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Month: June 2020

  • here we go again

    Packing once more… a process made somewhat easier by not having unpacked much of it since the Big Move, four long and baffling months ago. Also made less traumatic by the fact that I’m moving less than a kilometer from my current location, to somewhere I can settle properly for at least a few years.…

  • they refuse to engage with the roots of the problem

    Scientists, public intellectuals, and journalists bemoan denialism, but have no solutions to offer apart from urging us to fight harder not to get sucked into an ocean of misinformation. This is because they refuse to engage with the roots of the problem, which cannot be addressed by doubling down on the denial that there are…

  • sluta analysera allting!

    Duolingo with the apposite life tips, once again. Sorry, Duo; one is what one is.

  • a new New Wave, if you like

    I am beginning to perceive a pattern here, though. There is a loose group – a new New Wave, if you like – of British writers whose work might best be described as the natural successor to the ‘mundane SF’ of the early 2000s. These writers are less interested in the widescreen formats of space…

  • 23JUN20 / accessions

    It’s so good to live in a city with a store that carries books like this without your having to order them in special. (Hell knows you pay for that privilege, though… but on the other hand, I’m glad to pay enough for books that the people selling them to me can be properly taken…