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Aug 4, 2020 • 9 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
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Auction starts online Thursday! langleyadvancetimes.com/news/build-you…
Sometimes I love my job...
I did not get pics, but there was SO MUCH FOSSIL POOP!

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Jul 10, 2022
Pirating books and pretending it's some kind of liberatory act is roughly the same as doing a dine & dash at a nice restaurant and thinking you're sticking it to "the man," when actually the waitress will get the cost of your meal docked from her pay.
Do you want to know the single way you can make books cheaper/free for people right now?

Call your local municipal/regional politicians and tell them you are a single-issue voter and that issue is LIBRARIES.
You think your state/provincial/federal politicians are unresponsive? Perhaps!

But in many cities and towns, your civic leaders count their wins in double handfuls of votes. If you show up with a petition that says "GIVE MONEY TO THE LIBRARY OR GET THE BOOT" they will sit up.
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Jul 8, 2022
Me, sweating: So there's this, this guy? I dunno, he's a detective. Also, it's the future. Anyway, someone murders a robot. *sweating intensifies* Did I mention the robots? Those are important. His mom is a nanobot swarm now? The detective, not the robot's mom. Fuck, I dunno.
Creating a contest where authors have to publicly pitch their ideas is definitely going to divide authors into two groups, and it's not going to be "Good writers" and "Less good writers."
For all that synopses and agent pitch letters are awful, AT LEAST THEY ARE WRITTEN.

I mean, I've spent years working on being socially adroit and tamping down my natural desire to just stand in corners, and on my best day, I'm still "average human interaction" at best.
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Feb 11, 2022
Good thread on the Freeman On The Land roots of a lot of the weird beliefs/behaviour of many of the Ottawa protesters, mentions seminal Canadian case Meads vs Meads.

One thing it doesn't flatly say is that these beliefs ≠ simply not liking govt.
Lots of people on right, left, even center dislike either current govt or want to replace it with some other system entirely, i.e. libertarians, anarchists etc.

Freeman, or other followers of OPCA (organized pseudolegal commercial arguments, per the Canadian courts)…
…believe they know secret methods of nullifying government control over them here and now.

It's an esoteric belief, that is, one based on the idea of hidden knowledge.

Magical thinking, on a truly bizarre scale.
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Feb 9, 2022
Anyway, here's a little bit of what it's like to be a reporter over the last couple of years.
I mostly only catch the edges of this – the contempt from Facebook comments, the accusations that we're on the take, the casual drive-by claims that I'm a liar.

A lot of my colleagues get it worse than I do by miles.
Most of this abuse comes from the far right and the conspiracy theorists, but in general, it feels more and more like there's no one on our side.

Everyone, right, left, and centre, has, at best, contempt for the media in general, and no desire to discern between outlets.
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Sep 15, 2020
I have written/deleted like waaaaaay too many cynical tweets today, so let's talk about something that's really important: How Star Trek: Voyager could have been really, really good. 1/
Cards on the table: I am a DS9 guy. DS9ers and Voyergerites are natural enemies. Sometimes for old times sake we pick up our rhetorical broken pool cues and smack each other around in the piss-stained back alley that is the internet. 2/
But I was SO EXCITED when Voyager premiered. It had so much potential! The premise promised a combination of the complex politics of DS9 and the star-spanning journeys of Next Gen!

I! Was! Hyped! 3/
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Aug 30, 2020
Just started watching the Little Nemo movie, and pausing to note that the script/story credits include Chris Columbus, Moebius, and Ray Bradbury.

WHAT?!?
And Brian Froud involved in the design. Sure. Why not.

How was Jodorowsky not involved in this too?
We've got a murderer's row of weird talent involved, and yet there's just white credits over coloured backgrounds while this sugary Care Bears-style title song plays, and I am filled with foreboding for what is to come…

…ooh, Rene Auberjonois and Tress MacNeil do voices!
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