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Bah. Demanding people read half-century-old work as a purity test for genre membership is a fine way to kill the genre dead.

I wrote about such nonsense here;

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Army Secretary Orders West Point to Pull Appointment of Former Biden Official The military academy’s appointment of Jen Easterly, who had been director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency, was canceled after complaints from the far-right agitator Laura Loomer.

Jen Easterly was a non-partisan military vet securing some of the nations' most critical infrastructure and enabling critical cybersecurity programs. It's not a shock she's facing this after the same disgusting treatment of Chris Krebs, but it's absurd and unacceptable.

You know people say DS9 is less optimistic than other series, but it leaves us with:

A free Cardassia set to rebuild democratically.
An end to corrupt leadership on Kronos.
Social revolution on Ferenginar.
A holy time of stability for Bajor.
Hope for peaceful reformation of the Dominion/Gamma Quad.

On-Demand Session Library - Cisco Live On-Demand Search for on-demand sessions from recent global Cisco Live events by selecting filters and searching on keywords.

I didn't get to catch it live, but I highly recommend checking out this on-demand Cisco Live session presented by @tracketpacer.bsky.social and Eric Peterson. They share their knowledge about applying networking to the aerospace industry and provide overall great advice. See the session link below.

one of the stranger phenomena in American life is that hate is supposed to flow in one direction (rural people get to hate urban people, Republicans get to hate Democrats) and if the hate goes the other way people pretend as if this is very upsetting.

Despite nearly all Democrats backing the resolution, they still didn’t have the vote. The tally came in 53–47. One Republican, Rand Paul of Kentucky, voted with the Democrats; and one Democrat, John Fetterman of Pennsylvania, voted against the resolution.

John Fetterman is the only Democrat in the Senate who voted against defending the separation of powers. He is a liar and a fraud who continues to betray everyone who worked to elect him, and all of his voters. He is a disgrace to the entire state of Pennsylvania.

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People in wheelchairs are getting arrested right now in the Russell Senate Office Building in DC. They showed up to tell Congress not to cut their Medicaid, because they cant afford health care without it. If you look closely you can see the zip ties on their hands. #WeWontGetOverLosingMedicaid

Last word from me tonight: don’t let anyone portray Greg Abbott as a hero on behalf of THC. He’s not. He’s a useful idiot who got harangued by hemp lobbyists and is politically smarter than Dan Patrick, who made the ban his whole dumb thing this year. #txlege

Extremely tangled diagram depicting relationships between LLCs, major companies, the Trump family, Bill Zanker and various other individuals, and various crypto projects including the $TRUMP memecoin, NFTs, World Liberty Financial, etc.

Just updated my diagram of Trump’s crypto entanglements based on his most recent financial disclosures 😵‍💫

HAPPY BIRTHDAY APOD!

This was a brilliant idea early on in the days of the internet: a daily cool astronomy/space pic with a brief description and links. It brought science to millions of people.

I’m honestly going to lose my goddamn mind if I hear one more politician call for the protesters to be peaceful. THEY ARE. THEY ARE NOT THE ONES BEING VIOLENT. This goes for Schiff, Padilla, and just now Bass. Pay-a-fucking-tention.

From @leepetty.bsky.social‬ and Double Fine Productions, our new game is Keeper - a beautiful and surreal third-person, atmospheric puzzle adventure, and a story told without words.

On October 17 2025 — The Keeper Shall Awaken! Wishlist today, and find out more on www.doublefine.com

The Wireshark Foundation proudly announces the official Wireshark Certified Analyst (WCA) certification! The WCA is designed so you stand out as a technical engineering powerhouse in the crowded field of IT Professionals.

Learn more: www.wireshark.org/blog/2025-06...

#Wireshark #WCA

Trump threatens to eviscerate NASA The Presidential budget proposal is a death sentence for the space agency

I am furiously, flamingly, incandescently, *supernova-levels* of angry right now.

Trump is trying to kill NASA science. And hoo boy, do I have something to say about it.

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Myst: Masterpiece Edition, Riven (1997) and Myst III: Exile get upgraded and now Steam Deck Verified Cyan Worlds went back to their classics Myst: Masterpiece Edition, Riven (1997) and Myst III: Exile to get them upgraded and also Steam Deck Verified at the same time.

Myst: Masterpiece Edition, Riven (1997) and Myst III: Exile get upgraded and now Steam Deck Verified
#Riven #Myst #Gaming #RetroGaming #SteamDeck

Beyond All Reason, a free and open source RTS gets a big visual overhaul Beyond All Reason is an incredibly impressive free and open source RTS, with The Lightbringer update out now that's a huge advancement for the visuals. If you love massive battles you need to play this one.

Beyond All Reason, a free and open source RTS gets a big visual overhaul
#BeyondAllReason #RTS #FreeGame #OpenSource

“Psychonaut Family Portrait” - timed edition print NOW AVAILABLE in The Scott C Shop.

Let us celebrate the 20th anniversary Psychonauts from @DoubleFine with a whole slew of NEW PRODUCTS, small VAULT RELEASE of the 2021 Great Showdown's release “Raz and The Brain”, and GIVEAWAYS!

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I think the following groups should probably not enable Microsoft Recall

Congratulations to all of this year's Hugo finalists! Let's set off some celebratory klaxons, wait, no, NOT THOSE--

The crew of the USS Enterprise stand before their ship on the surface of an alien planet.

New blog: My new #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds novel Toward The Night warps in at the end of April!
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Order your copy here: mybook.to/stsnwttn 🖖

Greg Abbott claims his private school voucher scam will help working families.

But when I questioned the bill author, he admitted that it would give $1.2 million in taxpayer funds to Elon Musk.

Vouchers are welfare for the wealthy.

Lesley, What Happened to the “Cybersecurity Skills Shortage”? Are you stressed out right now? I’m stressed out. Most Americans are, and cybersecurity job seekers are definitely not an exception. I do a ton of career mentoring and career clinics, and I s…

Hello friends. The dreaded and long awaiting blog on WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO THE CYBERSECURITY JOBS MARKET has arrived.

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I'm sorry.

Quite the rebuke.

Federal court: "Secretary [Noam]’s actions appear predicated on negative stereotypes casting class-wide aspersions."

Orders postponement of DHS decision to terminate the status of over 600,000 Venezuelan nationals who have legal status to reside and work temporarily in US.

This weekend! Join me & @robertpicardo.bsky.social for a chat to benefit the Hollywood Food Coalition. Please donate if you are able, especially in light of the devastating fires.

Many thanks to John Billingsley, @trekgeeks.com, @syfysistas.bsky.social & @trektivism.bsky.social for putting...

We are less than 3000 copies away from Dwarf Fortress hitting 1 million sales. Surely all the exposure from being on 90 Day Fiance will help, but it's also on sale for a few more hours so gogogogo!

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Image of Chief O'Brien from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Specifically, the episode "Bar Association." Quote: "He was more than a hero, he was a union man."

One of our favorites: the DS9 episode, "Bar Association," from back 1996 is filled with great bits, but this line from Chief O'Brien is easily a highlight.

OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support OpenWrt is an open source, Linux-based operating system designed for routers and other wireless devices. It's been around for more than two decades and for most of that time it's been offered primarily as an operating system that you could install as a replacement for the firmware that ships with existing devices. But last year the OpenWrt team partnered with Banana Pi to…

OpenWrt Two will be a higher-performance router with 10 Gigabit LAN and WiFi 7 support #Filogic880, #Gl.inet, #OpenSource, #Openwrt, #OpenwrtOne, #OpenwrtTwo, #Router

Describe your account in one Star Trek image.

Intro to digital painting - Ghibli-style landscapes In this 36 page PDF you'll be guided through the process of painting digitally. This tutorial takes you from opening photoshop for the first time to creating a finished illustration. Tools and techniq...

If anyone wants to actually learn how to paint a ghibli picture, I have a tutorial for beginners that’s only £1 🩵

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