#production #labour #process #raspi #wales Always illuminating to see how a Raspberry Pi computer gets assembled, baked and where precisely. I miss the factory tours from my high-school days. youtu.be/k2C4lbbIH0c?...

Lynn Margulis would be excited about it. The #endysendosymbiont theory of mitochondrial origin - gains more evidence as Czech scientists uncover an unknown branch of the TOL with very weird #mitochondria. Solarion arienae is a micro living fossil from deep time. www.sciencealert.com/newly-discov...

#plant #modelorganism #labhistory Asimov press hits us with another #mustread about the humble yet momentous role of a mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana played in understanding plant #biology. www.asimov.press/p/arabidopsi...

Great #mustread interview with Ha-Joon Chang about India, #AI and industrialisation. Ha-Joon always has interesting things to say. frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/i...

#sciencefiction #technology #speculative #future Emily H. Wilson recommended 12 books to read. www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

#nature #ecosystems #insects What's this adorable beetle? Another magic video by PBS Terra about #cockroaches, their evolution, radiation and wonder at their incredible variety and diversity. Mist consider the fact that #termites are basically eusocial cockroaches. youtu.be/bZ7--lYBG24?...

#Dracula #vampire #childrenofthenight #cinema And here's Udo Kier in Warhola's requisite trash movie Dracula aka BLOOD FOR DRACULA (1974) youtu.be/ZuIaz9KGg0s?...

For all of you fans out there there is a great biographical #documentary about #UdoKier on Arte channel, only in FR/DE at the moment. To admire more of his beauty, versatility & good humor. Check out Udo feeding the giant turtle Hans Solo. www.arte.tv/de/videos/11...

#game #gaming #retrogaming #megadrive #space #gravity An excellent gravity defying game by Denis Grachev. Grachev is one of my favorite gamedevs 👾 out there. retrosouls.itch.io/gravibots16bit

There's an Edward Gorey exhibition up at the Society of Illustrators and it's pretty fantastic. societyillustrators.org/event/someth...

An important #book who marked the point when sf became a central object of academic study Larry McCaffery's Storming the Reality Studio (1991) a collection of essays, interviews and fiction premised on parallels btw cyberpunk and postmodernist literature. www.goodreads.com/en/book/show...

#Europe #EU aren't in any way close to phasing out fossil fuels - a Brandon Wu reports after #COP30, which is absolutely idiotic and insane on the part of rich countries. youtu.be/rk39D8723Bs?...

Jeff Noon sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/noon_j... and A Viger sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/viger_a were born on this day, so here's some related artwork (Artist: 1&2 [couldn't identify], 3&4 JL Beuzon). 3&4 from "L'Anneau de Feu" (1922), co written with Léon Miral:

Still one of my favorites: BUG by Giacomo Sartori, tr from the Italian by Frederika Randall, from Restless Books! www.sfintranslation.com?p=10408 Italian #SFinTranslation

Maybe to be expected from a pop up Institution, part of the shock therapy tactics.

Der Verband der so genannten "Familienunternehmer" gibt die Brandmauer zur AfD auf. Wer hinter dem putzig klingenden Namen wirklich steckt, zeigt unsere @tanroet.bsky.social Recherche: Spoiler: Oft sind es globale Konzerne mit Milliardenumsätzen - und politischer Agenda www.zeit.de/green/2023-0...

Gute Fahrt Udo Kier! RIP one of my favorite actors of all time. Here's a creepy music video featuring Udo: youtu.be/pDsX9FV50vE?...

A great piece on one of the very best mini-series ever made. I revisit EDGE OF DARKNESS every couple of years and it seems to hit harder every time.

"Die USA sind ein Wertepartner. Das ist eine Demokratie und ein Rechtsstaat" - Boris Rhein, Ministerpräsident, CDU. Heute in #BerlinDirekt zu #Palantir. Das Gerede von "Digitaler Souveränität" ist offensichtlich genau das: Gerede. Was ich nicht wusste: Dass Dennis-Kenji Kipker CDU-Politiker ist.

#horror #genre #cinema #indonesia #shocker #action Indonesia is really putting out some incredible movies these last years, haven't seen many of them but judging by these samples, I'm looking forward to dive into. youtu.be/gMo-kLJ7vl8?...

#mustread #india #indian #scifi #sciencefiction #history #modernity Exceptional deep dive by Gautam Bhatia after months of preparation was published in the inaugural edition of #AlterMagIndia about the secret history of Indian SF. Before Asimov, there was Rokeya. 👇🏾 altermag.com/articles/the...

#book #bestread #books #scifistudies #sciencefiction #sfstudies #sfacholars #critical #criticaltheory Cloudfare has issues so it's time to catch up on the reading 📚 list! Here's my definite favorite 2025 books during these troubled times (even if the year's not over). They make excellent gifts🎁.

Robin Wall Kimmerer would love this I am pretty sure.

🌾🌱⚘️🌿🌼🦠🚀 #BUC2026 Impressive survival of moss spores, Physcomitrella patens (spreading earthmoss) on outside of International Space Station for 9 months! Vacuum, radiation, dry, too much light, cold. Over 80% germinated when back on Earth. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...

Elon Musk's Grokipedia cites a neo-Nazi website 42 times, researchers say www.nbcnews.com/tech/elon-mu...

#mustwatch While sipping on your wine this evening, you may ponder this: youtu.be/M_XicEEBvGU?...

Trans-exclusionary and “gender critical” takes are extremely prevalent in the British media. So I wrote this with the assumption that many readers might not realise that such views are seen as fringe and extreme by the vast majority of feminists outside the UK (and by many within the UK too).

The annual National Art Academy graduation exhibition in Hangzhou is usually much anticipated. This year, some particular entries by a master student called Nie Shichang, stole the show. Inspired by both new tech and the mechanical arts of the Mo Clan. 1/ #arts #culture #mechanics

great review by @jvroessler.bsky.social www.historicalmaterialism.org/council-comm...

Es geht weiter in der UZH-Ringvorlesung «Die globale Rechte»: Heute in einer Woche, ausnahmsweise an einem Donnerstag um 18:15h, wird meine grossartige Kollegin @kathrintrattner.bsky.social über «Rechtsextremismus und Gaming» sprechen – freue mich darauf und bin schon sehr gespannt!

Anime Review: 7th Time Loop There's a little bit of everything in this compact time loop/romance/action/adventure @annmichelleharris.bsky.social has our review at the blog www.nerds-feather.com/2025/11/anim...

A repost as we begin a unit on workers' inquiry in my work class www.unemployednegativity.com/2017/02/if-n...

Kaputt gesparte Schule, denen es an Fachkräften, Sanierungsmaßnahmen und Ganztagesplätzen fehlt. Diese Problemstellen wirken sich auf die Schüler*innen aus. Wollt ihr wissen, welche Auswege es gibt? Checkt unser neues Krisenbuch Schule aus 👉 www.rosalux.de/publi...

Congratulations to authors @jennydenbow.bsky.social and Jess Whatcott on their receiving honorable mentions for the Sara Whaley Prize and the Alison Piepmeier Book Prize at this year's @theenwsa.bsky.social conference! #NWSA2025

#book #bestread #books #scifistudies #sciencefiction #sfstudies #sfacholars #critical #criticaltheory Cloudfare has issues so it's time to catch up on the reading 📚 list! Here's my definite favorite 2025 books during these troubled times (even if the year's not over). They make excellent gifts🎁.

I think those famously swordsmen-friendly condors might have new company, armoured wild geese. #wuxia

Can the neglected anticolonial visions of Third World Marxist revolutionaries speak to our current moment? Peyman Vahabzadeh on Iran's 1970s radical, Mostafa Sho'aiyan.

This looks great!💥

Job-Dieb, Ressourcenfresser, Killer-Maschine – die Angst vor den Maschinen greift um sich. Doch was ist die materielle Grundlage der künstlichen Intelligenz und warum grassiert gerade der Technikpessimismus? Das liest du in ak720: www.akweb.de/ausgabe...

Women in the world of business face appalling levels of abuse – a work culture that shuts out half of the potential workforce is doing immense social and economic damage ✏️ Hannah Fearn

Why can't they just analyse their data? Why is any computation or statistics called AI now?

Even if all of the research she ever carries out turns out to be dead ends, she'll still have contributed more to the world than these guys, whose main contribution is falling for crypto rug pulls and keeping the guy who checks hard drives at the FBI in business.

Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays. Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons. @nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her: pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...

15,5% of the German population lives under #poverty. New report 👇🏾

Die Kinderarmut in Deutschland steigt. In vielen Familien fehlt das Geld für grundlegende Bedürfnisse.

As #COP30 opens, one climate threat remains taboo: #militarism. The U.S. military emits more greenhouse gases than entire nations, yet its 750+ global bases are exempt from climate deals. COP30 must confront this silence!

Das Militär wirbt mit Nachhaltigkeit. Doch »Green Militarism« bleibt letztlich Greenwashing – das zeigt auch die Forschung.

“Grokipedia is a copy of Wikipedia but one where in each instance that Wikipedia disagrees with the richest man in the world, it’s ‘rectified’ so that it’s congruent with them.”