sophiaI'm so tired of teenagers being "the chosen ones" in fiction. please, let a middle-aged woman save the universe! she's seen some shit and dealt with it. she's tired of it all. she doesn't give a fuck. she's angry. she will get this shit done.
Robert Laing
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Retired journalist and coding enthusiast who especially enjoys Prolog. Busy developing https://joeblog.co.za and https://seatavern.co.za to get myself and others out more.
Dan Wentzel 🏳️🌈
The Volatile MermaidMaybe if we start calling our body parts gun-sounding names like “revulva” or “shooterus” the GOP will stop trying to regulate them.
Meanwhile in Canada
Andrea Junker 
Republicans should be forced to carry Kevin McCarthy to term, even if it endangers the life of the party.
Oliver Seiler
Sheril KirshenbaumI do have one small quibble with the NYT piece. The headline calls Meitner the “Mother of the Atomic Bomb.”
No. Meitner helped discover nuclear fission & foresaw its dangerous potential. BUT she refused to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, famously declaring, “I will have nothing to do with a bomb!”
Her gravestone reads, “Lise Meitner: a physicist who never lost her humanity.” /2
Darth PutinOTD in 1951 second wave deportations of Operation Osen began. In this wave, 16400 Lithuanians were forcibly deported to Siberia as USSR continued to "liberate them from fascism" 6 years after WW2 ended
Imagine mass deportations happening today...
Of those deported, over 5000 were children. Imagining deporting children today...
We, the self declared successor state, pretend we have no idea why NATO is so popular with our former colonies and neighbors. Total mystery.
the_blackwell_ninja [EST]@pluralistic says it better than I ever could.
"Studio bosses didn’t think that AI scriptwriters would produce the next Citizen Kane. Instead, they were betting that once an AI could produce a screenplay that wasn’t completely unwatchable, the financial markets would put pressure on every studio to switch to a slurry of satisficing crap, and that we, the obedient “consumers,” would shrug and accept it."
https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship-236575979d5c