William Ray

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Author of Gedlund (named to Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2016!), The Great Restoration and others.
Steampunk/fantasy writer.
Star Wars, Transformers & RPG fan.
Websitehttps://www.verinempire.com/
My Bookshttps://author.to/WilliamRay

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Because I’m quite dim, I didn’t realise exactly what they had done and how extremely clever these women had been. #TransLivesMattter 👏👏👏

The government (and everyone else, frankly) need to stay out of trans people’s underwear. 🏳️‍⚧️

*edit to add the link to the Pink News article: https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/17/scottish-parliament-holyrood-trans-protest-supreme-court/

*edit 2 to add a link to an interview with Sugar, who organised and took part in the protest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbA0q0eqYnM (thanks to @anni for sharing this)

Topless trans protest outside Holyrood a ‘public act of grief, resistance and solidarity’

Trans women staged a topless protest outside of the Scottish parliament to condemn the UK Supreme Court's ruling on the definition of 'sex'.

PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news

I'm off to #AwesomeCon tomorrow, and in honor of the occasion, my ebooks are just .99 on Amazon all weekend!

Fantasy stories with 19th century settings. A war story, with rifles vs undead. A mystery with pro-elven terrorists. A western with a demonic pistol. Just 99c/p!

https://author.to/WilliamRay

William Ray: Bücher, Biographie, neuestes Aktualisierung

Folge William Ray und erkunde ihre Bibliographie auf der William Ray Autorenseite von Amazon.

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Any #Transformers fans interested in the Iron Factory Liokaiser? I've got the set of six I'm looking to clear out for about what I paid.
If you're hiding the science on a subject, you're on the wrong side of it.
“Ma’am, my partner and I have done a thorough inspection of your property, and I’m afraid you’re going to need a new flowerbed, several bushes, and you will most likely need to reseed the lawn. If you want, we can work up an estimate and get back to you.”

Of course you should do everything you can to prevent fires - and also, you should build fire exits, because no matter how hard to you try, stuff *burns*. That includes social media sites.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/14/fire-exits/#graceful-failure-modes

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Pluralistic: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits (14 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

True, unfortunately

#Fantasy picks of the day (continued):

➡️ @natania - Fantasy author, often historical

➡️ @VerinEmpire - Steampunk / Fantasy writer, the Verin Empire books

➡️ @JennThorson - Humorous sci-fi/fantasy author, also diorama art

➡️ @dianeduane - Best-selling sci-fi & fantasy author & screenwriter

➡️ @InterzoneMag - Award-winning sci-fi & fantasy magazine

➡️ @Jackgiantkiller - Maintains website about fantasy world building, TTRPGs etc

➡️ @1ore - Building world of Moribund, grim desert planet

7/10

Holy crap... Android 15 totally busted up my Pixel 7! I've never had an OS update go this badly.