I'm glad I spent money on a comfortable mattress. Today is so cold and grey and wet, and this house does not at all feel like home, but my bed is a cosy solace.
Reminder that it's not just women who need abortion care, and when you frame it as a *woman's* right to control her body you are excluding many people who have even fewer legal rights over their own bodily autonomy.
People who have wombs are first and foremost PEOPLE, and that is what gives them the right to determine what happens to their bodies, including terminating something that could take over that body in service to another person. We ALL have an absolute right to say FUCK NO.
This is a shot in the dark, but I'm looking for an audiobook on the history and archaeology of Troy/Hisarlik, preferably reflecting more recent academic work than 2011 (the date of the work I've just been listening to). I'm interested in a work by an academic who really knows what they're talking about, not popular history with unexamined bias.
It's OK if it's situated within a broader history of Ancient Anatolia or similar, as long as it covers Troy in detail. Any recs? @bookstodon
Just heard that the Health Secretary is using the 'issue' of permitting transgender people to be treated on wards with other people of the same gender as a distraction from the NHS strikes.
Let me repeat: rather that talk about the NHS strikes and NHS underfunding, the Health Secretary is pursuing a crusade against sick trans people.
@mybarkingdogs@bookstodon I'm totally not critiquing you, I'm presenting my thought process as someone who has written some cop fiction and thought hard about whether I want to continue doing it and if so, how would one go about it.
@mybarkingdogs@bookstodon apologies if I'm telling you stuff you already know. This is partly me writing down for the first time stuff that's been going round in my head.
I think if we write cops in our stories, we have to present them as complex flawed individuals. We have to aschew the trope of the Genius Maverick Detective that has dominated the last 20 years, getting one over his superiors with his charm and solve record(he's almost always a man, his superior is usually a woman or minority)
@mybarkingdogs@bookstodon >without ever suggesting that it always is, that it's always just, or that there are 'good guys' in the force that we can hold up to counter the bad.
Misuse of public funds is criticised, personal vendettas critiqued, firearms represented as properly dangerous.
I'm not saying every procedural/mystery has to follow the same formula (that would be hard) but this>
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