#SusannaClarke ist in mancherlei Hinsicht eine bemerkenswerte Autorin.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jul/05/susanna-clarke-i-had-been-ill-for-11-years-i-felt-like-i-was-about-to-fall-off-the-world

Auch wenn viele von uns heute recht fassungslos in die USA geblickt haben und unsere Witze über diese lächerlichen Männchen gemacht haben, eigentlich sind Infantino und Trump nur der Auswurf einer pervertierten Gesellschaft.

Warum dürfen Leute wie Merz, Klingbeil, Reiche, Spahn, Amthor, Bas, Weidel, Höcke und wie sie alle heißen, das tun, was sie gerade tun?!

Weil es keine Konsequenzen mehr hat, wenn wer in einer bestimmte Position angekommen ist! Weil sie alle unangreifbar geworden sind! Da wird niemensch kommen und diese zur Rechenschaft ziehen.

Weil sie bemerkt haben, dass sie es nur aussitzen müssen. Einfach warten. Denn morgen wird schon wieder eine neue Sau durchs Dorf getrieben.

Hugo 26 novel: Death of the Author

Plenty of authors fantasise about writing that one book that is an overnight success, and plenty of people aspiring to be authors do as well. There are examples, like Andy Weir's The Martian, but even a breakthrough success has a past history of work and thought. Nnedi Okorafor's Death of the Author grants this almost djinn-like-wish on her main character Zelu. After years of working in literary spaces and teaching writing as an…

https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/2026/07/07/hugo-26-novel-death-of-the-author/

Humanoid bots are *freaky as hell* the same way AI is... not that AI is sentient (or humanoid bots are human) but *it will be used anyway* and *shoved in everything* in a Mechanical Turk way (human operators), enslaving people to operate "domestic bots". FUCK.

https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/316_whats_driving_the_push_for_humanoid_robots_w_james_vincent

Windows Media Player kann CDs rippen, aber sie haben den Service abgedreht, der die Metadaten bereithält. Ich mein, ist ja nur Microsoft, eins der reichsten Unternehmen der Welt.

Am Fr 10.7. lese ich um 18 Uhr in einem Begegnungscafé der Berliner Stadtmission in Berlin-Friedrichshain aus meinem Fantasyroman. Eintritt ist frei.

Es wird um Wiesenelfen und Devisenelfen gehen, Zwerge und eine zu groß geratene Gottesanbeterin, gefährliche Artefakte und Geburtstagsgeschenke.

#berlin #lesung #phantastik #fantasy #fantasybuch #elfe #zwerge #humor #fantasyroman

Bundle of Holding: Oldskull Generators

Random generators from Kent David Kelly for tabletop fantasy roleplaying games such as OSRIC (based on the 1979 First Edition of Advanced Dungeons & Dragons) and other fantasy retroclones.

https://bundleofholding.com/presents/OldskullGenerators
#BundleOfHolding

And now the #Omsk refinery is burning, #Russia's largest oil refinery, more capacity than any plant in Europe. It's noteworthy that #Ukraine not only manages to strike very deep into Russian territory, they also land precise hits on crude distillation units. These are the key units of any refinery. You might manage to run without a hydrotreater here or a cracker there. But without a CDU your refinery is just idle columns and pipes.

The router is not functioning.

Can we retire from the expression “the kids are okay?” Because I am at my morning coffee shop and I just met and hated a 20-year-old cis het white guy, Let’s call him Brad, that believes emotions are an inefficiency that only inhabits stupid people and I tripped the bastard with my cane because he was explaining the optimum way a woman should sit at her Linux laptop computer so LLM systems can't malfunction when doing age verification because of her “bigger than average breasts.”

She bought me a drink after she saw me trip the bastard.

We're exchanging anime shows we like. I'm telling her I'm new to anime and that I'm a Romance writer.

“Good, she says, her voice dripping with that specific kind of relief that's refreshing, “we need more men taking Romance writing seriously.”

"Fast die Hälfte der Gen Z arbeitet nur, was genau im Vertrag steht"

Fast alle Arbeitgeber bezahlen nur, was genau im Vertrag steht

Silly Poll Time

Pretzel or donut?

Please boost... polls work best when more people see them!

#food #poll #donut #pretzel #snack

My 37th rejection of 2026 arrived just now, from a market which has published me before, a fact I share to assure you a) none of us ever fully figure this thing out, and b) we're all bozos on this bus. Never give up! Never surrender!

Die haben echt nen völligen Knall,
jetzt wird mal wieder bei den Ärmsten der Armen gespart, der #Kinderzuschlag in Höhe von 25 Euro soll wegfallen.

#Sparmaßnahme von Schwarz-Rot: Regierung will 25-Euro-Zuschlag für arme #Kinder streichen.

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/sparmassnahme-von-schwarz-rot-regierung-will-25-euro-zuschlag-fur-arme-kinder-streichen-15808263.html

Eingeführt wurde er als ein Schritt gegen Kinderarmut in Deutschland. Nun soll ein Zuschlag für besonders bedürftige Kinder und Jugendliche dem Rotstift zum Opfer fallen.

the debate on trans people in sports could be solved by simply stopping with competitive sports and start doing it for, well, sport

HPV vaccine drives cervical cancer deaths close to zero. A landmark study in England has found girls vaccinated against HPV on the cusp of their teenage years now have effectively zero risk of dying from cervical cancer before 30. Between 2020 and 2024, no cervical cancer deaths were recorded in women aged 20 to 24, the first time that has ever happened. BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c621z28z138o
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Aphilanthops frigidus is a wasp known as the "Eastern Ant-Queen Kidnapper" the common name is very descriptive. This wasp provisions her young with ant queens (just ant queens!) by finding their nuptial flights and catching one queen after another.

Crime is out of control in this country.

For some reason they are very cute wasps. Just totally innocent looking. But I'm not fooled. That's a paralyzed ant queen under her! And she is dragging her by her antennae!

Darwin was right.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/301924276

Hayabusa2 getting a lot of value out of itself, visiting a number of nearby rocks, even landing on and sampling one of them.

A proper Belter!

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/asteroid-comet-missions/japans-hayabusa2-probe-captures-remarkable-photo-of-a-two-headed-asteroid-62-million-miles-away

#Hayabusa2 #Torifune #Asteroids #Space #JAXA