Does anyone have access to any of this, please? academic.oup.com/book/60513

Paul Hynes returns with a new #WW2 #WhatIf series looking at the many ways in which the #FallOfFrance could have gone differently. #BattleOfFrance #FallGelb #CharlesDeGaulle #BatailleDeFrance www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-...

i think this could actually be what kills the MCU

Happy Friday!! Today we're bringing you some fantasy, science fiction, and horror book recs from Argentina and Argentinian authors--happy reading! 🇦🇷

New #WriterBeware blog post: Gen AI-driven Nigerian writing scams have arrived recently & spun up fast. Two new ones: book club impersonations (charge a "spot fee" for appearance) & fake private book review communities (reviewers are "tipped" w/ a minimum buy) writerbeware.blog/2025/09/19/r...

"I’m happy for just about anything that gets more people into roleplaying and speculative fiction, but there is a drawback: D&D’s default worldbuilding is awful." mythcreants.com/blog/so-your...

So much of translation is more than words - how do you translate cultural concepts from one language to another? Where is the line between context the translation needs to provide, and the audience's duty to look up details themselves? youtu.be/bNwtIngYl4E

Subtly downgrade a band: Stream-enterer.

Film Review: T.I.M. Or, Tediously Imitative Movie @carturo222.bsky.social has our review www.nerds-feather.com/2025/09/film...

Democracy isn’t a spectator sport. If you don’t persuade your neighbor, someone else will—and they may not believe in democracy at all.

"Just as the extraordinary crisis of the Great Depression required the bold policy of Social Security, the disruption caused by AI requires an equally bold response—a Social Security for everyone in the form of UBI." —Gisele Huff (@gisele600.bsky.social)

Technologically advance a band: Graphenica

Listen, sometimes when your job requires you to be immersed in Everything That's Happening All the Time, you just have to draw a line for your sanity, and my line is that I simply refuse to learn why people are talking about the rapture

Technologically advance a band: Fleetwood iPad

And that REALLY should be the end of this. They’ll literally never work out the bugs.

Halfway through season 4 of Babylon 5, which fascinatingly wrapped up its major, fate-of-the-galaxy war a few eps into the season and is telling a broadly engaging story about how war’s end doesn’t inherently mean peace but is also doing it via wildly scattershot storylines.

I suppose one positive of the last week or so is that Charlie Kirk hasn't weighed in

What's the matter babe you've barely touched your event horizon ribs

Technologically advance a band: Florence and the Autobot

Pretty cool that we now more easily (more correctly?) define dinosaurs by their bird lineage than vica versa. There were definitely some omnivorous or herbivorous therapods, but in terms of biomass I’d imagine the majority of herbivores were “non-avian” (non-therapod). 🧪 #Birds #Dinosaurs #PaleoSky

"Dad, if you grew eyeballs on your fingers would they have eyelids?" my child it is 7am

I got a bug up my ass to write something. Gift link: medium.com/@dale.stromb...

Protoplanetary disk of WISPIT 2, 437 light years from Earth.

whenever people get fatalistic about the ecological threats we're facing, i like to bring up some of these examples. we *can* do things that cause positive change! we have in the past! if we make the decisions to try and fix things, we can actually do it! we aren't in fact doomed until we give up!

Here come the first "generative" genomes. Folks at the Arc Institute used an AI trained on DNA sequence to propose code for novel bacteriophage genomes. Of the 302 they synthesized, 16 actually worked--replicating and killing E. Coli. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/17/1...

I share this because it was a good reminder for me of how our culture--and even the supposedly "kid friendly" parts of our culture--can make violence seem like an easy and acceptable solution to problems. And a good reminder for me of the work it takes to continually resist those norms. 6/

How do you weigh a black hole? We're talking ten octillion tons for a *small* one. Plus it just eats the scale. www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-... 🔭🧪

[NEW VIDEO] This is an ancient piece that has always fascinated me, so I did some research, and this is what I found => youtu.be/sMWVuLqBj0A

Historically, the word 'nest' consists of two parts. The part 'ne-' is related to 'nether', while '-st' is related to 'sit'. The distant ancestor of 'nest' meant "place to sit down". 'Nest' is also related to Spanish 'nido' and its Romance relatives. Click my new graphic to learn more:

Here, have some Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres.

Imagine living in the Stuart Little universe. I think a mouse wearing people clothes and driving a tiny car would be the least of your worries. What if cats could wield chainsaws? Think about that.

This is so convenient for me, do you know how hard I’ve tried over the years to make a concise argument that Protestantism inevitably encourages adherents to invent their own personal deity. Now I can just point to this.

*snort*

The most compelling TV show character at this moment: #AlienEarth

And the game doesn't restart.

Content warning for the Tangerine Tyrant.

The the U.S., anti-scientists have become a demographic, a culture, a movement...and they're endangering us all. sbee.link/mhut7wajck

This is correct. The only way to stop a bully is to stand up to that bully.

A Colorado pastor & his wife ran a faith-based crypto exchange. They stole $3.4M, which paid for luxury handbags and home renovations. Now they're banned from selling securities for 20 years and must pay back all the money. Prison could be next. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/colorado-p...

Some 140 books by women - including titles like "Safety in the Chemical Laboratory" - were among 680 books found to be of "concern" due to "anti-Sharia and Taliban policies". www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is some North Korea bullshit. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g...

So are they saying spam is what Stitch tastes like, or…?

[NEW VIDEO] In this countdown, we explore the Top 10 Ancient Underwater Discoveries of the Past Year, from shipwrecks packed with cargo to submerged ports, statues, and even a stone bridge that rewrites history. Watch now=> youtu.be/gXaul39qw6Q

I stumbled on this alternate history. It has a unique POD: the Rosetta Stone is discovered in the 13th century which kicks off an earlier start to Egyptology. Haven't read the whole thing yet, but I do enjoy it when alternate historians come up with fresh new ways to change history.

Oh, hey! I wrote a thing for a guy you may know! This book is gonna be filled with so many all-stars, I cannot wait.

whoa sick, how did i not know about this before now "OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched or copy-pasted."

The digital de-aging video is finally out on YouTube youtu.be/R7RCfYcJFbw

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

Just published by Engelsberg Ideas My review of: "Crescent Dawn: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern Age" Author: Si Sheppard engelsbergideas.com/reviews/the-...