Eddie Clark

yes! The hammering of 'flip flops' when changing minds when presented with good arguments or changing facts is what we ought to want from public servants and elected representatives both!

As an IR professor, it's depressing that this is outperforming all others as the best theory of US foreign policy

Well. And where there are brown women she has an inexplicable dislike of. That was like half her columns in the last local govt triennium.

Be great if we could both stop killing people and stop making prices for half the shit in the economy bounce around like that Jose Gonzales rubber ball ad (simile showing my *age*). Serve us taco stat.

You mean you don't have an endorsement deal with an anarchist decolonial candy brand?

This is I think Andrea Vance's big flaw as a journalist. She thinks they all suck all the time. And a decent amount of the time she's right. But she can't tell when she's not.

ughhh. Not sure if worse but it feels *sharper?* Not perhaps as all-pervasive but the bigots feel threatened in a way that makes the backlash more dangerous.

NZCCL / VUW Law essay prize winner for 2025 announced! We are delighted to announce that the winner of the NZ Council for Civil Liberties essay prize for 2025 is Jessica Ye for her essay 'Rupturing the liberal grammar of ‘critical’ civil disobedience theo...

We're pleased to announce that the winner of the NZCCL/VUW Law essay prize for 2025 is Jessica Ye for her essay about civil disobedience: "Rupturing the liberal grammar of ‘critical’ civil disobedience theories".

Read the abstract here: nzccl.org.nz/nzccl-vuw-la...

Nanaimo bars and maple syrup.

Excited today to see my friend and our Dean, Prof @geoffmclay.bsky.social, making a rare appearance in the Supremes, re an appeal from Victims’ Special Claims Tribunal re an award of compensation under the Prisoners’ and Victims’ Claims Act 2005.

www.courtsofnz.govt.nz/assets/cases...

I missed that; could not be more excited!

I was surprised at how many books had no award recognition of the ones I picked. Starting to think my reckon that there is a gap for top quality queer stuff broadly in the midlist space in the existing slate of awards might actually have something to it.

Thanks for making my job hard by writing four books across this time period I could legitimately have included, heh. Really hard to narrow down to 10! Which will continue next year, sigh. I have 5 books looking in at 2 spaces for my 2021 list; need to read slash reread those in the next 3 weeks!

Only time I visited Cambridge was via train and I *cackled* at the sign. The best marketing dollars ever spent.

‘Dark, like our future’: Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran’s oil depots bombed Residents report terror of smoke-filled city, from potentially toxic rain, air and water to food scarcity and difficulty of escape

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside."

Read every word.

Yesss more dorohedoro.

(This was a *real Murder, She Wrote episode*)

This is how I access Bluesky.

First stop in my project to identify queer SFF that fell thru the award gaps since the Gaylactic Spectrum Award stopped in 2019. 10 top quality titles, most of which are that sweet spot of commercial but quality that typifies the 00s big pub midlist.

Dive in, find something new; buy links included!

An edited version of the XKCD comic #2347 titled "Dependencies" It shows a large stack of irregularly sized blocked stacked on one another. They are labelled "The Global Economy" In the lower right there is a single small block that is clearly supporting the entire tower above it. It is labelled "A Very Narrow Strip Of Water Between Iran And Gulf States"

With apologies to XKCD (xkcd.com/2347/)

For International Women's Day, I highly recommend the Elemental Logic series by Laurie J. Marks: four books that ought to be known as the Masterworks of Fantasy that they bloody well are. And a bonus: the gorgeous cover art for these editions is by @tanaudel.bsky.social, a very fine writer herself.

I’m so tired, but this is exactly what we said would happen. The NHS is consciously engaging in conversion practices, framing even social transition as a clinical issue. Watch for their move on trans adults because if they aren’t stopped, it’s a matter of time.

Desiring a single year long timezone and mindful of disagreements about whether permant daylight time or permanent standard time is better, I offer the following compromise: the entire country adopts Chatham Islands standard time (UTC+12:45) year round.

Such a great shot!

First stop in my project to identify queer SFF that fell thru the award gaps since the Gaylactic Spectrum Award stopped in 2019. 10 top quality titles, most of which are that sweet spot of commercial but quality that typifies the 00s big pub midlist.

Dive in, find something new; buy links included!

Be nice if we had incentives to get cars that use less petrol as well. A discount? On clean cars?

At the risk of boring everyone,a little context.

$100 oil in isolation isn’t that bad. It averaged around that level from 2011-2014 without severe economic ramifications*.

It’s the pace of the rise that has people spooked. And not knowing where it might stop.

I have a copy of the 1 ed of Cycles of the Eye. Are there any substantial changes in the 2ed?

I would be stoked if we did, but it *has* been a while. Maybe she can pull a Megan Whalen Turner and just put out a great book every 5 or 6 years with silence in between.

Probably the Campbell. Has real first novel flaws, but the approach and tone are so out of step with the vast bulk of contemporary secondary world fantasy in a good way, and the overall execution so solid, it kind of forced its way in despite serious competition. Sadly hasn't put anything out since.