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andrewducker at 12:00pm on 23/04/2025 under archeology, bigotry, cats, crowdfunding, edinburgh, habits, housing, law, links, prehistory, psychology, rights, socialmedia, society, tax, transgender, uk, usa, ux
james_davis_nicoll at 09:08am on 22/04/2025 under review
andrewducker at 12:00pm on 22/04/2025 under assault, lawsuit, links, malware, neilgaiman, ohforfuckssake, quorajames_davis_nicoll at 02:16pm on 21/04/2025 under bundle of holding
In the future all zoo trips will look like this.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
james_davis_nicoll at 09:10am on 21/04/2025 under clarke awardWhich 1994 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
Vurt by Jeff Noon
10 (16.7%)
A Million Open Doors by John Barnes
17 (28.3%)
Ammonite by Nicola Griffith
29 (48.3%)
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
49 (81.7%)
The Broken God by David Zindell
6 (10.0%)
The Iron Dragon's Daughter by Michael Swanwick
29 (48.3%)
andrewducker at 12:00pm on 21/04/2025 under christianity, easter, fail, genetics, history, inequality, life, links, money, philosophy, politics, race, racism, religion, spelling, uk, unions, usa
Pop stars in the making.
(Pretty sure the one on the right has been up for three nights in a
row and the drugs are now wearing off.)
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is here on Pixelfed.scot.
For once, I seem to be mostly okay today, and on the whole I think it was a pretty good week, modulo worry about what's going on in the US. I noticed after the household seder last night that I wasn't shivering, which supports the theory that it's psychological rather than thermal. (Does not rule out something else, like iron deficiency.)
I got quite a lot done, including backing/ordering a Roamate Mobility Device (a combination rollator and powered! wheelchair), going to an initial appointment at the local hospital (mostly for bloodwork; I have another this week to discuss it, and another next month with the oncology team), helping N and N" clean up the living room (prep for Saturday's seder), filing my income tax extension, and singing at Eurofilk on Thursday (only one song, because I still suck at deciding what to sing),
And I completely forgot to include the fact that we have tulips blooming in the planters on our back deck in this week's Thankful Thursday post. I still sometimes have trouble wrapping my head around the fact that I live in Nederland now, but I have to admit that tulips next to a canal are very convincing.
In case it gets omitted from wherever you get your news, yesterday Protesters gather[ed] for 'day of action' against Trump administration, Anti-Trump protests build momentum in WA: ‘We’re just getting louder’ | The Seattle Times. There have been a couple of promising court victories, but we all know how much respect the current administration has for the courts. On this side of the pond, Thousands of trans rights protesters on Edinburgh streets following court ruling.
A few nice things in the links: there's a Capybara Cafe in Florida, and last month was the first on record when fossil fuels drop below 50% of US power mix,
james_davis_nicoll at 09:01am on 20/04/2025 under because my tears are delicious to you, reviewandrewducker at 12:00pm on 20/04/2025 under 3dprinting, autism, boardgames, corruption, edinburgh, elonmusk, equality, europe, fusion, gaza, gender, history, hungary, israel, language, law, lgbt, links, materials, ohforfuckssake, palestine, protests, psychology, rights, settlersofcatan, society, space, transgender, uk, ukraine, usaandrewducker at 09:56pm on 19/04/2025james_davis_nicoll at 09:52am on 19/04/2025 under books received
Which of these look interesting?
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow (October 2025)
17 (47.2%)
Blood for the Undying Throne by Sung-Il Kim (October 2025)
10 (27.8%)
Keepers of the Elven Rings by Gabriele Quaglia & Francesco Nepitello (April 2025)
4 (11.1%)
Realms of the Three Rings by Gabriele Quaglia & Francesco Nepitello (April 2025)
3 (8.3%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
27 (75.0%)
andrewducker at 12:00pm on 19/04/2025 under bigotry, buses, doom, electricity, food, genocide, hydrogen, law, lgbt, libdem, links, politics, satire, technology, transgender, transport, uk, usajames_davis_nicoll at 09:25am on 18/04/2025 under doing the wfc's homework, doing what the wfc cannot, review
andrewducker at 12:00pm on 18/04/2025 under bigotry, bullying, epigenetics, equality, fat, gender, law, lgbt, links, ohforfuckssake, politics, transgender, uk, weight