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Dodgers go up 2-0 in NLCS on Yoshinobu Yamamoto's gem; NBA's Top 100; Pete Prisco's NFL Power Rankings

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/dodgers

Mic'd Up | Dave Canales wears the mic for Week 6 win against the Dallas Cowboys https://www.panthers.com/video/mic-d-up-dave-canales-wears-the-mic-for-week-6-win-against-the-dallas-cowboys-2025

Startup Creative – Your Go-To Source For Straight-Up Business Advice
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

In the USA there's now bipartisan acceptance that "steaks cost almost 17% more than a year ago" ,[1] 60 % of shoppers buy less beef,[2] 37 % consider plant-based substitutes[3] but not clear how many would simply increase e.g. pulses or go fully #vegan. Prices of lentils are down[4] and production of pulses is expected to go up.[5]
[1]

It's absolutely fucked up how quickly Google Search went from my go-to search to a "yuck, why is this shit on, get me out of here".
Like when I search on Android by accident and get AI summaries I have literally yelled at my phone. Absolutely batshit how quickly Google could destroy the reputation if their core product.

Could you toss the plunger up here? Toilet's starting to overflow.
Uh... You might want to hurry. 😬

35 yr old #SanFrancisco father stabbed to death in front of child while picking his son up at Commodore Sloat elementary school on Ocean Ave.
Suspect Daniel Patrick Rodriguez apparently committed violent act after a crosswalk altercation and was arrested after being located 170 miles out of town in #Tuolumne

Just read this long post on "the current state of Cara" https://cara.app/post/2e0d29d3-a57a-4b70-b0d0-9cefc15176ca
🤔 "Not having an algorithmically recommended feed is the biggest reason why people dropped off from Cara after we went viral. In a chronolog…

Jingna Zhang (@zemotion) | Cara - Artist Social & Portfolio Platform
About the current state of Cara— Hi all, I’d like to address some users' concerns about Cara’s stability, algorithms and reach, and why we don’t actively promote Cara and recruit new users. I have touched on most of these before through other posts, but I’ll like to go over the main points and put them in one place since they often come up as recurring questions: — Cara’s longevity/stability > "A few weeks ago, after learning how much Jingna was struggling with her personal l…

One of the things I super appreciate about #ArcRaiders from #EmbarkStudios is that they made their in-game accounts cross platform.
I can go up and scavange low level gear and crafting materials on the #PS5 on the cou…

I decided to support something for which the only support mechanism is "buymeacoffee" with a monthly donation — so I created a login at buymeacoffee, and now it won't let me go any further without creating a page with my photo, name, link, and a short essay to "Explain how contributions can make a difference in your work" and just no! All I want to do is set up a small monthly donation and be able to manage that in the future!
This isn't hard on liberapay or patreon or…

'He’s blowing up boats and offing Venezuelans with impunity, trying to throw the Argentinian election and has ordered troops onto the streets of US cities, while ‘red’ states create more safe Republican seats so he can win the 2026 midterm elections. What could possibly go wrong? He’s king.'
via Garth Turner

Actually, I do want to come back to masculinity under patriarchy and whiteness under white supremacy because I think it's worth talking more about. The "man" under patriarchy (at least "Western" patriarchy) is represented as power and independence. The man needs nothing and thus owes nothing to anyone. The man controls and is not controlled, which is intimately related to independence as dependence can make someone vulnerable to control. The image of "man" projects power and invulnerability. At the same time "man" is a bumbling fool who can't be held accountable for his inability to control his sexual urges. He must be fed and cared for, as though another child. His worst behaviors must be dismissed with phrases such as "boys will be boys" and "locker room talk." The absurdity of the concept of human "independence" is impossible to understate.
Even if you go all Ted Kaczynski, you have still been raised and taught. This is, perhaps, why it is so much more useful to think in terms of obligations than rights. Rights can be claimed and protected with violence alone, but obligations reveal the true interdependence that sustains us. A "man" may assert his rights. Yet, on some level, we all know that the "man" of patriarchy acts as a child who is not mature enough to recognize his obligations.
White violence and white fragility reflect the same dichotomy. "The master race" somehow always needs brown folks to make all their shit and do all the reproductive labor for them. For those who fully embrace whiteness, the "safe space" is a joke. DEI shows weakness. Yet, when presented with an honest history adults become children who are incapable of differentiating between criticism and simple facts. *They* become the ones who must be kept safe. The expectation to be responsible for one's own words and actions, one of the very core definitions of being an adult, is far too much to expect. Their guilt needs room, needs tending, needs caring. White people cannot simply "grow the fuck up" or, as they may say of slavery, "fucking get over it."
And again, interestingly, it is *rights* that they reference: "Mah Freeze PEACH!" I find it hard to distinguish between such and my own child's assertion that anything she doesn't like is "not fair!" No, these assertions fail to recognize the fundamental fabric of adult society: the obligations we hold to each other.
At the intersection of all privilege is the sovereign, the ultimate god-man-baby. Again, referencing the essay (https://hexmhell.writeas.com/observations-on-domination-and-trump)
> This is where it becomes important to consider the ideology behind the sovereign ritual. Participation within the sovereign ritual denotes to the participants elements of the sovereign. That is, all agents of the sovereign are, essentially, micro dictators. By carrying out the will of the sovereign, these micro dictators can, by extension, act outside of the law.
While law enforcement is the ultimate representative of sovereign violence, privileges allow a gradated approximation of the sovereign. Those who are "closer" in privilege to the sovereign may, for example, be permitted to carry out violence against those who are father away. The gradation of privilege turns the whole society, except for the least privileged, into a cult that protects the privilege system on behalf of the most privileged. (And immediately Malcolm X pops to mind as having already talked about part of this relationship in 1963 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf7rsCAfQCo.)

Yup, there we have it! My write up on how to setup Hyprland on FreeBSD. All files available on Codeberg, have a go at it. Happy geeking!
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-hyprland/src/branch/main/README.md

»Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.«
What could possibly go wrong. Trust me, I'm an engineer. 🤦
Full story over at @…:

Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants
Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.

The Blog Is Quiet: https://eyebeemania.net/2025/10/15/the-blog-is-quiet.html

The Blog Is Quiet
Why? Ten hour shifts this week. I get up, get ready and go …

Special teams go wild: Steelers' gaffe equals easy Seahawks TD; Dolphins-Patriots exchange scores https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6628798/2025/09/14/steelers-blunder-kickoff-return-touchdowns-dolphins-patriots/

Looking for a phantomjs alternative, ran a search and ended up on a page with a seemingly good comparison of possibilities, until you realize the page is on zenrows.com domain. I don't think I'll take YOUR word for your product. Not sure what snakeoil they might be selling but feels overtly self-aggrandizing at least

After being informed his heat shield may have come loose,
John Glenn held steadfast in the face of real uncertainty,
-- as he observes the retro pack burn up outside his window,
illuminating the cabin in an orange glow,
during re-entry on February 20, 1962.
"This is Friendship Seven. I think the pack just let go ...
A real fireball outside! ...
Great chunks of that retro pack breaking off all the way through!"
-- Credit: NASA / And…

This is Costco's 'scan & go' project, where a roaming employee w/ a tablet & handscanner:
1️⃣ walks up to you in line
2️⃣ scans your membership card
3️⃣ scans items in your cart
...and when you checkout, you slide your credit card & you're done.
#savedyouaclick
Original post:

Lenovo unveils Legion Go 2 , with an 8.8" screen and AMD Ryzen Z2 or Z2 Extreme chip, available in October, starting at $1,099, costing $400 more than Legion Go (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/769776/legion-go-2-offici…

Legion Go 2 official: Lenovo’s new flagship handheld costs $1,099 — and up
The new Lenovo Legion Go 2 is the company’s flagship handheld with improved screen and battery — but slightly bigger, heavier, and more costly.

Supreme Court’s ‘Go Ahead And Round Up All The Brown People’ Decision Is Being Challenged In Court | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/10/supreme-courts-go-ahead-and-round-up-all-the-brown-people-decision-is-being-challenged-in-court/

Ford CEO Jim Farley is gearing up to compete with Chinese EVs by revamping their assembly line and introducing a new electric truck in 2027. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

The American Car Industry Can’t Go On Like This
Ford is taking drastic steps to compete with China’s cheap EVs. Even that might not be enough.

In #Helsinki there's only one person I trust with repairing a #watch without screwing up (there was another previously, but he retired). Today I went and asked his name, let him know I've always been happy with his work and I'll go back with the next watch to repair the next time he has a shift there. …

I sometimes write posts which go through twists and turns that make them look haphazard and are met with incomprehension or even scorn from readers who think I've accidentally made them laugh though I actually carefully constructed the piece with phrasing to build up to an often non-sequitur type of punchline.

"EU states still fighting over crucial targets in run-up to Cop30, leaked draft shows"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #COP30 #ClimateSummit

Every now and then I open my junk drawers (yes, plural) and look at what I have there. While it’s mostly old cables and chargers, there’s enough other stuff that I think «I should go through all that stuff. Someday.» And then I put things back and close it up again…

Maxx Crosby mic'd up vs. Patriots: 'This is fun!' https://www.raiders.com/video/maxx-crosby-micd-up-patriots-nfl-week-1

Jaxon Smith-Njigba leads NFL in receiving despite Seahawks' league-low pass rate: Makes 'offense go' https://www.nfl.com/news/jaxon-smith-njigba-leads-nfl-receiving-seahawks-league-low-pass-rate

SNAP Recipients Crushed by Democrats Caving on Shutdown: “They Just Wasted It All”
People on food stamps said they were willing to sacrifice to protect health care benefits. They’re furious that the Democrats gave up.
By Jessica Washington
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/12/go

SNAP Recipients Crushed by Democrats Caving on Shutdown: “They Just Wasted It All”
People on food stamps said they were willing to sacrifice to protect health care benefits. They’re furious that the Democrats gave up.

#OTD in 1988 (37 yrs ago!) in the peace sign shaped park / traffic circle at the center of sleepy #Cotati #California, a free outdoor show featured Sam Andrew of Big Brother & The Holding Co with two upstart bands opening :

Sometimes hacking a computer means a whole different thing...
In this use, I'm actually hacking (with a hacksaw) the case apart to add an I/O shield (custom made) so I can fit an older motherboard that was not designed for this case.
And thank you to Gateway for making me do this by not using a removable shield and instead stamping every hole they needed and covering them with a sticker if they weren't on this model. 🤦‍♂️

We moved to our neighborhood 7 years ago. Over all that that time I watched people wander across the road in front of the subway station despite the sometimes heavy traffic. I always figured I'd go by one day and see an ambulance or worse. Tonight when I got off the train, I noticed that the city finally did something about it, installing a crosswalk with a beg button and lights.
Maybe it's a metaphor? We're (incredibly, painfully) slow, but we end up doing the right thing …

The office yesterday.
And let me say that trying to keep an 85dB limit and being forced to suddenly go direct made for an extremely challenging situation. It highlighted for me that if you're going to go direct you really have to set a rig up with that goal in mind, and then go out and do it a whole bunch of times to optimize it.
coughmodelerscough
Side note: our drummer had to play a low-end electronic kit, and he just crushed it.
I said that kit will need a ciga…

I know these places provide jobs and pay taxes but overall I feel the misery #gambling causes outweighs the benefit. Very much makes me angry that they're positioned and designed to exploit those who can least afford it. I won't be crying any tears if they all go.
William Hill owner says it could shut shops if Reeves raises gambling taxes | William Hill | The Guardian

If a weapon is fired at a wedding, the authorities can seize it and levy a $100 fine.
If the gun is not handed over, a relative of the groom — his father or an uncle, perhaps — can be detained until the firearm is turned in.
“We don’t take the groom,” Mr. Dandar said, offering up a concession.

In Syria, a Crackdown on Gunfire at Weddings
Marriages and other glad occasions in Syria are often celebrated by firing shots in the air. But after nearly 14 years of war, people want the guns to go silent.

Join us for a casual Scrappy Hour bike ride on Sunday, August 31st. 🚴‍♀️
We'll roll out from Rocket Baby just after 9am and head to the Domes... There's about four or five of us so far but we welcome anyone to join us! 🚴
https://www.instagram.com/p/DNvbxVRXHS1/

Scrappy Hour on Instagram: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW Cactus Club- meet 8:30a; wheels up 9:00a EAST SIDE/RW The Daily Bird-meet 9:00a; wheels up 9:15a TOSA Rocket Baby- meet 9:00; wheels up 9:15a Then, we SHBBQ at South Shore Park! We’ll bring some dogs and veggie alternatives. A couple sides. And a cooler of mixed bevies. We’ll bring a couple grills too. Last year our gang showed up with some really delightful offerings! There was homemade bread, and baked goods and side salads. It ruled. So feel free to bring what ever you would like to share with everyone. It will be much appreciated. Bring a baseball mitt and we’ll have a catch. Have a frisbee, bring that too. If it’s hot, good luck keeping me out of that lake, so bring your suit. If you have any questions, as always hit us up and we’ll try to answer. All our love, SH ✌️🚲🏃‍♂️☕️ #coffeeoutsidemke #scrappyhourmke"
107 likes, 8 comments - scrappyhourmke on August 24, 2025: "It’s that time of year again! Ya, you know it! It’s Scrappy Hour BBQ BABY!!! Maybe it will be hot and we can all go swimming. Or maybe it will rain and we can all cower together. Or maybe it will be perfect and we’ll lay in the grass eating hot dogs till we have to roll us out of there. Here’s how it’s going to go down. First we’ll do a ride. We’re gonna do the Domes again, because it’s fun. Meet ups: BAY VIEW …

go Tahoe ! https://open.substack.com/pub/earthhope/p/unpaving-paradise-tahoe-tears-up?r=1o5n19&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Unpaving paradise: Tahoe tears up motel to restore floodplain
What 30 X 30 looks like in action. State agency demolishes a motel and restaurant to bring water and life back to a meadow. (Photos best viewed on a desktop).

«David, when you read this I hope it will be a wake-up call. It’s not too late, you only need to go offline and let people help you. Stop the pathetic TemuElon speedrun and go take care of your kids.»
DHH and Omarchy: Midlife crisis – Rust in Peace
https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2025/11/06/dhh-and-omarchy-midlife-crisis/

SNAP Recipients Crushed by Democrats Caving on Shutdown: “They Just Wasted It All”
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/12/government-shutdown-deal-snap-medicaid/
The Intercept infuriatingly put this article behind an email wall so I'm copying it …

“Corey Smith, the director of the Housing Action Coalition, said at a city hearing last year that ‘One of the challenges we face in San Francisco is we need the rent to go back up.’”
He meant so new housing production would start, but the reason we’re supposed to want that is to bring the rent down. Without meaning to, Corey pointed out the incoherence of private-developer-driven YIMBYism.

Amid AI boom, San Francisco rents are up. So are evictions. 
San Francisco officials extol the benefits of the city's AI boom. But rents and eviction notices are rising, and tenants are suffering.

The nyu #mychart #biometrics #amazon thing is so scummy. You show up for a doctor appt, you try to check in at a kiosk.. You go through a few screens, then it asks you to sign up with no …

Yes, at German discount supermarkets, you can purchase a do-it-yourself 'Balkonsolar' system and battery. Simply plug it in and you're ready to go.
However, Aldi Australia offers complete systems: 6 kW solar, a 5.5 kW inverter and a 10 kWh LFP battery, fully installed for AU$7,000 (€4,000)!

Supermarket giant expands rooftop solar and battery offer
Budget supermarket chain Aldi is expanding its residential solar business, opening up sales of its rooftop PV and battery energy storage packages to customers in Australia’s eastern states after a trial in Victoria.

Playbook: Fired up, ready to go again (Zack Stanton/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/08/29/fired-up-ready-to-go-again-00535334
http://www.memeorandum.com/250831/p38#a250831p38

Baker Mayfield uses arm, legs to lead Buccaneers to second straight comeback win https://www.nfl.com/news/baker-mayfield-uses-arm-legs-to-lead-buccaneers-to-second-straight-comeback-win

Totally normal night:
1. Scratching the cat.
2. The first continuous sleep, ending with a #nightmare. I've dreamt that my first return train was delayed, and I'm likely to be stuck in Głogów. On top of that, the train looked looked like a nightmare contraption, with a sequence of cubic compartments with no seats, and weirdly shaped holes in the walls instead of doors.
3. Toilet.
4. Checking blood sugar, just in case.
5. Looking for a spot in the bed that's free of sweat.
6. Scratching the cat.
7. A series of nightmares. The most interesting one was about getting up in the morning, in middle of a gale. The mains voltage was so low I couldn't turn the lights on, and instead of getting myself ready to go out, I was trying hard to measure it, helping myself with a flashlight.
My working theory is that these are side effects of my current medication. One week to go.

life hack
- go to bed early
- get up late

That kb shortcut to toggle between layouts (including scrolling) is effing awesome. Waybar is up, now it's delving into that manual and start building my dwm-behave-alike. And adjust all keybinds. People: Super is for applications, Alt is for all window related stuff. Super q is an aberration to close a window; Alt q is the way to go 😎

Full die PIC12F683 100x scan at M3 with a little bit of passivation remaining.
There's a few small particulates on the surface from my somewhat crude "rub it with a swab" cleaning to remove residual undercut glass fragments.
Plan is to give it ~10 more seconds in HF to get more glass residue off, then maybe a very brief sonication (like 2-3 seconds), then image again to see if it cleaned up at all.
Depending on how things go I might end up just continuing to e…

The EU was not called the European Coal And Steel Community for nothing, folks.
We talk a mean human rights and democracy. But we’re still the European Coal and Steel Community.
Go Single Market, amirite?! https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/11550764176416580…

I probably shouldn't go pub for derby day tomorrow morning
I really want to but my money is fucked up and my head hurts and I'd have to get the bus at 7:20am
aauugghhh i guess we'll see if I somehow feel up to it
otherwise next one I can go for is February and ofc I can go for other games but I really feel like concentrated 8am hater energy will be so powerful
#fedifc

we are now on Stage 3 water restrictions! No fill *or* topping up of ponds or pools! So that definitely captures the #poolpond ;)
I'm going to go get an adapter for my little pond pump hose so it can hook up to a regular garden hose and we'll use all the #pool water for watering the gardens over the next few weeks until the rains truly return.
#Fire #PortAlberni #UnderwoodFire #Water #ClimateChange #Drought #DIY #BackyardProject
https://socialbc.ca/@alberniweather/115036554816818531

Mic'd Up: Shane Steichen, Week 5 vs Raiders https://www.colts.com/video/mic-d-up-shane-steichen-week-5-vs-raiders

And if you go watch that video, which isn’t bad, YouTube will queue you up some, um, surprising follow-ups.
https://cosocial.ca/@aeisenberg/115325492154916206

Ok. Those of you south of the border break out your spreadsheets and figure what this would cost you.
1. Pain, blood in urine, can't urinate much.
2. In emergency. Seen by two doctors, multiple nurses.
3. CAT scan.
4. Review by urologist.
5. Hooked up to IV.
6. Overnight stay with multiple visits from nurses doing checks.
7. Morning visit with urologist on what is happening.
8. Visit from pharmacist to go over what meds I need.
9. Transport…

Finished "Automatic Noodle" by Annalee Newitz, a novella comfortably ensconced in the "cozy sci-fi" category. Becky Chambers fan? This one is probably a pretty safe bet!
A group of food service robots facing an uncertain future in the aftermath of a war decides to give it a go in their own restaurant. Only they aren't technically able to own one and they face some adversity that requires them to pull together.
3.5/5 stars, rounded up ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐

Automatic Noodle
From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newi…

It’s #ScamSeason again (spoiler: it’s always scam season) so I’m here to remind everyone to go to all three of the major credit bureau web sites and do two things. First, run your free credit check (you get 3 free checks a year at each of them). Look for anything suspicious, like credit cards you didn’t sign up for. Contest them. Second, lock your credit account so nobody can sign up for a card,…

One other pattern that I kept experiencing last year when I was actually trying these tools in my work (because I had so many people pushing them on me I started to think I was crazy):
Them: “oh you are struggling with X? I have been using AI to solve it and it gives me the solution in less than 10 minutes! You HAVE TO try it!”
Me: “X is really annoying, I’d love to get help with it. I’ll try that, thanks!”
* I go and try to do X, spend hours prompting AI back-and-forth as it keeps messing up and doing things wrong. I give up and do the thing manually, spending 2-3x the time I would have spent if I did it myself from the start.*
*days / weeks later*
Me: “hey, person, I tried to do X with AI and it didn’t work. I kept getting issues like Y and Z. Did I prompt it wrong? This is what I tried.”
Them: *nods, maybe chuckles* “oh yeah, it does that. I still haven’t been able to figure out how to reliably do X. I tend to redo the output completely too. But sometimes it helps me do like this tiny part. Anyway, these tools will improve soon and we won’t have to do so many manual revisions. “
I kid you not, this stuff happened every other week.
#AI #LLMs #work #tech #AIBubble

I subscribe to the European Correspondent. A daily newsletter by journalists across Europe. This morning's is really good: impact of climate change on agriculture; the 3 battles shaping up the EU's autumn's agenda (budgets, climate, migration) and deepfakes.
https://elaine.mayoris.com/go/iu73kj8tcub51gy9i9fne0apabbvanx01alcgokw04tf/2866

Let's check in on the "Keep Boards Alive" campaign.
They have closed the main thread. It went very much off track with little to no moderation and devolved into flinging insults at each other.
* 62 days to go.
* 757 subscribers out of 2000 (Up from 643 on August 19th)
* €28,508 out of €100,000 (This is just their yearly expenses. This excludes the €200K debt that also has to be paid off)
Mike and Odhran are seemingly active, but not posting a lot.…

"In the wealthiest country on Earth, it’s normal for people who are diagnosed with cancer to set up a web page to beg their friends and family for money. It’s normal for those people to go bankrupt. Getting sick is the most normal reason to go bankrupt...
At a time when billionaires compete to launch rockets into space, it’s normal—completely normal—for construction workers to die of heat and thirst"

How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.

I do not think that Meta's Metaverse failed cause the devs weren't efficient enough. It's conceptually flawed and underbaked at best, without vision and direction. A toy Mark no longer cares too much about.
(And even getting 5% more efficiency out of LLMs is a stretch, studies show improvement of 1 or 2% at best - because you have to spend a lot of time to clean up the generated mess, especially if you are building frameworks and foundational technologies)

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

For all those people who say “we can’t be using agricultural land for solar panels, we need to grow crops”, go shove it up your arse.
https://youtube.com/shorts/_C16IdSTDG4?si=2Mt_FNjZPySLaECV

Finally! Can go deeper than 4 levels (up to 10 now) with my #GitHub Action Workflow nesting. Via: https://github.blog/changelog/2025-1…

Day 16: Mayra Cuevas & Marie Marquardt
Okay so this is cheating, but they're co-authors of multiple books together, and there's no way for me to separate their contributions... I've already got too many authors I'd like to list, so why not?
I read their book "Does My Body Offend You?" and absolutely loved it; it's a celebration of teen activism while also being a deep exploration of feminist issues through practical situations that bring out the complicated side of things, which the authors refuse to reduce back to a simple formulaic answer. It has a supporting cast of appropriately-complex male characters that help in exploring the nuances of issues like the line between female empowerment & male gratification, and it brings race and macho culture into the conversion as well.
CW for sexual harassment & deep discussion of the resultant trauma.
I'll cheat again here to sneak in mention of two male authors whose work resonates with theirs: Mark Oshiro's "Anger is a Gift" has a more pessimistic/complex take on teen activism along with a gay romance (CW for racist cop murder), while Jeremy Whitley's graphic novel "Navigating With You" deals with queer romance & disability, while having a main character pairing that echoes those from "Does My Body Offend You?" in a lot of ways. Another connection (to non-men authors this time) is with "Go With the Flow" by Lily Williams and Karen Schneemann. Their graphic novel about teen activism and periods is a bit more didactic and has a much lighter tone, but it does necessarily have some overlapping themes.
To bring it back to Cuevas & Marquhardt, their writing is great and their ability to discuss such complex topics with such nuance, all wrapped up in a story that feels completely natural, is amazing to me, and makes their book feel like one of the most valuable to recommend to others.
In writing this I've realized a grave oversight in the list so far that I'll have to correct tomorrow, but I'm quickly running out of days. The didn't-quite-make-it list is going to be full of more excellent authors, and I'm honestly starting to wonder whether it might actually be harder to name 20 male authors I respect now that I've found the sense to be mostly somewhere between disgusted and disappointed with so many of the male authors I enjoyed as a teen.
#20AuthorsNoMen (cheating a bit)

Turns Out Trump’s Own Team Messed Up U.N. Escalator and Teleprompter | The New Republic
https://newrepublic.com/post/200833/trump-team-messed-up-un-escalator-teleprompter
Even los van alle bs: ⬇️ is waarschijnlijk het voornaamste dat Trump &…

Mining companies leave many Queensland farmers’ land barren and broken. When they go belly up who pays for rehabilitation? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/14/farming-land-mining-companies-who-p…

And when I'm talking about understanding the drives to violence, I did write about something similar recently.
https://write.as/hexmhell/algorithmic-violence
The drives behind this and the shooting last week are pretty radically different, but there's some overlap. People like Kirk are part a huge political machine slowly crushing people all over the world. There's a hopeless rage that would naturally drive even the most calm person to the edge of violence. You can't look at the world honestly and be OK. We want to do something. We want to react. But everything we do is silenced or must rmain silent. So it's easy to understand why someone might choose violence. Very different situation, but everyone is subject to the same national and international influences.
I don't promote violence, not because I disagree with it but because I think it's expensive. It takes time to plan, especially for those trying to get away. Guns are not cheap, nor are bullets, nor is the range time you need to get somewhat good under pressure. It's not cheap for the person doing it, and it's not cheap for the community that has to clean up. The community will face police repression (which, if we're honest, was gonna come anyway). The community will have to post bail, will lose a person for a while, will need to support the family, will go to hearings, will write reports, will do interviews.
Sun Tzu said that deploying one soldier to the front takes 7 in the field. Logistics are a huge invisible cost. Some of that time and energy could be reused. It's never bad to be armed and able to defend if needed. But a lot of that energy and time would be better spent planning a community pantry, a tool library, organizing a union, etc. We are living in a disaster, and we need to invest in thriving through the next crumble.
Kirk is replacable. They're almost all replacable, because they don't really care about human life. We do, so none of us are. It's not really a worth while trade, IMHO.

I drive a plug-in hybrid - a Prius Prime which is possibly not as greedy as the car used in the video
My experience so far has been that when I was driving nearly every km on electricity a message popped up that I needed to top up my gas tank with fresh fuel and drive on that for a time!
Because I bought it as a new car, the cost of replacing it with an EV is quite high. And I still would need to go fight Strata Council to get charging at my parking space.

Well Belinda Carlisle was as awesome as expected last night. She might not have quite the reach for the high notes that she used to, but her voice still has that gorgeous vibrato and it's a pleasure to hear her singing.
Dancing across the stage barefoot and in a flowy black dress she obviously enjoyed belting out all her solo hits, plus Our Lips Are Sealed from the Go-Gos days (a song she dedicated to its writer, the late great Terry Hall). It didn't take long before the audience (mostly people of, ahem, a certain age) were up on our feet singing and dancing along.
And as a special bonus the unbilled support act was Roland Gift, whose voice is similarly still there and gave us 25 minutes of glorious FYC hits.
10/10 would concert again.
#BelindaCarlisle #RolandGift #80sMusic #GigReview

OH: TLS handshake but I refuse to let go and it ends up as TLS handholding

Sometimes I look at Mastodon and just feel tired. Not because it’s bad, but because I’ve been stuck in it too long. It’s not the site that’s the problem, it’s me getting caught up in it and forgetting to step away.
I’ve spent too much time talking about random things like the Norwegian Syndicalist Federation on small Norwegian forums and scrolling the fediverse until my brain turns to noise.
So I think I’ll take a few days off, go quiet for a bit, and try to remember what it’s li…

Across the aisle, two couples sit together: 2 british people (in their late 40s) somehow related to the movie/TV business, 2 americans (in their 70s). Talking about places they’ve been, like Prague and entire Slovakia 🧐
Now the younger woman is musing wanting to go to Switzerland once, bc it’s such a dark energy, like the place where Hitler shot himself?
Is she mixing up Hitler with Bruno Ganz?

I keep realizing that one of my main differences in behavior is that I don't let fear of loss keep me from connecting with people nor existing comfortably in places.
It plays out in some specific ways. I'm usually the first to volunteer to lend something, and I'm willing to (and in fact most excited to) lend whatever it is to someone I don't know. I know I might not get it back. It’s _fine_.
I'm willing to leave my bike locked up in a part of the city where it might get stolen. It won’t, probably but it might. And that's fine. Annoying, but fine. It's cheap enough to replace. Expensive enough to suck but it's fine.
What I'm tilting at here though is that the constant vigilance to make sure things work out okay and the waiting for low-risk situations cuts us off from a lot of things. Better to have a bit of a "well fuck" budget. Go do the thing. It'll probably be fine. if not, well, it sucks, but ... it's fine.

Besides the bruised bananas I am chuffed at today's ride to the store and general adventure ride around town, going places I didn't think I could get to by bike. I rode about 13 miles and a little over an hour. The ebike is great for outrunning traffic or getting up those nasty hills. I still go really slow (PAS 1 or turned off) when on the crowded Oak Leaf Trail.
#mke

Solar companies are stepping up their game to withstand severe hailstorms in Texas. Find out how they're improving panel durability and testing methods. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Utility-Scale Solar Can Withstand Severe Hailstorms. Here’s How - Inside Climate News
With effective weather forecasting, testing with “hail cannons,” and an ability to go into “stow” mode, panels can tolerate run-ins with even large balls of ice.

ran out of food again bc Walmart just straight up Did Not Bring My Groceries so I rescheduled for the morning and idk! Hopefully they bring them! gotta try n go to sleep before I get too much hungrier bc then I won't be able to sleep!
aaaaaaaAAAAAAAAA

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115510783495155340
One thing that, to my surprise, sells really quickly is old computer books from the 1980s (stuff like "Machine Programs for the Apple II").
I guess perhaps they're cheap to ship (in the US, the post office has a special low rate for packages with books or music) and nice small treats for people?
Regardless, it's a nice win, I free up space and get some pocket money, the books go to someone who will love and care for them. :)

Okay... laptop on the podium w/ power, got my slides up, remote pointer good to go, HDMI & audio working, mic check one two - solid, phone ringer off in presenter clock mode, bottle of water. Yep, 30 sec to showtim---- wait, what's this?
Oh, you've gotta be kidding with me.
#truestory #murphyslaw

More of this, please. (Spotted on Reddit.)
#HoesUnion

I remember the good old days of buying #concert #tickets.. at the record store, or pay $3 long distance to get TicketMaster in a later time-zone.
Tickets for <show> go on sale 9 AM Saturday in your timezone, well that means they'd be on sale at 7 AM pacific and fewer people would be getting up that e…

Packers' Jacobs pulls through 'flu game' in big way https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46577466/packers-josh-jacobs-battles-illness-huge-game-win-vs-bengals

I grew up in a large city in a western democracy, with a socialist city government and it was fine.
There was basically no crime. People didn’t go hungry. Housing was affordable. Rent was regulated. Public transport was amazing. Education was free. Everyone had healthcare. Taxes were practically the same as in the US.
It was also much, much easier to start a business there than in the US. (Literally took an hour!)
People who wanted to get rich still could do it (there’s a few Austrian billionaires even).
I don’t understand how Americans got themselves so brainwashed that “socialism” is used as a term that sort of means “iworse than death”.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Few people take the time to think of all the shit they have survived up until this point, but yet, here you are. You go, motherfucker. You are awesome.

Archy, which offers AI-powered dental practice management software, raised a $20M Series B led by TCV, bringing its total funding to $47M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/dental-saas-provider-archy-raises-seriesb/

Exclusive: Founded By Uber Alumni, Archy Raises $20M To Put Dental Practices ‘On Autopilot’
San Jose, California-based Archy, which is building AI agents into its software platform to handle the busywork at dental offices, will use the new funding to bulk up its engineering, AI and go-to-market teams.

Gutierrez: Raiders can only go up after missed bounce back opportunity in Washington https://www.raiders.com/news/gutierrez-raiders-can-only-go-up-after-missed-bounce-back-opportunity-in-washington

Also, it's always interesting to see how things are designed and go together.
Both of these have a mechanism where when you slide the electronics into the cylinder that putting the set screw in place pushes the PCB up so the button goes into the hold of the cylinder.
I thought that was a clever design choice!
One of them is really nice and the other is really cheap. (The good one is a SNV4 PRO.)

No need to be left behind.
The adjusted how-to is up and running at https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/freebsd-kde-wayland.
So, go and get your latest KDE Plasma 6.5.2.Wayland on FreeBSD!

It certainly is true that tuition went up at an accelerating rate during the neoliberal era (and if you add in room and board, the increase is even more dramatic).
What happened?
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:ehnqmnnf65kuqb4flmd4cqp4/post/3m27ogp…

Gutierrez: Raiders can only go up after missed bounce back opportunity in Washington https://www.raiders.com/news/gutierrez-raiders-can-only-go-up-after-missed-bounce-back-opportunity-in-washington

Less than a week after copying a Joseph Goebbels speech to mythologize Charlie Kirk,
Stephen Miller is trying to gin up outrage because Gavin Newsom’s trollish Xitter account called him, accurately, a fascist.
Because Stephen Miller’s expression of outrage about the use of inflammatory language
— even the use of the word fascism
— necessarily involved Miller projecting his own actions onto someone else,
it led him to go on Hannity and confess he has been engaged…

Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats - emptywheel
Stephen Miller just confessed on Fox News that when he uses dehumanizing language -- when he calls Democrats "fascists" or "Marxists" or "radical" -- he intends it as a message to "all the crazies and lunatics out there" to target the people he has dehumanized.

Could Oklahoma's John Mateer become the latest transfer QB to end up as the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft?

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/c…

Sadly this is the only way we're getting our trains to go twice as fast...
("Trains operate at a maximum of 15 mph in the corridor... the report called for the trains to operate at up to 40 mph.")
https://urbanmilwaukee.com/2025/09/02/

Federal Grant Will Boost Train Speeds in Milwaukee
Long sought upgrade will benefit both passenger and freight trains.

Economists are watching closely for more signs that President Trump's trade war is raising prices for consumers
and reigniting the nation's inflation problem.
An indicator closely watched by the Federal Reserve showed mixed progress on inflation in July:
overall numbers held steady,
but a key gauge heated up for the fourth straight month.

Fed's go-to inflation gauge creeps higher as trade war ramps up
Economists are watching for more signs the trade war is raising prices for consumers.

Panthers' Hubbard out; Dowdle up vs. Cowboys https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46553414/panthers-rb-hubbard-dowdle-gets-shot-vs-cowboys

As SNAP benefits lapse, thousands show up to Southern California food banks
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-11-01/la-me-snap-benefits-los-angeles-food-bank

As SNAP benefits lapse, thousands go to Southern California food banks
Los Angeles food banks scurry to fill the gap as Angelenos' SNAP benefits are interrupted by the federal government shutdown.

New Dolphins edge Matt Judon didn't go to Miami for 'relaxing': 'It's about the work I put in' https://www.nfl.com/news/new-dolphins-edge-matt-judon-didn-t-go-to-miami-for-relaxing-it-s-about-the-work-i-put-…