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in reply to Jason844

@Jason844 my grandma had one. When I tried I wasn't at an age where I was very dextrous, but I couldn't either!


Lula lamenta morte de Verissimo: “Soube usar a ironia para denunciar a ditadura e defender a democracia”.
- bshpvo
horadopovo.com.br/lula-lamenta…


Watch who attends this week's Zionist event:
"Mayors and councillors — elected to represent their communities — are being offered free flights, accommodation, and meals to attend a Gold Coast “antisemitism summit” this September backed by far-right pro-Israel political groups."
jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/08/m…
#AusPol
#ForeignInterference
#ForeignInfluence
in reply to Drop Bear

How does less than 0.5% of Australia's population wield such influence?
"summit organisers are seeking to introduce at local government level in Australia the IHRA definition of antisemitism"
michaelwest.com.au/deputy-pm-t…
#AusPol
#ForeignInterference
#ForeignInfluence
in reply to Drop Bear

To treat one form of discrimination differently to other forms of discrimination is itself a form of discrimination.
insidelocalgovernment.com.au/w…
#AusPol
#ForeignInterference
#ForeignInfluence


my rebel heart conflicts with the aspiring yogi in me when it comes to piracy (which is taking something not freely given) I think I'll just pirate fairly old things eventually that dont make much money. I already mostly do.


Happy Labor Day Weekend to All who are working it.


Giant box-o-patterns. Will see what I actually got. #sewing
in reply to AI6YR Ben

it's my first time 😀 the pattern was great, i have also made the bunny from this person's collection: willowynn.com/store/c9/store/c…


‼️🇺🇦Step-by-step systemic approach needed for integrating citizens from de-occupied territories – General Budanov (more) ukrinform.net/rubric-society/4… #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #UN #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #CoE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion #russiaUkraineWar #11yrInvasionofUkraine
#RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset


Going to run for president on a platform of outlawing pharmaceutical and sports betting ads. That’s it. That’s the whole platform.


Dear Joe,
Your viewfinder is higher than your aperture so when you set your Rolleicord on the stones your going to have to crop out its rocky bottom. Dummy. Get a tripod.
Love, Joe.
#filmisnotdead #blackandwhite #monochrome #filmphotography


1970 #BoomShaLaLaLo

youtu.be/-eEgw5caGAw?si=M6zbhs…



Meanwhile, back in reality, global ocean heat content just updated through June 2025 and set a new record high. Time to wake up!

Data (anomalies) & methods from ncei.noaa.gov/access/global-oc…

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in reply to Zack Labe

I used to keep a reef aquarium 60 gallons… they require a certain amount of discipline and attention to water chemistry and temperature.

What’s going on in the oceans freaks me out

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Tarcísio transforma escolas de SP e alunos em cobaias de vigilância com Inteligência Artificial.
- bshpvo
horadopovo.com.br/tarcisio-tra…




America is in the midst of a “sex recession” which is another lens on the loneliest epidemic. Since 1990, the number of adults saying they have sex weekly dropped from 55% to 37%.

Two big inflection points are around 2010 when smartphones got popular and another steep drop in 2020 during the pandemic.

Between 2010 and 2019, the average time young adults spent with friends in a given week fell by nearly 50%, from 12.8 hours to just 6.5 hours.

wsj.com/lifestyle/relationship…





I've been here about two days. I've been made to feel welcome.

Thanks everyone for the very warm welcome.

❤️

#thankyou #mastodon




The USDA is giving the public just three weeks to weigh in on a key step of its attempt to scrap the #RoadlessRule, which protects almost 59 million acres of forest land from road construction and timber harvesting.
Comment period open ONLY until Sept. 19.

regulations.gov/docket/FS-2025…



Saw a majestic #mushroom today!! Except all the photos came out blurry 🙁


The Hub's #YouthClimateBursary provides financial support to youth climate activists in Calgary who are either attending a post-secondary school here or have graduated from a #YYC high school & are attending post-secondary education elsewhere.

There will be four $500 bursaries, and one $1000 bursary that will be awarded

Application deadline is Monday, September 15th, 11:59PM

For more information and to apply, hit up this link: calgaryclimatehub.ca/youth_cli… #FridaysForFuture #ClimateChange

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imagine python but like, backwards-compatible
in reply to Ekaitz Zarraga 👹

I don't understand why people focus on the least important and least breaking change, and ignore all the other pointless changes that Python 3 does pretty much every release, that each kill off a part of the community's tools and libraries.
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in reply to ɗ𐐩ʃƕρʋ

yeah, I'm not even talking py2->py3. I'm talking like python 3.12 to 3.13

ansible 4.x's vendored copy of six.moves no longer works with python 3.13

why?

they probably changed how imports work or sth



Never EVER defend #MarkCarney to me again. He stinks, stinks, STINKS to high heaven. A full-fledged climate VILLAIN if ever there was one. A #Poilievre by another name who BS'd all of Canada by riding the #ElbowsUp wave then abandoning it. A despicable shame #cdnpoli #ClimateChange cbc.ca/news/politics/major-pro…
in reply to Bentley

#MarkCarney just opted to burn Canada down to the ground. The political route to legitimate #ClimateAction is officially dead in Canada. What an unmitigated disaster & disgrace. When you breathe that smoke know that Carney just signed you up for a whole lot more of it.
#cdnpoli #ClimateChange cbc.ca/news/politics/major-pro…



Everyone is posting jokes about constructive logic lately. I personally don’t think they’re funny, but I also don’t think they’re not funny, either




The Rise of Hybrid PHP: Blending PHP with Go and Rust

Link: yekdeveloper.com/p/4-the-rise-…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…






Forte dei Marmi apre la stagione con il San Marco Avenza. Il ds Panizzi: “Non vedevamo l’ora”
Prima sfida per il triangolare di Coppa alle 17,30 di domani (31 agosto) sul campo avenzino. Antipasto di un campionato equilibrato

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The image shows a screenshot of a text message conversation on a mobile device. The conversation is between the user and their father, as indicated by the label "Dad" above the messages. The background of the conversation is black, with the messages displayed in white text within speech bubbles. The user's messages are in gray bubbles, while the father's messages are in blue bubbles.

The conversation begins with the user asking, "What is 'furries'?" The father responds with "why do you ask," to which the user replies, "I'm always in pursuit of knowledge." The message "Delivered" is visible next to the father's response, indicating that the message has been sent successfully. The overall layout is simple, with the messages clearly separated by the user and the father, and the conversation appears to be taking place on a messaging app.

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$245M wasted on “Alligator Alcatraz”: abuse, sewage leaks, and destroyed wetlands. Now a judge has ordered Florida’s swamp jail shut. Taxpayers left holding the bill. Utter disgrace.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a… #press

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Will the “heroic” Qassam epic from Gaza’s Zaytoun neighbourhood ruin Netanyahu’s political career? raialyoum.com/will-gazas-zayto…


The racists in this country right now fuelled by fake patriotism, the media and politicians.

I'd much rather see an immigrant working hard, than the English working hard to destroy England.

#TheEnglishFlagIsARascistDogWhistle
#RacistsFuckOff



You might need to put up some signs in Chicago that say "All Federal ICE and Law Enforcement agents must be clearly identifiable and may not cover their faces."

The reason for the sign is if you want to enforce that, which you will need to do a few times or it has no meaning you need a sign to point to.

It should be a metal sign.

And you need a clear plan for what happens when you do.

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in reply to myrmepropagandist

going to be interesting dealing with IDs... along with the requirement for bodycams on at all times.

i find the mayor's and governor's rhetoric encouraging. the CPD reform efforts? much less so.

but we all have to do something, so i'll take this.

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in reply to myrmepropagandist

Groups of people following ICE agents & mockingly playing the Darth Vader theme music on a boombox at high volume; advance warning systems to protect communities take many forms

msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio…

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…

news.artnet.com/art-world/dhs-…

nytimes.com/2025/08/29/us/greg…

MAGA seem unaware that Darth Vader was a puppet of a megalomaniac emperor who started a war to grab power
Darth Vader & the emperor he served are the baddies
washingtonpost.com/technology/…

axios.com/2025/03/29/trump-mem…




in reply to austra_lopiteco

A imagem mostra seis homens sentados em uma fileira de bancos, com um ambiente que parece ser interno, possivelmente um hospital ou clínica. O homem no centro está vestido com um robe preto e calças vermelhas, enquanto os outros cinco homens estão usando roupas brancas, que parecem ser uniformes médicos. Todos estão sentados de forma casual, com expressões amigáveis e conversando entre si. O texto na imagem, em português, diz: "Casa Branca acabou de soltar essa foto do Trump, ele tá ótimo gente, circulando."

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[RE: AMERICAN GOP EVANGELICALS]

It's 2025 and the concept of "Christians should want to employ ALL means possible at our disposal - governmental, public, private, non-profit, religious organization - to make sure that the sick are healed, the unhoused have shelter, the hungry have food, every child have access to a world-class education and equal opportunity to succeed" is heresy to Evangelicals.

I'mma say it now: If heaven exists, it's gonna be full of really surprised humanists and atheists.

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@abeorch
Calvinism is responsible for most of the MAGA-adjacent doctrine that's become the favored flavor amongst the right. Calvinists believe they were chosen by God from before the creation of the world, while the rest of us were chosen by God to be condemned to an eternity of perpetual horrific suffering before we were even conceived. They hate who they believe God hates - thus by being rude or violent to those they believe God hates, in their minds, they're honoring God.


What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading? + Update No. XXV

  • A selection of read volumes from my shelves


What pre-1985 science fiction are you reading or planning to read next month? Here’s the July installment of this column.

One of my favorite forms of SF scholarship is careful identification of a intellectual genealogy–tracing what an author read and engaged in dialogue with. Authors are readers. They also can’t escape references and textual traces of what they’ve consumed (or, of course, engagement with the world in which they lived).

I’ve read two interesting examples recently. The first, Carol McGuirk’s “J. G. Ballard and American Science Fiction” in Science Fiction Studies, vol. 49 (2022), is the perfect example of this type of scholarship. She traces Ballard’s engagement with SF, his earliest stories, and the various parallels an interactions between his work and American SF that he read (Galaxy Magazine, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, Robert Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, C. M. Kornbluth, Ray Bradbury, Judith Merril, Federic Brown, Henry Kuttner, C. L. Moore, etc.). She argues that Ballard engaged in “retelling with a twist” (476). She writes that “early Ballard stories rework prior sf in moods ranging from measured homage to barbed repose to parodic photo-bomb” (483).

The second example is David Seed’s John Wyndham (2025). I did not realize that Wyndham’s works so systematically engaged with the SF ideas of H. G. Wells. Not only did Wyndham’s criticism frequently cover Wells’ SF, but his stories were littered with Wells reference, reformulations, etc. Seed indicates references to a vast range of both school reading and also personal favorite authors.

Both works reveal an author as a reader. Fascinating stuff!

Before we get to the photograph above and the curated birthdays, let me know what pre-1985 SF you’re currently reading or planning to read!

The Photograph (with links to reviews and brief thoughts)

  1. Ursula K. Le Guin’s City of Illusions (1967). I cannot say I remember much about this one! I read it in my late teens. I premise, aliens who do not execute but purge the mind of memories, sounds intriguing.
  2. Robert Silverberg’s A Time of Changes (1971). While most of the Silverberg I’ve read I’ve also reviewed on the site, I listened to this one as an audiobook. Not my absolute favorite of his but characteristically smooth and though-provoking despite its flaws.
  3. David R. Bunch’s Moderan (1971). One of the fantastically oddball authors in SF landscape. This collection is not to be missed! Unfortunately, never managed to write a review.
  4. Mordecai Roshwald’s Level 7 (1959). I thoroughly enjoyed this dissection of the psychological state of the cold war warrior, in this instance an inhabitant of a underground military facility. A gem of the 50s!

What am I writing about?

Despite the stress that comes with teaching at the beginning of the semester, I wrote a lot in August. I reviewed Jack Dann’s fantastic collection of New Wave nightmares Timetipping (1980); resurrected my SF in translation series with Rachel S. Cordasco with our reviews of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s “Wanderers and Travellers” (1963, trans. 1966); and continued my series on pessimistic takes on space travel with John Wyndham’s “The Man From Beyond” (1934).

What am I reading?

I recently finished Ryan C. McIlhenny’s wonderful intellectual biography American Socialist: Laurence Gronlund and the Power Behind Revolution (2025). Gronlund’s The Cooperative Commonwealth (1884) is responsible for popularizing Karl Marx’s ideas in the United States, with his own distinctly Christian twist. Edward Bellamy’s utopian SF novel Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) fictionalized many of Gronlund’s ideas.

As for history of science fiction, I finished David Seed’s John Wyndham (2025). I wanted to feature it in my interview series but I haven’t heard back from the author. Alas!

A Curated List of SF Birthdays from the Last Two Weeks [names link to The Internet Speculative Fiction Database for bibliographical info]

August 16th: The influential editor and occasional author Hugo Gernsback (1884-1967). Shockingly considering my focus on post-WWII fiction, I’ve featured a few stories and authors from his magazines recently. See my review of John Wyndham’s “The Man From Beyond” (variant title: “The Man from Earth”) (1934) and my interview with Jaroslav Olša, Jr. about his book on Gernsback’s first “find”:Miloslav (Miles) J. Breuer.

August 17th: Rachel Pollack (1945-2023). I’ve only reviewed Alqua Dreams (1987). I’ve been meaning to feature her first three published SF short fictions in my ongoing series.

August 18th: Brian W. Aldiss (1925-2017). Another Joachim Boaz favorite. Check out my review of Hothouse (variant title: The Long Afternoon of Earth) (1962) if you haven’t already.

August 19th: Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991). Creator of Star Trek.


  • Karel Thole’s cover for the 1971 edition of D. G. Compton’s Farewell, Earth’s Bliss (1966)


August 19th: D. G. Compton (1930-2023) crafted a fascinating range of SF novels — I recommend The Unsleeping Eye(variant title: The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe) (1973), Synthajoy (1968), and Farewell, Earth’s Bliss (1966) in particular. In 2021 he rightly won the Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award.

August 19th: Artist H. W. Wesso (1894-1948) was one of the iconic Astounding Stories artists.


  • H. R. Van Dongen’s canvas for the 1979 edition of Jack Vance’s City of the Chasch (1968)


August 20th: Artist H. R. Van Dongen (1920-2010).

August 20th: Arthur Porges (1915-2006). I know little about his work. Seems to be prolific in the short form.

August 20th: Greg Bear (1951-2022). In my more expansive SF-reading days, I consumed Bear’s Darwin’s Radio (1999), Blood Music (1985), and Eon (1985).

August 20th: H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937). If his work tickles your fancy, definitely check out Bobby D.’s wonderful website Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein. I’ve only read a few stories here and there.

August 21st: Anthony Boucher (1911-1968).

August 21st: Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975). Check out my review of her collection Xenogenesis (1969).


  • Ron Walotsky’s cover for the 1989 edition of Brian Aldiss’ Non-Stop (variant title: Starship) (1958)


August 21st: Artist Ron Walotsky (1943-2002)

August 21st: Lucius Shepard (1943-2014). I gapping whole in my SF knowledge… Sometimes I feel a bit intimidated by an author. And I think Shepard is that guy at the moment.

August 22nd: Ray Bradbury (1920-2012). Very much an author of my childhood — I remember road trips listening to audiobooks of The Martian Chronicles (1950) and The Illustrated Man (1951). I’ve covered a handful of his stories on the site: “Almost the End of the World” (1957), “The Highway” (1950), “The Pedestrian” (1951). and “The Strawberry Window” (1955).


  • Ron Turner’s cover for John Russell Fearn’s Deadline to Pluto (1951)


August 22nd: Ron Turner (1922-1998). Sometimes I think his garish pulp covers are the only view of 50s SF some people have…

August 24th: James Tiptree, Jr. (1915-1987). A favorite of mine. I’ve covered the following: “A Momentary Taste of Being” (1975), “A Source of Innocent Merriment” (1980), “The Girl Who Was Plugged In” (1973), “Houston, Houston, Do You Read?” (1976), and “Love Is the Plan the Plan Is Death” (1973).

August 24th: Editor Bea Mahaffey (1928-1987).

August 24th: Orson Scott Card (1951-). Another author of my youth… I attended high school in a community with a substantial Mormon population. I was lent copies of Card novels by the dozen. Didn’t realize the connection at the time! In a group of “classic” authors that I have little desire to return to.

August 25th: Jeffrey A. Carver (1949-). I haven’t read any of his work. Let me know if there’s anything of his worth acquiring. Maybe Panglor (1980)?

August 26th: Gerald Kersh (1911-1968). I’ve only read “Whatever Happened to Corporal Cuckoo?” (1953).

August 26th: Otto Binder (1911-1974). Published SF with his brother Earl (1904-1966) under the name “Eando” Binder. After 1934, Otto continued using the pen name without his brother.

August 26th: C. S. Forester (1899-1966), best known for his Horatio Hornblower sequence, also wrote a few science fiction stories!

August 27th: T. L. Sherred (1915-1985)

August 27th: Artist Frank Kelly Freas (1922-2005). I can’t say I’m the biggest Freas fan. Never cared for the fuzzy airbrush feel (with a few exceptions).

August 27th: Edward Bryant (1945-2017).

August 28th: Jack Vance (1916-2013).


  • Burckhard Labowski and Regine Schulz’s cover for the 1983 German edition of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic (1972)


August 28th: Arkady Strugatsky (1925-1991).

August 28th: Vonda N. McIntyre (1948-2019). A favorite of mine — check out my review of her Hugo-winning Dreamsnake (1968) if you’re new to her work.

August 28th: Barbara Hambly (1951-).

August 29th: Don Wilcox (1905-2000). Wrote an important early generation ship story: “The Voyage That Lasted 600 Years” (1940).

August 29th: Thomas N. Scortia (1926-1986)

August 20th: Judith Moffett (1942-). Anyone read her fiction?


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#1950s #1960s #1970s #avantGarde #bookReviews #DavidRBunch #JohnWyndham #MordecaiRoshwald #paperbacks #RobertSilverberg #sciFi #scienceFiction #technology #UrsulaKLeGuin




Events for the 31st of August from Wikipedia:

• 1798: Irish Rebellion: Irish rebels, with French assistance, establish the short-lived Republic of Connacht. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Re…
• Birth (1992) of Holly Earl, British actress en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_Ea…
• Death (1867) of Charles Baudelaire, French poet and critic (b. 1821) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_…
#history #events #historical #today @histodons



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Last day enjoying this calendar as wallpaper on my second monitor in the office. It's one of my fave shots. Good memory of a nice evening spent with mates.

Also features in this article on my blog:

blog.alfiegoodrich.com/portfol…

#japan #photography #nightphotography #streetphotography



BREAKING: HUGE shakeup on state Supreme Court. Via @briantylercohen #Politics 🇺🇸 🗳️ youtu.be/wYi7Au4w-CQ?...

BREAKING: HUGE shakeup on stat...


in reply to Oblique Strategies

oh yay! thanks for the boost @flyingsaceur — i don't have a set of these but i've flipped through. i have ZSA's deck of cards that serve a similar purpose but i suppose i should get a set of those considering the importance of brian eno's work elsewhere in my life 😂





Heading off to the 12th Int'l Cretaceous Symposium in Hanover, Germany to present on Utah's remarkably complete Cretaceous Dinosaur faunal sequence and to lay out evidence the the J/K Dinosaur extinction in Utah was characterized by paleosols documenting that the basal Cretaceous was extremely wet.



Someone left a comment on a YouTube recently asking how exactly I'm getting such clarity and colours in my videos from such a cheap little camera? What is up with that?

"Vlog 087 – It's not the camera"
youtu.be/G9e2MF08a3g

Will appear on PeerTube in a few hours too:
makertube.net/c/ewen/videos

#EwenTube #Photography #PhotographyVlog






Trump has dispatched seven US warships to waters off Venezuela – Axios en.news-front.su/2025/08/30/tr…






Photo-shoot this week for the Wire, the daily newsletter at National Press Club ... the annual journalism awards dinner. Here's Club president Mike Balsamo, right, presenting the President's Award to Dong Yifu, accepting for his father, imprisoned Chinese journalist Dong Yuyu.

More photos: technewslitphoto.smugmug.com/N…

#Photography #NewsPhotography #NationalPressClub #PressFreedom




Linux 6.17 Adds Support For Logitech G PRO 2 LIGHTSPEED, Wacom Art Pen 2 & More

This week's round of HID subsystem "fixes" for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel include adding a number of new device IDs and other alterations for supporting new hardware...
phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-H…

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I’m so afraid of rejection, I don’t get a pet because they’ll probably choose the others in the family over me


I tried a Trader Joe’s pepperoni pizza. Not a fan. I cooked it for the recommended 14 minutes at 425 degrees. It didn’t look done so I put it back in for 2 minutes.

The crust was ok but the middle part was too doughy & wet. Like it didn’t cook. If I put it back in for the center to cook, the crust would be black.

I won’t buy that again.




Good morning. Hope you're having a good weekend. Fairly chill here today. Charlie goes back to school tomorrow. So there's an end of summer feel to the day.

Just hope the weather gets the memo.

Couple of pics from a walk right back at the start of 2024.

blog.alfiegoodrich.com/portfol…

🙏❤️

#photography #japan



During a town hall Wednesday in Worth County, Iowans urged Hinson to “stop lying” after she claimed that the president’s key legislation had ushered in “higher wages” and an improved cost of living.

“Higher wages?” shouted one woman incredulously. “For who? For you?”
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