Interesting Links for 11-02-2021

[andrewducker]

Locus really need better editors working on their reviews

(tags:reviews fiction )

How To Build a Snölykta - Traditional Swedish Snow Lanterns

(tags:snow Sweden video viaNeilRodger )

'Fuck Your Feelings' Doesn't Apply to White Men

(tags:politics USA gender society racism sexism )

Charisma Carpenter on Joss Whedon's abusive behaviour

(tags:acting TV buffy abuse JossWhedon )

Stage meat - food you can eat on stage and still act around

(tags:food acting viaSwampers )

I see the EU is asking the UK to honour its promises. I can't see that going down well

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1359590841619275776.html
(tags:UK Europe trade Doom NorthernIreland )

Amsterdam becomes Europe's top trading hub, ousting London

(tags:Netherlands shares finance UK Europe )

Temperature of -22.9C in Braemar 'UK's lowest in 26 years'

(tags:winter Scotland temperature cold UK )

Netflix acquires the rights to all 22 Redwall books, plans film and series

(tags:TV fantasy animals children books Netflix )

Weird Pride Day is March 4th

(tags:weird pride )

Comments

[dewline]

1. Locus does indeed need to do work on getting better reviewers, and - where possible and practical - getting the reviewers they have to become better people. The Coldiron case alone is clear on its face.

3. Laurie Penny brings the point home again. Rightly so. As does Rep. Ocasio-Cortez. The latter is on my short list of Americans that I - as a openly meddling Canadian - would like to see become US president over the course of these next few decades.

4. No arguments. Carpenter's been corroborated.

6. Nope it won't go well with several of the hardcore Brexiteers at all.

[danieldwilliam]

I expect the EU will be asking us to honour our promises every couple of months for the next four years.

What the outcome of that is I don't know but I can see a situation where it goes badly wrong for the Conservative Party.

[andrewducker]

I assume that there are eventual consequences for us not fulfulling them.

[danieldwilliam]

Eventually if you keep not fulfilling treaty obligations the other side abrogates the treaty - which would be suboptimal for anyone living in the UK who likes to eat food.

What I'm wondering at is whether the Tory Party can succeed over the next 4 years in *pretending* that the treaty they've signed isn't responsible for the difficulties actual businesses are experiencing or that the difficulties are not real and whether, if they fail at that, that will have any significant political consequences.

If voters decide that they belief the businesses impacted by the current Brexit agreement are really suffering and our government is to blame that's a very different situation than if they think the EU is to blame or that properly run businesses don't have any problems.

[channelpenguin]

If a person is someone who believed that lots of the UK's problems were the EU's fault, enough to vote for Brexit and vote Tory to ensure that Brexit, then I can't see that person doing anything other than doubling down and keep blaming the big bad EU, rather than blame the people they voted for.

Worst Case Option 1

[dewline]

Putin-Brexiteer Alliance made explicit? And armed?

Reviews of Sequels

[danieldwilliam]

Very odd behaviour from the primary reviewer there.

What do you suppose is the series of books where reading the second, or subsequent books first would cause you the most confusion about either the plot or the theme of the series?

I think the Jeeves and Wooster books are a great example of a series where you can read them in any order - what the absolute reverse of them?

[ckd]

"Get over it already," say the people waving the battle flag of the losing side in a war that ended[1] over a century and a half ago.

[1] As a hot war. The Cold Civil War continues, in a form not unlike the MCU's SHIELD/HYDRA war in the years between WW2 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier.