Aliette de Bodard

OUT NOW!

K1 and K2 calling me from holidays--both of them with pressing questions about how to get through their video games 🤭

Ah la nostalgie de la mise en place du fascisme, c tjrs qq chose (ou pas)

We're at Sourcery

Rendez vous compte aussi qu'un attroupement d'un point de vue pénal c'est n'importe quel groupe de personnes sur la voie publique, pas juste une manifestation

Je le savais historiquement mais c'est toujours aussi dingue de voir à quel point on bascule vite dans la dictature

Currently on a terry Pratchett reread, wondering which one to pick (probably sourcery as I'm working my way through rincewind)

We've hit stretch goal 3! #Murderbot graphic novel backers will be treated to new artwork from @nilahmagruder.com @faitherinhicks.bsky.social @rachaelsmith.bsky.social & @emmavieceli.bsky.social across every physical edition! (Not every artist in every one.) www.kickstarter.com/projects/cos...

A la base, les études ne devraient pas être là juste pour nous former à un métier précis, mais avant tout pour nous donner assez de clés et de bases de réflexions pour être capables de comprendre un peu mieux le monde, et affronter mieux armés les aléas de la vie.

Either a Selene or an Asmodeus move (though Asmodeus would give it to Thuan, who'd roll his eyes and wear it anyway because Thuan might be a cinnamon roll but he does know the value of a good show of power)

C'est génial (Probably not understandable to the English speakers but)

The only reason anyone is talking about Marissa Mayer or Dazzle is that her marketing team understands how to deploy rage bait, and most of the Internet still can't spot it in the wild.

I don't own a car because I ran the maths and concluded that taxi plus rental cars and/or trains was going to be cheaper than car ownership

Tchaikovsky’s joyfully off-kilter sentences and wry wordplay in the Tyrant Philosophers act as a repudiation of the absolutist ideal of “correctness” espoused by the books' primary antagonists. This quintet of novels is a joy to read. New blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

Cat update: had to bar the cupboard doors with dictionaries as Dalek was definitely checking out how to open it

A reward for a long day

Tfw you search for a name and you find a relative's grave address instead (it's saved in my phone because it's a large graveyard) 😭

To be honest: not that safe, it drops blood pressure and cardiac rhythm. If you have a number of conditions (any breathing issues, notably), it can be pretty dangerous.

Voilà. On en a notre claque de voter pour un "moindre mal" qui ne fait que retarder le pire. On veut ARRÊTER l'extrême droite, pas lui laisser le temps de prendre de l'assurance !

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People are sharing all sorts of stories of Bauza on the picket lines fighting for artists and standing up for the craft of animation but I just keep thinking about the time he went to Tara Strong’s birthday and stopped by 6Point on the way home with a tray of cakepops for the artists working late

So @wiswell.bsky.social I've been explaining your books to k1 who's on a mythology kick atm and he says he's totally on board for the friendly lion of nemea and the dragon sneaking into dragon riding school (I did tell k1 he might want to wait a little before reading them because well, content)

LOOK IT'S AN OPINION buttondown.com/matociquala/...

(I read this aged 16 or 17 and it was a good age for it)

So errrrrr we should stockpile for a climate emergency facilitated by the resumption of drilling and the encouragement of generalised AI use?

A red letter day: I've explained Sam Vimes' Boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness to k1 Who chewed on it for a while and said "ok fair it does make a lot of sense"

Today I got schooled by k1 for misgendering Chaos in hades (Entirely my bad and yay for k1)

Honestly several things are depressing about ai but the two that stand out are the eagerness of people to outsource thought because cognitive effort is uncomfortable, and the casualness with which people use the shiny, easy thing knowing it's bad for climate change

Explained garden of eden story to k1 K1, future scientist: really unsure why knowing good and evil is an issue. Knowledge is good no? Me: er (No suggestions on how to explain please, I did get it covered)

The clocks went back. The cats have been besieging my bedroom for 30mins now 😂

Oh Mike Glyer No.

Revolutionary Girl Utena: The Adolescence of Utena

Y'all have helped me buy exciting things for my homecoming, including a walker tray, bed risers, a toilet riser, a shower transfer bench, groceries, and grab bars. You will also be helping me stay in my house. Thank you so much. www.gofundme.com/f/help-suppo...

Colette reminding us what we collectively have accomplished via out efforts to explore how the biological world works. It's worth a read because we sometimes forget the impact in my own scientific lifetime 🧪

Update: woke me up last night at 3am because he and his brother got into the big clothes cupboard

I'm still of the opinion that the best way to deal with people saying very idiotic or harmful things is not giving them oxygen in the press social media etc or at any rate making sure the people saying the right things are given more oxygen than they do

Oui et encore oui. (Paske même quand pn sera rentrés, je serai pas en état d'aller manif. Même si c'était garanti sûr à 100% j'hésiterais.)

Rights for LGBT+ people, especially in Ireland. The right to divorce. The lessening of intercommunity violence in the North. Solar power. Battery capacity. The ability to keep in touch with friends abroad. Vaccines for HPV. Vaccines for malaria, however partial. HIV used to be a death sentence.

Des archéologues ont découvert, parmi les ruines sous-marine d'Antirhodos (une ancienne île où s'élevait un palais royal) une petite bague en bronze sur laquelle est gravée une image rare du phare d'Alexandrie, l'une des 7 merveilles du monde antique. www.franckgoddio.org/service/news...