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It's the first #GrindayFriday of 2026, and I have a ripper. This is the debut LP of Virginia antifascist grinders LAY WASTE. 14 short, brutal tracks with fantastic titles like 'Make Guillotines Great Again'. Kinda oldschool grind, kinda deathgrind. Probably would've made one or both of my lists had it come out earlier in 2025. Fuck fascism, listen to grind.

Happy new year and all that. Maybe now's a good juncture to start looking into the usual new-year activities:
- Making some self-improvement resolution you won't stick to for more than a fortnight.
- Replacing the batteries in your fire alarm (with alkaline cells, not rechargeable!)
- Unsubscribe from all those marketing lists you've been binning for all of 2025.
- Be nicer to everyone and be nicest to the ones you love.

Mailing Lists? In this day and age!?
I've been pointed to Groups.io and Gaggle Mail as alternatives to Google Groups for a mailing list, but I've love to hear about others.
Google Groups tends to be a default for many people doing a mailing list because it's free and well known, but I want to offer an alternative to Google and other big US-based tech companies.
Any other suggestions?
(Thanks to @…

I love what Tauri has done, a lightweight version of Electron, where you author the backend code in Rust.
But while I love Rust, I do not love it for app building, and I wanted to have that HTML-model for programming but available in Swift.
I used assorted AI tools to port Tauri to Swift (it still reuses the big chunks of code from Tauri), but now you can write HTML desktop apps in Swift:

GitHub - velox-apps/velox: Velox is a port of Tauri to Swift.
Velox is a port of Tauri to Swift. Contribute to velox-apps/velox development by creating an account on GitHub.

Kid2 and I are going to pitch Hallmark a sure-fire Christmas hit: Unsilent Night. It's the zombie apocalypse BUT the (chosen) people survive using their bountiful Christmas decorations - lights to electrocute, a full-sized shepherd's crook to bludgeon - to defeat the hordes of undead while surviving for years on homemade fruit cake that replenishes them body and, thanks to their mothers' immaculate love, soul.

I live here in Los Angeles & man, from production to restaurants to talent... this guy really was universally hated.
▶️ James Corden’s Career COLLAPSED… And Nobody’s Surprised
https://youtube.com/watch?v=R7TwnPdxmmw&si=LOKDqeylNCKoxwIo

Just to put it out here one more time: I would still love to be able to put hashtags I follow into lists.
#mastodon

Microsoft is increasingly shrill in its desperation to get people to love it's 'AI' service, 'Copilot'... https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/11/28/you-heard-wrong-users-brutually-reject-microsof…

Day 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

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