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I natt ägde ett bombattentat rum mot programledaren för Italiens motsvarighet till Uppdrag granskning, Sigfrido Ranucci.
Giorgia Meloni, vars parti tidigare stämt Ranucci, fördömer attacken. https://www.dn.se/direkt/2025-10-17/italiensk-journalist-utsatt-for-…

Italiensk journalist utsatt för bombattentat
Ett bombattentat har riktats mot programledaren för Italiens motsvarighet till Uppdrag granskning, ”Report”.

Emotionale Botschaft - Diane Keaton: Familie gab Todesursache bekannt #News #Nachrichten

Smiter nog nån minut tidigare och åker till gymmet. Nån kalori ska ut innan fler går in = terrorbalans

Punk from The Voyage Home in Star Trek Picard (Kirk Thatcher cameo "I hate you" song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6wDR6heQcU

Earlier today, a parent-involved crying incident occurred. A baby was on the scene, and responded immediately and vigorously throughout the incident. The implicated parents, who some reports claim caused an intolerable level of unmet demands, were swiftly and thoroughly notified of their unreasonable behavior.
#PassiveVoice

Just finished "Class Act" by Jerry Craft. An excellent follow-up to "New Kid", and it deepens the exploration of racism in "New Kid" in a lot of different directions. I think the aspect I liked most was the handling of class/race dynamics but also the different explorations of fitting back into neighborhood communities.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

#ScribesAndMakers  – 17 Oct.  If you play video games, what do you play them on?
Mostly PC, sometimes Switch. Often emulated stuff on PC, particularly SNES and other Nintendo stuff.
Indie games rock, and if you get a chance to buy an itch.io bundle with hundreds of games in it, usually it's an amazing deal even if you only play 3-4 of them.

Just finished "The Melancholy of Summer" by Louisa Onomé. It's an excellent book about parental abandonment, rejecting and accepting help, and friendship, set in Toronto. There were a few threads that didn't quite get wrapped up by the end, but the ending wasn't dissatisfying, and the writing is excellent, particularly TV gee dialogue and the narration of Summer's thoughts. I felt like the strategic use of stutters both gave the main character extra vulnerability, but also helped subtly clue the reader into moments where Summer's perception of her interlocutors doesn't match their real feelings. Between this and "Like Home", I feel like Onomé's novels are a bit rough around the edges, yet they're still some of the most enjoyable books I've been reading, probably because she's pours so much humanity into her characters and lets their honest desire for something better rub off on the audience.
#AmReading

Day 24: Yvonne Adhiambra Owuor
Owuor wrote "Dust", a novel that follows a scattered family's struggles with intergenerational trauma through a vivid tapestry of Kenyan history. Not only is it full of carefully rendered complex characters who both deal with their own issues and who are entangled in larger threads, but it also depicts a series of deeply personal reactions to and interactions with historical moments that give a gestalt sense of the painful history of Kenya both during and after the colonial era.
It's a gripping read despite not having a traditional suspense structure, where in the last third of the book every chapter seems to be tying up one more loose thread you had almost forgotten about, only to leave a little more still to discover, right up to the end. Owuor's skill at constructing such a detailed and complex plot and especially in navigating it to a satisfying conclusion is impressive, and her depictions of human foibles and struggles in the face of grief and not-wanting-to-know are relatable.
CW for domestic abuse, state murder, genocide, torture, etc.
#30AuthorsNoMen

Just finished "I'm Awful, Thanks" by Lara Pickle. A good story that serves as a guide to managing emotions, although it's actually a cute story too, not just framing for the mental health discussion.
That said, I feel like it doesn't get far enough into the details of accepting self-control as our only form of real control vs. understanding that some events outside our control aren't fair or are others' attacks, and trying to manage our own emotions as our only response is a disservice to ourselves and others. Even further, I suspect that the HR resolution depicted here, while not impossible, is less frequent than much worse outcomes, which is part of a larger pattern of systemic assaults on our mental health that aren't totally solvable with individual emotional regulation.
Sure, leveling up one's control of ones own emotions and learning to accept and manage a range of emotions is super useful and it's a good thing overall, but the systemic problems of late stage capitalism are real, and making it seem like everyone is responsible for managing their own mental health in the face of these problems helps avoid confronting them.
Still, it's a good book overall, with vibrant art and a well-structured plot.
#AmReading #ReadingNow