penartur @[email protected]

Many thanks to @[email protected] for allowing me to use their drawing https://twitter.com/paxiti/status/994615716518158336 as my new userpic!

Ugh I have no idea how to write #introductions / #intros. Why is everything so difficult? It feels the same way when I have to write a cover letter... 😕 😒 😅

OK, I am a software engineer? Interested in interpersonal relationships and future and AI and speculative fiction? Unable to create art or to have a physical exercise but able to chat on the internets from the comfort of my couch (which is especially comfortable when my spouse is there)?

3 of 5 stars to The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion by Margaret Killjoy https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=2411898193

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This is a picture the Chinese government is putting out to dehumanize its own citizens. Let that sink in.

(I don't use the word dehumanize lightly; but this is literally the textbook illustration here.)

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Why is the Amazon on fire? People are setting fires to clear the rainforest for farming and resource extraction - Bolsonaro is encouraging that.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-49415973

Feeling validated rn, might delete later 🤷‍♀️

3 of 5 stars to Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=2741927561

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Climate skeptics and deniers have often accused scientists of exaggerating the threat of climate change, but the evidence shows that not only have they not exaggerated, they have underestimated. https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/scientists-have-been-underestimating-the-pace-of-climate-change/

Suspect's virginity was lost in an Epstein-involved intercourse. Suspect is also presumed to be minor
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Minor *WAS RAPED.

Fucking really with this shit? The linguistic gymnastics that the media will co-opt or create just to avoid printing what men are doing to women and girls - that is, raping and abusing us with virtually zero consequences - never ceases to amaze. https://twitter.com/rawstory/status/1163921122292…
https://twitter.com/emrazz/status/1163984673447526400

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Here is the Campbell acceptance speech I had written.

Words were added and taken away on stage due to time and nerves.

Link to a text version: https://link.medium.com/wlWrL36hgZ

#HongKongProtests #worldcon2019

Some girls are like Little Mermaids. They got to show their legs, but cannot use their voice unless they master a voice training course (and even then...)

Amazon just have announced cast for The Five of Two Rivers (Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time), and it looks really cool! Except that Mat for some reason is quite different from all the other Two Rivers natives 🤔 but overall it's great that they didn't whitewash everybody.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2019/08/14/the-wheel-of-time-tv-show-casting-revealed-for-five-main-characters/#5c7c490d6268
Pic: Egwene, Perrin, Mat, Nynaeve, Rand (LTR)

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The #1619Project published online today and it is my profound hope that we will reframe for our readers the way we understand our nation, the legacy of slavery, and most importantly, the unparalleled role black people have played in this democracy. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/black-history-american-democracy.html?action=click&module=Top%2520Stories&pgtype=Homepage&auth=login-email

4 of 5 stars to The Book of M by Peng Shepherd https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=2784201269

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This is a position many Palestinians are forced into by Israel; comply w/ Israel's thought policing or you will never be allowed to go home or see your family again.

The Israeli state uses the most personal and precious things against you as political leverage. It is vicious. https://twitter.com/noa_landau/status/1162284988315951104

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"Part of the reason may lie in a pro-establishment bias in the information received by Beijing. ... information collection and reporting is slanted towards the pro-establishment camp while the voices of pan-democrats and young localists are marginalised." https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3022970/blindsided-why-does-beijing-keep-getting-hong-kong-wrong

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over 5 months I talked to 47 current/ex Google employees 2 make sense of the past 3 yrs inside Google: fear of the far right, activist awakening, compromises in search of revenue, weaponized leaks

it's the WIRED cover story‼️ read the heck out of it (pls) https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-three-years-misery-happiest-company-tech

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All caps tweet alert: DO YOU ALL REALISE THAT THE MORE YOU TALK ABOUT POSSIBLE ARMED INTERVENTION FROM CHINA THE MORE YOU NORMALISE SOMETHING HIGHLY UNLIKELY AND HENCE MAKE IT A BIT LIKELIER please stop for the love of God

3 of 5 stars to Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia https://www.goodreads.com/review/show?id=2411897533