One of the worst feelings as a writer is looking at a chapter you were very happy with and realising that you're going to have to delete all of it.

All that effort to ensure milk was safe to drink and we're just discarding it.

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Some background politicking this chapter. And Jr'agenthek finally gets to meet his idols.

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New chapter of Oathmaker up on Patreon, finally answering the question of what Necromancers do for fun.

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And yet both run the world.

The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.

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It continues to amaze me that Nestle still exists. There's no news story attached to this, it just pops into my head every now and then.

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Ah the eternal battle between "Work life balance is important" and "Just how important is eating really?"

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We have reached a point where we cannot have sane discussions about what is happening because it is so insane that any rational discussion about it would likely be illegal.

In 1953 Iran had a functioning democracy. A free press. Seven political parties. Women in universities. Women granted voting rights in municipal councils in 1952. A secular prime minister named Mosaddegh who believed Iran's oil belonged to Iran. The US and Britain decided he had to go.

I know what you mean. I'm in the UK and I literally couldn't bring myself to go to sleep until I was sure the end of the world wasn't going to kick off tonight.

No editor ever gets to tell a satirist that it's too on the nose again.

This is the most cursed post I have seen on BluSky.

People need to remember, too, that these are the *successful* authors. The ones who are traditionally published trade authors. Those trying to break in, those published once and then couldn't get another contract, self-published authors and so on are not included. This is the top 1% of authors.

There's something kinda terrifying about putting a map to your fantasy setting because... that's it. No more room to fudge. No more handwaving. Readers now know where things are and have a rough idea how long relative travel times will be, and they will pay attention.

So the US is just randomly murdering people who happened to be within literal miles of someone.

Has anyone got any advice on how to persuade someone to seek anger management?

AI is doing so much damage in terms of misinformation. My father is a very sceptical person, but when he's watching physics documentaries with famous physicists giving interviews, he's going to believe them.

The problem is the physicists in question never gave those interviews.

One of the big struggles as an autistic person living with other people is the lack of control I often have over my own environment and my own time. It makes it very hard to ever relax or to properly plan.

You had Lindsey Graham admit to literal treason live on camera.

Final edit on Book 2 is done.

It's always the people you most suspect lol

Oh.

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Weirdly I can kinda respect that, doing it sober on the other hand...

Would totally play that.