We won. Starmer abandons plans for compulsory Digital ID.
This is a HUGE win. Well done to EVERYONE who has been fighting - from all political parties and none.
A team effort. It proves that we can make progress when we come together to fight this appalling Labour Government.
I've chosen the same path, opting out of KU altogether and distributing my work wide as well as on my store.
I'd rather embrace the suck of building my own audience of BUYERS than continue to watch the royalty per page read fall into eventual oblivion.
So far, it's working out. No regrets.
@nateliason Agreed. My partner loved the newborn phase and she mourned when it passed. Now that we're going through it again, I'm drinking it in a bit more.
I also forgot how easy it was. All they do is sleep. 😂
I didn’t agree with all of Charlie’s points.
I am not a Christian; I believe there are grounds for abortion, and women should have their right to exercise it early in their pregnancy; and, being a Brit, I desperately oppose the right to bear arms for reasons like what happened yesterday.
They were his beliefs, his virtues, and it was his right to speak about them, as it is mine to disagree and disregard those I don’t agree with.
What we “should” all agree on, however, is that he shouldn’t be leaving behind a wife and two young children because of them.
Right?
Yet still, tragic events like this always have a nasty habit of rearing the ugly heads that live among us. Those who are totally bankrupt of even the most basic humanity. You’d think only the uneducated or the uninformed would dance on a man’s corpse that has barely lost its warmth.
Oh, how I wish that were true.
Doctors, nurses, firefighters, hospice workers, teachers — people we are supposed to entrust with our lives and, most precious of all, our children — are gleefully celebrating this murder, saying some of the most vile, reprehensible things that should disturb everyone.
Yet, as sickened as I am by their vitriol, I support their right to spew it.
Doesn’t mean I want anything to do with them.
And it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t face consequences.
Words, like actions, do have repercussions, after all — but one of them should NEVER be losing your life.
Especially in democratically free countries.
So yeah, this is a sad day indeed. Not just for Charlie, his family, and those who champion civil discourse and sitting down with their opponents to have open discussions (opposed to hiding behind a camera lens)…
But all of us.
I see shorter novels and novellas becoming commonplace in genres like fantasy - known for their tomes - in the years and decades to come.
Coupled with shorter, more bingeable chapters.
Do what you will with this unsolicited prophecy.