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Surprisingly sympathetic from the #Grauniad on the plight of #trans teenagers post-Cass.
Things feel as though they're getting pretty bad here. I can remember trying to persuade a trans friend to move from Lithuania to Scotland because I felt they would be safer here. It doesn't feel that w…

An international #fascist movement
— led by Russia, Hungary, and China
— is on the march worldwide, and 🎯America is in its crosshairs.
Case in point: Ohio Republican Senator and maximally rich dude J.D. Vance,
who dresses up his Trump/Putin toadyism in elegant garb
In an article for the m Financial Times, Vance recently wrote:
“We owe it to our European partners to be h…

Is Trump America's New Tokyo Rose?
Money-as-speech has metastasized so extensively it threatens to kill its host, ending democracy here and turning America into another Putin- or Orbán-style autocracy run by Trump...

Eta Carinae left a curious ladder to climb
Theodore R. Gull, Henrik Hartman, Michael F. Corcoran, Augusto Damineli, Thomas Madura, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Noel D. Richardson, Gerd Weigelt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13954

Eta Carinae left a curious ladder to climb
Eta Carinae underwent the Great Eruption in the 1840s and a Lesser Eruption in the 1890s. Its apparent spectrum, modified by intervening ejecta, the Homunculus and Little Homunculus, continues to evolve but contains information pertaining to events in the 19th century. The LOS spectrum contains narrow absorption velocities, from -122 to -1665 km/s: rungs of a broken ladder caused by shells formed by the interacting winds. Estimated shell origin dates correlate with origin dates of expanding emi…

Thom Hartmann: It's time to hold co-conspirator Ginni Thomas accountable - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/alternet-exclusives/ginni-thomas-news/

It's time to hold co-conspirator Ginni Thomas accountable
Now that Republicans on the Supreme Court have forced a pause in Donald Trump’s federal trial for trying to overthrow the government of the United States and install himself as dictator for life, Jack Smith and his team may have a little time on their hands.Respectfully, I’d suggest this may be a gr...

Autism spectrum condition, attachment to objects, "minimalism"
I could say that I'm a minimalist. Much like many other of my characteristics, this one stems from the autism spectrum.
Many people in the spectrum show emotional attachment to objects. Sometimes you could think of it as "hoarding", but for me it's mostly about strong negative feelings when something breaks, when I need to throw it away (interesting enough, I don't really mind giving it away, so others could use it, just trashing).
The simplest way to limit these negative feelings… is to have very little stuff. Don't buy, nor take, stuff that you don't need. Limit yourself to things that are really important, and ideally wait some more, look around, maybe it will turn out you didn't need it after all.
I don't have any plushies (anymore). Most of my old hardware were given "into good hands". Some is still waiting for a good way how to revive it. There are no ornaments over my walls, just an old clock that belonged to my grandmother, one from the "сделано в СССР" era. Its scary how outdated my smartphone firmware is.
I suppose some people will think it's an unhappy life. I don't really know. I don't think I've ever enjoyed mindless consumption. Perhaps as a child — but the excitation of novelty usually quickly gave way to disappointment.
And gifts, gifts are something I truly hate. But it's a separate topic, another kind of trauma.
#ActuallyAutistic #minimalism

Did Sam Hartman's extra college year help his NFL future? Hartman thinks so https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/39913886/quarterback-sam-hartman-nfl-draft-notre-dame-wake-forest-nil-transfer-portal<…

Sam Hartman, the NFL draft and an NIL and portal test case - ESPN
Sam Hartman opted out of the 2023 draft, benefiting from NIL and transferring to play in a pro-style offense. Was it the right move?

They're called perennials: You plant them once and they come back after each winter if they're given the right environment to survive. Think things like trees, shrubs and woody plants. (NPR)
https://apps.npr.org/plant-hardiness-garden-map/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240513/p30#a240513p30

Chemically reactive thin films: dynamics and stability
Tilman Richter, Paolo Malgaretti, Thomas M. Koller, Jens Harting
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14635 ht…

Chemically reactive thin films: dynamics and stability
Catalyst particles or complexes suspended in liquid films can trigger chemical reactions leading to inhomogeneous concentrations of reactants and products in the film. We demonstrate that the sensitivity of the liquid film's gas-liquid surface tension to these inhomogeneous concentrations strongly impacts the film stability. Using linear stability analysis, we identify novel scenarios in which the film can be either stabilized or destabilized by the reactions. Furthermore, we find so far unreve…

🤯 Things I'm very impressed about Apple recently:
1. Apple Pencil Pro casts fake software shadows: https://youtu.be/zOLVvzig8-s?feature=shared&t=20
2. Music Haptics for Songs