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Explore a madrasa deep in the souqs of an ancient city, where the sultan provides education to thwart the growth of zealotry that could lead to uprisings. #travel #history cromwell-intl.com/travel/moroc…


An old #Caturday pic; I genuinely can't even remember where I stumbled upon this grumpy and beautiful thing. I've tried to find the alley again since this test roll was shot in 2020, and I can't quite figure out. Such is the joy of the aimless wander.

(Kiev 4, Jupiter 8M, HP5+ in LC29)

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography

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Il finale di Alice in Borderland 3 chiude una porta ma apre un portone, suggerendo sviluppi oltre il Giappone: cosa ci riserva il futuro della serie? #AliceInBorderland

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Zum Austausch über ihre Pläne zur Übernahme der Weltherrschaft fahren Katzen regelmäßig ihre Antennen aus.

Und abends wird Jazz übertragen.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon




Ian Winick, Translator & Copywriter (@ianwinick.bsky.social)

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> Things that go through my head at tennis practice when I should be concentrating on the ball #58 Did the Mael brothers ever consider calling their band Maelstrom instead of Sparks?

#58

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A large, multi-trunked tree with thick, gnarled branches and spiky green leaves dominates the upper portion of the image, casting shadows on a paved walkway in the foreground. Below, a low stone wall separates the walkway from a wide, golden sand beach. Several tall, slender palm trees are spaced along the beach, where small groups of people are visible relaxing near the calm blue ocean. Hazy mountains line the distant horizon under a clear blue sky.
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A wide shot of a sunny beach scene on a clear day. The foreground is dominated by light tan sand, showing gentle ripples and small undulations across its surface. Beyond the sand, the turquoise-blue ocean stretches out, with numerous small waves breaking into white foam as they approach the shore. Two indistinct figures are visible standing in the shallow water further out. On the far right, a partial view of a light-colored beach umbrella is visible. In the distant background, a long range of hazy blue mountains lines the horizon, with several clusters of buildings or a small town visible along their base. The sky above is a clear, bright blue with scattered, wispy white clouds.


At Queerness in Games Con. Watching Avery Adler's keynote
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"leaky in the sense of leaky bladders but also in the sense of leaky memory"
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Adler makes a point: Any game excludes people. Every design decision excludes people. The impulse is "exclude no one" but this impulse is wrong, impossible. The question you *should* ask is: Is this game excluding *the same people who every game tends to exclude*? *That* would be wrong.

This point generalizes beyond games. This sort of choice (or attempt to deny the choice) comes up in designing any human thing.

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Ukrainian queer philosopher talking about how Ukraine fits oddly with existing literature on colonialism because that literature focuses (with obviously good reason) on the frame of racism, whereas whatever racism is present in the colonialism of Ukraine does not show up in an obvious way
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probably because most countries who have ever colonized Ukraine are of the same race. So instead it is mostly based on nazism (as in "nation", mostly about culture) and historic revanchism.
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Conferences like this often grapple with whether "queerness" exists as a distinct Thing separate from simply being an umbrella term for same-sex romance and gender transition ("LGBT"). One popular way people formalize this in academic contexts is by identifying queerness with failure— failure at gender or norms, owning the way that being queer means eternal oppression. This approach is valuable but if monofocused on leads upsetting places. Today I learned Jack Halberstam popularized this. [1/2]
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The talk by Drak and Pidzamecky gives us another perspective on primordial queerness:

"Queerness is the idea of the 'not yet'. It's something we can sometimes glimpse"

This came up in context of talking about queer self-representation in games with character creators, where the companies creating the games might not have intentionally accommodated queers or might not under what queers actually want. Queerness as a thing we constantly reach for becomes very concrete in that context

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"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son a PSVR"
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"Skin is a social surface"

"The skin is a border and a network of ports, porous and covered in holes"

"My interest in slime is a long-running one"

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"The relationship between the player and game controller is a deeply personal and erotic one"
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Jack perse observes the controller/joystick is phallic, in shape, grip and social coding. Inwardly, I wonder: Then is the keyboard yonic? Perse here makes the note that the standard wheelmouse has an actual clitoris; cites work of Sabine Harrer.

(Perse asserts the mouse, as used in pro gaming, becomes in usage a phallus; but Harrer's game is intended as a demonstration of the ways the clickwheel mouse has the potential to, with surprising mechanical aptness, simulate a cunt)

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Personal observation: The game "Getting Over It" could not be made today; "clipart", or the idea of a shovelware asset archive, has been displaced in market position and cultural role, as well as literally having its content poisoned by, "generative AI". Something beautiful and human, "ugly" in a campy way, has been lost from the world, replaced with something "ugly" in a capitalist way
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I imagine that's what Regimbartia attenuata think about Pelophylax nigromaculatus when they hurry through the predator's intestinal tract in search for the anal exit. According to Wikipedia contributors, “about 90% of swallowed beetles are excreted quickly. Surprisingly, the beetles survive.” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regimbar…

It's amazing what evolution can do. This is orders of magnitude better than what humans can do when trying to Get Over It with Bennett Foddy.

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also because of that I’m not even sure it reads as shovelware assets to many people today, for the same reason! Contextual understanding will become harder too (though this always happens with time)
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I immediately thought about the bio-pods in David Cronenberg's film eXistenZ.
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Very lewd indeed

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Indeed! #Existenz #Cronenberg

youtu.be/qncCLu6NDW8

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shoutouts to when I was 15 and my friend's sister took a sudden interest in videogames when the Dualshock 1 was released
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1) makes sense maybe if you think of "embodiment" as sensory integration. but then what VR is doing isn't dis-embodiment unless your senses are dis-integrated (as if you're experiencing a psychedelic drug trip). if you're in a state where you're capable of doing motion planning then you've constructed a new kind of embodiment
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@bob for the record the context of this slide was presenting three views on what VR "does"; the first offered by the speaker as what people *thought* VR was going to be when they were just thinking about it rather than experiencing an actual functional example
@bob
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I'll have to find a way to attend this next time around, it looks like. thanks for the notes, I'm loving it
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@gureito some of it is being streamed and I think the streamed talks are recorded
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can't watch it at work, but will look for it later then. thanks ☺️


Anstatt in die Defensive zu gehen und den 8 Stunden Tag zu verteidigen, sollten wir vielleicht lieber die Kampagnen für die
4 Tage Woche mit der Kampagne für den 4 Stunden Tag kombinieren und um einige Forderungen erweitern.
4000€
4 fache Vergütung von Überstunden, Mehr-und Schichtarbeit
40 Tage Urlaub und
4000€ im Monat
4 Wochen bezahlter Sonderurlaub (für Hochzeiten, bei Todesfällen, zur Pflege,...)
zu ergänzen....
Klingt utopisch? Das war der 8 Stunden und die 5 Tage Woche auch einmal...
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Entro il 30 settembre adesioni al concordato biennale - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Entschuldigung, ich konnte dieses Bild nicht verarbeiten.

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@frauxirah @andyc They had three suits, two outfits and the Union Jack coat, then a display of three single shoes. Very strange. Most of it was writing, such as notes and songs.

They had outfits in bags hanging up in the ceiling, which you couldn't see very well.

I don't want to post all my pictures here as I want to use them in my review.

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The image features a colorful high-heeled shoe displayed in a glass case. The shoe has a chunky heel and a glossy finish, with a navy blue upper and a green base. It is adorned with horizontal stripes in yellow, red, and green, reminiscent of the Rastafarian flag. The shoe is placed in a white box, secured with a white ribbon, and is positioned on a metal shelf. The background shows a warehouse-like setting with shelves and lighting, suggesting the shoe is part of a collection or exhibit.

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Shoplifters could soon be chased down by drones | MIT Technology Review technologyreview.com/2025/09/2… #technology #shoplifters #Flock #drones #police

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@sunumbral Add a chopped tomato to the relish for a veggie taco topping. It’s also good on veggie burgers, or baked potatoes with cheese, or spicy macaroni salad, or mixed in with mac & cheese… 😋
@Mike


Star Wars arriva sul fondale marino: ecco Chewbacca, il nuovo mega-corallo peloso come il fedele amico di Han Solo
https://www.open.online/2025/09/26/chewbacca-star-wars-corallo-oceano-pacifico/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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The UNGA surprise: Trump corners Zelensky and brings Kiev to heel strategic-culture.su/news/2025…



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Russia Has Know-How, Expertise to Build Closed Fuel Cycle Nuclear Power Plant sputnikglobe.com/20250927/russ… MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Russia has the experience, know-how, and expertise to build a nuclear power plant with a closed fuel cycle, World Nuclear Association Director General Dr. Sama Bilbao y Leon told Sputnik. #news #press



"It’s important to read between the lines of the announcement, as doing so reveals what Spotify will still allow:

It allows fully AI-generated music to continue being uploaded, and recommended to users, with no clear label attached.

Remember The Velvet Sundown? Still allowed.

So anyone can use AI music models - some of which are trained on other musicians’ work without permission - to make fully AI-generated music, upload this to Spotify, and take royalties from the pool available to human musicians.

Spotify has a financial incentive to allow this, of course. They make more money from music that isn’t owned by the major labels. So a greater share of AI music on the platform, in general, will increase their profits.

But it’s really sad to see Spotify’s continued slide away from being a platform for human music. I for one recently switched to using Deezer, whose policies on AI music are much more musician-friendly. I encourage others to do the same."

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#AI #GenerativeAI #Spotify #Streaming #AIMusic #Music



CCTV is when you know you're being recorded, BCCTV is when you don't


Nico PIro (@nicopiro.bsky.social)

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> Si chiamano sanzioni non economiche, Israele deve essere escluso da ogni competizione sportiva. Agli atleti può essere lasciata la possibilità di partecipare sotto bandiera neutrale #StopGenocidio #StopApartheid #PalestinaLibera

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DC 180 🟥 ¿De DÓNDE VIENEN los Objetos INTERESTELARES | Proponen destruir el asteroide 2024 YR4
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“Ty Cobb, Trump’s own former WH attorney, isn’t mincing words:

“We have a president ordering his AG to indict his enemies. And the AG… says: ‘Yes, sir. How fast can I get that done for you?’”

Let that sink in.

This isn’t justice. It’s regime revenge.”— r/t Brian Allen #press

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Should I get out of #tech before this pivot to #quantum bubble gets going or is it too late? I don’t want to keep dealing with these cycles lol


#RoyaumeUni - Tony Blair pressenti pour diriger Gaza ? Ce qu’on sait de cette hypothèse reprise par les médias britanniques.
Toutes nos #news sont sur epocinfo.fr/index.php?display=…

#info #media #politique #Gaza #Blair



Salis: a Tajani l'uso politico della giustizia va bene se a farne uso è un mezzo fascista come Orban

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> I “garantisti” di Forza Italia consegnano Ilaria Salis a un processo nelle mani dirette del governo ungherese, dove la giustizia da tempo non è uno strumento di equità, ma di controllo politico.



Il mondo di "Spiderman" Furlani, l'uomo dei record: la famiglia, Sinner e la staffetta come Lewis
https://www.gazzetta.it/Atletica/27-09-2025/mattia-furlani-l-uomo-dei-record-la-famiglia-sinner-e-la-staffetta-4x100.shtml?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Stavo per ripostare una cosa poi ho visto che lo stesso profilo posta anche cose fatte con IA , e ti viene quel dubbio " ma l'atro pure è artificiale o è vero?" E nel dubbio non posti più un caiz...
Tipo che ti viene voglia di mandare tutto e tutti a vaffa.

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"American companies have no right to cry foul when the EU gets rid of the America First Copyright Directive and lets Europeans choose to get their software, updates, and hardware from European companies."

Amen.

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Because we could all use some humor right now….. theonion.com/experts-say-futur…