Sometimes when Sylvester is beating up Simon I like to imagine Simon chuckling and saying in Ralph Wiggum’s voice “I’m in mortal danger!”
it just seems to be part of the joy of life to Simon. #Cats #OrangeCats #CatsOfMastodom #Caturday #usie
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The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas - BookWyrm
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.bookwyrm.social
The Three-Body Problem - BookWyrm
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society receives these messages and makes plans to invade Earth.bookwyrm.social
Seeing Like a State - BookWyrm
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or a better life for the people.bookwyrm.social
Roadside Picnic - BookWyrm
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around.bookwyrm.social
Braiding Sweetgrass - BookWyrm
bookwyrm.socialAs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers.
How Long 'Til Black Future Month? - BookWyrm
How Long 'til Black Future Month? is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by American novelist N. K. Jemisin. The book was published in November 2018 by Orbit Books, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group.bookwyrm.social
Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 - BookWyrm
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In the 2050s, the insurrections reached the nerve center of global capitalism—New York City.bookwyrm.social
Darkome - BookWyrm
During the Decade of Plagues, pandemics brought civilization to a standstill. The only way out was the Aspis chip: a wearable mRNA vaccine factory, able to immunize you against new viruses on the fly. But not everyone wanted it.bookwyrm.social
Occult Features of Anarchism - BookWyrm
bookwyrm.socialIn the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution, but in the current century various “conspiracy theories” suggest that anarchists are controlled by government itself.
Walkaway - BookWyrm
bookwyrm.socialHubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis Espinoza―known to his friends as Hubert, Etc―was too old to be at that Communist party.
The People's Republic of Walmart - BookWyrm
For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan.bookwyrm.social
Lurking: How a Person Became a User - BookWyrm
bookwyrm.socialA concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user
In a shockingly short amount of time, the internet has bound people around the world together and torn us apa…
The Edible Woman - BookWyrm
The Edible Woman is a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance. It is the story of a young woman whose sane, structured, consumer-oriented world starts to slip out of focus.bookwyrm.social
Future Feeling - BookWyrm
**An embittered dog walker obsessed with a social media influencer inadvertently puts a curse a young man—and must adventure into mysterious dimension in order to save him—in this wildly inventive, delightfully subversive, genre-nonconforming debut n…bookwyrm.social
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As a nonsense phrase of shady provenance makes the rounds, Elsevier defends its use
The origin of the phrase? The phrase was so strange it would have stood out even to a non-scientist. Yet “vegetative electron microscopy” had already made it past reviewers and editors at several j…Retraction Watch
Comparative genomics provides insights into chromosomal evolution and immunological adaptation in horseshoe bats - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A comparative analysis of bat genomes, including five newly assembled chromosome-scale genomes, provides insights into the diversification of horseshoe bats and reveals molecular adaptations with a potential role in antiviral immune response.Nature
Let us make it clear to the People - this is not cost cutting. This is destruction of American institutions built over decades, this is vandalism, this is revenge firing of skilled employees and expertise.
Real cost cutting requires planning, financial analysis, transparency, dialogue and surgical instruments, not machetes.
This is a hostile takeover of the U.S. govt. by a bunch of wealthy lunatics, who are seeking power and wealth for themselves and no one else.
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What is Doge and why is Musk cutting so many jobs?
US President Donald Trump’s new agency is tasked with slashing costs - but faces opposition.James FitzGerald and Holly Honderich (BBC News)
Steam Deck update gets a small battery life boost with the Frame Limiter gamingonlinux.com/2025/02/stea…
#SteamDeck #Steam #Linux #SteamOS
Steam Deck update gets a small battery life boost with the Frame Limiter
Valve released a new Steam Deck Beta Client update for February 14th, showing the love to battery life with a little extra juice.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Why settle for ordinary when you can have Hyprland? 🤌
itsfoss.com/configuring-hyprla…
Customizing Hyprland to Your Liking
Got Hyprland? Let's see how to configure and customize it.Sreenath (It's FOSS)
APOD: 2025 February 15 - Parhelia at Abisko
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
AppArmor out, SELinux in for openSUSE Tumbleweed.
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openSUSE Tumbleweed Ditches AppArmor for SELinux
openSUSE Tumbleweed has changed its default mandatory access control (MAC) system.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)
NASA Inspires High School Engineering Club - NASA
A group of enthusiastic high school students recently visited NASA to learn about facilities and capabilities that enable the agency’s researchers to explore,NASA
«Behind bars» by Iritxu
#photography #Salzburg #monochrome #iritxu #blackandwhitephotography #35mm #Austria
2024 State-of-the-Art Small Spacecraft Technology Report is Released - NASA
NASA’s Small Spacecraft Systems Virtual Institute (S3VI) is pleased to announce the official release of the highly anticipated 2024 State-of-the-ArtSonja Caldwell (NASA)
Muse
in reply to Muse • • •On the one hand I fully agree with bringing large companies under control.
On the other I wonder if we should be considering targeting only companies that have dropped DEI and rewarding those who are standing up to the federal government and maintaining it. These are allies.
firstpost.com/explainers/why-a…
Remove gender pronouns, says Deloitte US. How big companies are abandoning DEI initiatives
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