Dr Nerdware

I've read all the books and most (maybe all) the short stories. I'm very tempted to reread them all, but I still have a few (a lot) of other books I should read first.

Got tired of waiting for the next episode of Murderbot and am now reading:
All Systems Red the Murderbot Diaries Book One by Martha Wells

#murderbot #tvsky #booksky
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That's one of my favs too.

Yes, I think so.

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

*Since Microsoft is about to brick your Windows 10 computer, maybe you should try something else instead of throwing it out the window

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Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch (1/3) Auction item 'Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch (1/3)' hosted online at 32auctions.

I’m offering up 3 signed copies of Tiffany Aching’s Guide to Being a Witch (co-written with @gabriellekent.bsky.social) in an auction raising money for trans rights in the UK and SA. You can bid for them here.
www.32auctions.com/organization...

Beyond XX & XY—Human Sex And Gender Were Never A Simple Binary Humans are more complicated than most online experts think.

Without fail, whenever there's an article about a transgender person, the comments have at least one person who boldly declares: “There are only two genders! XX and XY!” The reality, of course, is not that simplistic, far from it.

Someone holding a sign saying: Respect existence or expect resistance.

Parents holding up a sign saying: "this mum says trans rights are human rights" and "our beautiful daughter is trans."

Someone holding a sign saying "you can't legislate us out of existence."

Someone holding a sign saying "i love my trans self. I love my trans friends."

Today, thousands gathered across the country - from Hastings to London to Glasgow - to say: we will always stand with trans people.

Trans rights are human rights. 🏳️‍⚧️

Next!

Londoners: there's a protest against the Supreme Court's ruling on Saturday 19th April, 1pm in Parliament Square

Of course, this option is in the app for the headphones. Not the device the headphones are connected to. So YMMV.

Yes, this is standard in the pro audio world. I'm even seeing 'lossless' when I play music on my phone.

I've only been using BT headphones for a few a short time, so I only recently discovered that I can choose between audio quality and smooth playing. Selecting the latter solved an annoying problem when playing music with long sustained notes. No more millisecond drop outs or pops! Still sounds good.

So many meetings to attend and forms to fill, amoung other horrors.

While the fallout is pretty horrific I am tickled by journalists scraping stories from the Bugle of all places, the global centre for bullshit. Looking forward to some scathing Florence Nightingale and smurfs hit pieces in the near future.

Alice rocks, buy the book

A classic. I first saw it in a cinema in the 70s. I mean, it was a family event. We all enjoyed it. We even bought the soundtrack album. I'll forever be haunted by the ending.

Realms Unknown Subgenre deep dive this week is sci fi and fantasy stories with memory modification, identity rewrites, multiple selves.

Recommend to us or get the Schroedinger’s cat that lives in the box in your brain to control your hands as you type its suggestions. Books, games, movies, other!

'Mindplayers' and 'Fools', by Pat Cadigan.

Members of British punk rock band UK Subs denied entry into the US Three members of the pioneering band were detained and returned to the UK after flying to Los Angeles for a gig

*Whatever happens to musicians will happen to everybody

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

St Augustine, early Australia-denier:

Say it with me: FAIR USE WAS ESTABLISHED AS A METHOD TO ALLOW AND SUPPORT EXCHANGE OF IDEAS BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS.

It's not about "data processing" but it comes from ideas like human dignity.

Parents: Kids are more depressed these days. I wonder why. Kids: You destroyed the economy for us, the earth is literally dying, we are going to work until we die, and on top of that the Nazis are back. Parents: It’s those pesky iPhones.

Good morning(ish)

Werner Herzog holding a sign that says Fuck This Shit

Good morning

Dystopia is Realism: The Future Is Here if You Look Closely Ten years ago the Pulitzer Prize for fiction went to a post-apocalyptic cannibal novel. This year’s breakout binge-watcher’s treat is the TV adaptation of a Reagan-era book about a near future in w…

I wrote about @jwomack.bsky.social's Random Acts of Senseless Violence and other dystopian novels I read as being drawn from the material of the observed world in this piece @literaryhub.bsky.social: lithub.com/dystopia-is-...

Oscar noms, Heretic, and Nosferatu Podcast Episode · Raised By Horror · 02/02/2025 · 1h 41m

Nice hearing @richardkadrey.bsky.social shout out THE CONTORTIONIST’S HANDBOOK by @craigclevenger.bsky.social in the end of this episode!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

*Well, you see, the pioneers of the electronic frontier get arrows in their backs

A clam with a spring attached to the shell. The spring has a magnet placed above a sensor.

Hardly new info, but BSky should know:

Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply.
Thank you, little guardian molluscs.

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