Rachael Bean

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Chief nerd and operator of melbin.space

I play Trumpet and occasionally make video games.

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My @smh @theage cartoon.

Three Fascism Experts on Why They’re Leaving the US. “I want to do my work without the fear that I will be punished for my words.” And: “The lesson of 1933 is you get out sooner rather than later.” https://kottke.org/25/05/three-fascism-experts-on-why-theyre-leaving-the-us
Three Fascism Experts on Why They’re Leaving the US

At the end of March, I posted some news about three prominent scholars of fascism and authoritarianism who were leaving the Unit

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Which one of you Fedi weirdos* was at the Edinburgh trans rights demo holding the sign saying:

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This is what a digital coup looks like

Carole Cadwalladr is the journalist that broke the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica scandel. She paid dearly for pointing out the truth and more amazingly she...

According to Jordan Mechner's journal while he was developing Prince of Persia, it was Veda Hlubinka-Cook who suggested that the Shadow Prince should emerge from a mirror.
And really there's few things in the world that track harder than a trans woman pitching the notion that a mirror contains The Bad Version Of You
It's truly amazing how much effort google has put into developing a voice assistant that will do anything other than play the podcast I want in the podcatcher I prefer to use. Thanks to Gemini we've gone from getting a random episode of a random podcast playing in Google Podcasts - which I didn't even have installed - to getting a 3 page essay on how to play the podcast I asked for manually, complete with notes on what to expect and content warning. To add insult to injury, it starts of by telling me how thrilled it is that I'm interested in playing a podcast.