Naomi Mitchison (née Haldane, 1897–1999) was born #OTD, 1 Nov, & saw almost every day of the #20thcentury. A hugely influential writer, with 80+ books—poetry, politics, historical novels, #ScienceFiction, #Fantasy, #ChildrensLiterature & more—to her credit.

A 🎂🧵

“She liked to challenge, she liked to shock, she liked to deliver the unexpected, she liked to experiment”

—Jenni Calder on Mitchison’s life & work

@litstudies

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https://dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/09/25/naomi-mitchison/

#Scottish #literature #womenwriters

I've been seeing a lot of posts showing heroic Black voter turnout. This one about sums it up.

This is why I just block anti-voting people. If you can look at this and still posture like refusing to vote against Nazis is heroic, we're done.

#midterms #racism #voting

Stop War — by Banksy in London, UK 🇬🇧

https://streetartutopia.com/2026/03/16/massive-lawsuit-banksys-real-identity-revealed/

#StreetArt #PublicArt #Mural

when artists said this in 2022 they were laughing at us, so 🤷‍♀️

(but realtalk, I'm glad more people are waking up to it now)

"Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but..."

-sigh- Do I have to tap the sign again?

STOP ANTHROPOMORPHIZING AI EXECUTIVES.

For fuck's sake, they just keep overselling these things. Do they *really* expect us to believe, 4 years into this tsunami of horseshit, that an AI executive can "sympathize" with human concerns now?

Sam Altman is as capable of sympathy as your toaster is.

Flávio Bolsonaro is under investigation for multiple crimes in Brazil, so where does an alleged criminal go to avoid the law? Trump's America.

On Tuesday, vote for change in America.

Is there a conflict inside the US administration?

First the State Department writes that it has authorised the delivery of 500 Patriot missiles to Ukraine:
https://www.state.gov/releases/bureau-of-political-military-affairs/2026/10/ukraine-patriot-advanced-capability-3-pac-3-missiles

But then Zelenskyy informs the public that someone has told Ukraine that the 500 missiles will be delivered "in a few years" (picture 1-2).

Europe must put maximum pressure on the White House. Ukrainians are dying while someone in the US government keeps the Ukrainian airspace open to Putin's missiles.

God, I love Wil Wheaton.🖖 #StarTrek

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/openai-ceo-says-its-quite-terrible-for-your-pc-to-have-ram-sam-altman-says-data-centers-offer-better-utilization

North Korea’s timing was inconsiderate; I’m in the middle of an election night guide to crypto and AI super PAC spending (subscribe to get it before Tuesday!).

But I wrote up a primer on the Binance hack, answering questions I’ve gotten about North Korea: https://www.citationneeded.news/its-always-north-korea/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #binance #NorthKorea #DPRK

Due to the media blackout, even I didn't know until just now that Pussy Riot, the Russian female anti-Putin protestors, have been taking part in anti-ICE demonstrations in the US since last year. They just recently protested alongside US activists at 7 different concentration camp locations.

Especially since all roads lead to #Putin, I love to see this kind of international solidarity.

#FuckICE #ICE #LosAngeles #50501movement

With lots of tributes to Patrick Stewart being shared, I was reminded of this clip from a Q&A at a scifi convention, where the questioner asks what he's most proud of outside of acting. He talks passionately about masculinity, PTSD, and domestic violence, and is (for want of a better way of putting it) bloody brilliant. He's not putting on a show, or playing a character, he's talking from the heart about his childhood experiences and his adult response to those https://youtu.be/TqFaiVNuy1k

When Trump says “WE” are making a lot of money this is who he means

How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy
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A U.N. report concluded carbon capture could offset fossil fuels’ effect on climate change. Two decades later, the process has failed to meaningfully scale up, and it’s proving hard to take the promises back.
https://www.propublica.org/article/carbon-capture-storage-fossil-fuel-sally-benson?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Oil #FossilFuels #UnitedNations #Science #Research

@statsguy What is interresting here is that they suddenly do seem to have ways to get back (part of) what was stolen. 🤔

Binance said that its $6.3 billion crypto breach "may involve a compromised DevOps engineer’s laptop."

If a single employee's laptop was able to access Binance's systems capable of controlling billions of dollars worth of crypto, that's the *company's* fault — not the employee's. https://this.weekinsecurity.com/that-big-company-hack-probably-was-not-an-employees-fault/

Terrible mistake to think they don't know all this. They're planning to kill the overwhelming majority of the human race and replace us with white collar AI and blue collar robots.

All they're going to need you for is personal servants. (Which includes sex slaves, to be sure.)

How do they not understand global warming?!

They do. They plan to solve it by getting rid of almost all humans, 7 in 8, 9 in 10. Somewhere the actual number has been written down.

when we remember #PatrickStewart we should also remember that he was a victim of #DomesticViolence. his father hit his mother and stewart openly talked about what experiencing this horror on a nearly weekly basis did to him, his brother, and obviously his beloved mother. he not only talked about it but advocated for men in particular to stand up against #DomesticAbuse. many years ago he became part of a campaign called “ring the bell“ to educate about the importance of bystander intervention.

My favorite Patrick Stewart story arose out of a chance encounter. We happened both to be seated on the same flight in the same cabin near one another. I looked over and saw a familiar bald pate and furrowed brow.

“Aren't you…?” I asked him.

He looked over and his face lit up with delight. Then he spoke to me in that unmistakable proper manner of his.

“Well aren't YOU!” he responded, his eyes twinkling.

We had a good laugh. Rest in power—warp power—Sir Patrick Stewart.