@mlawton@mstdn.social2026-07-18 18:56:54
Finished reading "Seascraper" by Benjamin Wood.
In an early-60s English coastal town, a young shrimper works the sands to support his mother while keeping his fledgling guitar playing & singing a secret — until a film director arrives to scout the shore.
Two lives cross in opposite directions: as Thomas glimpses a way out of the mundane, the man who inspired him has doors closing around him. Bleak, then quietly hopeful.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-09 21:03:37
Two weeks after Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) announced she will be seeking reelection in Florida’s new 20th Congressional District,
four Black Democratic candidates competing in the race are hoping to stop her from winning the nomination in a district that has historically been represented by a Black lawmaker.
Democrats were surprised by the senior Democrat’s move,
which followed Gov. Ron DeSantis signing legislation that redrew the state’s congressional maps in an…
@david@boles.xyz2026-05-11 12:35:09
Ischia is Burning: The Novel I Have Been Writing for Thirty-Six Years
Most books are written. A few are excavated. Ischia is Burning is a book I excavated from a steel filing cabinet in a Manhattan apartment, where it had been sitting for more than three decades inside a folder marked Ischia, in the form of a screenplay I wrote at twenty-five years old in the second year of an MFA program at Columbia.
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-13 15:32:18
French firefighters are tackling a blaze of unprecedented scale sweeping through Fontainebleau forest south-east of Paris,
while in southern Spain the prime minister visited the scene of a deadly wildfire and warned:
“The climate emergency kills.”
The fire in Fontainebleau, a one-time royal hunting preserve about 40 miles (60km) from the French capital
that today is dotted with villages,
began late on Sunday afternoon.
The blaze, which is unusual in its p…
@laxsill@social.spejset.org2026-06-03 13:22:59
Socialdemokraterna är med i The Onion! https://theonion.com/black-neighborhood-demolished-to-make-room-for-nothing-in-particular/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-07-10 13:32:54
Interesting article in the Economist, don't necessarily agree,
https://www.…
@markrsmith@smithtodon.org2026-05-29 01:00:06
@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-05-01 07:35:30
The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed:
CopyFail threatens multi-tenant servers, CI/CD work flows, Kubernetes containers, and more.
Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is setting off alarm bells as defenders scramble to ward off severe compromises inside data centers and on personal devices.
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@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2026-06-07 14:44:48
Relevante blog over de beveiliging van de komende Europese wallet, #EUDIW
https://www.
@david@boles.xyz2026-05-28 13:32:17
What the Dramatist Knows About Monsters
I sold my first paid byline to a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper at the age of ten. That was 1975. In the fifty-one years since, I have continued to be paid to construct figures that audiences will find frightening, or sympathetic, or contemptible, or laughable, on schedule, in plays and musicals and screenplays and novels and podcast scripts and editorial work.
