TheStainlessSteelRat

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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🐀 Full time carer. Reader of fiction. Arma 3/DayZ player. Sometimes wish I was Murderbot. He/Him.
This might be my best book so far. I'm really proud of it, and I think you're going to dig it. To make sure you get your copy as soon as it's released, pre-order it here: https://linktr.ee/garethlpowell
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Science Fiction Novelist

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The Cleaving, by me and coming out in April, is now available to request on NetGalley

A new, feminist retelling of the Arthurian legends, giving the women back their voice.

Request now!
http://netgal.ly/QKiEvS

The Cleaving

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Small reminder that VERONA IN AUTUMN is up for pre-order so do future-you a favour!

Waterstones - http://shorturl.at/iotwK
Amazon - http://shorturl.at/atHZ0

(while the gorgeous HB will be well worth it, the ebook is currently only £2.99!)

#HistoricalFiction #Shakespeare

Emotional Ignorance: Lost and found in the science of emotion

My new book was published 1 week ago

If you plan to buy just one deeply personal book this Jan about a man coping with the grief for a lost parent... then maybe splash out and buy mine too?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Emotional-Ignorance-Dean-Burnett/dp/178335173X/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1674137659&refinements=p_27%3ADean+Burnett&s=books&sr=1-1

Rare in game screenshot from World of Warships featuring Thunderer T10 RN Battleship, a favourite. Sometimes it is difficult to know where to look with all this info in the UI, which is modded, but long time players know you can ignore the map in right corner 😆🤦 #WorldOfWarships #PC Gaming

I made a graph of all my past relationships.

It has an ex axis and a why axis.

As a cis het woman, the way a trans person gets a Gender Recognition Certificate has no impact on my daily life or rights whatsoever. The rights conferred by a GRC have no impact on my daily life or rights. Trans people have never limited or threatened my daily life, rights or safety. Just one person's experience/opinion? Sure. That's the same as every gender critical argument. Anecdata is not evidence. Evidence shows Self ID does not cause problems for society and makes trans lives easier.

I never played The Last of Us, but the first episode was excellent. You could tell it was a computer game adaptation in places, but it still worked very well.

A thought or two:

It does seem that every post-disaster show or movie defaults to the same brutal dystopia. It's a very Hobbesian view of the world - that authority is the only thing that stops people becoming beasts - but it's not something that's backed up by evidence of how people act.

1/2

The UK Government are, just in general, and specifically today, a bunch of fuckers. That is all.