@NFL@darktundra.xyz5 things we liked and didn't like from Week 12: Gibbs shines, Chiefs survive and parity ahead of Thanksgiving
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-12-five-…
@ErikUden@mastodon.deIt's Christmas eve and we showed my father Mario Kart again, but he's drinking alcohol as always, and he keeps getting better at it?? He never liked video games and he always sucked at Mario Kart when we played it in the past, but now that he's drunk he's even beating me and my sister at it?
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialSome more #fog ? It was a bit chill but veeerry silent.
I liked the mood there and how the bushes & trees vanished in the fog. Especially the dead tree at the end that looks like reaching out into the water.
Enjoy the silence 🙂
#photography
@jake4480@c.imKMFDM has a new record coming out next year, and I've been a KMFDM fan for quite a while... but their last couple (few?) albums I haven't liked. I was gonna make a snarky comment about this upcoming one but then today I hear the single and really like it. So what the hell do I know 😂
https://kmfdm.bandcamp.com/album/enemy
@FandaSin@social.linux.pizzaYesterday they've released SOLO Leveling: Arise Overdrive.
I kinda liked anime and game looked good, so I've tried it.
I was surprised, when in the middle of the fight everything stoped and I couldn't move / use any skills / attacks.
My surprise was even bigger when outisde of the battle I stopped moving for about 10(maybe 20) seconds.
Fights are perfect🤌, if it wasn't "always online" "feature" it would be really good game with great c…
@andycarolan@social.lolOccasionally, I log into LinkedIn purely to check messages. Sometimes, I find a promoted message or an ad, maybe a connection request. Usually, nothing. Content often feel fake, and it's often difficult to find content that I'm interested in there. Is it even a site for businesses to connect, and people find work any more?
Back when it wasn't owned by Meta, I used to enjoy Instagram. Now it feels like a shop. I still miss scrolling through the feed, discovering content from the people that I followed. Sadly, a lot of creators that I liked are still on there, and nowhere else.
Mastodon is pretty much my only online home now, and I'm very thankful for it!
@smashtie@mas.toWell, I made my wife cry today. It was good though. She really liked the presents. Especially the Alex Merry print. #Christmas
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Twice as Perfect" by Louise Onomé. This is now the third novel I've read by her about a teenage Nigerian-Canadian second-generation immigrant, two of whom deal with some form of family estrangement ("Like Home" and "The Melancholy of Summer" are the other two). I checked it out because I liked her other novels and was not disappointed; in fact I feel like this is her best novel of the three. Dealing with cultural appropriation, both implicitly and explicitly, along with deep family trauma and a bit of romance, "Twice as Perfect" is suspenseful, wise, and heartfelt. It's got a thread of Nigerian Pidgin in it, which I thoroughly enjoyed although I didn't 100% understand, similar in some ways to the sprinkling of Spanish in "Each of Us a Desert", but with even less of an attempt to subtly explain each instance in English, which I don't mind at all.
The 2nd generation immigrant authors writing YA ~romances I've read recently have all been great, including Adiba Jaigirdar, Samira Ahmed, Sabina Khan, and Randa Abdel-Fattah (a slightly different era), and to a lesser extent Romina Garber (I didn't like "Lobizona" quite as much as stuff by these others). It's been super interesting to contrast their stories with those of people like Mark Oshiro, Angie Thomas, Randi Pink, and Angela Velez who talk about American racism from a non-immigrant perspective (perhaps Ahmed is in between the two groups).
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@davej@dice.campFrom a selection of 2099 tracks, this is my week's #MondayRandom10:
1. The Smashing Pumpkins, “Lily (My One and Only)”
2. Goldie, "Inner City Life”
3. Qoiet, “cursedOBJECT”
4. Pop Will Eat Itself, “RSVP”
5. Rocky Leon, “Billionaire”
6. Ronnie James Dio, “Love is All”
7. Frankie Goes to Hollywood, “Relax”
8 Robert Palmer, “Simply Irresistible”
@hex@kolektiva.socialI keep thinking that I should text a friend of mine, tell him how much I've been writing, tell him I mentioned him in something I wrote. Then I remember he died like 4 years ago.
Edit:
It must have been more like 6 or something now that I'm thinking about it. It was part of the way through the first Trump administration. He would have really appreciated the way Trump is unraveling now. One of the last times we talked he was like... "You know man, You used to play 'Baby, I'm an anarchist' and I'd think... ' don't want to throw a brick through a Starbucks window. I kinda like their coffee sometimes.' But the way things have been going lately, I'm kind of looking around and thinking you might be right. Fuck Starbucks. Where's that brick?"
At least I won the SRV vs the Hendrix version of Voodoo Chile debate. Hendrix is just better.
We used to talk about music, especially punk (and rockabilly, and ska, and 2 tone), and poetry, and beer. He liked hop stupid, but I always thought it didn't have the body to match the hops and I always preferred Racer 5. Of course, this time of year we'd be shifting in to red and stout season, and I'd be excited for Lagunitas Russian Imperial and this year's Bourbon County Stout batch.
He was really big in to Star Wars. He missed all of Andor, which is probably the best thing to have come out since the original 3. But I guess he also missed the new trilogy, so maybe it balances out.
He would have really liked all the good music I've run across in the last few years. He had a music blog for a bit.
Yeah... I don't know why it's hitting me so hard now, other than maybe I never had time to really process it before.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 7: Five things we liked and didn't like, including Jalen Hurts' career day, Giants' collapse
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
@compfu@mograph.socialRE: https://mograph.social/@compfu/115750948514598452
I finished "The Dig" after about 12 hours of playtime. I liked it, but it's a strange entry to the LucasArts canon: it has traditional VGA pixel art for most of the game with some sudden cel…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioIf you wonder what Mamdani is doing, he knows how to speak to narcissists (basically it’s about flattery) to get what he wants for NYC.
Narcissists like Trump do not care about logic or sides or loyalty. They’re not fully formed people.
They care only about being liked, yet they can’t tell if someone genuinely likes them or they just pretend to; it’s also not important as they wouldn’t be able to comprehend the difference.
@UP8@mastodon.socialPair of small cosmos, what I liked about this batch was seeing the little grains of pollen that had migrated to the petals
#photo #photography #flowers
@cdamian@rls.social"Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74"
I always quite liked his music, even if it is outside my usual bubble.
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/dec/22/chris-rea-rock-and-blues-singer-songwriter-d…
@Cognessence@social.linux.pizzaAnother piano improvisation (sorry.) But I quite liked the more cluster-heavy ideas that were emerging this time. :)
@usul@piaille.frNot good at all
This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
#aibubble
@jswright61@ruby.socialToo late for this trip: I was looking for a USB charger with an EU (Type F) plug. Seems selection is limited for products that will ship to the US. Any suggestions?
I’ve had good luck with Anker products, and found a charger I liked in their EU store, but when I went to check out that product (and most in their EU store) were not eligible to ship to a US address.
I’ll pick something up in Munich, but it won’t be exactly what I want. Surely there has to be a way to buy online and …
@jake4480@c.imWanted to make a list of my favorite EPs from 2025- narrowed it down to a top 10, from over 200 I'd liked and documented this year. The list contains multiple genres & I've written a brief blurb about each. Most of these I've talked about here this year. Might be something here for everyone!
Mood Bored - Too Much? (shoegaze/alt rock from the Netherlands with great female vocals - Breeders, Pixies, that dog, Throwing Muses vibes)
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders Get Good News on Potential Pete Carroll Replacement https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/robert-saleh-head-coach-rumors-pete-carroll/
@cdarwin@c.imWhen Lee and Yang suggested there's a fundamental difference between left and right, Pauli wrote:
"Ich glaube aber nicht, daß der Herrgott ein schwacher Linkshänder ist."
(I do not believe that the Lord is a weak left-hander.)
Two days later, Wu's experiment showed that Lee and Yang were correct!
-- @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
- A Georgian Christmas
Donald Macleod visits the home of Jane Austen with historian Amanda Vickery to see how Georgian households liked to amuse themselves with music and games during the holidays.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002nl9s
@lysander07@sigmoid.socialToday at VU Amsterdam for the PhD defense of Shuai Wang. I really liked the traditional and formal procedure in the Netherlands how they conduct a PhD defense and the subsequent investiture of the new PhD.
#PhD #academiclife
@joe@toot.worksI went and saw the "marcus mystery movie" last night. You don't find out what movie you're seeing until you see it. The movie started with two elderly people driving to their kids' house for a gender reveal party. One of them has terminal cancer but doesn't want the children to know, yet. It was around this point where I questioned if I made a good choice. 🤔
For what it's worth, I liked the movie. I never would have seen that otherwise but I liked it.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSam Altman says OpenAI plans a ChatGPT version with a "personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o" and will add "erotica for verified adults" (Sam Altman/@sama)
https://x.com/sama/status/1978129344598827128
@qurlyjoe@mstdn.socialIf you liked the AppleTV series, Slow Horses, I recommend reading the books. There are some minor and some major departures. I just finished no. 7, Slough House. They haven’t got that far yet in the series. I’m thoroughly enjoying the books. I have to put them down at 9 o’clock, 2 hours before I go to bed. And I have to wait a few days, well, a week, between books. A sort of palate cleanse. More like decompressing, tbh. Herron pulled a switch at the end that floored me.
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchangeThe ongoing White House "renovation" continually reminds me of The Residence. Almost didn't finish it, as much as I liked #cordeliacupp. But I'm so glad I did. The last episode elevated the show from a whodunnit to a commentary on wealth and power. I watched the last episode while the East Wing was being demolished and this week? An absurd portrait display.
@kurtsh@mastodon.social"It's a very entertaining movie... [but] it's very hard to find actual baseball player that liked MoneyBall."
▶️ "MoneyBall" Movie Myth: The Real Story Behind Billy Beane, Brad PItt & The '02 Oakland Athletics
https://youtube.com/watch?v=xFkM7hsDAq
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 6: Five things we liked and didn't like, including Chiefs' new-look offense, Justin Fields regressing
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/n…
@mlawton@mstdn.socialFinished "The Collected Regrets of Clover" by Mikki Brammer. Clover is a death doula, who avoids most human social connections for fear of rejection, the residual trauma of her childhood.
You make allowances for characters you can't relate to, but this book was a bowl of sugary cereal w/ extra teaspoons of sugar poured on top. Predictable & ridiculous. The characters all one-dimensional stereotypes.
Most people really liked it. I didn't.
2/5 stars ⭐ ⭐ …
@barijaona@mastodon.mgLa confiance est révocable.
Si vous avez aimé un produit ou un logiciel, et qu'il se détériore, que ses conditions changent, qu'il ajoute des fonctions d'espionnage, vous pouvez changer d'avis et cesser de lui faire confiance et de l'utiliser.
Vous devez toujours réajuster votre jugement lorsque vous recevez de nouvelles informations.
Cela s'applique aux produits, aux plateformes, aux entreprises, aux partis politiques et aux personnes.
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioA thing I did when I was new to find good accounts to follow:
Whenever I saw a post I liked, I didn’t just follow that person. I looked at (1) who they were boosting in their timeline and (2) who •they• were following, so that each new good follow might turn into 5 or 10 new follows.
A week or two of that really helped me find my way to the communities I was looking for.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzHC Sean Payton reviewing Broncos' win vs. Raiders: 'I really liked how the game unfolded' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/hc-sean-payton-reviewing-broncos-win-vs-raiders-i-really-liked-how-the-game-unfolded
@aral@mastodon.ar.alI liked software better when you could copy it, not have it copy you.
@mlippert@vmst.io#Wordle 1,601 5/6*
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ <1% of 229,282 (277)
⬜⬜🟩⬜⬜ 0 of 31 (34)
🟨⬜🟩⬜🟩 0 of 0 (2)
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 0 of 0 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
WordleBot
Skill 93/99
Luck 35/99
I liked today's word, and despite not being the right word, I liked my 4th guess too and I'm glad I made it!
@saraislet@infosec.exchangeI think I just saw Kristen Bell, and a guy hit on me because he liked my shoulders
Straight people are usually scared of my shoulders when I wear sleeveless shirts, so I'm confused why suddenly people are being totally normal about my bare arms
@grahamperrin@bsd.cafe@… I liked the nodding comment more before I saw the AirPods context.
/nods understandingly
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaHot take, let the flame wars begin: I never liked the design of the Framework laptops in the first place. Huge bezels. I mean, who needs transparent purple colored usb ports? And I was never really one for camping anyway.
@wraithe@mastodon.social*me, clicking on a months old post that was reposted and reflexively “liking” it…which of course “un-likes” it, because I liked it back when it was posted months ago.*
@tante@tldr.nettime.orgI am a bit surprised how high Javascript is in that list. Don't get me wrong, I am in the same camp, but I'd have thought people liked JS more.
(I just don't think the platform [as in runtime important tooling/libraries] is mature and it's too hype driven so I decided to check in in a few years when things might have settled more)
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineJust what Trump liked: a Venezuelan woman!
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 11: Five things we liked and didn't like, including Caleb Williams' evolution, star WR shines
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-11-caleb-williams-evolu…
@grifferz@social.bitfolk.comWe watched one episode of High Potential (2024), liked it a lot, and then saw at the end credits that it's based on the French HPI: Haut Potentiel Intellectuel (2021). So we watched episode 1 of THAT.
It's fascinating to note the differences. The plots are basically identical, so the differences are nuance.
https://www.
@johl@mastodon.xyzSome notes as a tiny blogpost on #BerlinFediDay: https://blog.johl.io/berlin-fediverse-day-2025/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Class Act" by Jerry Craft. An excellent follow-up to "New Kid", and it deepens the exploration of racism in "New Kid" in a lot of different directions. I think the aspect I liked most was the handling of class/race dynamics but also the different explorations of fitting back into neighborhood communities.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@hikingdude@mastodon.social
@shoppingtonz@mastodon.socialI wouldn't sell my soul to keep the (#)Wrapstodon hashtag alive.
I would though try to keep it alive by doing something instead of nothing.
Anyone liked the Wrapstodon feature? Would you like it to be modified?
#Wrapstodon
@hynek@mastodon.socialOMG my The Bear opinion isn't fringe 🥲
I LOVE S1. I've made SO many ppl watch it.
I also liked S2.
I absolutely HATED S3. It felt like the writers got too much artistic freedom after their (well-deserved!) success & I had to watch them artistically jerking-off on TV.
https://
@compfu@mograph.socialThe better #Midjourney gets in correctly generating multiple words in a row the more we lose an ancient skill: pasting an image into Word, typing text on top and saving a screenshot of the result to send as a Christmas card.
I liked the old ways better, mum!
@joe@toot.worksI really liked The Running Man. That was pretty good.
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizzaGreat interview with Mo Bitar, creator of @…, by Vishnu from @… !
I liked Mo's comments about building privacy into a 'regular' app, rather than focusing on hardcore privacy first.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: He liked to think so.
GROSE: [O.O.V.] And why did you come here?
AVON: I wish I knew. [Tarrant, Vila, Chesil, and Doran burst through the door.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/526 B7B3
@Xexyz@mastodon.me.ukA Building Full of Cats: up on the roof
I like cats. I like Little Kitty Big City, I like Pix the Cat, I even liked Blinx. If I like games with a few cats in, then I am almost certain to love games with hundreds of cats in, right? In this case, yes. A Building Full of Cats is a hidden object game where the objects are cats. Lots of cats.
…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech (Sarah K. Burris/Raw Story)
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-military-speech/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250930/p143#a250930p143
@fortune@social.linux.pizzaTHE LESSER-KNOWN PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES #8: LAIDBACK
This language was developed at the Marin County Center for T'ai Chi,
Mellowness and Computer Programming (now defunct), as an alternative to
the more intense atmosphere in nearby Silicon Valley.
The center was ideal for programmers who liked to soak in hot tubs while
they worked. Unfortunately few programmers could survive there because the
center outlawed Pizza and Coca-Cola in favor of Tofu and Perrier…
@jae@mastodon.me.ukIf you liked A Good Place then you will like Man on the Inside. Began watching it last night and really loving the series.
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialThe Netherlands dodged a bullet tonight. If we didn't dodge it in quite the way you liked, you can still be relieved. Big picture, folks.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 5: Five things we liked and didn't like, including Bo Nix stepping up, Rams' big problem
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
@kazys@mastodon.socialFYI if you liked Mare of Easttown, Task is even better. Harrowing though. Need to lighten it up by alternating it with Alien Earth.
@tschundler@leds.socialI got an advertisement in the mail that offered a full print catalog on request. Which reminded me I miss catalogs.
DigiKey was particularly inspiring - flipping through pages of ICs and switches and cases and their diagrams and imagining projects.
Unfortunately I don't think I have any anymore: recycling them to save on very limited space, assuming another would show up.
(Jameco & Mouser too, but for whatever reason even when I ordered more from Jameco, I liked th…
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.social@… @…
After all my big promo I realized I had the wrong audio file attached so if you went to listen to our spectacular #drone #accordion special, you would’ve got a previous episode
I spotted the error when I went to listen to the show sending myself asleep after the broadcast because I liked it so much
Fixed now so do please offer it to your ears:
https://accordionuprising.wordpress.com/2025/10/29/accordion-noir-radio-playlist-2025-10-29-squeeze-into-the-long-nights-drone-accordion-v/
@smashtie@mas.toI need more votes!!!! I liked more than 5. #strictly
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialWhen I was walking down from the mountains recently I noticed the frost on the trees and branches -- and some single leafs that were still around.
I really liked this extra touch of color in the grey surrounding. And that it's just a little detail on the huge mountain.
#photography #winter
@TFG@social.linux.pizza
@smurthys@hachyderm.ioSunday: 2°C outside (felt like -1) and figured it was a good time for a hike in the woods, hills, and fields of #Bavaria on a trail I've been eyeing for a couple of years now. Muddy trails for about half the distance but easily negotiated.🚶♂️🌲
Would've liked if the walk was longer but 10.7kms felt good, especially after a 2-month break in any such activity.
#hiking #walking #health #Germany #Deutschland #nature
@Erikmitk@mastodon.gamedev.placeIf anybody is interested in 14 days of unlimited access to #BBCMaestro, I have three guest passes to claim. Not sure how this works but if you’ll want to try check it out.
I liked the Alan Moore class on #writing and Oliver Burkeman’s course on Time Management for Humans.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 9: Five things we liked and didn't like, including J.J. McCarthy's return, Bo Nix plays with fire
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
@draxil@social.linux.pizzaJust finished #PacificDrive, what a fantastic game! Really knows where to spend it's budget. Loved the annihilation meets cozy autumn drive vibes. Sound track will stay with me for years, and great narrative carried very simply and effectively.
Plus.. Just liked hanging out and working on the car 🙂
Full marks from me!
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThis was actually more fun than I thought it'd be. I really liked the first "Nobody" but was concerned about the sequel, but it was super satisfying!
▶️ Nobody 2 | Official Trailer
https://youtube.com/watch?v=-5X2pt95cIo&si=jFLCk8H-hTV8SyeJ<…
@cowboys@darktundra.xyzBrian Schottenheimer praises Cowboys for being 'aggressive, but smart' on trade deadline day https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/brian-schottenheimer-praises-…
@raiders@darktundra.xyzTrey Hendrickson to Lions and other deals we would've liked to see at NFL trade deadline https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6782083/2025/11/06/nfl-trends-week-10-trade-deadline-trey-hendrickson/
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 13: Five things we liked and didn't like, including the tush push officiated correctly, crazy catches
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-…
@joe@toot.worksI liked the Fox Bay and still mourn it's passing but it's nice to see something opening in that space. I'll be checking it out.
"The venue's first public event on Dec. 5 will feature local artists Chris Haise Band and Zach Pietrini, as well as Nashville-based alt-pop trio VEAUX. This event also serves as a fundraiser, with profits given back to local Milwaukee music programs, according to a Nov. 5 news release announcing the opening."
#WhitefishBay #Milwaukee #TheArgo
@chrislowles@mastodon.socialNot gonna lie I liked it being called The Social Network Part II more, the weight of a title like that, a sequel to a movie about how Facebook came to be, the shit Zuck did and has done since with "Part II" underscoring all of it sells itself really, calling it "The Social Reckoning" just..... ahhhh I've heard Sorkin is heavy handed like that, I imagine Fincher would've just went with "Part II"
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "The Deep Dark" by Molly Knox Ostertag. An absolutely excellent graphic novel about monsters, childhood secrets, and how self-love refracts through romance.
I've liked other stuff by Ostertag, but this is definitely my favorite of hers so far.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@NFL@darktundra.xyzNFL Week 4: Five things we liked and didn't like, including Bijan Robinson's stardom
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-4-five-things-we…
@compfu@mograph.socialThey say that microblogging on Mastodon is ephemeral but somebody just liked a reply I made 6 months ago to somebody else's post.
This is both creepy and super cool. I need to remember to like replies more often when I click through to somebody's posts.
@cdamian@rls.socialFriday Links 25-21
Some "AI" related stuff today, with the idea of prompt engineering being requirements engineering and how these new tools can enable non-programmers to get closer to the code.
I also liked how much Wil Wheaton likes a new metro line.
https://christof.damian.net/2025/0…
@joe@toot.works @mlippert@vmst.io#Wordle 1,564 3/6*
⬜⬜🟩🟩⬜ <1% of 223,683 (9)
🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 6% of 129 (1)
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 96% of 1,960
WordleBot
Skill 95/99
Luck 84/99
Well that was a couple of guesses that I liked even though I thought that might not be skillful.
huh, 1st guess only left 9! words. And what seemed like a risky guess was the only remaining word.
@thesaigoneer@social.linux.pizzaBlond beer by Brand brewery. ABV 7.8, so certainly one of the stronger (krachtig=powerful) blond ones around. I've always liked Brand brewery for the 'crispiness' of their beers. This one doesn't disappoint either. Solid.
#beersofmastodon
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialKelsey Grammar was notoriously jealous of Moose, the dog on NBC's "Frasier", because people liked it more than him...
...which is possibly the most #Republican thing ever.
▶️ Trump's Pet Name for Stephen Miller? #KelseyGrammer's Dog Rivalry? | HIGNFYUS
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWhat I liked from Jayden Daniels' play in return against Chargers — Quick Outs https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6696785/2025/10/08/nfl-daniels-emeka-egbuka-quick-outs-week-5/
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialHey friends. Also a photo from my hike last Sunday. I came to this hut and tried a counter light. In summer there are usually quite a few people as you can buy some drinks there.
Now.. I had some time to play around with some perspectives. I just liked the silence in the photo. Especially as all others just quickly passed the spot without a lot of notice.
#photography
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "Valor", edited by Isabelle Melançon and Megan Lavey-Heaton. It's a collection of re-told fairy tales with female protagonists and includes a mix of comics and written stories. Lots of great stuff, even if my distaste for monarchy soured it a bit for me (not all of the heroines are princesses, at least). Has a lot of cool queer romance in it.
I think I liked "The Steadfast Tin Automation", "Black Bull", and "Eggchild" best overall.
#AmReading #ReadingNow
@pre@boing.worldRead "Revelation Space" by Alastair Reynolds, a story about some future space people investigating the demise of an extinct civilization.
Some of the people are software uploads or implants in other people's brains, or infectious biological agents and things.
The story is galactic in scale across time and space with good world building, a good tale weaving of elements together.
I liked the scene where the woman falling to her death in a lift-shaft remembered she was on a space-ship which only had gravity coz of engine thrust, so saved herself turning the engines off with a wrist controller.
Trouble is I came to it infrequently with long gaps and so struggled to keep track of what's going on quite a bit. Lots of different elements to keep track of.
My fault, should try and concentrate harder and remember things.
#reading #books #novel #alastairReynolds #revelationSpace
@pbloem@sigmoid.socialThe Netherlands dodged a bullet tonight. If we didn't dodge it in quite the way you liked, you can still be relieved. Big picture, folks.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzTrey Hendrickson to Lions and other deals we would've liked to see at NFL trade deadline https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6782083/2025/11/06/nfl-trends-week-10-trade-deadline-trey-hendrickson/
@beeb@hachyderm.ioFor the last day of #AdventOfCode, I took a very simple and naive approach of: depth-first search.
Basically try all combinations until one fits. The trick to avoid a VERY long runtime is to filter out all cases where we already know from the start that the pieces (gifts) won't fit in the region, because their summed area exceeds the area of the region. Went for recursion this time around, because why not.
#AoC #AoC205 #AdventOfCode2025 #RustLang #rust
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I feel there weren't many options for my 3rd guess...nope just the one. And I really liked my 2nd guess.
@compfu@mograph.socialSeems like there are 2 kinds of reviews for "House of Dynamite" (Netflix). Either it's amazing or it's a misfire.
It had me glued to the screen which rarely happens with Netflix movies nowadays. I liked it.
But it's interesting to see that the movie industry seems to gloss over the fact that Donald Trump exists in just the same way as they glossed over the fact that there was a pandemic.
@raiders@darktundra.xyzRaiders marvel at Jaguars’ injured 2-way ‘unicorn’ Travis Hunter https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-marvel-at-jaguars-injured-2-way-unicorn-travis-hunter-3531458/
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialDay 30: Elizabeth Moon
This last spot (somehow 32 days after my last post, but oh well) was a tough decision, but Moon brings us full circle back to fantasy/sci-fi, and also back to books I enjoyed as a teenager. Her politics don't really match up to Le Guin or Jemisin, but her military experience make for books that are much more interesting than standard fantasy fare in terms of their battles & outcomes (something "A Song of Ice and Fire" achieved by cribbing from history but couldn't extrapolate nearly as well). I liked (and still mostly like) her (unironically) strong female protagonists, even if her (especially more recent) forays into "good king" territory leave something to be desired. Still, in Paksenarion the way we get to see the world from a foot-soldier's perspective before transitioning into something more is pretty special and very rare in fantasy (I love the elven ruins scene as Paks travels over the mountains as an inflection point). Battles are won or lost on tactics, shifting politics, and logistics moreso than some epic magical gimmick, which is a wonderful departure from the fantasy norm.
Her work does come with a content warning for rape, although she addresses it with more nuance and respect than any male SF/F author of her generation. Ex-evangelicals might also find her stuff hard to read, as while she's against conservative Christianity, she's very much still a Christian and that makes its way into her writing. Even if her (not bad but not radical enough) politics lead her writing into less-satisfying places at times, part of my respect for her comes from following her on Twitter for a while, where she was a pretty decent human being...
Overall, Paksenarrion is my favorite of her works, although I've enjoyed some of her sci-fi too and read the follow-up series. While it inherits some of Tolkien's baggage, Moon's ability to deeply humanize her hero and depict a believable balance between magic being real but not the answer to all problems is great.
I've reached 30 at this point, and while I've got more authors on my shortlist, I think I'll end things out tomorrow with a dump of also-rans rather than continuing to write up one per day. I may even include a man or two in that group (probably with at least non-{white cishet} perspective). Honestly, doing this challenge I first thought that sexism might have made it difficult, but here at the end I'm realizing that ironically, the misogyny that holds non-man authors to a higher standard means that (given plenty have still made it through) it's hard to think of male authors who compare with this group.
Looking back on the mostly-male authors of SF/F in my teenage years, for example, I'm now struggling to think of a single one whose work I'd recommend to my kids (having cheated and checked one of my old lists, Pratchett, Jaques, and Asimov qualify but they're outnumbered by those I'm now actively ashamed to admit I enjoyed). If I were given a choice between reading only non-men or non-woman authors for the rest of my life (yes I'm giving myself enby authors as a freebie; they're generally great) I'd very easily choose non-men. I think the only place where (to my knowledge) not enough non-men authors have been allowed through to outshine the fields of male mediocrity yet is in videogames sadly. I have a very long list of beloved games and did include some game designers here, but I'm hard-pressed to think of many other non-man game designers I'd include in the genuinely respect column (I'll include at least two tomorrow but might cheat a bit).
TL;DR: this was fun and you should do it too.
#30AuthorsNoMen
