@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-19 06:27:10
Heineman shared the message last night that her health was rapidly declining.
"It's time. According to my doctors. All further treatments are pointless," Heineman wrote.
"So, please donate so my kids can create a funeral worthy of my keyboard, Pixelbreaker! So I can make a worthy entrance for reuniting with my one true love, Jennell Jaquays."
Game developers have begun sharing their own condolences and remembrances in the wake of Heineman's death
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-11-20 04:42:13
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Darker My Love:
🎵 White Composition
#DarkerMyLove
https://digital.dangerbird.com/track/white-composition
https://open.spotify.com/track/6LwqmOYDqmt1pP92eViOoY
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza2025-11-20 03:29:45
RETRO ALERT! Or is it? We're turning back the clock 20 years tonight! I'm diving back into the classic world of Guild Wars (GW1), running flawlessly on my stable Linux box (some legends never die!). Come join the nostalgia trip and see why this game is an unsung hero of Linux gaming! 🕰️ LIVE soon! #GuildWars
@ukraine_live_tagesschau@mastodon.social2025-10-17 18:12:27
Trump bringt Tunnel zwischen Alaska und Russland ins Gespräch
Der US-Präsident bringt ins Gespräch, einen Tunnel zwischen Alaska und Russland zu bauen. Selenskyj reagiert darauf lachend aber wenig begeistert.
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@teledyn@mstdn.ca2025-12-13 17:24:51
there's a shortage of live music posts on Fediverse, but for those who would rather not, there are also ways to avoid them! :)
This one is a rareity: a simple trio of 3 original members of the Eighth Street Orchestra doesn't happen much these days as the boys have gotten so good and renoun over these past 15 years, they are usually far too busy to play with dad!
These intimate recordings are from our trio gig Dec 12th at the new Jazz Night series hosted by Cabbagetown's legendary Johnny G's.
@soundclamp@mastodon.xyz2025-10-09 22:20:21
FRIDAY, October 31st
From 7:30 – 9:30 PM
@ Yale CCAM Sound Art Series
(149 York St, New Haven, CT)
"SIGNIFICANTLY LESS DECEPTIVE"
An audio visual live performance by #Negativland SUE-C
Free, open to the public, but limited capacity – first come first serve!
@heiseonline@social.heise.de2025-12-03 15:43:47
Am 4. Dezember 2025 geht die heiseshow ab 17 Uhr auf eine ganz besondere Mission: Captain Volker Zota und sein Außenteam bauen live die legendäre USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D aus "Star Trek: The Next Generation" als Lego-Modell zusammen!
Zum Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh6Xs243QHc…
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-11 11:44:24
Day 18: Mark Oshiro
Having just learned that Oshiro is nonbinary, they're an instant include on this list. In veering extremely heavily towards YA, and losing a spot that would have gone to an absolutely legendary mangaka, anime writer, or feminist philosopher, but "Anger is A Gift" and "Each of us a Desert" are just that good, and I'm trying to steer a bit towards towards lesser-known authors I respect.
I already mentioned "Anger is a Gift" above, but to recap, it's a painful, vivid, and beautifully honest story of queer love, loss, and protest against an oppressive system. CW for racist police murder, intergenerational trauma, and police brutality against highschool students. It's a book a lot of Americans could benefit from reading right now, and while it's fiction, it's not fantasy or sci-fi. Besides the themes and politics, the writing is just really solid, with delicate characterization and tight-plotted developments that are beautifully paced.
To me "Each of us a Desert" is maybe even more beautiful, and Oshiro leaps into a magnificent fantasy world that's richly original in its desolation, dark history, lonely characters, and mythical magic. Particularly the clearly-not-just-superscription but ambiguously-important/powerful magical elements of Oshiro's worldbuilding are a rare contrast to the usual magic-is-real-here's-how-it-works fare, and pulling that off a all as they do is a testament to their craft. The prose is wonderful, probably especially so if you speak Spanish, but I enjoyed it immensely despite only knowing a few words here and there. The rich interiority of the characters, their conflicts both with each other and within themselves, and the juxtaposition of all that against origins in cult-like ignorance allows for the delivery of a lot of wisdom and complex truths.
Between these two books, so different and yet each so powerful, Oshiro has demonstrated incredible craft and also a wide range of styles, so I'm definitely excited to read more of their work and to recommend them to others.
I'm also glad to have finally put a nonbinary author on this list; the others I had in mind won't make it at this point because there's too much genre overlap, although I'll include them in my didn't-make-it list at the end. I've now got just 2 slots left and have counted up 14 more authors that absolutely need to be mentioned, so we'll see what happens.
#20AuthorsNoMen
@arXiv_condmatstrel_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-07 09:16:42
More bridging ligands activate direct exchange: the case of anisotropic Kitaev effective magnetic interactions
Pritam Bhattacharyya, Nikolay A. Bogdanov, Liviu Hozoi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04149
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-10-12 05:02:51
Cooling It Down
The house was completely silent—until it wasn’t. A sudden thud and rush of noise had me bracing for an expensive repair. From that small surprise to AI reviving legends, it’s been a week of odd resurrections.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/cooling-it-down/
