Julia Rez

Queer SF writer / girl techno DJ / thing builder / music botherer / femme unix top / 🏳️‍⚧️ / It were 320ppm round here when I were a wee lass.

Pronouns: she/her/root (poor quality Unix 'humour')
Languages: en. (sorry) de. (ein bisschen)
Location: Bristol, Normal island.
Website: https://remarkably.placid.horse

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2026-08-13 15:39:13 UTC

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Aha! Back on the TBR pile..
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/117/088/947/611/842/409/original/95ec8c1eb04c6778.jpg

2026-08-13 15:31:46 UTC

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Yes. I was deep into Ballard fandom when I lived a couple of streets away from the mailing address for Ambit.
I never did go bang on the door, because that would have been weird.
I can't remember where/when I found a copy of Hospital Ship. Perhaps the no longer extant Endeavour Books in Whitby, which always had a wall of english SF.
I would always buy a handful of p/bs and leave them in the holiday lets among the Clarksons and Binchys.

2026-08-13 15:23:40 UTC

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Very definitely a friend of JGB.

2026-06-26 09:52:54 UTC

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@npub17cs…uf7q
It's actually pretty easy. Assuming you even see applications from women, the chances are they'll be better than dudes.
If some oik is being a sexist twat, call them on it. Standing there and going 'Mate. Really? Is it 1975 or what?' is good actually.
Someone gets talked over in a meeting?
'Mate, I don't think (blah) had finished?'
Keep doing that. Keep doing the work. Do not expect cookies.
Do expect a significantly more pleasant workplace.

2026-05-26 17:57:44 UTC

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The phrase 'Single source of truth' was popular when Config Management was the new cool thing a decade-and-a-bit ago.
It's also a quasi-fascist concept about news control.

2026-04-03 19:58:22 UTC

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That may have been a year or so earlier, I think? I did just walk in and out on the nod, and the land between TH and the DLR was still a wasteland.

2026-04-03 19:54:01 UTC

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... And the security dude at Telehouse who was the dead spit of Dave Gahan, but bigger.

2026-04-03 19:52:33 UTC

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Oo crikey. Jugs of TVR supplied by our Sun reseller...

2026-02-05 09:32:59 UTC

If an apple a day keeps the doctor away, would consuming two apples cause an integer doctor underflow?
If you consumed -1 apples, would that crash the BMA?

2025-10-14 19:19:14 UTC

Choice of writing instrument really does affect yr handwriting doesn't it.
(Lamy vs Waterman in the specific case. Weirdly I prefer the cheaper one)
#fountainpen