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#Writing and #socialJustice. Middle aged curmudgeon working on novels and being outraged. He/him. Settler on stolen land. #Antifascist bc I'm #queer.
I'm gonna try to change my server in the next little bit, I think mastodon.online is one of the bigger ones and I'm gonna try to find a smaller one because a) I like smaller cozier spaces and b) I want to leave space in the room where they keep the mastodons for the next waves of twitter folks.
Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

Fed up of the Irish Times? Well so am I - they've been freezing me out and calling me names for years.

Check out White Feathers - a dramatic WWI novel published 8 years ago.

"Might have made it out in time for the centenary, but a bit more care would have made it a better read." - they said. Also abortion-shamed it and said I was too mean about high-ranking British military.

Buy/borrow White Feathers and say fuck you to that rag. susanlanigan.com/white-feathers

Folks who, like me, are disaffected by the lack of left-wing alternatives in #Canada #politics #canpoli this podcast is a source of solace. This episode's from last month.

https://player.captivate.fm/episode/ab3037e5-05c0-41b9-9abd-f599d5af1ccf

Democracy Denied: The BCNDP and their Fear of an Eco-Socialist Grassroots

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One thing is very clear to me today, as @atomicpoet put it well, we need to #FundtheFediverse

Today's surge of new users, maybe the largest wave yet, will seem insignificant in comparison to what transpires when Twitter has a full outage. Or goes broke.

We must build server & human infrastructure. Now.

We are only one terrible Elon Tweet or one sustained Twitter FailWhale away from experiencing traffic that essentially resembles a massive Denial of Service Attack.

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Don't be afraid to go against type in #writing.

Some of the greatest moments in cinema were casting "against type"

James Earl Jones as Darth Vader. He inspired so many imitators that he became a cliche.

Bruce Willis in Die Hard. At time time it was considered strange for an action movie to feature a comedian as the lead. He helped change the genre.

Hi Mastodoning Mates. Any chance you could boost me a bit as I'm struggling to find folk I originally followed on the Twitter. Is that how this works? I'm ASD and find new systems like this and written-instructions a major headache and very confusing.

In an attempt to help restore some #DisabilityTwitter connections for #DisabilityJustice / #DisabilityRights (& all our intersections) I've made a group here: @disabilityjustice .

Join the group - you will be able to see who else has joined (a bit like a list or viewing someone's followers).

Tag the group when you toot and group members will see your post in their tl.

There are Disability and ActuallyAutistic groups too - @disabilityjustice is inclusive of non-disabled activists & allies.

#Editing update, chapter 8 is actually pretty good? I was worried the climax of the scene wouldn't be developed and I'd have a lot of work to do, but really the basics are there, I'm just cleaning up the prose, making sure the characters are consistent, that sort of thing.

Chapters 8, 9, and 10 are where the dread of the potential zombie plague turns into the terror of a zombie plague chewing at the entrails of society, and if these chapters work, the rest of the book is in good shape. Yay!