@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-06-21 08:38:59
Good time for Xi to create a crisis around Taiwan.
https://apnews.com/article/taiwan-china-planes-center-line-british-ship-b1618804e7a4bc66c411cb3cb171480a
@ErikJonker@mastodon.social2025-06-21 08:38:59
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-21 21:09:54
'How Can You Sleep At Night?': Once Praised by Trump As a 'Great American Hero', Pete Hegseth Now Leads Charge to Erase Medgar Evers’ Name from Navy Ship — His Family Is Fighting Back
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/21/once-praised-by-trump-as-a-great-american-hero-pete-hegseth-now-leads-charge-to-erase-medgar-evers-name-from-navy-ship-his-family-is-fighting-back/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-21 06:20:50
How Huawei has remained resilient in the face of US sanctions; Mizuho: about 700,000 units of Huawei's Ascend 910 series are expected to ship in 2025 (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-06-19 13:16:00
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2025-06-20 22:56:07
“The second accident was a cooling system leak which occurred in 1967, shortly after refueling. Finding the leak required breaking through the concrete and metal biological shield with sledgehammers. Once the leak was found, it became apparent that the sledgehammer damage could not be repaired; subsequently, all three reactors were removed by blowing them off the ship with shaped charges above a burial site off Novaya Zemlya”
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-20 15:01:38
Sources: an official told Samsung, SK Hynix, and TSMC that the US wants to revoke waivers that let them ship American chipmaking equipment to Chinese factories (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/u-s-prepares-act…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-09 01:00:40
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-06-19 12:13:03
Finland could charge Russia-linked ship’s officers over cable breaks by ‘August at the latest’ https://therecord.media/finland-could-charge-eagle-s-ship-officers-cable-breaks
@donelias@mastodon.cr2025-06-09 01:33:13
Israel has boarded Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg, the Freedom Flotilla Coalition says
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/08/middleeast/freedom-flotilla-gaza-aid-ship-thunberg-intl-hnk
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-15 20:10:39
How Trump's Imposition of Massive Tariffs is Repeating the "Ship Money" Abuses of King Charles I (Ilya Somin/Reason)
https://reason.com/volokh/2025/06/15/how-trumps-imposition-of-massive-tariffs-is-repeating-the-ship-money-abuses-of-king-charles-i/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250615/p62#a250615p62
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-06-09 05:49:04
“If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel.”
– Greta Thunberg
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/08/middleeast/freedom-f…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2025-06-21 16:58:59
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Cimarons:
🎵 Ship Took Us Away
#Cimarons
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://alonereggaeshop.bandcamp.com/track/ship-took-us-away
https://open.spotify.com/track/0VBuP4Q2q7AUULokV9f6Pe
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-20 09:06:56
Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
AVON: Pressurize the rest of the ship.
SOOLIN: Right. [Applies some controls.] The forward section's pressurized.
AVON: All right. Vila, let's get to the airlock.
VILA: Me?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/56 B7B2
@mapto@qoto.org2025-06-09 09:24:19
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-06-04 07:05:19
Petty Assifer Hegseth orders #HarveyMilk name to be removed from US Naval vessel
https://apnews.com/article/harvey-milk-navy-ship-rename…
@nelson@tech.lgbt2025-06-12 23:36:43
Calamus 31 What ship, puzzled at sea
Just when I'm beginning to think I have some facility reading Whitman I meet a head-scratcher like this. Taken literally this is a poem about Whitman offering to guide a boat at sea, or to offer military troops to a besieged city.
But presumably it's a metaphor. Whitman offering to guide and help those in need. It's a little strange?
Hard-pressed for a gay reading here but I'll focus on this:
Here, sailor! Here, ship! take aboard the most perfect pilot.
Here Whitman is offering himself to a sailor, naming himself the most perfect pilot. I could imagine that being a metaphor of sexual mentorship. But honestly that's a stretch.
@raysofred@discordian.social2025-06-09 13:15:23
Content warning: Gaza, IDF, pol
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-09/israeli-army-detains-freedom-flotilla-gaza-bound-ship-madleen/105393390
Greta Thunberg cannot escape the smear campaigns
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-06-09 05:57:18
Live updates – Madleen Gaza flotilla: Ship, activists being taken to Israel
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/4/madleen-gaza-flotilla-live-greta-thunberg-activists-to-arrive-on-june-7
@jzsimon@fediscience.org2025-06-05 11:29:57
CERN gears up to ship antimatter (h/t #FixTheNews)
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/05/cern-gears-up-to-ship-antimatter-across-europe/
@robpike@hachyderm.io2025-05-12 03:22:00
As a Mass Effect aficionado It seems unfair to me that Shepard has a cabin full of cool ship models but I can't have any. Until now. Martin at printables.com posted an SR-1 3d model. My printer is single filament and low-resolution, so I had to do more work than him to pull it together. Plus painting PLA is a bit of a struggle. But now I have a model, however rough.
I'd still rather have what Shepard has.
@n8foo@macaw.social2025-06-14 05:27:29
Tonight’s space ship has a Moog at the helm. #eurorack #electronicmusic
@hanno@mastodon.social2025-04-24 19:05:36
The MF Hydra is Norway's Ship of the Year 2021. It is also the first and only ship powered by Liquefied Hydrogen (LH₂). And... I don't know where to start... 🚢
This ship isn't just running on Hydrogen, it is running on Liquefied Hydrogen. Hydrogen has a very low energy density per volume, and liquefying it is an option to increase it. It is also a way to have all the problems you usually have with hydrogen and some additional ones on top.🧵
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-06-10 17:23:53
Is there anything I can put in robots.txt that will stop Scrapy?
Failing that, let’s take the ship up and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-18 15:22:16
Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
VILA: Maximum. Can we hold together at that speed?
AVON: We won't have to.
VILA: What do you mean?
BLAKE: Running at full power will drain the energy banks in - what?
AVON: Two hours at the most.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/133
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-06-13 21:10:09
In a way, the Titanic is like the Flying Dutchman of real life, a legendary ship doomed to tragedy, forever remembered in history and myth.
#Titanic #FlyingDutchman #POTC
@Tuxramus@social.linux.pizza2025-06-14 21:41:17
3D printing the ship Linda served on. A Wasp Class LHD (USS Boxer!) LIVE on Twitch! 🛳️ Come see this naval giant being made! #3DPrinting
@mikeymikey@hachyderm.io2025-06-11 16:28:10
If you are a vendor or developer for #macOS who has not yet moved to Universal 2 or ship a product only for the x86_64 architecture, there is extremely straight forward guidance for you here to update your product ASAP
#Apple #WWDC25
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/about-the-rosetta-translation-environment
@jae@mastodon.me.uk2025-05-29 09:24:35
I have to say I was pleasantly surprised to see how easy Pirate Ship is for getting shipping labels at reduced rates. Their customer service is top-notch. My work had been paying for a shipping provider and I was able to drop their prices considerably.
Not an ad, just a fan of how easy they made #shipping.
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-03 19:50:46
Hegseth orders renaming of ship named after gay rights icon Harvey Milk (Natasha Bertrand/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/06/03/politics/hegseth-orders-renaming-ship-named-harvey-milk
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p109#a250603p109
@erikdelareguera@mastodon.nu2025-06-09 10:22:16
Emma Bouvin: I dag talar hela Israel om Gaza – tack vare Greta Thunberg https://www.dn.se/varlden/emma-bouvin-i-dag-talar-hela-israel-om-gaza-tack-vare-greta-thunberg/
@pre@boing.world2025-06-02 20:28:08
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Reality War
Confusing episode. Let me clear it all up.
The world is sinking into the doubt needed to rescue Omega, remember, and The Doctor is falling with a balcony that's separated from the building.
How does he get out of that?
Well, saved by a literal magic door that pops out of nowhere, leading back to the time hotel. 🤨
Anita, who he spent a year with once a couple of Christmases ago, has been popping around the Doctor's entire long life, peeping on him with the Daleks and stuff. Trying to find him on the Earth's last day. Today.
And now he's rescued, today turns into a groundhog day. Same day over and over again. 😆
There's another woman that's been stalking him through time lately, Mrs Flood. She was following him everywhere, but she had Xmas off she reckons, so didn't see the Time Hotel bit. Thus the element of surprise in the deus ex machina rescue. 😀
The Doctor is broken free of the wish spell now anyway, popped his conditioning, and can use the time hotel's door to recall Unit and break them all out of the wish too.
The Rani pops in to say hi and explain her plans. 😝
How did the Rani survive the end of the Timelords? She flipped her DNA to sidestep the genetic bomb apparently? Well that makes no sense, but nor does anything else so no time to ponder.
The end of the Time Lords made them all Barons... No, made them barren. There can be no more children of the time-lords.
She's popping Omega back out of the underworld for his DNA because the timelords are all barren and she wants to recreate Galifrey.
But wait a minute: Poppy is the Doctor's kid in wish world! So she should have Timelord DNA too! Maybe that could work?
No. The Rani is a nazi, don't like the kid's contaminated blood. She's got human all over her DNA. Eww.
Rani pops off back to her Bone Palace, and makes the bone beasts attack.
The Doctor explains that the Giant dinosaur skeletons are beasts that pop in to clean up the world when there's a reality flux, and the Rani has turned them on Unit HQ.
So the UNIT HQ turns into some kinda ship? Like the Crimson Permanent Insurance. Lol. It's blasting lasers at the bone beasts and turning around, and has a steering wheel like pirate ship now. 🤣
During the battle, the Doctor pops out to take a ride on the sky-bike, looking like something from Flash Gordon, and crashes into the Bone Palace.
Too late though! Omega is pretty much here now. He's a giant boney CGI zombie, become his own legend. Looks great but doesn't really seem like Omega, who ought to be held together by pure will.
Omega eats the Rani! One of the Ranis anyway. Mrs Flood avoids being eaten. She pops off with the time bracelet. "So much for the Two Rani's. It's a goodnight from me!" as she disappears off into time. Great gag. 😁
The Doctor just shoots Omega to get him back into his box. Pops a rifle off the wall. The Vindicator has apparently also got a built in laser as well as locator beacons. So that's handy. The Doctor doesn't use guns but some of his devices work like one. 🔫
So all is well! The day is saved and the wish is over and baby Poppy survives in a time box! 🍻
They're going to take the space baby off to do space adventures. Ruby is jealous of seeing The Doctor and Belinda vibing like that, as they plan a life in space with the space baby. Aww. Poor Ruby. 😭
But then Poppy pops off! Disappears entirely, and everyone other than Ruby forgets. Ruby remembers because she's disappeared from time herself in the past they say.
Okay: to save his child and on Ruby's word alone, the Doctor will sacrifice himself to turn reality one degree.
He goes off to commit suicide by Regeneration, but Thirteen is here! She's popped out of her timeline to stop him! Or maybe to help, with a motivational chat instead. Gives him a pep talk then pops back off again.
The Doctor zaps reality with his Tardis, dying but holding off on the actual regeneration for a few moments to go check on the kid.
The kid is safe! But isn't his own kid any more. Poppy has popped all her Timelord DNA and is just all human now. Poppy's pop isn't the doc, it's someone called Richie.
And Belinda has been so keen to get home all this time in order to get back to her Baby! Who isn't a timelord, and definitely didn't exist until she was wished into being.
This may not be the most ethical action The Doctor has ever taken: To bend the whole universe in order to recreate a baby that was accidentally wished into being out of nothing. Twisting time to give a child to a nurse who didn't previously have a child, or even remember the wish. Then it's not even the same child that disappeared, coz this one is all human. 🤷
But the doc is popping off to regenerate with Joy in the stars, and... Turns blonde: "oh. Hello?" 🤯
It's Rose! Billie Piper is back? Fantastic!
Is Rose doing a David Tennant Impression there?
Billie playing the Doctor, doing a Tennant impression as Bad Wolf? Amazing. Can't wait.
#doctorWho
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-06-09 05:42:44
“The Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC) confirms that its civilian ship, Madleen, carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza, has been attacked/forcibly intercepted by the Israeli military at 3:02 am CET in international waters at 31.95236° N, 32.38880° E. The ship was unlawfully boarded, its unarmed civilian crew abducted, and its life-saving cargo—including baby formula, food and medical supplies—confiscated.”
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-03 23:29:06
That it is.
"Shameful, vindictive erasure": Hegseth orders removal of Harvey Milk's name from Navy ship | Salon.com
https://www.salon.com/2025/06/03/shameful-vindictive-erasure-hegseth-orders-removal-of-harvey-milks-name-from-navy-ship/
@chiraag@mastodon.online2025-06-09 02:16:14
@primonatura@mstdn.social2025-06-19 12:00:37
"UK startup looks to cut shipping's carbon emissions"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Emissions #Ships
@nerb@techhub.social2025-05-14 13:10:31
Bought a couple breadboard power supplies from Canaduino awhile back. Noticed one on a friends bench and after examining it decided I needed one too. Better than the ones with linear chips. If this fails it just stops working does not send whatever source voltage was to your project. Took awhile to get. They used a shipper called Sendle to ship it from Canada to the U.S.
Anyway I looked around and ordered one of these to to send to the niece.
@seemannsmission@c.im2025-06-05 04:41:30
Fatigue - Übermüdung bei Seeleuten nimmt zu. Das bestätigt auch eine Studie der Uni Cardiff.
Schon die erlaubte Arbeitszeit von bis zu 90 Stunden pro Woche führt zu Übermüdung.
Diese Zeiten werden teils noch überschritten
https://splash247.com/fatigue-among-se
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-06-09 06:44:54
Freedom Flotilla organiser Huwaida Arraf shortly after she and the rest of the ship’s support crew lost contact with the Madleen:
“All those on board have been abducted. They have been taken against their will while they were sailing peacefully and lawfully in international waters…
They were in international waters, sailing towards Palestinian territorial waters, not getting near Israeli waters…
It needs to be made very clear that Israel has absolutely no jurisdiction, no l…
@alexanderadam@ruby.social2025-05-25 20:31:49
So @… announced an upgrade for #ActionText with "No #Trix".
@pavelasamsonov@mastodon.social2025-05-31 17:52:01
For years, execs and managers were able to get away with pretending to do some kind of job - and #AI has greatly accelerated their ability to pretend.
Unfortunately, that led to garbage strategy and garbage execution. The quality of #UX suffered. The stability, performance, and security of code degraded…
@gwire@mastodon.social2025-06-10 08:36:47
I think that by not even commenting on the interception of the Madleen (Barcarole), the UK government may have damaged the value of the UK Ship Register.
https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:9599795/mmsi:232057367/i…
@ruth_mottram@fediscience.org2025-06-01 00:29:05
"That is the real reason why Starship was doomed to fail from the beginning. It’s not trying to revolutionise the space industry; if it were, its concept, design, and testing plan would be totally different. Instead, the entire project is optimised to fleece as much money from the US taxpayer as possible, and as such, that is all it will ever do."
Wow, this is an interesting piece..
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-was-doomed-from-the-beginning
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-16 18:12:51
Series D, Episode 11 - Orbit
VILA: I'm not the type for this sort of thing, Avon.
AVON: Why not?
VILA: This Egrorian, you said he was some kind of genius.
AVON: They said he was supposed to be some time back.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/411/62 B7B5
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-03 18:35:58
Hegseth Orders Navy to Strip Name of Gay Rights Icon Harvey Milk from Ship (Konstantin Toropin/Military and Veteran Benefits ...)
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/03/hegseth-orders-navy-strip-name-of-gay-rights-icon-harvey-milk-ship.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p101#a250603p101
@edintone@mastodon.green2025-06-06 07:42:12
Celebrating Windrush Foundation’s 30th Anniversary event at The Tab Centre, London, SE13 on Saturday, June 21, 2025, from 6 pm to 8:30 pm.
Please arrive at 5:30 pm - (NO ENTRY AFTER 6:30 pm). Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-05-28 19:26:48
HEY! My MP Gord Johns up with the first Petition of the new Parliament!
Presenting a petition to
"Develop enforceable federal standards to reduce the negative environmental and social impacts of ship recycling that meet or exceed those set out in the Hong Kong and EU Conventions for the safe recycling of ships; and
2. End shipbreaking in Baynes Sound.”
Johns: ”THIS IS THE FOURTH YEAR I HAVE TABLED THIS PETITION AND NO ACTION”
#CanPoli #CdnPoli
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-03 23:23:01
Hateful man, that Pete. Too stupid to know it's bad luck to just rename a boat without the ceremony [Renaming a Boat https://www.discoverboating.com/resources/ceremony-for-renaming-your-boat]
Pete Hegseth orders Navy to remove Harvey Milk's name from ship during Pride Month - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/pete-hegseth-orders-navy-to-remove-harvey-milks-name-from-ship-during-pride-month/
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-02 21:01:24
Sources: Meta is prioritizing an ultralight Horizon OS headset with a compute puck, instead of a traditional Quest 4, to ship in 2026 (David Heaney/UploadVR)
https://www.uploadvr.com/meta-prioritizing-puffin-for-2026-pushing-out-quest-4-to-2…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-10 04:41:00
Trump is asking SCOTUS to permit outsourcing torture
Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D.,
is the case where the Trump administration asks the justices to effectively neutralize the Convention Against Torture
According to Trump’s lawyers, the administration can simply wait until after an immigration judge has conducted a proceeding that determines whether a particular noncitizen may be deported to a particular country,
and then, if that noncitizen is allowed t…
@losttourist@social.chatty.monster2025-05-28 18:10:54
We saw some people zooming around on Ullswater today on things that can only be described as hover boards but on water.
They did look incredibly cool and great fun, so when we got back to our rental cottage we decided to look up how much they were. Maybe I could use one to commute up the Manchester Ship Canal to work every day!
Yeah, that's not gonna happen. These things start at just under £10k for the entry level model.
#Hoverboard
@arXiv_csRO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-05 09:52:50
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06787 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csRO_…
@jacob@mountaincommunity.co2025-04-27 07:47:34
Would DHL work? I know we ship lots of things all over the world with them.
@pixelcode@social.tchncs.de2025-05-24 13:24:59
god i hate #docker 🙄
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2025-06-08 22:39:44
Madleen Gaza flotilla live tracker: Greta Thunberg, crew near Gaza | Gaza News | Al Jazeera
https://aje.io/p6b8m7?update=3762371
UN rights expert says Israeli speedboats surrounding Madleen
(Via @…
@haayman@todon.nl2025-05-29 03:50:26
How far I'll go to make an RSS feed of your website - Chris Hardie's Tech and Software Blog
https://tech.chrishardie.com/2025/rss-feed-of-your-website/
@beyondwatts@beyondwatts.social2025-04-27 10:35:03
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-10 17:29:45
Snap aims to ship lightweight, consumer AR glasses called Specs in 2026, lighter than its Spectacles 5 glasses for devs, but with many of the same capabilities (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/10/snap-plans-to-s…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-16 09:06:03
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
MELLANBY: I don't know. [Lauren enters]
LAUREN: [Enters] Do you hear it, Father?
AVON: Any idea where it came from?
LAUREN: There's nothing inside the ship.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/301/257 B7B2
@DrPlanktonguy@ecoevo.social2025-05-24 12:44:48
It was an interesting and fulfilling experience to be part of the @… working group on Winter Science in the Great Lakes. There are so many nuances to how #ClimateChange and development are likely to impact ice and seasonality in the
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-13 20:02:03
@RepEricSorensen to @SecDef Hegseth on renaming of Harvey Milk ship: "Gay kids like me, they don't want to go into the Army. They don't want to go into the Navy because you don't care for them."
'Going back to that time': Gay congressman confronts Hegseth on treatment of LGBTQ troops - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/congressman-hegseth-lgbtq-troops/
@barijaona@mastodon.mg2025-05-23 23:59:56
@realmurphy@social.linux.pizza2025-06-01 05:24:32
@… @…
IMHO, really not much point to do that.
The detectors are "just" 4km long concrete buildings with 4km high vacuum pipes welded in place which you cannot just cut up and ship.
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-08 17:46:50
Israeli military ordered to block aid flotilla carrying Greta Thunberg
The Freedom Flotilla ship is carrying rice, flour, medical supplies, and baby formula to Gaza.
Rashida Tlaib Pens Plea to Trump Admin to Protect Gaza Freedom Flotilla
https://www.politico.eu…
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-06-05 09:42:44
Greta Thunberg Speaks from Aid Ship Heading to Gaza Despite Israeli Threats
#Gaza
@arXiv_statAP_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-06-10 09:44:12
Near-real-time ship grounding damage assessment using Bayesian networks
Dimitris G. Georgiadis, Manolis S. Samuelides, Daniel Straub
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06493
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-10 18:11:15
Interview with Craig Federighi and Greg Joswiak on Apple's struggles to ship AI features, demoed in 2024, with the "V1 Siri architecture" and work on a V2 model (Lance Ulanoff/TechRadar)
https://www.techra…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-15 12:15:12
Series B, Episode 03 - Weapon
COSER: Now, even if Security trace us to this planet, they'll assume the ship crashed and we died in the explosion. Did you hear what I said?
RASHEL: Yes.
COSER: Well?
RASHEL: It's a very clever plan, sir.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/203/2
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-05 20:35:35
Very bad luck, doing it this way.
GOP blocks Democratic effort to combat Pentagon renaming of USNS Harvey Milk
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5335457-harvey-milk-navy-ship-gop-blocks-democrats/
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-09 15:30:47
Israeli forces intercept Gaza-bound aid ship carrying Greta Thunberg (Rebecca Falconer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/09/gaza-aid-boat-greta-thunberg-israel
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p56#a250609p56
@nelson@tech.lgbt2025-05-31 19:45:14
Calamus 19 Mind you the timid models of the rest, the majority?
A declaration of intellectual independence and a celebration of brotherly love. Honestly this poem feels a little clumsy to me, I can see why Whitman struck the awkward introducing lines in later editions.
As always, looking for the gay content:
Yet comes one, a Manhattanese, and ever at parting, kisses me lightly on the lips with robust love.
And I, in the public room, or on the crossing of the street, or on the ship's deck, kiss him in return
We observe that salute of American comrades
But I can't in all honestly read this use of "kissing" as erotic. Here the public kissing and the "salute of comrades" makes me think it's more of a fraternal kiss.
Which doesn't exclude a romantic kiss as well, or an erotic one. What's so vital about Calamus is how Whitman blends masculine sexual love with the love of comrades. I think both meanings are latent in every poem.
@Rob_Oost@mastodon.social2025-05-26 07:19:10
"The Terror: a novel" by Dan Simmons describes (another) horror-like ending scenario of the ill-fated Franklin expedition. Such a foretelling name for a ship...
The storyline was also converted into an interesting TV series.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_…
@pre@boing.world2025-05-18 09:15:53
Content warning: re: Doctor Who - Interstellar Song Contest
So, we have a song-contest blighted by a genocidal unethical corporate sponsor, with the remnants of the wiped-out race threatening a revenge genocide of their own.
Unusually political with the allegory there then.
Great looking scene when the roof was blown open, thousands of people all being sucked off! Looked great, but what a body count?! And the Doctor and his Tardis both sucked off too! He's frozen.
"The Mavity Shell is still open." Lol. Still doing that then.
Susan is here! His granddaughter. Just in visions though, not actually really there. She looks older now. Sixty years on. She's like 80 years old now. "Find me" she says. Not this season though I suspect.
I liked him using the Confetti Cannon to fly though space. Peter Davidson used a cricket ball to bounce off a space ship when he was stranded in outer space. And Peter never froze.
Also a great prat-fall after landing, pointing and gasping and then just toppling.
Silly muppets-aliens song was fab.
Anti-gambling fraud laws prevent calling for help. Brilliant.
Expected that hair to be hiding a set of horns, not that she'd have cut them off.
The Doctor has ice in his heart now, more angry than we've seen Nchuti's Doctor. Trillions gonna die, Belinda dead, Tardis lost. Almost genocidal himself. Certainly vengeful. Timelord victorious.
Belinda is scared too: "If he's angry, this whole world is going to shake", but it ain't a world is it? It's a space station. Much easier to shake 😝
Explosion breaking through the Tardis doors near the end is quite a cliff hanger, but not even actually the end.
Because Mrs Flood is the Rani, finally! Every mystery character has had the fans hoping it's the Rani for years. Like it never being Lupus for the other Doctor: Doctor House. Finally it is Lupus, I mean the Rani.
Not sure I like this bi-generation again though. It's supposed to be rare, but now it feels like it's every time. Still, at least it keeps Miss Flood there as Rani's lackey.
Who actually was the Rani again?
She's from the first McCoy episode: she tries to build a time control device by gathering geniuses from time and blowing up a planet. Pretends to be Mel, the Doctor's companion at the time, to fool McCoy into hhelping. So interesting that her new regeneration looks a little like Belinda. 🤨🤔
I figured Mrs Flood was just Missy, the female Master. But then The Rani was always just a female version of The Master before Transsexual Regeneration was a thing anyway.
Well, just the double finale left then. Exciting.
#watching #tv #doctorWho #interstellarSongContest
@newsie@darktundra.xyz2025-06-11 01:03:40
23andMe leadership grilled by lawmakers demanding answers about data security amid bankruptcy sale https://therecord.media/23andme-leadership-grilled-by-lawmakers-hearing
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-04 12:23:00
Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: That's one misfortune we don't have to share.
VILA: Fourteen I was when I was first sent to a penal colony. Ship was hit in the main drive by a meteoroid, bang! Y'know what they did to repair it? [Avon and Tarrant begin to look at Vila. As he continues they move in, listening to him.] Activated the force wall and generated an atmosphere inside the force wall so the repair team could work in a vacuum without spacesuits, 'caus…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-10 05:04:11
"Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured."
Trump asks the Supreme Court to neutralize the Convention Against Torture, in DHS v. D.V.D. | Vox
https://www.vox.com/scotus/416163/trump-supreme-court-deport-immigration-convention-torture
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-04 21:15:58
Dustin Lance Black, Sean Penn Hit Back as Navy Ship Is Stripped of Harvey Milk's Name: "These Guys Are Idiots" (Exclusive) (Seth Abramovitch/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dustin-lance-black-sean-penn-pete-hegseth-navy-harvey-milk-1236255648/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p127#a250604p127
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2025-06-03 18:21:09
#Schiffe lösen #Methan-Ausstoß aus dem #Meeresboden aus, besonders in #Küstenregionen wie…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-11 15:18:45
Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
GAN: As long as the door doesn't break.
VILA: Did you see? They killed Arco.
BLAKE: I don't understand. There's no response from the ship.
VILA: Perhaps these bracelets don't work any more.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/543
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-06-12 19:44:43
On the new BC Ferries being built in China.
Do we all remember the last time the BC NDP went down the road of “building a shipbuilding industry to build ferries”?
It has its own Wiki, of course.
"In addition to major delays and cost overruns, the ferries never fully met their original specifications, and only operated briefly in a reduced capacity, before being auctioned off at a substantial loss by the subsequently elected BC Liberal Party government.”
No, I'm not thrilled that China, an authoritarian state, is going to be building these ferries. But no BC or Canadian firms bid on the contract. And right now, the expertise in ship building is in China and Europe (the Island and Salish class vessels were built in Europe).
I don't blame the NDP for not repeating the same mistake 30 years later.
And the ferries will still be refit and maintained for their full service life within BC.
#BCPoli #BCNDP #FastFerry #Shipbuilding.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_ferry_scandal
@lilmikesf@c.im2025-06-05 22:46:03
#MelonHusk vs #Drumpf feud escalates to point where #SouthAfrican born US govt #contractor with over $30B in gov deals with
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2025-06-03 21:55:52
Hegseth moves to rename Navy ship honoring gay rights icon Harvey Milk (Dan Lamothe/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/03/harvey-milk-navy-hegseth-civil-rights/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p132#a250603p132
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-05-30 04:26:04
Hugging Face unveils two open-source humanoid robots, the $3,000 full-sized HopeJR and a $250-$300 Reachy Mini desktop unit, expected to ship by the end of 2025 (Rebecca Szkutak/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/29/hugging-face-unveils-two-…
@servelan@newsie.social2025-06-04 20:53:46
Sean Penn dubs Hegseth ‘Chief Petty Officer’ for effort to strip Harvey Milk’s name from Navy ship
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5333156-harvey-milk-sean-penn-hegseth-navy-pride-month/
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-09 12:21:20
Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
SERVALAN: But with force shields up.
DERAL: More? [hands pilot glass]
PILOT FOUR-ZERO: Thanks. [drinks]
SERVALAN: Ginka, how badly damaged is the Auron patrol ship?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/43 B7B3
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-08 21:13:37
Series A, Episode 13 - Orac
CALLY: I'm sure.
[Scene: Gan is in a cabin. We see him listen to the following conversation over the intercom.]
BLAKE: [O.S.] Our only hope is if they have a supply on Aristo.
VILA: [O.S.] But if they don't?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/113/60
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-05-28 09:04:01
Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
BLAKE: Those interceptors will be lifting off any minute now. Let's get on with it. [into comm] Gan, get the ship moving. Full interceptor evasion.
[Flight deck. Gan is at the controls.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/464 B7B2…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-05-28 09:04:01
Series A, Episode 06 - Seek-Locate-Destroy
BLAKE: Those interceptors will be lifting off any minute now. Let's get on with it. [into comm] Gan, get the ship moving. Full interceptor evasion.
[Flight deck. Gan is at the controls.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/106/464 B7B2…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-05-26 18:25:29
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: To make sure none of his victims did anything rash like attacking the weakest point of the ship!
VILA: It's here, I know it's here.
KERRIL: If you say so.
VILA: How would he hide it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/457
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-05-26 18:25:29
Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: To make sure none of his victims did anything rash like attacking the weakest point of the ship!
VILA: It's here, I know it's here.
KERRIL: If you say so.
VILA: How would he hide it?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/457
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-05-26 06:17:45
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: [To Avon] Could it be altered?
AVON: What?
BLAKE: The running log. Could the readings be faked?
AVON: Only by a top-line technician. Nobody on this ship could do it.
BLAKE: Except you.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-05-26 06:17:45
#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 02 - Space Fall
BLAKE: [To Avon] Could it be altered?
AVON: What?
BLAKE: The running log. Could the readings be faked?
AVON: Only by a top-line technician. Nobody on this ship could do it.
BLAKE: Except you.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-05-26 12:22:04
Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
VILA: We got it, we got it!
TARRANT: Yes, I know, only I was saving that trick for when they both attacked at once.
VILA: There's only two left now; no trouble.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/300 B7B3
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-05-26 12:22:04
Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
VILA: We got it, we got it!
TARRANT: Yes, I know, only I was saving that trick for when they both attacked at once.
VILA: There's only two left now; no trouble.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/300 B7B3