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Between the Hunt and The Hearth: Cave Bears and Symbols of the Wild

Deep in the memory of Europe, Homo sapiens first intruded on a land that was already ancient. They can hardly have imagined that this land belonged to them as they arrived from the east. For centuries they had maintained a peace with the other people who roamed the open steppe. This peace consisted of avoiding each other most of the time, although occasionally they would meet at the limit of each…

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Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

Far future fantasy and not at all what I was expecting from this book which goes into more detail than I ever thought possible about the sex lives of sentient trains. The book essentially follows several generations of inhabitants of the Planet Sask-E, which has been transformed by baddie corporation, Verdance, to resemble their idea of prehistoric Earth, with the aim of selling plots for second…

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#anti-specism #artificial intelligence #book review #futurism #sci fi #science fiction #solar-punk #space opera #Technology #terraforming #utopia

Map of Historic Sex Work in London

Click here to explore the whole map on QGIS Cloud Click here to see the whole map and explore the other maps on my github FuckYeahMaps repository As tends to happen from time to time I got bored and made a web map. This one goes under the category of invisibilised histories. I scoured the internet for references to historic sex work in London and this is what I came up with. Much of this work…

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Remember thou, Mugwort, what thou declared

A little blogpost about my favourite weed

Mugwort is one of those unassuming plants that pushes itself up from cracks in the pavement or on motorway verges. It often shares space with other versatile weeds, fat hen and the stinging nettle. Like these Mugwort is an underestimated plant. I found it appropriate that we might most often find it in marginal places because although today mugwort is a plant for hedge witches and thought of as a…

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#anglo-saxons #gardening #herbalism #herbs #mugwort #rewilding #weeds #witches

Tintagel and the Cliffs of Bude

I came to write a final ode to the cliffs and the beach at the end of the world. Wild grey granite rubble stretched out beneath the low tide. Dragged sea weed like the hair of an old crone. The grey cliffs and beach a salute to the violence of the earth. My van clings to the cliff edge. The winds rock me at night, a cradle and a menace. A reminder of my unimportance. I find myself lost on the…

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#arthur #bude #cornwall #geography #geology #tintagel #vanlife

Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

So my exploration of vintage SF continues with a book that I bought from a street market on the basis that the cover looked cool as and the phrase “nuclear holocaust” jumped out at me from the back cover. This is a pretty standard way for me to choose books, with mixed results, however this turned out to be an absolute delight.

I also feel that with so much emphasis placed on getting todays…

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#dreamsnake #female sci fi writers #Lois McMaster Bujold #pan science fiction #post-apocylypse #ursula le guin #utopia #vonda n mcintyre

It's Kicking Off Everywhere

It’s Kicking Off Everywhere

WOOOOOOOO New Map!

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The above map is the first of something I hope to update every few months; of various social movements over the world and what they’re about. I was inspired because we seem to be going through quite an insurrectional period right now but as always mainstream media hasn’t been talking about it much.

The map key is on the upper right hand corner, where you can…

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Review The Age of Scorpio by Gavin Smith

I set up this blog to review sci fi novels! And I’ve done precious little of that; here’s what I’ve been reading lately. For somebody born in Southampton it comes as no surprise that Portsmouth should be the epicentre of the apocylypse. I had to suppress a smug smile for a look of this book, which takes place over three chronologically distant but equally bloody and baroque time periods, the…

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#a quantum mythology #dystopia #gavin smith #military sci fi #nanites #nano tech #portsmouth #sci fi #space opera #the age of scorpio

Seasonalism and Witches against Capitalism

A few years ago when I was traveling by hitch-hiking and wild camping a lot I started to pay a lot more attention to the seasons changing around me. At the time it was almost necessary; I was picking grapes in the south of France at the end of Autumn, the days were still warm and sunny until the end of October when Winter decided it had had enough and decided to kick in. So we headed south, and…

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Really Fun Archives

Like I’m not even joking…. here’re some links:

I’m looking to build this up so feel free to send le links to archives and data not mentioned here

For when you feel nostalgic about floppy disk games:

https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/

https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

Old text files:

http://textfiles.com/directory.html

And 80s and 90s e-zines (including some really old school hacker tips):

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That belongs in a museum! (or the application of modern concepts to old shit)

Some definitions:

old shit = archaeological artefacts. To be fair I should be using the correct phase, what with my many years of expensive higher education but I feel rather flippant right now.

This is a teaser of several articles I’m going to write on this subject because it’s a bloody huge subject, but the question I keep asking myself is ‘How can it be possible to apply the notion of private…

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REPOST: The Rhino Project: Is Neocolonial Conservation Really Conservation?

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Cartography des les quartiers en transformation//Cartography of changing neighbourhoods

Grand Paris and the urban redevelopment project that goes with it ain’t fucking about. I’ve been following some of the changes and construction in the area for a while now and have started some preliminary maps showing some of the areas to be reconstructed and the appearance of new kinds of industry. This shows a few sites around the metro station Paul Valliant Couturier in Villejuif. Several…

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'All Comfrey Against Bruises' Balme

‘All Comfrey Against Bruises’ Balme

Comfrey is a plant that I’ve started to use loads, especially as it’s been flowering so I’m making the most of it whileit lasts, I’ve mainly been using it for skin and bones repair, putting leaves in the bath to help stop an old knee injury becoming too inflamed while I’m working. Here is a recipe for a comfrey based ointment it just requiressome fresh leaves,beeswax and an oil base, I used…

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Wildlings and Wildthings

This has been a really good year so far for foraging and wildcrafting. I’ve learnt loads about various uses of common plants and found some good spots to collect from as well as spending a bit more time processing the crop so that what I get can actually be of some practical everyday use. I’ve discovered loads of mugwort and comfrey growing near me in Paris, as well a few other spots where wild…

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Fuck Your Vampbot

Uber has never been particularly secretive about wanting to eventually replace all its drivers with fully automated vehicules, as soon as the latter are allowed out of Silicon Valley. A Swiss wannabe entrepreneur/pimp realising he can’0t open his dream blowjob cafe in London due to some pesky brothel laws seeks alternatives. Japans Haneda airport installs automated skating robots for its tourist…

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