@patricksamphire
Fantasy writer | Freelance developmental editor | Former physicist. #SPFBO/#BBNYA finalist. He/him. Around the web and my books: http://linktr.ee/patricksamphire π³οΈββ§οΈ rights are human rights No generative AI ever.
Interesting to see that a review with 32 experts published in British Journal of Psychiatry last week found no evidence that ADHD is being overdiagnosed
www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/no-over...
Good. Now let's get rid of all unelected peers and finally have a democracy.
Person crouching on the floor vacuuming and looking under the dresser. Cat on a dresser. Jesus hiding under it looking creepy AF. Caption: "And then one day, quite unexpectedly, Peter found Jesus."
Heeheehee!
This is so much fun.
A photo of a crab by hydrothermal vent at the bottom of the ocean. "This creature has adapted to the crushing pressure and oppressive darkness."
I'm trying. I'm really trying.
If I want completely the wrong diagnosis, I'll get that from a professional doctor, thank you very much.
Yes, hello, is that God? Yeah, hi. I have a complaint. You gave me this brain thatβs designed for finding berries and avoiding lions and now people are βjust circling backβ to see if we can βmove the needleβ on βkey initiativesβ? NONE of those things are berries.
Whichever daft TERF thought they were going to blackmail the kind of older woman who runs WI branches had no idea what they were getting into.
NEW: US Attorney nominee Phil Williams has a long & disturbing history of attacking trans people and their parents.
He said parents of trans children should be drowned. He also compared efforts to support gender-affirming care to slavery & the Holocaust. nominationnotes.substack.com/p/us-attorne...
Jennifer Jason Leigh is 63.
Her Sahara dry takedown of Jon Hammβs sadistic MAGA sheriff in Fargo S5 was one of the tv highlights of 2024.
βSuper Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, βWhat if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?β - Shigeru Miyamoto
Happy Mario day!
Apparently at least 25 WIs have now closed as a result of threats by βgender critical feministsβ.
GCs do not represent (cis)women.
4 frame comic. a street journalist is interviewing a tall light brown man with a pink scarf and a tshirt of the band Angine de Poitrine. off-frame, the journalist asks : sir! are you worried about homophobic parents who might want to trans their child rather than have an effeminate son? the man replies : wait wait wait wait wait. are you implying that some homophobes might not also be raging transphobes? Never heard of that. trans kids are currently being hunted down, outlawed, marginalized from social life, singled out in their own schools, and you're asking me about some hypothetical parent who might pressure a child into being trans so they might what? fit in better? transitioning as a child in- volves years of determination. every adult in their life is likely to cast doubt on who they are. if they are lucky and have supportive parents, their families are often ostracized by their community. the idea that someone sees the hardships a family with a trans child goes through and thinks "they must have forced it on them" makes me physically ill.
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Covers of books by Patrick Samphire. The Mennik Thorn series (Epic fantasy mystery). The Secrets of the Dragon Tomb series (Middle Grade adventures). The Casebook of Harriet George series (Murder mysteries on Mars). And my short story collection, At the Gates and Other Stories.
New year, new pinned post!
Here are all my published books so far. Check them out.
patricksamphire.com/books
A list of book cover artists who are an AI free zone!
www.bookishartists.com?fbclid=IwdGR...
Hopefully not you.
Air strikes cause black rain and 'unprecedented' pollution in Tehran, scientists say
OMG look at it! π
Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.
Nominating for Hugos? Here's all eligible BCS stories, category, nominating links, and link to our BCS Authors Elsewhere posts. (Pls *DON'T* nominate BCS for Semiprozine; we recused. You can nominate Scott for Editor Short Form if you find him worthy.) www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/2025/12/07/2...
Celebrating its anniversary, The Bastard from Fairyland is 99p.
Be warned, not only a grimdark tale it's a severely 'woke' story. Its 3 heroes battle homophobia, racism and misogyny.
"A unique and fresh modern take on a genre that sorely needs more books like this."
linktr.ee/phil_parker
booksky
Against a background of dark violets and green leaves is shown the illustrated cover of Enchanting the Fae Queen, in which a mischievously grinning woman with long blonde curls, a moonstone crown, a pink dress and bare feet, sits perched in a tree teasing the uniformed general who stands before her, his expression determined and one of his hands around her closest leg while she pokes his strong nose with one finger. Above that cover image is this snippet of text: No one was allowed to kill the Golden Beacon on her watch! ...No one apart from her, obviously. But that was different.
This week's Tuesday snippet comes from Enchanting the Fae Queen, which is out in ebook, paper, and audiobook:
stephanieburgis.com/books/enchanting-the-fae-queen
Gerard may be her nemesis, but there's no WAY Lorelei will let anyone else harm him! ;)
#romancelandia
Brilliant explanation. Watch it.
1. A new NHS England Review excluded 97% of all trans care studies to conclude that trans youth care doesn't work.
It explicitly violates several guidelines around reviewing literature, and appears to be politics masquerading as (shoddy) science.
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They get mad when people on SNAP want to buy soda
The reviews used to justify this excluded nearly 97% of all studies from inclusion in their analysis. This is an absolutely obscene hatchet job by the NHS specifically created to eliminate access to hormones for trans youth.
Sarah Sackman, Labour, used to work for the Israeli Supreme Court.
She canβt directly answer the question about the US bombing an Iranian school bcs sheβd have to talk about Israel bombing *all* of Gazaβs schools as part of its genocide.
I will not be using the Human Authored mark on any of my books.
Mainly because these people who are so-called champions of human art are using AI.
Jesus, shield me against hypocrisy.
Solidarity against AI theft means everyone. You can't campaign for 'don't use the word plagiariser' while using the image plagiariser. @societyofauthors.bsky.social
As far as I'm concerned, if it allows any AI use at any stage, it's worthless.
