Laura Bradley
@lcbradley.bsky.social
Theatre person, writer person, fan person. N/Irish. She/her. All views my own
Interested in #musicals #sff #fandom #QueerArt #DisabledArt #Neurodiversity ♠️🏹 ♾️
Interested in #musicals #sff #fandom #QueerArt #DisabledArt #Neurodiversity ♠️🏹 ♾️
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Discworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals
"The Office of Master of The Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up."
"The Office of Master of The Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up."
Discworld QOTD, from Soul Music
"‘mumblemumblemumble,’ said the Dean defiantly, a rebel without a pause."
"‘mumblemumblemumble,’ said the Dean defiantly, a rebel without a pause."
Discworld QOTD, from Pyramids
"He envied his fellow students who believed in gods that were intangible and lived a long way away on top of some mountain. A fellow could really believe in gods like that. But it was extremely hard to believe in a god when you saw him at breakfast every day."
"He envied his fellow students who believed in gods that were intangible and lived a long way away on top of some mountain. A fellow could really believe in gods like that. But it was extremely hard to believe in a god when you saw him at breakfast every day."
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals
"The Office of Master of The Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up."
"The Office of Master of The Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up."
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Why the hell are you doing Cell Block Tango if you don't think you can mention murder (or sex) in lyrics pre-watershed? #Strictly
a row of silhouettes of people dancing in front of a red background
Alt: Chicago musical, Cell Block Tango, with two rows of women in silhouette against red light, dancing in their cells
media.tenor.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Why the hell are you doing Cell Block Tango if you don't think you can mention murder (or sex) in lyrics pre-watershed? #Strictly
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
(Dirge Without Music, Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
(Dirge Without Music, Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Which lines of poetry live rent-free in your head?
December 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
(Dirge Without Music, Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind;
Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave.
I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
(Dirge Without Music, Edna St. Vincent Millay)
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Because too many people let him get away with using the Cass Review to take away puberty blockers.
December 4, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Because too many people let him get away with using the Cass Review to take away puberty blockers.
So glad we're able to see this in Belfast (maybe the first Irish screening?) In the times that we're in, it's important to be asking out loud what it means to live in a society where supports for disabled people are stripped away and the only alternative offered is support to die.
We’ll be showing Life After, Friday 5 December a powerful and deeply reflective documentary by director Reid Davenport that explores Medical Assistance in Dying through the often absent voices of disabled people.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjfl...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjfl...
LIFE AFTER // Official Trailer
YouTube video by Multitude Films
www.youtube.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
So glad we're able to see this in Belfast (maybe the first Irish screening?) In the times that we're in, it's important to be asking out loud what it means to live in a society where supports for disabled people are stripped away and the only alternative offered is support to die.
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Philip Larkin started writing ‘Aubade’ in 1974, & finished it in 1977 after his mother’s death. It was published in the TLS on 23rd December, apparently ruining a number of people’s Christmases. Larkin, terrified of death all his life, died on this day 1985.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/...
Aubade
Not in remorse —The good not done, the love not given, time Torn off unused—nor wretchedly because An only life can take so long to climb Clear of its wrong beginnings, and may never; But at the total...
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Philip Larkin started writing ‘Aubade’ in 1974, & finished it in 1977 after his mother’s death. It was published in the TLS on 23rd December, apparently ruining a number of people’s Christmases. Larkin, terrified of death all his life, died on this day 1985.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/...
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48422/...
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
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Three days left on the general submision window for the debut issue of FANTABULOSA! A new magazine of queer scifi and fantasy!
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
Submissions — Bona Books
www.bona-books.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Three days left on the general submision window for the debut issue of FANTABULOSA! A new magazine of queer scifi and fantasy!
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
(Trans and BIPOC authors have until 15 Dec!)
Send us your queerest SFF! 🧙♂️🚀🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️👽🔮
6000 word limit
$0.08/word USD
More details: www.bona-books.com/submissions
introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Merrily We Roll Along
Groundhog Day
Fun Home
Waitress
Hamilton
Merrily We Roll Along
Groundhog Day
Fun Home
Waitress
Hamilton
ok but never mind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Six
The Lightning Thief
Anything Goes
Hamilton
The Music Man
Six
The Lightning Thief
Anything Goes
Hamilton
The Music Man
ok but never mind concerts, introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen
Guys & Dolls
The Lion King
A Chorus Line
Singing in the Rain
The Boy from Oz
(that last was terrible, actually, but we did see Hugh Jackman on the opening night of previews for it on Broadway, so THAT part was cool!)
Guys & Dolls
The Lion King
A Chorus Line
Singing in the Rain
The Boy from Oz
(that last was terrible, actually, but we did see Hugh Jackman on the opening night of previews for it on Broadway, so THAT part was cool!)
November 27, 2025 at 10:53 PM
introduce yourself with five musicals you've seen:
Merrily We Roll Along
Groundhog Day
Fun Home
Waitress
Hamilton
Merrily We Roll Along
Groundhog Day
Fun Home
Waitress
Hamilton
Constitutionally incapable of not scream-singing along:
"Called a problem child 'cause I got too wild
But now that's how I'm getting paid" ✊
"Called a problem child 'cause I got too wild
But now that's how I'm getting paid" ✊
Okay, the crowd going nuts like someone just scored a touchdown at the Super Bowl all *through* the KDH performance is a hell of a thing to see hear/see:
November 27, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Constitutionally incapable of not scream-singing along:
"Called a problem child 'cause I got too wild
But now that's how I'm getting paid" ✊
"Called a problem child 'cause I got too wild
But now that's how I'm getting paid" ✊
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OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
OpenAI says they aren't liable for the suicide of a user their chat bot urged to kill himself because suicide is a violation of the TOS
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Given that the big marketing trend of last 10+ years is AO3 tags, we can't just use 'gen' here?
(Yes, yes, considerable debate in the community about gen limits but still. I'm an acearo person who doesn't always want Romance, but sell me what your thing *is* not just 'not your fluffy girl thing')
(Yes, yes, considerable debate in the community about gen limits but still. I'm an acearo person who doesn't always want Romance, but sell me what your thing *is* not just 'not your fluffy girl thing')
This week, I was sent a proof from one of the big publishers. In their pack, they described it as an "anti romantasy".
An anti romantasy.
I have so many thoughts about this, I honestly don't know where to begin.
An anti romantasy.
I have so many thoughts about this, I honestly don't know where to begin.
November 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Given that the big marketing trend of last 10+ years is AO3 tags, we can't just use 'gen' here?
(Yes, yes, considerable debate in the community about gen limits but still. I'm an acearo person who doesn't always want Romance, but sell me what your thing *is* not just 'not your fluffy girl thing')
(Yes, yes, considerable debate in the community about gen limits but still. I'm an acearo person who doesn't always want Romance, but sell me what your thing *is* not just 'not your fluffy girl thing')
The moment when I figured out the little tree and nearly threw my phone across the room... 🤨 I was thinking cryptic, lateral, story plot, word association. Can reliably say it is not those. #HiddenBooksGame
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November 13, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The moment when I figured out the little tree and nearly threw my phone across the room... 🤨 I was thinking cryptic, lateral, story plot, word association. Can reliably say it is not those. #HiddenBooksGame
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Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
November 12, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Absolute carnage in the family group chat as my cousin posts a Christmas riddle from her fiancé’s office that no one can figure out, only to find that someone in the office got ChatGPT to make up the riddle and it’s gibberish that doesn’t have a solution
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Literary hivemind! Has anyone read any fiction recently that engages or evokes digital archives - or, even better, the concept of the 'digital dark age'?
November 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Literary hivemind! Has anyone read any fiction recently that engages or evokes digital archives - or, even better, the concept of the 'digital dark age'?
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A school in Manchester is promoting “No Days Off November” to reward kids with perfect attendance.
It’s devastating for public health, it discriminates against disabled and chronically ill kids.
It shames them for needing time off & reinforces the ableist narrative of playing through the pain
It’s devastating for public health, it discriminates against disabled and chronically ill kids.
It shames them for needing time off & reinforces the ableist narrative of playing through the pain
November 5, 2025 at 9:09 AM
A school in Manchester is promoting “No Days Off November” to reward kids with perfect attendance.
It’s devastating for public health, it discriminates against disabled and chronically ill kids.
It shames them for needing time off & reinforces the ableist narrative of playing through the pain
It’s devastating for public health, it discriminates against disabled and chronically ill kids.
It shames them for needing time off & reinforces the ableist narrative of playing through the pain
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Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
October 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Universities across the world seeing this:
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
"its only wrong 45% of the time!!
Lets buy free licenses for our students, staff and faculty!!
Lets lock into contracts with rapacious predatory AI companies with shitty technofascist politics, sucking up water and jacking up electricity prices!!"
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Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
October 18, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Discworld QOTD, from Feet of Clay
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Can only speak for myself, but think I'm not unusual, by the time you see a GP about mental health issues, you are at crisis point - finding it hard to get out of bed, eat, speak to anyone, deal with finances etc - but sure, tell me about the jobs I can apply for at that moment.
BREAKING: Specialist employment advisers will be based in GP surgeries and mental health services as part of government plans to get people back to work.
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness
Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden speaks to #BBCBreakfast about the government’s plan to tackle long-term sickness
October 9, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Can only speak for myself, but think I'm not unusual, by the time you see a GP about mental health issues, you are at crisis point - finding it hard to get out of bed, eat, speak to anyone, deal with finances etc - but sure, tell me about the jobs I can apply for at that moment.
I have worked with various office and thermal printers and when I read that bit in @emilytesh.net The Incandescent I put a sticky beside it. And when I loaned the book to my ex-teacher-Mum she was also having flashbacks to possessed printers she had known.
*gently bribes the printer with a biscuit*
*gently bribes the printer with a biscuit*
all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.
October 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I have worked with various office and thermal printers and when I read that bit in @emilytesh.net The Incandescent I put a sticky beside it. And when I loaned the book to my ex-teacher-Mum she was also having flashbacks to possessed printers she had known.
*gently bribes the printer with a biscuit*
*gently bribes the printer with a biscuit*
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Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight
October 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Discworld QOTD, from I Shall Wear Midnight