Happy Women's Day! To commemmorate it, I've made a list of 100 space opera universes written by women and categorised them by their representation of embodiment :) I hope it adds many novels to your TBR lists! #8M

30 fascistas encapuchados irrumpieron violentamente ayer viernes 6 de marzo, en el marco de la semana del #8M, en la Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología de la Complutense, arrancando carteles y causando destrozos en el aula social y pasillos.

✨S'apropen les Nits Lúdiques!✨Sis hores on podreu gaudir de la nostra ludoteca oberta fins les dotze de la nit! Quan? Divendres 13 de febrer, de 18h a 24h On? A l'hotel d'entitats de la uab, a la plaça cívica. Però hi ha mes! Just abans farem una taula rodona sobre jocs de #rolencatalà! No falteu!

“Snake, don't worry about it. There's more to being a good person than just having a stereo television. You can do it just the way you are!” A pep talk for those with 14" portable CRTs and a mono speaker.

Aha, it's time for the post of the week! I am (still) explaining my research to a fictional audience to organise my brain a bit. Next week, big things are coming! (things I've put an embarassing amount of time and effort to do).

Vols apuntar-te a les activitats del 32è aniversari? Pots trobar el formulari a l'enllaç següent, o a la nostre biografia! #rolencatalà 👇👇 linktr.ee/cruab

Getting accepted into a conference to talk about the yuckiest movie ever, Splice: :^)!!! yippee! academia! Having to re-watch the yuckiest movie ever, Splice: :,^( i hate everyone involved in this, most of all adrien brody. when i get to the conference I will scream for twenty minutes then leave

Looming large on the cover of Official PlayStation Magazine US's October 2005 issue: Shadow of the Colossus. The PS2 was a well-tuned machine by the time 2005 rolled around. And even as next-gen rivals such as the Xbox 360 and Wii also loomed, there was still plenty to get excited about.

I made a bingo card

Notice how all arguments are about practicality and usability (or criticising philosophical debate, very mature) but not one word is spared for ethics. And I don't mean regarding unemployment, I mean regarding the planet. I'm against AI for the same reason I'm vegan and don't care how smart it gets.

Philip K Dick sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/dick_p... was born on this day, so here are four covers for his "Dr Futurity", originally published in 1960 (artist: Ed Emshwiller, [uncredited], Marco Patrito and Chris Moore):

Jo hi seré jugant a l'Actual Play, portant el concurs d'attrezzo i la taula rodona de jocs de rol! Vine a ser friki amb nosaltres a l'autònoma!

Finally, a new blogpost. I didn't die. Sidenote, the website logo is BIG on posted links and it's just a picture of a little green bug my partner took years ago (because I had no idea what to put there) and it looks a bit deranged, so accepting suggestions.

Morning.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

Eric Frank Russell sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/russel... died on this day, so here are some of his book covers (Artist: Bob van Blommestein, Frank Kelly Freas, Karel Thole and Karel Thole):

I have completely reskinned my blog. Now it has a different name, sillier visuals, better navigational tools and an actually functional newsletter-style subscription. If you want to check it out (or even subscribe!) it would make me super happy- Writing is sort of my life and all.

I'm always so mean about Descartes and then I go back to the meditations and I feel SO guilty because the poor dude was just having five simultaneous derealization episodes I relate so much RIP Descartes you would have loved the word 'gaslight'. You're right baby the genius is gaslighting you

Directa 598 | Segons l’investigador de l’Institut Metròpoli Albert Sales, els desallotjaments alimenten l’aporofòbia i la idea que la gent que viu al carrer és responsable de la seva situació.

Unflinching refusal to use or allow the use of A.I. in reading & writing should be the uncontroversial, default position of teachers from K-12 to colleges & universities. If our administrators tell us we "have to" we tell them to eff off. We will not kill the planet's water for systemic plagiarism.

I'm using my free time logically and serenely (making a database + diagram of space opera written by women 1950-2025 to combat my frustration with fizzled-out feminism in fandom spaces) A veure si el tinc fet pel 8 de Març, and also a veure què en faig. Probably just blog post.

the video game industry is a mess

This week's blogpost (which I'm late on) talks about my research, trying to define it properly. Today, I focus on the 'what' of it all, hoping to talk about the 'where' and 'how' in the following weeks.

USS Durable Plating

People in sci-fi novels are always naming their exploratory vessels shit like ICARUS and IXION and while I am not superstitious, I would maybe go with the USS GOT-THERE-SAFELY.

the priests were doing WHAT

An old comic style of a woman looking out her window at a city skyline. The bubble says, “What a stupid time to be alive.”

Glasses, contact lenses, water screws, terracing, wheelbarrows, pencils, public transit, ramps, solar cells, wind farms, dental floss, cassette tapes, books, notebooks, books, spades, dibbers, cauldrons, spoons, crutches, kitchen knives and oh yeah, hammers and sickles.

made fan art for my favourite horror movie

This sort of thing, the amount of money put in researching propanolol years ago and the disregard for disabled folk means that in a few years the category of the veteran may be, in practical terms completely erased. Every day closer to the events of Warhammer. We need a mummified emperor ...uh oh

El divendres passat va fer un temporal a l'Autònoma... 🗡️Però tot i així res va detindre als nostres membres a l'hora continuar amb el seu entrenament de softcombat!🗡️ #rolencatalà

keep seeing an ad during the olympics for an AI chatbot for a home-buying website.....finally, a way for realtors to do even less work

I think I arrowed down my dissertation title to "Something something": Male anxieties regarding the dissident body in Postmodern Space Opera And by "something something" i mean... A quote, probably? Also maybe dissident isn't the right word at all. Othered, maybe? oof

Zuck acelerando sin frenos hacia el dead internet theory

How gauche would it be to get a Dewey Decimal code tattooed? Asking for a friend

Romano's self-critique hits hard: sociology has trapped climate discourse in academic jargon while the planet burns. His call to break free from institutional silos and connect research to real action resonates beyond environmental studies. #AcademicSky #sociology iai.tv/articles/climate-pol...

Sorry I can’t this weekend man I have to wander around my home like a tormented ghost for a couple days

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Avui no hi ha blogpost perquè he estat centradi en la presentació del Winter Workshop del doctorat (que crec que ha anat prou bé), però he penjat un nou personatge de rol que vaig escriure fa uns dies per una campanya que em fa moltíssima il·lusió i que narrarà uni amigui mevi que m'estimo molt

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Make Art (1/4)

The conceptual map of my PhD research vault is taking shape, it just so happens that the shape is Circle of Doom.

I was sad that the dress pants I'd thrifted didn't have pockets and then I felt pocket lining... and uneven stitching. What kind of damaged soul sews pockets shut?

Avui fa un any que sóc vegani :) He lluitat molt per estar a un nivell econòmic on puc permetre'm viure segons els meus estàndards ètics, i estic orgullosi de mi mateixi. I tot i així, el meu veganisme no és perfecte, ja que la medicació que prenc per l'anèmia té gelatina. 1/2

L'entrada del blog d'avui és sobre la Pepi, la meva besàvia, que va morir fa dos dies i deixa enrere una rica tradició oral catalana. Potser en traeixo l'oralitat escrivint, però bé. Així m'asseguro de que no es perd res :)

Academic publications, like @nature.com, put out so many articles, many of which are lost in the volume BUT this one is worth reading & amplifying. In general, #AI makes me queasy but this one leaves me gravely worried about the future of #academia. #academicsky #hci #chatbots #highereducation

"Whether you are an AI optimist, skeptic, or pessimist, none of us can afford to be fatalists. When we resign ourselves to the inevitability of oppressive systems, we give in to a desperate world." - Disabling Intelligences, Ch. 5, RMW

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