Nelson Stanley
@notasentence.bsky.social
Romany. Angry. Stories in The Dark, Northern Gravy, Weird Horror #9, Old Moon Quarterly, Kaleidotrope, Vastarien, https://linktr.ee/notasentence
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I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing
November 25, 2025 at 4:44 PM
I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing
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Sounds like it's time to call upon the tactics of ol Gerard Winstanley
November 24, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Sounds like it's time to call upon the tactics of ol Gerard Winstanley
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If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
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This is exactly what I said would happen when I analysed the NHS 10 year plan. Clever words are hiding the reality-people are agitating to pull as many services out of hospitals as possible. Why? Because it’s a lot easier to privatise services that way🚨
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 25, 2025 at 7:12 AM
This is exactly what I said would happen when I analysed the NHS 10 year plan. Clever words are hiding the reality-people are agitating to pull as many services out of hospitals as possible. Why? Because it’s a lot easier to privatise services that way🚨
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
The unabashed white supremacy & classism of the UK press, part 234,580:
I am so angry at the all-too-believable levels of racism in the justice system, media, and politics right now.
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 AM
The unabashed white supremacy & classism of the UK press, part 234,580:
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Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants
November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants
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I've said before that Britain is afflicted by a triple-humiliation: loss of aristocracy; empire; political/media credibility. Brexit was essentially the last gasp of the British ruling class yelling to the Commonwealth, "Come on chaps, we're leaving," then marching out into the blizzard alone—nude.
I liked when they explained to boris Johnson what brexit would mean and he said oh god that is horrible you must strike a deal. They had to explain that was the deal
November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I've said before that Britain is afflicted by a triple-humiliation: loss of aristocracy; empire; political/media credibility. Brexit was essentially the last gasp of the British ruling class yelling to the Commonwealth, "Come on chaps, we're leaving," then marching out into the blizzard alone—nude.
A Distant Mirror is the biography of a half-century in which Western Europe went mad(der), the apocalypse seemed to be happening & the top tiers of society drove themselves into a wall at 10000mph , focussed on one bloke whose biography reads like fanwank.
An astonishing & brilliantly-written book.
An astonishing & brilliantly-written book.
Very Middle-Aged Dad but Last Stand of the Tin Cans or A Distant Mirror tbh
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 24, 2025 at 2:32 PM
A Distant Mirror is the biography of a half-century in which Western Europe went mad(der), the apocalypse seemed to be happening & the top tiers of society drove themselves into a wall at 10000mph , focussed on one bloke whose biography reads like fanwank.
An astonishing & brilliantly-written book.
An astonishing & brilliantly-written book.
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It's kinda miserable watching what happened to musicians happen to authors. Traditional publishing getting less and less interested in doing the things that help people starting out and instead looking to parasitise the work they do to build their own audiences is the record company model.
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 AM
It's kinda miserable watching what happened to musicians happen to authors. Traditional publishing getting less and less interested in doing the things that help people starting out and instead looking to parasitise the work they do to build their own audiences is the record company model.
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I don’t know if it only makes sense without the periphery stuff, but Nier has books, stage plays, etc. I once asked Taro about this and how are English fans supposed to keep up and he looked confused and asked “Why would you need to keep up? Who needs all of that?”
After "film trilogy that dropped a critical plot point exclusively via timed Fortnite event" and "video game series whose story only makes sense if you're aware of the events of a canon pachinko machine", I feel like there are whole frontiers of user-hostile narrative design waiting to be explored.
November 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I don’t know if it only makes sense without the periphery stuff, but Nier has books, stage plays, etc. I once asked Taro about this and how are English fans supposed to keep up and he looked confused and asked “Why would you need to keep up? Who needs all of that?”
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“Franco was good, actually” is one of those subtle tells that indicates someone may have inhaled some fascism recently.
Artículo de un “think tanker” conservador estadounidense defendiendo a Franco, en el Wall Street Journal.
El problema no son los jóvenes españoles.
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El problema no son los jóvenes españoles.
@marujatorres.bsky.social
@mariaramirez.bsky.social
@robiols.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 8:31 AM
“Franco was good, actually” is one of those subtle tells that indicates someone may have inhaled some fascism recently.
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Complex art shouldn't go down smooth, but besides that, a romance reader wants to experience the story's highs and lows. A horror reader can't get a sense of dread from a summary.
"Make it easy to summarize" is the suggestion from a non-reader trying to solve books for someone who likes to read.
"Make it easy to summarize" is the suggestion from a non-reader trying to solve books for someone who likes to read.
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Complex art shouldn't go down smooth, but besides that, a romance reader wants to experience the story's highs and lows. A horror reader can't get a sense of dread from a summary.
"Make it easy to summarize" is the suggestion from a non-reader trying to solve books for someone who likes to read.
"Make it easy to summarize" is the suggestion from a non-reader trying to solve books for someone who likes to read.
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Judith Butler in 2021
November 21, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Judith Butler in 2021
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You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance
The new code of practice on access to single-sex services cannot gain legal force until it gets sign-off from ministers.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
You're not asking trans people. You're asking all people. This affects us all. Anyone could be barred from services based on appearance. Since, surprisingly we all have a fecking appearance
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Haven't seen this, but look at those stopmotion fx. Just infinitely better than most contemporary big budget CGI megafauna. The artistry, tactility, solidity.
November 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Haven't seen this, but look at those stopmotion fx. Just infinitely better than most contemporary big budget CGI megafauna. The artistry, tactility, solidity.
Trans rights are human rights.
November 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Trans rights are human rights.
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BBC R4 yesterday: Evan Davies asked a Spanish historian how to "depoliticise" remembering the fascist Franco regime so it wasn't just leftwing people who cared about all the dead victims.
Like there's a magical version of memories of fascism that the rightwing won't suppress and BBC can support.
Like there's a magical version of memories of fascism that the rightwing won't suppress and BBC can support.
oh hey, happy "burn in hell franco" 50th anniversary
November 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
BBC R4 yesterday: Evan Davies asked a Spanish historian how to "depoliticise" remembering the fascist Franco regime so it wasn't just leftwing people who cared about all the dead victims.
Like there's a magical version of memories of fascism that the rightwing won't suppress and BBC can support.
Like there's a magical version of memories of fascism that the rightwing won't suppress and BBC can support.
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Turns out my first novel, The Divinity Student, was stolen by these creeps. If you've published anything, you might want to check this site. I found my work listed and submitted a claim all within about five minutes.
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
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Submit a Claim
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November 19, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Turns out my first novel, The Divinity Student, was stolen by these creeps. If you've published anything, you might want to check this site. I found my work listed and submitted a claim all within about five minutes.
Let me be the styptic pencil on the shaving cut of yr. heart, he said.
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Let me be the styptic pencil on the shaving cut of yr. heart, he said.
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Israel just hit the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Ain al Hilweh, with missiles.
It’s a dense camp with the presence of many Palestinian factions but also many civilians.
It’s a dense camp with the presence of many Palestinian factions but also many civilians.
November 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Israel just hit the largest Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, Ain al Hilweh, with missiles.
It’s a dense camp with the presence of many Palestinian factions but also many civilians.
It’s a dense camp with the presence of many Palestinian factions but also many civilians.
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Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
November 17, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Filming at an abandoned uranium mine in Arizona. The mining waste is uncontained, open to the winds. Professor Kearfott, University of Michigan, telks me the Geiger counter readings I took here are similar to those remaining around Chernobyl.
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
vimeo.com/ondemand/thi...
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THAT IS THE LESSON OF HOLOCAUST EDUCATION YOU SICK FREAK
I'm struck by this clip of former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz saying Holocaust education has backfired in part because people Palestinians as victims: "They think the lesson of the Holocaust is…you fight the big powerful people hurting the weak people."
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From the JewsOfConscience community on Reddit: Former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz speaking to the Jewish Federation and lamenting that young people are learning the wrong lessons from Holocaust e...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:32 AM
THAT IS THE LESSON OF HOLOCAUST EDUCATION YOU SICK FREAK
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The most incessant racist faction in British politics takes this message to be "racism works" (It has shifted politics + policy)
(Laws believes it is important to racially harass minorities online and in person. He has left Homeland because it is too soft on forced removals of UK-born minorities).
(Laws believes it is important to racially harass minorities online and in person. He has left Homeland because it is too soft on forced removals of UK-born minorities).
November 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The most incessant racist faction in British politics takes this message to be "racism works" (It has shifted politics + policy)
(Laws believes it is important to racially harass minorities online and in person. He has left Homeland because it is too soft on forced removals of UK-born minorities).
(Laws believes it is important to racially harass minorities online and in person. He has left Homeland because it is too soft on forced removals of UK-born minorities).