Yinz is definitely a Scots thing

Yeah, it’s the one thing you just carry around. If I’m waiting for the kettle to boil it’s enough time to refresh Lemmy, but not enough to read even part of a chapter in a book.

Hmm… We’re trying to make sure we all get turns, so she gets nursery rhymes to sing along and do the actions to, then we get some pop, rock, folk or metal.

She’s 2. Trying not to let her wear me down!

Yep, pretty much

You have a point. I usually keep the book in reading next to my bed. Maybe I just need books dotted around the house.

Is Apple any more reliable than Garmin? My watch keeps thinking I’ve gone to sleep and hour early because I’m just chilling on the sofa.

Happy “fuck Reddit” day more like!

Oh, it does.

It’s perhaps been a bit heteronormative so far, but the characters aren’t restrained to “traditional” gender roles.

The little wave and “buh buy” are also very cute

Yep. My partner keeps trying to drag me into dance mode but I just ain’t

You can’t have a list of kids TV shows without Bluey. Come on.

Better than bitcoin I suppose

Sounds like a nice life? I don’t have much idea what beet farming is like…

Farming what though?

Small mention for Darktable as an alternative to Lightroom.

I’m going to repeat Ursula K Le Guin and Margaret Atwood because it’s hard to overstate how much of everything is in their works. Iain (M) Banks I’ll also echo, but will add China Miéville because there aren’t enough anarchists in this thread.

I appreciate you naming more than one female author!

Reynolds sometimes lacks a touch on the human side of his work. That being said, I’ve not read much of his more recent novels so he might have matured since finishing his 10 year contract.

I remember reading an interview of his where he said he wrote his contemporary fiction in order to support his science fiction writing. Whilst they’re still good novels, his regular works didn’t have as much of his soul as his SF.