Updated my /now page: https://antonyfb.com/now.html

#indieweb #personalblog #blogging #SmallWeb

Boost if you are gay, if you support gays, or if you like to open people's windows in the middle of the night and put dozens of geese (but not their golden eggs) in their bedrooms.

Decided to extend a short into a serial, redrafting from zero to make it work. Got about 800 words down for it today. Couldn't squeeze everything I wanted into a short, don't know how long this'll be, probably novella length?

Either way, cogs are turning. Feels good.

#writing #writingcommunity #horrorlit

why dont we pronounce the meow in homeowner?

For whatever reason, whenever I open TikTok (an app I have solely because my wife likes sending me silly videos) I'm inundated with Ed Milliband thirst edits. I don't know what concerns me more, that people are like that about politicians or that I kinda get it.

If anyone can help out a couple of queer trans+cis women (me and my wife) with a dog find a place (house, apartment or room) to rent within Barcelona region short or long-term, that would be greatly appreciated. For understandable reason it's pretty hard to achieve, I am just baffled by the amount of scammers and hurdles :(
I have good pay and can prove it too if needed.
Help appreciated.

If you're telling me we should leave aside the ethical concerns for the moment, then you *know* that what you're advocating is terrible

@afb I ended up finishing mine yesterday. That took much longer than anticipated! Mind you, I didn't help matters much by blathering on about each pick: https://aetheranne.ca/blog/music/an-album-from-each-year-of-my-life/

Some of my selections would probably make people cringe, but one of the many benefits of getting older is that I no longer care about what people think of my taste in music, haha.

I have submitted my suggested storm names to the Met Office: ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, Chevron and Gazprom.

In "Reason for name choice(s) (optional)" I wrote:

These are the corporations whose deliberate actions have caused the storms. They deserve credit.

Make your own recommendations at https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

"Humans are to blame for climate change".

Really? Is a Bangladeshi seamstress to blame? Is a street child from a Brazilian favela to blame? Or perhaps a subsistence fisherman from Somalia or an elderly tribeswoman from Papua New Guinea?

Some quite specific humans are to blame.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

New blog post:

Linkdump No 113
http://82mhz.net/posts/2026/06/linkdump-no-113/

#blogging #blog #links #linkpost #linkdump

Long ago, I was an angry young man who railed against all the injustices of the world, but time has passed, I have matured and learned so much more about things, and now I am an angrier old man.

(Importing from my old account my pinned post, which seems even more apt (apter?) now than when first expressed.)

It’s called the horseshoe theory because if you use it I’ll throw a horseshoe at you.

“How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization • Buttondown”

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/

“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.”
Genau das!

Social media bans don't work. They just make things worse.

In Australia, for those teens who haven't bypassed the restrictions, their access to news has been curtailed.

How does this square with giving votes to 16 year olds in the UK? Children have rights to free expression too.

ORG's @JamesBaker explains.

https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/crfbePPnNhcKMPQZts5urk

#socialmediaban #socialmedia #censorship #freeexpression #humanrights #ukpolitics #ukpol

The addition of Abigail as POV character means Peter Grant gets a well deserved break, and that this is definitely the best of the later books in the Rivers of London series. 4/5 stars.

I give the series overall so far 3,5 stars, but not being a big crime/detective reader I'm perhaps not the target audience. But if you're looking for a crime series filled with magic and other fantasy/scifi elements, and the occasional geeky refrence, this might be for you...

#Reading #Readers #ReadingCommunity #Novel #Books #Fiction #Recommendation #Bookrecommendation #Review #Bookreview #Bookwyrm #Bookstodon #FantasyBooks

(comment on Stone and Sky)

Fun day to be working in a factory where everything puts out heat, there's no AC, and the roof is tin.

Totally unrelated: Fabric, my short weird horror story about how strange and dehumanising working in a modern factory can be, is free to read here: https://www.ferenbrooke.com/short-stories/fabric.html

#horror #weirdfiction #horrorcommunity #shortstory