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This is wild.
EDIT:
https://castle-journal.com/sensational-claims-emerge-following-south-african-ambassadors-tragic-death-in-paris/

RIP, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa.
https://deadline.com/2025/12/cary-hiroyuki-tagawa-dead-mortal-kombat-actor-1236636368/

Having a real calm day today with a leisure walk.
(REALLY Calm this time)
#badtölz #tölzerland #bayern

"Growing cocktail of medicines in world’s waterways could be fuelling antibiotic resistance"
#Water #Pollution #Environment

Growing cocktail of medicines in world’s waterways could be fuelling antibiotic resistance
Every flush sends traces of our medicines into rivers. When antibiotics mix with common drugs like painkillers or hormones, bacteria can evolve to resist treatment.

Okay, here's the promised follow-up with more authors I respect who didn't make it onto this list. I won't do deep dives but I'll list at least one work per author:
YA novelists:
- Randi Pink ("Girls Like Us")
- Louisa Onomé ("Twice as Perfect")
- Emery Lee ("Meet Cute Diary")
- Robin Benway ("Far from the Tree")
- Angela Velez ("Lulu and Milagro's Search for Clarity")
Children's book authors:
- Jacqueline Davies ("Bubbles Up")
- Freya Hartas ("Slow Down in the Park")
Novelists:
- Rimma Onoseta ("How You Grow Wings")
Graphic novelists:
- Linda Medley ("Castle Waiting")
- 🖋️Magsalene Visaggio 🖌️Paulina Ganucheau ("Girlmode")
- Ursula Vernon ("Digger")
- SJ Sindu ("Tall Water" w/ Dion MBD)
- Hope Larson ("Be That Way"; "Salt Magic" w/ Rebecca Mock)
- Lily Williams Karen Schneemann ("Go With the Flow")
- Maia Kobabe ("Gender Queer")
- Kay O'Neill ("Tea Dragon Society")
- Marjane Satrapi ("Persepolis")
Mangaka:
- Kaoru Mori ("Young Bride's Stories")
- Ryoko Kui ("Delicious in Dungeon")
- Natsuki Takaya ("Fruits Basket")
Anime writers/directors and/or Japanese light/fantasy/SF novelists:
- Nahoko Uehashi ("Moribito")
- Sayo Yamamoto ("Michiko & Hatchin"; "Yuri!!! On Ice")
- Mari Okada ("Ano Hana: The Flower we Saw That Day"; "Toradora!")
Game designers/programmers:
(Upon review I was pretty remiss in skipping over a few of these people, some of whom I wasn't aware of but most of whom I just didn't remember when writing my short list. Subconscious misogyny in action. Short & Thorson probably would have squeezed out some of the YA authors I included, although I have no real regrets.)
- Junko Kawano ("Suikoden")
- Elizabeth LaPensée ("When Rivers Were Trails")
- Momo Pixel ("Hair Nah")
- Zoë Quinn ("Depression Quest"; narrative designer on "Solar Ash")
- Kellee Santiago ("Cloud"; "Flower")
- Tanya X. Short ("Moon Hunters")
- Kim Swift ("Portal")
- Maddy Thorson ("Celeste")
- Andi McClure @… ("Jumpman")
Note: I haven't included composers or artists here, but there's a deep bench.
Games journalists/steamers:
- Tanya DePass @… (#/INeedDiverseGames; twitch streams)
- Anita Sarkeesian (Feminist Frequency)
Game/play scholars:
- Mary Flanagan ("Critical Play")
- Tracy Fullerton ("Game Design Workshop")
- Brenda Laurel ("Toward the Design of a Computer-Based Interactive Fantasy System")
- Janet Murray ("Hamlet on the Holodeck"l
- Susana Tosca ("A Pragmatics of Links")
- Jichen Zhu ("Agency Play: Dimensions of Agency for Interactive Narrative Design")
- Magy Seif El Nasr ("Design patterns to guide player movement in 3D games")
- Kate Compton ("Causal Creators"; also "Spore")
P.S. upon consideration I've decided not to include any authors who are men in this coda.
There are definitely others who probably deserve to be here that I'm forgetting...
#GsmeDesign #Authors

Stretching water between two grooves
Matteo Leonard, Dilip Maity, Nicolas Vandewalle, Tadd Truscott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25864 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Stretching water between two grooves
Controlling water motion on surfaces is critical for applications ranging from thermal management, passive water harvesting, to self-cleaning coatings. Yet stabilising continuous water films, desirable for their high surface coverage and drainage capacity, remains challenging with pure water, due to its high surface tension. Existing strategies rely on extreme wettability achieved by coating or fine-scale patterning, which are costly, fragile, or complex to scale. A robust, purely geometric sol…

MTRec: Learning to Align with User Preferences via Mental Reward Models
Mengchen Zhao, Yifan Gao, Yaqing Hou, Xiangyang Li, Pengjie Gu, Zhenhua Dong, Ruiming Tang, Yi Cai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22807

MTRec: Learning to Align with User Preferences via Mental Reward Models
Recommendation models are predominantly trained using implicit user feedback, since explicit feedback is often costly to obtain. However, implicit feedback, such as clicks, does not always reflect users' real preferences. For example, a user might click on a news article because of its attractive headline, but end up feeling uncomfortable after reading the content. In the absence of explicit feedback, such erroneous implicit signals may severely mislead recommender systems. In this paper, we pr…

50 years ago tonight, the jerry garcia band returns home to keystone #berkeley following their east coast tour. a nice audience tape by castelli & menke. https://archive.org/details/jg75-11-0…

Day 6 - Shakespeare had taste.
I have a feeling that my butt is stronger and more forgiving than I thought. I really expected to be crawling like those naked snails, but I guess I learned something new about my body.
HelsingŸr is home to Kronborg Slot, the castle that Shakespeare used in Hamlet. Not only that, it was also very important for payments to enter the Baltic Sea. Today, you can walk around the castle, drink coffee, or even visit some local art studios, such as those fe…

Almost disjoint families and some automorphic and injective properties of $\ell_\infty/c_0$
Piotr Koszmider, Ma{\l}gorzata Rojek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22376 https://…

Almost disjoint families and some automorphic and injective properties of $\ell_\infty/c_0$
Answering questions of A. Avilés, F. Cabello Sánchez, J. Castillo, M. González and Y. Moreno we show that the following statements are independent of the usual axioms ZFC with arbitrarily large continuum: for every (some) $ω<κ<2^ω$ (1) any linear bounded operator $T: c_0(κ)\rightarrow\ell_\infty/c_0$ extends to any superspace of $c_0(κ)$. (2) any isomorphism between any two copies of $c_0(κ)$ inside $\ell_\infty/c_0$ extends to an automorphism of $\ell_\infty/c_0$. This contrasts…