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Have you heard the story of the Hell Cats?
In WWI, “Hell Cats” was a name for the first women who joined the U.S. Marine Corps.
They were trailblazers who served with determination and broke barriers before they even had the right to vote.
Now, I’m part of a group of Democratic women veterans who are running to flip red seats blue and win back the House together.
We’re calling ourselves “The Hell Cats” and Politico says we
“could be the answer to Democrats’ tr…

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I saw this and I instantly thought of @… because somehow he had become the most salient reference node for revolting arthropods and we all know why.
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Pelfs Pets on Instagram: "To answer some questions from the first reel! No, she will not eat these babies and she will not be eaten by them. Only a very few South American species practice matriphagy and she is not one of them. Yes, she will spend every last second from the time she lays eggs until they molt and leave her standing gaurd protecting and constantly cleaning them. At this stage mold growth can take them out very easily and thats why you see her constantly licking them clean. We have about 20 more days before their first molt and then theyll start wonder away from her. Thats when I'll separate them all and give them their first meal!!! Thanks for watching please feel free to ask questions and LIKE SHARE AND FOLLOW for more amazing centipede content!!!"
18K likes, 277 comments - wvcentipedeguy on May 31, 2026: "To answer some questions from the first reel! No, she will not eat these babies and she will not be eaten by them. Only a very few South American species practice matriphagy and she is not one of them. Yes, she will spend every last second from the time she lays eggs until they molt and leave her standing gaurd protecting and constantly cleaning them. At this stage mold growth can take them out very easily and thats why you see her cons…

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#PhantastikPrompts 15.06.2026
Hand aufs Herz: Wieviele Versionen eines Manuskripts fertigst du an?
I keep all my fiction work in a git repository, and used CVS before git; so the answer is, for novel-length text, often literally thousands. Git has the advantage that you can explore multiple variants of a plot in parallel, and delay decisions as to which one you want to make ca…

Looking at something claiming “Accessible by default” with its barely-WCAG-passing thing & tiny 10px text, vibe-coded patterns, SC misrepresentations, Twitter-only social presence, and failure to use HTML correctly reminds me that this ‘law’ also applies to sites:
https://adrianroselli.com/2026/03…

Accessibility Law of Headlines
Betteridge’s law of headlines states that any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no. For at least the digital accessibility landscape, I would like to amend it, fork it, whatever it: Any headline that asserts a thing is accessible is wrong. Yes, that…

In the winter of 1898, a mechanical engineer named Frederick Winslow Taylor arrived at the Bethlehem Steel Company in Pittsburgh with a stopwatch and a conviction.
Taylor had been thinking for years about why industrial work was so inefficient, and he believed he had found the answer:
the problem, he thought, was that the people who did the work were also the people who decided how to do it.
Workers brought their own habits, their own rhythms, their own judgment. All of th…

Design and Engineering, As One · Matthias Ott
We inherited our product processes from a 19th-century steel works. Frederick Winslow Taylor separated thinking from doing, managers from makers, designers from builders – and a hundred years later, most digital product teams are still running on that model. The gap between design and engineering isn’t an accident. It was designed in. And it can be designed out.

Since it was relevant to a discussion I just had on here and is something most people probably haven't thought about much (unless you've taken one of a handful of philosophy classes), I thought I'd try to lay out a key piece of Descartes' Meditations (#philosophy

I was asked by @… how some of the elements of the #LeftWordle Share Text that gets posted are modified. I have attached two images. The first is the settings modal which is accessed by clicking the gear icon to the far right on the header line. The second is an example of th…

Within an hour after a horrific knife attack took place in Belfast on Monday night,
far-right UK activist Tommy Robinson had shared a video of the incident on X,
a post that racked up 6 million views.
Within hours Elon Musk, the owner of the platform, weighed in,
agreeing with a post calling for “consequences” for politicians.
By Tuesday morning, supercharged by X, the video was everywhere,
and groups on Facebook were organizing protests across Northern I…

A White Supremacist Youth Group Helped Orchestrate the Belfast Riots
After Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson stoked anger over a horrific knife attack in Belfast, a youth group linked to a global neo-Nazi movement quietly orchestrated anti-immigrant riots.

Just finished "The Terraformers" by Annalee Newitz (@…). It was recommended as a "solarpunk" book, and I'm currently on a quest to find more speculative fiction as good as Le Guin or Butler, so I was eager to dig in. Having tagged the author (hi) I'll try to be polite here, but I'll admit I was disappointed.
Newitz clearly has a powerful imagination and there's lots of great stuff in the book, but it's not at all pushing boundaries in terms of imagining future societies. I think the message and intent was good in a lot of places, but off or self-contradictory in others. I absolutely adore the relatively small point made at the end about revolutions being complicated and not boiling down to heroes and battles, but despite the book's attempt to avoid that, I think it still falls into that pattern. Without too many spoilers, the way that some big problems are resolved near the end leans too much on a legal framework without questioning how it's enforced, and that resolution then means that a few heroic acts are enough to tip the balance, which undermines the point about messy histories.
The biggest contradiction of the book to my mind though is with a central theme. The book really explores a world in which "anyone of any species can be a person, as long as we just bioengineer them to be intelligent enough," and it tries to make a point about how engineering limited intelligences is cruel. At several points characters comment about how personhood shouldn't depend on intelligence. There's even a brief quote about how maybe rivers could be people... But... the point could have been "anyone can be a person, regardless of intelligence." This would have made for much more interesting philosophical territory to explore IMO (how do we then bound personhood; how do we reconcile predator/prey relations between persons, etc.). These are also questions that the indigenous traditions Newitz draws on (and consulted about, as mentioned in the acknowledgements) has interesting answers for, but we don't get to explore them through Newitz' world, and because the question of personhood regresses to the question of intelligence, it feels like the moral philosophy of the ERT folks isn't any better than the "InAss" they disparage.
It's not a bad book overall, even if it doesn't engage with the questions I'm hungry to see others engage with. Newitz' efforts to sketch out a more vibrant and diverse future are still monumental and inspiring in a lot of ways. I'm just still looking for something more. Ultimately, I think it lives up to the "solar" but not very much to the "punk."
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