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Them: "Oh, cool! And Linux really works just as well?"

i'm not really seeing anyone on here talking about it unfortunately, but a 19 year old trans woman was recently (may 10th 2026) stabbed to death in seattle. she has not been publicly identified by name yet.

please read the article: anyone with information should call 206-233-5000 & you can tip anonymously.

A local paper had some great photographs, all taken by Nicole Hester:

The day before, Rep. Justin Pearson tries to attend a Senate Committee meeting and is barred access by the Sergeant at Arms.

Lawmakers and protesters link arms as the descend the capitol steps.

Once inside the chamber, Democratic representatives continued to stand together with arms linked.

They continued standing together with arms linked as votes were cast.

Democratic representatives take a group photo protesting the redistricting.

Rep. Justin Jones burns a photo of the Confederate flag with the words, We will not go back.

And stomps the ashes.

KeShaun Pearson being escorted from the building by the Staties.

KeShaun Pearson (left) being taken into custody. Rep. Justin Pearson (right) showing his support of his brother.

Additional information: State lawmakers have been gunning for Pearson and Jones nearly their entire terms. Most notably, in 2023, the House expelled them for participating in a protest at the Capitol. Their districts had to have special elections to have them reinstated.

Pearson is one of the plaintiffs of a lawsuit seeking an injunction against the redistricting.

I could see Kathryn Janeway returning to the Alpha Quadrant in the wake of the Dominion War and a lot of her fellow captains thinking she had it easy by “getting her ship lost”. And then the ship’s logs start hitting general access after the debriefings are over. (The same way Janeway was able to pull other captain’s logs for reference).

And her fellow rank-and-file get the logs dealing with the Borg, the Hirogen, Species 8472, the Vidiians, the telepathic pitcher plant, the macrovirus, what have you. And combining all that with making the journey in seven years and the fact that the entire Voyager crew is now a highly trained influx of fresh staffing after the Dominion War, with seven years of Janeway’s desperate insistence on Starfleet morals informing them?

Suddenly Janeway’s crew is captains and commanders and lieutenants, and she’s this Teddy Roosevelt-esque figure in Starfleet in that she’s revered for her leadership but also considered the type of admirably insane that wins wars.

And right about this time Janeway is looking at how Starfleet principles - the very same principles she clung to for her own sanity for seven years - have distorted and changed to be more war-like after the Dominion took so many lives, and she’s thinking “???? have you all??? gone mad???? you know what, yeah, put me in charge.”

I've spotted a huge decline over the last two years. What's upsetting is how so many of our current third years have declined since their first year. I did a seminar with them the other day, on the topic of the environmental impacts of different diets. One guy told me confidently that there would be no additional agricultural lands if we all went vegetarian.

"Cool," I said. "What's your source for that?"

"I'm sure I read it," he said.

"Fair," said I, "go and look it up. Find an academic source, let's assess it to see if it's robust."

The first thing he did was go to Google, and then read the AI summary.

"That's not a source," I said. "Find me a source."

Five minutes later, he happily tells me that a Guardian article says so, and mentions the World Economic Forum.

"Okay," I said. "Neither of those are academic sources, and the WEF is secondary anyway. Go to Google Scholar, and find a journal article."

Ten minutes later, he tells me he can only find articles that say it's a very complex issue in spite of pop cultural received wisdom, and we don't actually know.

A THIRD YEAR. This man has a dissertation due in THREE MONTHS. This is a skill we taught him in first year, and it's all dribbled out of his ears in the quest for easy summaries from an autocomplete algorithm. And I dearly wish I could say he's an exception, but Jesus Christ, that would be a lie.

I'm currently writing a lecture for the second years for their research methods module, and I normally wouldn't need to do this. But I'm having to re-introduce them to the basic concepts of how to actually analyse findings rather than lazily take whatever they seem to say at face value. I'm trying to find a good paper that had Surprising findings, because I want to show them a research question and a set of results and then get them to speculate and research on why they found something so different, but that's a difficult thing to search for.

Wendy Carlos and Weird Al Yankovic - Peter and the Wolf

I am currently on a a rare obscure music group on Facebook (Yea I'm still on Facebook. I'm still on Tumblr. What's your point?) who amoung other things currently in a war showing off their "rarest" and most "collectable" Anal Cunt records.

So at present I wasn't expected to be hit with the thrill of a new discovery. Yeaaaa buddy I was wrong.

It is Wendy Carlos and Weird Al Yancovic! Doing Peter and the Wolf!

How did this happen? Are they friends? Were they thrown together like an 80's buddy comedy? Were they bricked into a studio until they had an album Phantom of the Paradise style?

I DON'T KNOW!

I MAY NEVER KNOW!

Anyway Here is a Link click it and who knows what you might have acces too.

That's right! Books! With an S at the end! Plural! As in, more than one!

I'm very excited to announce that I've partnered with the excellent folks at Antithesis Press to bring you two things:

First of all, a new-new book: titled The Heart of the Woods and Other Stories, it's a collection of magic-themed short stories. Peep the cover!

But I said "more than one" book, haven't I? Well, over the past few months I've been working to bring you a completely and professionally re-edited second edition of what is probably my most famous book, To Own the Libs. Cover!

Both books are now available for preorder at the Antithesis Press website, following these links here below:

The Heart of the Woods | To Own the Libs

You can buy them as an ebook, as a paperback, or both at the same time for a discount. And if you buy both books (in any format), you get a further 10% discount!

Also, as a bonus, the first fifty paperback copies of either books will come with a sticker signed by yours truly.

So if these books sound like something you might enjoy, get clicking and get preordering!

My local mayor posted this and I'm mesmerised. Every time I look at it I spot a new problem. It's like a rorschach test.

But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this AI generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the AI Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building.