Australian Air Power: A Bibliography drrossmahoney.wordpress.com/australian-a...

Fifty five dollar water FIFTY FIVE DOLLAR WATER

If you don’t want to do your job, you can leave! People are desperate to teach at universities, let them do it!

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

The odds are pretty good that he goes to the wrong one.

I feel like the woman is allowed to write a memoir about… the past?

Katherine Bennell-Pegg touts the importance of expanding Australia's defence sector beyond the stratosphere, during her first few months in the Royal Australian Air Force's ranks.

Just in case anyone is still waiting for a line to be crossed

Command Deck, a sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder inspired by Slay the Spire, FTL, and 70's sci-fi novel covers (Berkey, Di Fate, Vallejo), is now available on Steam in Early Access! I'll finish another game first, then I'll try to play this one next week and give you a quick review.

"Longing for simplicity leads to the pernicious belief that dystopian narratives in games must be a power fantasy where authority is dismantled." Great stuff here on how punk and its cyber-extrapolation has become stripped of nuance, and how we can get it back.

Here it is from the ground the other day 📡

Charles Xavier: My school helps mutants control their powers. This is Cyclops, he was my first student and he is totally incapable of controlling his powers. This is Jean Grey, she started with Scott. She also cannot control her powers. And meet Rogue, yep you guessed it, can't control her powers

computer gaming world, magazine, cover (1983) archive.org/details/Comp...

Stephenson’s “Locomotion No. 1” (a precursor of the “Rocket”, four years later) made its first journey two hundred years ago today. It was the first steam locomotive to haul a passenger-carrying train on a public railway, the Stockton & Darlington.

Anyway, we delivered the bomb...

My daughter described a tube of cheap lip gloss as smelling like “AI watermelon.”

Historians’ corrections to widely circulated misinformation are often delayed by other academic commitments and they never match the reach of the offending piece, but I think they’re worth putting on the record nonetheless: alanlester.co.uk/blog/falsify...

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

is it me or has text selection in iOS gotten absolutely psychotic? me: I’d like to select this word iOS: ok, here are these two words! me: no really just this one iOS: think you meant these two me: deletes everything me: I’d like to place the cursor right here iOS: nope not gonna happen

In honor of it's retirement, my favorite MiG-21 meme:

We all know the truth about what happened to Amelia Earhart and now they’re finally gonna admit it.

my history of the intenet class, yup https://writing.exchange/@golgaloth/115273265976544295

Space 1999 set design. Production designer / art direction by Keith Wilson with Michael Ford (Space 1999 first aired 1975-77)

Well don't I feel stupid

this woman has been working at Nintendo for almost 20 years and nearly a decade longer than the guy she is replacing how much more qualified does she have to be lol

The fourth Friday of the month can mean only one thing: Friday Fédèle. This photo is 🔍 zoomworthy: the high-resolution details are quite fascinating. (📸 Fédèle Azari [1895-1930] | Digital image courtesy @gettymuseum.bsky.social's Open Content Program) | 🛩️ ⚔️ 🎨 🥇 | 🔗 www.getty.edu/art/collecti...

#potd from the MartinPhotos collection: Bleriot XI takes off at Old Warden martinwilkinson.redbubble.com martinphotos.picfair.com 🛩️📷

Here's a post I've wanted to write up for awhile, tracing the history of the idea of a "Doomsday Machine," from fact to fiction (or maybe it was always, to some degree, fiction): doomsdaymachines.net/p/inventing-...

Trump says he’s ordering the release of all government records on Amelia Earhart.

Real post on another network:

Sorry but if that’s your reasoning, you *actually don’t* have the capabilities to down the drones. Because there are in fact many non-kinetic solutions to bring down drones which we need in a civilian context. From: on.ft.com/4pHtbI5

I think it's really cute that a government official thinks that any history is "settled" and "final" just by tweeting about it. Bless your heart.

Book proposal just finished and sent off - time for a deep breath and a long lie down in a darkened room.

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

dudes rock

Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum #FridayReads

i’ve long loved @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social but this is especially wonderful

you should be able to take off work because your book is getting to the good part

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

This is such important work. Just to give women their names is a political act. Women are STILL socially positioned as servants to men.

Does January 6th, 2021 count as only one attack?

The MAGA monocultural revolution is so thorough that Hegseth made it a priority to honor soldiers who carried out war crimes in 1890.

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jd vance blurbed jack posobiec and joshua lisec's book *unhumans*, a work of grimdark fashfic whose title recapitulates the nazi slur "untermensch" to demonize opponents of maga as literal satanic subhumans and which celebrates mass murderous dictators franco and pinochet

So, what you're saying is, the Roundheads were Right but Repulsive, and the Cavaliers were Wrong but Wromantic?

if you dont stop calling us nazis we will have the secret police disappear you to a slave labor camp

Sunstein apparently regrets the Chotiner interview, and the failure of the printed word to capture light banter abt Kissinger. I am curious what his baseline is for hate mail. If Harvard hasn’t had to come up w a security plan for him (like we did for a Black woman colleague), I can imagine worse.

THE PAIN TRAIN (1969)

🤖 People have been creating Blocklists on Bsky to silence marginalized voices and creators under false labels, and the blocks remain even when the blocker is suspended. The onus is on the victims to try to rectify each one. github.com/bluesky-soci... github.com/bluesky-soci...