Count Melancholia

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A message from your ZX Spectrum.

Glory to Ukraine

I told the panel organisers it was my policy to charge a speaker fee for last minute invitations onto manels (£100 per man on the panel seemed suitably exorbitant) and they agreed to pay!

Money's going to @pairs.site Win win win.

It's definitely my policy now!

Everything okay with you?

Canada, Denmark deepen defence ties after Greenland annexation threat | CBC News Canada and Denmark have signed a new defence co-operation agreement aimed at strengthening Arctic security amid lingering tensions over U.S. annexation threats toward Greenland. The pact enhances coll...

#Canada, #Denmark deepen defence ties after Greenland annexation threat

Pact enhances collaboration on surveillance and joint operations

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

As the post that brought this to my timeline said, this is a really good thread. I also encourage trans people to *not* look. It’s for cis people who haven’t lived through what you have.

You are sacred

There is something special about friendships made at that age. They endure in a way other friendships don't.

😂 Poor thing!

I’m just going to leave this here

New drone footage from @floodlightnews.org - the fossil methane power plant Musk built specifically to create abusive and racist material on his social media website is still wildly breaching EPA regulations even after a ruling against using them -->>>

floodlightnews.org/thermal-dron...

Found out a friend’s daughter has her mom saved in her phone as “Spawnpoint”. Kids today are awesome.

Screen shot from Murderbot on Apple+

Cover for novel Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz

Cover of Bee Speaker by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Cover of Krypto, The Last Dog of Krypton

With #HugoAward nominating starting this week, I thought I'd talk about some of the works, critics, and artists that we thought are worthy of recognition.

My friends, what an exceptional year for SFF it was.

1/X

List on blog: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/03/open...

Chance McCoy
'Which Side Are You On' was known in Greenwich Village, but not in a single miner's union local." - Pete Seeger "Which Side Are You On?" is a song written in 1931 by Florence Reece, the wife of Sam Reece, a union organizer for the United Mine Workers in Harlan County, Kentucky.

@amendlocke.bsky.social Very on point.

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

glendale strawberries, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916

glendale strawberries, painted by royal charles steadman, 1916

MAGA Senator Took Donation From Epstein Friend Before Key Vote Ohio Senator Jon Husted received $3,500 from Les Wexner.

Husted and Moreno both took donations from Wexner before voting to block Epstein files release
#CorruptGOP
Conflict of Interest
newrepublic.com/post/206564/...

She's wonderfully cool while doing it, as if she is just doing a bit of gardening or washing the dishes. 💪🏼 😎

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the wine moms began to hate.

One of the purest examples of a moral panic in our time. A clinic that had years-long waitlists and required an average of 7 appointments before providing transition care smeared and shut down for being reckless.

The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

Ligesom Kendziors oprindelige artikel er denne analyse af Thomas Drake fremragende.

“What is really at stake is an event horizon-level question of whether human civilization will be governed by conscience or by pathology.”

Suffering Should Never Be Weaponized | The Tyee ‘Scapegoating vulnerable groups does not make communities safer,’ says a municipal councillor in the wake of the Tumbler Ridge tragedy.

“If we truly care about community safety, mental health and human dignity, our response must reflect those values. That means refusing to let fear or ideology cause further harm.”

Op-ed by Ken Matheson on @thetyee.ca : thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

‘A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows Musk’s AI power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters

“…thermal images captured by Floodlight – and analyzed by multiple experts – show more than a dozen unpermitted turbines still spewing pollutants at the plant nearly two weeks after the EPA’s recent ruling.”

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

Nadhim Zahawi covered up and lied about £3m in unpaid tax for 6 years.

If he's looking for criminals he only needs a mirror.

From FB

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Nigel Farage in answering Nick Robinson's question about why he believes Britain is broken gave an analysis of falling net migration that is demonstrably factually inaccurate. "It is so broken and its declining so quickly that anybody with a dispassionate view can see it. It is quite interesting. Just look at the net migration numbers. 'Oh isn't it good net migration is coming down?' But do you know why? It is because there is an exodus. There is now an exodus.Those who are of a situation and a financial position to have a choice are now fleeing the country in numbers". This is factually incorrect. Net migration fell year on year by 465,00 in the most recent Official of National Statisitcs figures: the year to June 2025. This was not because of an "exodus" (an increase in emigration). It is because immigration fell by 401,000 (to 898,000 from 1.299 million the previous year). That accounts for 90% of the big drop in net migration. The increase in emigration by 41,000 was a minor component. Most of the increase in emigration was of non-EU nationals. British citizens made up a third of emigrants, but there was no significant increasse in British emigration, which was at very similar levels in 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025: it is not a significant cause of the drop in net migration. Nick Robinson did tell Mr Farage that he was exaggerating the number of people who don't speak English - and BBC Verify did produce an analysis showing that was a five-fold exaggeration. But this central incorrect claim about immigration and net migration was not caught in the programme, or before broadcast. It should at least be scrutinised and corrected afterwards - so that an accurate account of why net migration fell (primarily a reduction in immigration visas to the UK) can be communicated to the audience.

I have asked the BBC to scrutinise + correct the factually inaccurate claims made by Mr Nigel Farage about why net migration fell in 'Political Thinking with Nick Robinson'

Here is the link if you want to do something like this.
www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...