Lillian Badger
@lillianbadger.bsky.social
Joined after all my favourite Worldcon authors and creators said they were here. I don't create, I audience. But I audience with gusto.
Reposted by Lillian Badger
December 9, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Lillian Badger
Reposted by Lillian Badger
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
Reposted by Lillian Badger
Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.
December 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Glad to see people talking about Penn Jillette. The 2024 interview was done by me. I found him to be a refreshingly reflective, self-critical individual who has remained curious and willing to evolve.
Reposted by Lillian Badger
"The secret of Nazism in practice, as Mein Kampf states time and again, is to do the most outrageously secret things quite openly. The Nazi success with this practice has been so great that there is nothing they will not dare."
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
December 6, 2025 at 5:30 PM
"The secret of Nazism in practice, as Mein Kampf states time and again, is to do the most outrageously secret things quite openly. The Nazi success with this practice has been so great that there is nothing they will not dare."
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
- Bella Fromm, Berlin, 3/20/1938
Reposted by Lillian Badger
Hey fellow old people!
C'est la Vie by B*Witched was released in 1998. 27 years ago.
27 years before 1998, the Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes was released in 1971.
#spéirghorm
#LateLateToyShow
C'est la Vie by B*Witched was released in 1998. 27 years ago.
27 years before 1998, the Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes was released in 1971.
#spéirghorm
#LateLateToyShow
a man in a suit and tie with the words question when did i get old
Alt: a man in a suit and tie with says "Question. When did I get old?"
media.tenor.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Hey fellow old people!
C'est la Vie by B*Witched was released in 1998. 27 years ago.
27 years before 1998, the Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes was released in 1971.
#spéirghorm
#LateLateToyShow
C'est la Vie by B*Witched was released in 1998. 27 years ago.
27 years before 1998, the Theme from Shaft by Isaac Hayes was released in 1971.
#spéirghorm
#LateLateToyShow
Reposted by Lillian Badger
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 PM
All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences
Reposted by Lillian Badger
Also: why songs are like Rubik's cubes, why he carries a knife, and the scandal of knowing more about the Mariana Trench than the mind. www.thenerve.news/p/richard-ha...
Musician Richard Hawley: ‘I'd abolish the role of prime minister. I'm half serious!'
The Sheffield rocker, in rehearsal for his homecoming tour, answers the Nerve Q&A - on songs, socialism, swearing ... and the joy of dogs
www.thenerve.news
December 3, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Also: why songs are like Rubik's cubes, why he carries a knife, and the scandal of knowing more about the Mariana Trench than the mind. www.thenerve.news/p/richard-ha...
Just seen the most brilliant satire in years - The American Society of Magical Negroes. I howled - want to make it compulsory viewing in schools. Will buy physical copy before it gets disappeared.
December 3, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Just seen the most brilliant satire in years - The American Society of Magical Negroes. I howled - want to make it compulsory viewing in schools. Will buy physical copy before it gets disappeared.
Reposted by Lillian Badger
Just... a little snack snack...
Elderly stars just get hungry, and orbiting planets are *right there.* 🔭🧪
New research from Edward Bryant @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and Vincent Van Eylen @University College London, input from Sabine Reffert @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, story by @bowlerhatscience.org. eos.org/articles/pla...
New research from Edward Bryant @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and Vincent Van Eylen @University College London, input from Sabine Reffert @uniheidelberg.bsky.social, story by @bowlerhatscience.org. eos.org/articles/pla...
Planet-Eating Stars Hint at Earth’s Ultimate Fate - Eos
A sampling of aging Sun-like stars demonstrates that they likely eat their closest planets.
eos.org
December 2, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Just... a little snack snack...
Top 3 book of the year. Avoid amazon if you can. Discount is on ALL ebooks
HEMLOCK AND SILVER, by @tkingfisher.com , is currently just 99p for the ebook at Amazon.
It's a magnificent read (as always) and you don't want to miss it.
www.amazon.co.uk/Hemlock-Silv...
It's a magnificent read (as always) and you don't want to miss it.
www.amazon.co.uk/Hemlock-Silv...
Hemlock & Silver: A spellbinding Snow White retelling - the instant Sunday Times bestseller
Hemlock & Silver: A spellbinding Snow White retelling - the instant Sunday Times bestseller eBook : Kingfisher, T.: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
www.amazon.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Top 3 book of the year. Avoid amazon if you can. Discount is on ALL ebooks
Reposted by Lillian Badger
This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.
"Woke is ruining D&D". Meanwhile Dimension 20, one of the wokest real play shows around, just sold out Madison Square Garden and the Hollywood Bowl for live shows and brings armies of new players to RPGs.
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.
Reposted by Lillian Badger
Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
November 29, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Through his life and extraordinary talent, the immigrant and refugee child Tomáš Sträussler who became known to us all as Tom Stoppard made British theatre and this country a better place to be.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
You might even argue that he helped redefine Englishness through his astonishing legacy of work.
Reposted by Lillian Badger
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
Reposted by Lillian Badger
Suspending music courses will have a devastating impact on musical life at the University, as well as future courses, job, and career opportunities across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands
👇 Read our open letter to the University
👇 Read our open letter to the University
MU Sends Open Letter to University of Nottingham on Music Course Cuts
Music courses are being suspended for new students at the University of Nottingham while the university’s council decides whether to terminate the courses permanently. Read our open letter to the Univ...
musiciansunion.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Suspending music courses will have a devastating impact on musical life at the University, as well as future courses, job, and career opportunities across Nottingham and the wider East Midlands
👇 Read our open letter to the University
👇 Read our open letter to the University
Reposted by Lillian Badger
Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
November 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.
If only there were a word for such a party.
If only there were a word for such a party.
Reposted by Lillian Badger
You would never know from any reporting that men are much more likely to be the victims of violence from strangers
I don't doubt that some women feel unsafe walking in the dark, but this article would have been much improved if the writer had included the information that most violence against women is committed by people we know and not by randoms on the street.
'Dark winter nights feel like an unspoken curfew for women'
Women in the north west of England speak of how they have to be more cautious as nights turn dark.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 11:01 AM
You would never know from any reporting that men are much more likely to be the victims of violence from strangers
Reposted by Lillian Badger
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
November 23, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.
Reposted by Lillian Badger
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Earned settlement
The government is consulting on how the current settlement system should be reformed and how those reforms should be implemented.
www.gov.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:13 AM
For those of you in the UK, especially if you are a UK citizen, can you please take part in the consultation on changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain (Settlement) that were just proposed by the UK government. We need as many people as possible to reject these proposals. www.gov.uk/government/c...
Reposted by Lillian Badger
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
media.tenor.com
March 12, 2025 at 5:33 AM
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Free postcards. And the noblest cause: stop UoN from writing its own death warrant through killing language, music and biology degrees.
Save Modern Languages at the University of Nottingham www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
savenottinghamlanguages
www.savemlcatnotts.org.uk
November 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Free postcards. And the noblest cause: stop UoN from writing its own death warrant through killing language, music and biology degrees.
Reposted by Lillian Badger
One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
November 19, 2025 at 10:50 AM
One of the most liberating truths I’ve learned, and the one that white folx, particularly white men, still struggle to face, is this:
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
The myth of white supremacy explains your behavior.
It does not, and has never, determined my value.
Honestly surprised it took this long. Kingdom of the Gods changed my life and brought my to SFF fansom after decades of just reading it.
✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done:
www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...
November 19, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Honestly surprised it took this long. Kingdom of the Gods changed my life and brought my to SFF fansom after decades of just reading it.
Reposted by Lillian Badger
BY THE WAY
If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.
There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.
Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."
TURN IT OFF.
If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.
There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.
Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."
TURN IT OFF.
October 17, 2025 at 12:58 AM
BY THE WAY
If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.
There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.
Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."
TURN IT OFF.
If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.
There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.
Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."
TURN IT OFF.
Reposted by Lillian Badger
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.
November 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.