@benjaminhollon A friend gave me The Wandering Earth several years ago and you can't imagine my disappointment to find (after finishing the titular tale) that one was a collection of short stories. I'll read more eventually.

POLL: If you've been on #Mastodon for over a week and used it each day, how likely are you to go back to using Twitter on a regular basis?

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@medievalist@writing.exchange wow, lots to look I to here, but no one yet has mentioned Arkady Martine's Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace.

So good.

Asked on Twitter, no takers. Let's see Fediverse wants it.

#AmateurRadio give-away

I have a spare ARRL Handbook from 2002. It's old but still has a lot of relevant advice.

I am happy to pay for posting costs for the UK.

Does anyone know an Foundation, Intermediate, or a new starter amateur wannabe who might benefit from it?
Please let me know.

@Ghostwoods #iä!

@ChristopherJM Dang, one parody tweetbox account knocked that much off of Eli Lilly in a single day. UK needs to step up.

Mashup request of the day: Stereolab's Iron Man and Robbie Williams' Let Me Entertain You....

Robbie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymPu2PdLW3I
S'lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hp0S0Gx9HIU

@keira_reckons My very favourite recent SF would be Arkady Martine's A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace. Lefty, queer, and funny most definitely, though the humour is sometimes low in the mix.

Recent queer YA goody is Charlie Jane Anders' Unstoppable series (Victories Greater Than Death was wonderful, but I haven't grabbed Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak yet. Book 3 comes out in the spring.) Their other stuff is also quite tasty.

Space Opera by Catherynne Valente also yummy.

And while it's always a good day to share a bisl #yiddishkeit, it's a great day to share G-d Bless America in #Yiddish. The chap speaking after the first verse is Joel Grey whose career on Broadway is legendary and has been staging Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway in Yiddish since 2018... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riHMRZsv3nc

@garius Oooh. Niiiice. Never thought of cheese and haggis going together. Hmmm.

@garius That looks fantabulous! What's in it?

I had two divine toasties in California - a patty melt at Melt! in Oakland and a heavenly pastrami thing at Langer's.

Neither place calls what they do toasties, but yeah, they're toasties.

Shabbat Chagall, y'all, and wishing a meaningful Remembrance/Veterans Day...

If you’re struggling to get stuck in with trans ally-ship because you don’t think you’ve met any trans folk or know our lives, here’s almost two dozen folk spanning three generations to explain what we’ve all been through just to arrive at a moral panic https://www.queerlit.co.uk/collections/non-fiction/products/trans-britain-our-journey-from-the-shadows?_pos=2&_sid=be10dc27a&_ss=r

Kurt Vonnegut's letter home at the end of WWII having been a POW in Dresden during the firebombing. On both Vonnegut's birthday and Veterans/Remembrance Day, it's appropriate... https://lettersofnote.com/2009/11/18/slaughterhouse-five/

All,

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Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.

Today's music is this >really epic< slice of awesome disco from La Bionda's eponymously titled 1978 album -> https://youtube.com/watch?v=GfMO0rAfT2Q
<3 #disco RIP Carmelo La Bionda x

@garius Fri-yay, as an old colleague used to say.

Back in 2010 #twitter launched their “t.co” link shortened. And I thought at the time how profoundly terrible that is. If the database and/or ability to look up t.co links ever changed, we would literally lose information. We will no longer know what URL was tweeted. It burns a huge hunk of internet history to the ground if we lose that. It was vain and shortsighted and stupid. Now in 2022, I wonder how many months we have left when we can resolve those links. And what happens to collective internet history when they’re done?

In another funny twist, what about trials or legal matters that hinge on the content of a tweet? And suddenly you can’t get the content of that tweet? Or where did that link point to?

Nobody saw this coming except for all of us who saw this coming.