-voices/
https://infosec.exchange/@alexlomas/114779583550803899

The EHRC is ignoring trans voices

Leaked documents confirm that the EHRC is planning to ignore 50% of the consultation submission.

Good Law Project

This Is How You Lose The Time War (Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone). A gift from a friend. Red and Blue are soldiers on opposing sides in a time war between two empires. The novella is written as letters between the two, as Red realises she loves Blue, and that she loves her back. The language is beautiful and poetic, and the plot both intricate and sublimely simple. If you don't read any of the other books above, read this one. /thread ends (for now)

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All Systems Red - Murderbot Diaries 1 (Martha Wells). Yes, I watched the show. Yes, I bought all the books. I found the TV show a bit difficult to follow tbh, and not just because of Alexander Skarsgård distracting me: too many too short episodes too spread apart. The book is just as much fun, despote the absence of Alexander Skarsgård . And now I have 6 more of those to go too. While imagining Alexander Skarsgård. Happy times :)

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The Player of Games (Iain M. Banks). Recommended independently by two different people so I thought I'd better do what I was told. A bored-ish gamer living in Utopia-ish gets entered into a complicated game played in an evil-ish Empire to determine sociopolitical status, and accidentally-ish causes it to collapse. I absolutely loved this book, especially the sarcastic drones. I also have the rest of the Culture books to read now, which is a source of future joy.

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And Then There Were None (Agatha Christie). I remember reading a much older (and much less acceptably titled 😬) version of this from my parents' collection when I was a kid, so I knew the twist was coming, but still got the thrill of having forgotten exactly whodunnit.

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1066 And All That (W. C. Sellar and R. J. Yeatman). A nearly century-old parody of English history, and as dated as that might suggest, but I still laughed out loud at some of the Test Papers. Thirty years on from the last time I formally got taught any Historical Facts (TM) I'm also not sure that all English monarchs didn't in fact die of a surfeit of something or other.

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Non-Binary Lives (Jos Twist, Ben Vincent, Meg-John Barker, Kat Gupta). A collection of essays from nonbinary folk. I liked the way it showcased the variety of nonbiary experience and how that intersected differently for each person with neurodiversity, pregnancy, language ("¿nonbinario o nonbinaria?"), disability.

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Ace Voices (Eris Young). Part of the 'educating myself' part of the book-worming this year: discussion of asexuality and aromaticism. I found the chapters unpicking and analysing sexual, romantic and platonic attractions particularly useful; and also framing the question of why does society [over]value sexual/romantic relationships vs. platonic ones.

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