@cdarwin@c.im"Western man" is code for
"white man,"
and one of the most popular racist books in these subcultures is
"Which Way Western Man",
which has been featured in a [Department of Homeland Security] post celebrating manifest destiny.
The 1978 book is essential reading among the American far right
and was written by the late white nationalist #William
@cdarwin@c.imTrump is threatening to use the Insurrection Act to deploy military to Minnesota.
To learn more about the act and its limits, check out this explainer from @brennancenter.org
https://bsky.app/profile/startribune.com/post/3mchqk5bcie2z
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMichael Burry, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, and Dwarkesh Patel on the future of AI, whether AI tools improve productivity, job losses due to AI, and more (The Substack Post)
https://post.substack.com/p/the-ai-revolution-is-here-will-the
@UP8@mastodon.socialI've been slow to post photos lately, but I made it the 2026 January Jicker this weekend at Barton Hall which was a fun indoor track event
#photo #photography #flrc
@gfriend@mas.toSage advice about artificial intelligence: "Do your own original thinking first."
Because “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/philkoopman/p/plans-plan…
@leftsidestory@mstdn.socialUrbanity - Cloud Four ☁️
城市化 - 四云 ☁️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeOswego man allegedly hired by college coach to get Snapchat access codes from nearly 600 women: FBI
https://abc7chicago.com/post/oswego-man-kyle-svara-26-allegedly-hired-college-coach-steve-wait…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itI don't appreciate the people who mock this poor man. Every year there are countless mass sandwichings in schools throughout the country, and we tolerate it because we, as a society, have lost our way. Kids and teachers huddled in their classrooms as mustard and onions fly through the air. WHERE'S YOUR HUMANITY, PEOPLE??
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@cdarwin@c.imPeople born here do not have immigration documents.
If you're an American born POC with only a Real ID to show for yourself, be prepared to be manhandled and detained by the secret police
https://bsky.app/profile/radleybalko.bsky.social/post/3m7uszhghs22j
@cdarwin@c.imWe are going to save America.
It’ll get worse before it gets better,
but MAGA fascism is a house of cards.
https://bsky.app/profile/vanhollen.senate.gov/post/3m7vlyhw6kk2j
@SafeStreetRebel@sfba.socialSolidarity with Jonathan Hale of People's Vision Zero in Los Angeles, who was arrested and cited by LAPD today for painting a crosswalk.
Original post on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR_IQu_ETwN/
Folks can support Jonny and People's Vision Zero here:
@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
@jkmartindale@mastodon.socialabsolute banger on Bluesky if you missed it https://bsky.app/profile/rianjohnson.bsky.social/post/3mb6is5pgi222
@cdarwin@c.imFederal immigration officers have started using Renee Good’s death to threaten more U.S. citizens.
A video posted to Reddit showed a screaming ICE agent repeatedly threatening to kill a man who was sitting in his car, asking how he didn’t “learn from what just happened.”
In the two-minute clip, a masked agent wearing a Minnesota Timberwolves hat approached the vehicle already furious, while the driver rolled down his window.
“Stop fucking following us, you are impeding opera…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"When #billionaires own major media outlets, “news” becomes something closer to state messaging. Not because the government controls it, but because the financial class that funds political power also owns the platforms that shape public perception."
#kleptocracy
Legacy M…
@servelan@newsie.social"Larry Bushart, 61, spent more than five weeks in jail over post that made light of far-right commentator’s killing"
Tennessee officials drop charges against man jailed over Charlie Kirk meme | Charlie Kirk shooting | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/31/tennessee-man-jailed-charlie-kirk-meme
@aardrian@toot.cafealt:
A white man with dark floppy hair and mustache stands in a room wearing a black floor-length robe with a red deep v-neck; his arms are spread wide showing a silhouette of a giant red hand on each half of the robe.
https://bsky.app/profile/frankconniff.bsky.soci…
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom my link log —
A Golang malformed HTTP POST mystery.
http://deliveroo.engineering/2019/02/22/go-down-the-rabbit-hole.html
saved 2019-03-07
@mikebabyak@musicians.todayDown to the last bit of mixing on the new record with Danny Gotham. The #leukemia threw our timeline off by at least half a year (as of my 6-month post-chemo checkup I remain cancer-free), but I'm making last tweaks to the mixes as I speak. Off to the mastering engineer soon, then artwork and such.
It's really just a hodge-podge of stuff we like. Acoustic pieces by Peter Ostroush…
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Cyrillus Kreek, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Estonian National Symphony Orchestra & Arvo Volmer:
🎵 Blessed is the Man
#CyrillusKreek #EstonianPhilharmonicChamberChoir #EstonianNationalSymphonyOrchestra #ArvoVolmer
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@cowboys@darktundra.xyzCowboys defense much improved since bye week thanks to $21 million group https://cowboyswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/cowboys/2025/11/27/the-cowboys-defense-l…
@cjust@infosec.exchange @cdarwin@c.imOne of the guests at Donald Trump’s press conference on weight loss drugs passed out during the event
Trump Just Stood There After The Man Collapses During Press Conference
https://newrepublic.com/post/202825/donald-trump-novo-nordisk-executive-c…
@jacobgudiol@mastodonsweden.seDet är nu över 10 år sedan dietboksförfattare och influensers påstod att de visste hur man fixade tarmfloran och med det en rad olika hälsoproblem.
Och än idag har vi i princip ingenting konkret från vetenskapen kring tarmfloran och behandling av olika besvär utanför just tarmproblem.
The Autism-Microbiome Hypothesis Is Falling Apart
@memeorandum@universeodon.comPutin was the missing man at Mar-a-Lago (Max Boot/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/12/29/putin-zelensky-trump-russia-ukraine-war/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251229/p79#a251229p79
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"When news becomes an extension of political and corporate power, democracy loses its immune system. The Fourth Estate collapses. And disinformation rules.
This is what happens when billionaires control information. They decide what you see, what you don’t, who becomes a villain, who gets rehabilitated, and whose death is worth remembering"
#kleptocracy
Legacy Media…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itOh man, who's ready for 4 years of NYPost tears? Delicious salty Murdoch tears! https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dci5jlffbhbi4ui4inf2wk6i/post/3mayzcx4m3225
@poppastring@dotnet.socialA post from the archive 📫:
Debug managed Linux core dumps with Visual Studio
https://www.poppastring.com/blog/debug-managed-linux-core-dumps-with-visual-studio
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Bert Jansch:
🎵 The January Man
#BertJansch
https://bertjansch.bandcamp.com/track/the-january-man
https://open.spotify.com/track/11iBgS98t3hPRxiusJ2G17
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@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itThe funny thing about the NYT is that not only are they genocide and fascist sympathizers, they're also just bad at, like, news. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qzuw62ra5pgoy7ohoaj4gd7v/post/3m3dofer6lk2g
@cdarwin@c.imThe Trump administration effectively says that no one should ever work with Americans during wartime; that our promises mean nothing, our word is dust, and we will throw our allies under the bus the moment we want.
In any future armed conflict, who would ever trust us again?
-- @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
https://
@cdarwin@c.im12 ordinary LA jurors say “No!” to ICE goons and federal prosecutors.
At least part of the constitution still lives and does its job:
the Sixth Amendment's right to a jury trial to decide criminal charges.
Jury acquits L.A. man who towed immigration agent’s car during TikTok influencer’s arrest
-- Susan E Seager
@cdarwin@c.imThis action by HHS and RFK Jr is unprecedented in scope.
Never before has the fed. gov. usurped the authority of medical professionals to set a separate standard of care
in an attempt to ban evidence based lifesaving care.
The man who thinks getting measles is good wants trans kids to suffer.
https://
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ComposerOfTheWeek #COTW
Aaron Copland, London Symphony Orchestra & Aaron Copland:
🎵 Fanfare for the Common Man
#AaronCopland #LondonSymphonyOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/0e6c45OSjdtl0Jew8dngDQ
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The Tallest Man on Earth:
🎵 Love Is All
#TheTallestManonEarth
https://riverwestin.bandcamp.com/track/love-is-all-the-tallest-man-on-earth-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/3QGFHhGxUDtPAhdipwSrpl
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Pulp:
🎵 The Man Comes Around
#Pulp
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://pulpmusic.bandcamp.com/track/the-man-comes-around
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