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Day 19 (a bit late): Alice Oseman
As I said I've got 14 authors to fit into two days. Probably just going to extend to 30? But Oseman gets this spot as an absolute legend of queer fiction in both novel & graphic novel form, and an excellent example of the many truths queer writers have to share with non-queer people that can make everyone's lives better. Her writing is very kind, despite in many instances dealing with some dark stuff.
I started out on Heartstopper, which is just so lovely and fun to read, and then made my way through several of her novels. The one I'll highlight here which I think it's her greatest triumph is "Loveless", which is semi-autobiographical and was at least my first (but no longer only) experience with the "platonic romance" sub-genre. It not only helped me work through some crufty internal doubts about aro/ace identities that I'd never really examined, but in the process helped improve my understanding of friendship, period. Heck, it's probably a nice novel for anyone questioning any sort of identity or dealing with loneliness, and it's just super-enjoyable as a story regardless of the philosophical value.
To cheat a bit more here on my author count, I recently read "Dear Wendy" by Ann Zhao, which shouts out "Loveless" and offers a more expository exploration of aro/ace identities, but "Loveless" is a book with more heart and better writing overall, including the neat plotting and great pacing. I think there are also parallels with Becky Albertalli's work, though I think I like Oseman slightly more. Certainly both excel at writing queer romance (and romance-adjacent) stuff with happy endings (#OwnVoices wins again with all three authors).
In any case, Oseman is excellent and if you're not up for reading a novel, Heartstopper is a graphic novel series that's easy to jump into and very kind to its adorable main characters.
I think I've now decided to continue to 30, which is a relief, so I'm tagging this (and the next post that rounds out 20) two ways.
#20AuthorsNoMen
#30AuthorsNoMen

Wow, da hat jemand das Stollensystem im #Schlossberg #Graz auf #OpenStreetMap
eingetragen. 🤓

Oh, schade. #MagicEarth funktioniert mit #AndroidAuto nur noch mit einem Premium-Abo.
Vergleichsweise günstig, aber ich habe schon #OSMand.

Day 23: Thi Bui
Indirect CW: parental neglect, war, intergenerational trauma
Bui is the author of "The Best We Could Do", a graphic memoir which explores her relationship with her parents and unpacks some of the intergenerational trauma coming out of the Vietnam War. It has a lot of wisdom to offer about both dealing with troubled parents as a 1.5th-generation immigrant, and it delves deeply into her parents' histories in Vietnam and the complexities of the situation there both in the north and in the south. It's beautifully illustrated and very nicely plotted together given all the disparate threads it is working with.
I haven't read any of Bui's other work, but it looks like she's published a picture book for kids as well as a series of short comics during the pandemic. Besides Oseman who also writes non-illustrated fiction and the two manga artists Ice mentioned, Bui is the first graphic novel author I've included here, but I've actually got quite a few of them in my longer list, one of whom may make it into the 30 I'll include in this thread. These days I'm reading a bunch of graphic novels since they're easy to get through, and the variety of stories and perspectives in that space is wonderful these days, with a huge array of indie stuff that probably never would have gotten off the ground in traditional publishing/comics spaces.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Musician I discovered yesterday: Keiyana Osmond
https://youtu.be/qGZSZDJL13s

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Dr. Octagon:
🎵 Earth People
#DrOctagon
https://oscinian.bandcamp.com/track/dr-octagon-earth-people-ngr-m-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/5AIt6kPothKids503sMGtA

Happy birthday to Marie Osmond!
#dada
https://youtube.com/watch?v=USTQgu229Wc&si=kWszHaMo4zkkG_yK

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Baxter Dury:
🎵 Mr W4
#NowPlaying #BaxterDury
https://baxterdury.bandcamp.com/track/mr-w4
https://open.spotify.com/track/4lMutNwoqKN9Nu3OH4YoN5

Nonlinearly Preconditioned Gradient Methods: Momentum and Stochastic Analysis
Konstantinos Oikonomidis, Jan Quan, Panagiotis Patrinos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11312 https://…

Nonlinearly Preconditioned Gradient Methods: Momentum and Stochastic Analysis
We study nonlinearly preconditioned gradient methods for smooth nonconvex optimization problems, focusing on sigmoid preconditioners that inherently perform a form of gradient clipping akin to the widely used gradient clipping technique. Building upon this idea, we introduce a novel heavy ball-type algorithm and provide convergence guarantees under a generalized smoothness condition that is less restrictive than traditional Lipschitz smoothness, thus covering a broader class of functions. Addit…

Australiens Social Media Verbot für unter 16-Jährige in Kraft getreten.
https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/ozeanien/social-media-verbot-australien-in-kraft-100.html

Australien: Social-Media-Verbot für unter 16-Jährige in Kraft
Um Mitternacht ist in Australien ein Gesetz in Kraft getreten, dass unter 16-Jährigen die Nutzung von Social Media verbietet. Umsetzen müssen das die Plattformbetreiber selbst. Wie machen sie das?