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I have had the great honour of my short story being published in the same magazine that once showcased Asimov and Henlein. Check out the May/June 2021 issue of Analog Science Fiction & Fact to read it!
“Once upon a time, people took psychedelics to see visions of God or to divest themselves of their earthly preconceptions. These days? Nobody can afford to take the time off work.”
Hit the sun-baked road with “Five Star Review” by @teraspawn, on sale now! ow.ly/AgST50EFnxZ
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We've now hit 2000 signatures in just over 24 hours. I'm so proud but we still have a way to go.
We need 8000 signatures for a government response and 98000 to get a debate.
If you're against @UKLabour Disability cuts then sign and share. Thank you.
petition.parliament.uk/petit…
Unfortunately @leicesterliz stated completely misleading statistics about benefits fraud in her ITV News interview: she appeared to claim that £8 billion of disability benefits are fraudulently claimed. According to the government's own figures, the amount of fraud is 0-0.1%.
You must not spread information that you know to be untrue. Please refer to the real statistics and stop trying to put the nation's economic problems on the shoulders of the disabled. We're just trying to live! gov.uk/government/statistics…
I'm afraid I'm unable to reply directly to this due to being blocked by one of the conversants, but a transgender person is someone who has a gender identity different from the sex they were assigned at birth. Happy to help!
Am I being hopelessly naive to believe that all of these pictures are AI generated?
UK experts warn against buying ‘XL bully cats’ dlvr.it/TFWfF4
With the passing of Lynne Reid Banks, this seems like a good moment to recommend her wonderfully peculiar fairy tale adventure, The Farthest-Away Mountain. goodreads.com/book/show/2250…
I have a lot of unanswered questions about Uncle Billy from It's A Wonderful Life. When does he find time to befriend all these woodland creatures? Do they live with him at home? When will he be diagnosed with ADHD?
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The story of the damage done to my former department by the bullying behaviour of Feltzing & Davies, and the catastrophic failure of @lunduniversity leadership and HR to prevent it and protect its staff and students. Written by @alexwitze in Nature nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Cool, are the government also going to start paying disability benefits at a level that a person could realistically live on, and change the assessment system to be less demoralising?
Great to see #AskDontAssume launch today, following co-development with disabled people, stakeholders and extensive research with 500+ people with lived experience of disability.
The campaign aims to start conversations about the everyday assumptions disabled people face.
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I wanna talk about the disabled angels: there's so many 'in heaven they will finally be free of their wheelchair' and 'they will be made whole again in heaven' narratives around disabled people, so to see visibly disabled angels means everything, thank you @neilhimself #GoodOmens
ALT Screenshot from Good Omens, showing Saraqael, a white angel with red hair and a white outfit, sat in an electric wheelchair in heaven.
ALT Screenshot from Good Omens: an unnamed white angel, in a white robe, shown with one arm stopping just above the elbow.
"Bullying by a person in a position of power in the workplace is good, actually" is a perennial and extremely revealing hot take for people to express.
Watching Riverdale, I thought "it's surprising that there would be so many cults in just one small town", and then I remembered that I'm from East Grinstead.
Lunchtime detention for wearing a fuzzy pink top hat indoors. Honestly, I think Mr. Turk was just having a bad day.
ChatGPT is great because I can open my phone at 2am to ask "Were the Romantic poets all friends with each other?" and get a satisfying answer that is easy to understand and quite possibly false.
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I am devastated to discover that this is an AI generation. I thought the pope was just having a cosy day.
The boys in Brooklyn could only hope for this level of drip
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This image of Pope Francis is an AI generated picture and not real. The image was created on the AI image-generating app midjourney.
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