Naga @naga@octodon.social

Two things:
1. We have the #sffbookclub and some others. Is there a #nonfictionbookclub?
2. Is there a Mastodon Goodreads group (yes, yes, booo, Amazon...) or a Telegram (again, yes, booo, I get it) or Wire or other messenger group that would make talking about books easier?

"What has been characteristic of experimental psychology is the adoption of a rather prosaic set of experimental “controls” and a repeated-measures paradigm. In a wide variety of settings, this method of procedure has yielded fairly stable functional relationships between dependent and independent variables under conditions generally so unlike the domain of interest as to render generalizations jejune.

Just a reminder from a former Welfare Clerk, the vast majority of welfare fraud is committed by employees, not recipients, and that welfare fraud and "welfare queens" are lines used by right-wing politicians to justify the complete dismantling of the social safety net.

Thank you.

I cannot recommend highly enough the experience of going to a bar (or restaurant or bookstore or whatever) often enough that you become regulars

Reading Twitter! I'm looking for some help. Can you point me in the direction of an Australian bloggers of SFF? Preferably adult SFF (I've got YA covered).

#books #amreading #sff

SCOTUS has ruled that the California FACT act - requiring fraudulent anti-abortion "crisis pregnancy centers" to disclose that they weren't licensed medical professionals - is unconstitutional because it's "forced speech" and violates the first amendment.

I 100% guarantee that within a year we'll see tobacco companies using this case to argue that the surgeon general's warning on cigarette packs isn't legal either.

Hello everyone, I am opening up for nominations for books for the August book. We still have a decent number of books in the poll but there's always room for new additions. I will put the poll up on July 3rd with all of the new nominations plus roll overs from last month, and then I will close the poll July 10th. That'll give everyone plenty of time to get the August book.

#sffbookclub #bookclub

Someone told me they saw Colonel Sanders's bow tie as a little dancing body and now I can't unsee it

#amreading “Apocalypse Nyx” by Kameron Hurley. Gritty SF action-thriller (actually a collection of novellas). Tough women. Guns. Bug-based technology. Recommended if you like those things, or if you like grizzled action-movie protagonists but wish they weren’t all guys.

From a RP:

"Maybe it's like model railroads? You start with like, two feet of track and one car and the next thing you know you have a clockwork murder dungeon."

"Galactic Community: Oh no, a giant cylinder is destroying Earth, what will we do?

Kirk: I’m gonna take this stolen Klingon Kia that we barely know how to fly and was dispensing poison food up until last week, and I’m gonna time travel into the past convince some whales to come back with us, abduct a marine biologist, and let the two crew drunks change the course of history by giving out futuristic tech. So no worries, right?"