Yeah, I can see an argument to limiting it to something like youngest child reaching adulthood plus 10 years, give them chance to establish their own income. I'm not sure 75 years is always necessary.
Shake your booty
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Demanding kindness regardless of any context, kindness in any circumstance, is dehumanising. If someone is obnoxious why are they entitled to kindness?
I've never known Nikita to be anything less than nice to me, and I can be a dck so this guy must have really deserved it.
Seriously though, nobody gets to demand kindness regardless of their behaviour. It's really simple.
The time is NOW. Valenziaga will fall.
Category is: Science-Fantasy EXTRAVAGANZA! Think Drag Race meets a gay Game of Thrones meets Chronicles of Amber.
High drama and high CAMP!
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Hope you feel better soon, but keep grouchy please. Its the only reasonable position right now.
Is it the racism of AI output or the planet destroying resource use that you are most comfortable with?
@faberbooks.bsky.social included their version last August in Sarah Hall's Helm.
AI is routinely racist amongst other biases. Ai is a massive environmental drain causing huge damage. AI is largely trained on stolen materials.
What should we make of someone who boasts about using it?
One thing about the @bsfa.bsky.social Awards shortlists. I'm a big fan of TL Huchu's Edinburgh Nights series (though I haven't yet read the last one.) Reading the first four, and hearing Tendai talk on a panel at Pictcon1, it had not occurred to me to think of them as for Younger Readers.
Helm is the only named wind in the British Isles, the novel is a mosaic covering prehistoric to near future groups engaging with it, and potentially it's loss through climate change. Sections are fantasy, and near future climate SF.
I admit to being a massive Sarah Hall fan for over 20 years
I've been thinking about Hugo nominations. I have different tastes to many voters so I'm not sure my choices are likely to come close to shortlists.
In Best Novel is there really any point in nominating Helm, for instance. Many won't even accept it is SF. It's had no buzz in SF circles I've seen.
From another angle, might SF take from these works as well?
I keep telling you, AI is racist. #CodedBias
I never felt confident enough nor had disposable income enough to chance it.
At one time there was a suggestion of a BSFA Orbiter group devoted to non fiction
That may be a hyperoxysophistical argument
There's a bit of me thinks that if I need a degree to understand a book, it doesn't work.
I understand that urge but at the same time I have no degree at all and don't always feel a lack.
Sarathy Korwar's south Asian roots create really great reimaginings of classics.
I could list so many great examples though. So I'll just share one of the best gig photos I've taken
I went two nights running on her last Manchester gigs. Once on the floor down in the pit dancing, once balcony front row to get photos. Incredible.
Took this in 2021 I think. Wasn't sure how it worked but I think i like it now.
Dan Casimir and Sam Barrell Jones in Nubya Garcia's band.
Each time I've seen her live she's so powerful and inclusive. You maybe aware she brings people onstage to dance? One night in Manchester she got a wheelchair user and carer up.
Jazz is booming in the UK with Black and white musicians gaining success in their 20s. But a lot is crossing into other genres and swapping elements.
Don't forget Janelle Monáe
There's an overlap with the exciting UK jazz scenes, and input from the South Asian diaspora here that has interesting results.
This is really interesting to me as a middle aged white brit.
Yo Womble, Finished When There Are Wolves Again which i enjoyed and think is important if not quite as great as some say it is. Midway through Karen Lord's Best of All Possible Worlds and like that too. Feel like going off in a random direction next though.
It's mostly a strong list. Congratulations!
Ok. So that excludes a lot of what I'd suggest. But my definition of genres are mostly very loose and overlapping. And everything fits a genre. What have you liked recently?
