Email List and Submission Dates

[Silk she/her]

1 hour ago, Paul SB said:

Me too?

Yep, go ahead.

[Appol PhD they/he]

I'll take a slot for tomorrow please!

[Silk she/her]

9 hours ago, Appol PhD said:

I'll take a slot for tomorrow please!

Sounds good! 

Still aiming to get my piece revised and start getting caught up... but I'm spending this weekend buried in spreadsheets containing bargaining committee survey data. (I seem to have accidentally become a labour rights activist in my spare time... whoopsie.) 

[Paul SB]

1 hour ago, Silk said:

Sounds good! 

Still aiming to get my piece revised and start getting caught up... but I'm spending this weekend buried in spreadsheets containing bargaining committee survey data. (I seem to have accidentally become a labour rights activist in my spare time... whoopsie.) 

You have spare time? My characters won't leave me alone, even the ones I killed already ...

Slot for tomorrow?

Edited September 22, 2025 by Paul SB

[Silk she/her]

13 minutes ago, Paul SB said:

My characters won't leave me alone, even the ones I killed already ..

No not really, no matter how many characters I kill...

Go for it. 

[Appol PhD they/he]

15 hours ago, Silk said:

Sounds good! 

Still aiming to get my piece revised and start getting caught up... but I'm spending this weekend buried in spreadsheets containing bargaining committee survey data. (I seem to have accidentally become a labour rights activist in my spare time... whoopsie.) 

We always need more good labor rights activists. Hope that's going well!

[Paul SB]

2 hours ago, Appol PhD said:

We always need more good labor rights activists. Hope that's going well!

Believe it or not, labor unions have nothing whatsoever to do with either socialism or communism, contrary to what we have always been told. It turns out that the association was first made by John D. Rockefeller, who paid hundreds of church leaders all over America to preach against the evils of unionization. It's not too hard to guess why Rockefeller thought that was a good business investment.

[TheDwarfyOne]

Slot for next week? 

[Silk she/her]

13 hours ago, Appol PhD said:

We always need more good labor rights activists. Hope that's going well!

My bargaining committee, which is the main thing eating my life right now, doesn't sit down with the employer until end of next week, so it's too early to tell if I'm an effective one. But I'm enjoying the work! 

 

11 hours ago, Paul SB said:

It turns out that the association was first made by John D. Rockefeller, who paid hundreds of church leaders all over America to preach against the evils of unionization.

I did not know this! but honestly it tracks. And yeah, I can well imagine why Rockefeller would have come up with this one. 

[Silk she/her]

14 hours ago, TheDwarfyOne said:

Slot for next week? 

Whoops, I almost missed this! Yes, good to go for next week. 

[Paul SB]

22 hours ago, Silk said:

My bargaining committee, which is the main thing eating my life right now, doesn't sit down with the employer until end of next week, so it's too early to tell if I'm an effective one. But I'm enjoying the work! 

 

I did not know this! but honestly it tracks. And yeah, I can well imagine why Rockefeller would have come up with this one. 

Since I escaped from being a teacher I have been going 50/50 reading fiction and non-fiction. I didn't intend to spend the last several years learning so much about fascism, but it kind of felt like a necessity since 2016.

[Paul SB]

Monday has come around again,

I'm in the same old place, same old faces always watching me.

Who knows how long I'll have to stay

Could be a hundred years sweating tears

The rate that I get paid.

A slot for Monday 9/29/2025?

[Appol PhD they/he]

I'll take a slot for tomorrow too please! 

[Silk she/her]

On 9/23/2025 at 8:40 PM, Paul SB said:

Since I escaped from being a teacher I have been going 50/50 reading fiction and non-fiction. I didn't intend to spend the last several years learning so much about fascism, but it kind of felt like a necessity since 2016.

Fair. I'm also reading a lot more nonfiction these days, mostly climate science, for similar reasons. Also because I'm a magpie who will grab onto anything that seems interesting. 

With @TheDwarfyOne, @Paul SB and @Appol PhD, we're at three for tomorrow!

[Paul SB]

3 hours ago, Silk said:

Fair. I'm also reading a lot more nonfiction these days, mostly climate science, for similar reasons. Also because I'm a magpie who will grab onto anything that seems interesting. 

With @TheDwarfyOne, @Paul SB and @Appol PhD, we're at three for tomorrow!

It's good we'll have another participant. The more the merrier.

Before I was a teacher I did field archaeology, so I worked with climate data all the time. It's fun running into right-wing reality deniers who tell me it's a hoax, and even when I explain that I used to both use and gather the kind of data that shows that they are lying, they still keep arguing, and feeding me photoshopped pictures that they think disprove climate change. If it was all made up then the data would be wildly inconsistent. It isn't. Persistence is a great thing when you're right, but a really, really bad thing when you're dead wrong.

[Silk she/her]

13 hours ago, Paul SB said:

It's good we'll have another participant. The more the merrier.

Before I was a teacher I did field archaeology, so I worked with climate data all the time. It's fun running into right-wing reality deniers who tell me it's a hoax, and even when I explain that I used to both use and gather the kind of data that shows that they are lying, they still keep arguing, and feeding me photoshopped pictures that they think disprove climate change. If it was all made up then the data would be wildly inconsistent. It isn't. Persistence is a great thing when you're right, but a really, really bad thing when you're dead wrong.

I want "Persistence is a great thing... when you're right" on a T-shirt. 

[Paul SB]

8 hours ago, Silk said:

I want "Persistence is a great thing... when you're right" on a T-shirt. 

Go for it! Any ideas for artwork? A tall ship falling off the edge of the earth comes to mind, but I'm sure we could come up with something better. Portrait of the Donner Party?

[Appol PhD they/he]

I'll take a slot for Monday please! 

[Paul SB]

10/06/25 Et moi?

[Silk she/her]

On 9/29/2025 at 8:20 PM, Paul SB said:

A tall ship falling off the edge of the earth comes to mind, but I'm sure we could come up with something better. Portrait of the Donner Party?

I'm unfortunately just about the worst person in the world to ask about artwork, but I like the idea of the ship falling off the end of the earth! I feel like the Donner party would be harder to get across at a glance lol

Looks like we have @Appol PhD and @Paul SB for Monday. 

[Paul SB]

There's a painting or two by surreal artist Rafal Olbinski that might work:  r O

[Paul SB]

I'm almost afraid to ask about Monday the 13th. I always thought Monday the 13th should be much more scary than Friday.

[Appol PhD they/he]

I'll take a slot for today too please! 

[Silk she/her]

23 hours ago, Paul SB said:

I'm almost afraid to ask about Monday the 13th. I always thought Monday the 13th should be much more scary than Friday.

 

8 hours ago, Appol PhD said:

I'll take a slot for today too please! 

Sounds good. Sorry for the late reply! I was away from home for Thanksgiving (Canada) and apparently got signed out of Shard on my phone 

[Paul SB]

More fun for Monday, 10/20/25/