Claire

Graphic summary of reading in October with science fiction top category

October reading

Comic. [two people in labcoats look at body pierced with blade draped over bench] PERSON 1: We found him lying uncomformably on the lab bench. I wonder if the iron-rich intrusion in his back is related. PERSON 2 with ponytail: It could be clastic. Maybe a rift opened in his body, and the intrusive material later fell into the hole. [caption] The Geology Department Investigates Their First Murder

Geology Murder

xkcd.com/3112/

God Mel Brooks

"You say yes, and you never do it."

Time to start my democracy sausage research ahead of voting on Saturday democracysausage.org/federal_elec...

The Man Box 2024 - Jesuit Social Services A comprehensive study that focuses on the attitudes to manhood and the behaviours of Australian men aged 18 to 45.

And there's research on this specifically framing it as a box jss.org.au/programs/res...

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Rock Identification xkcd.com/3068

Recommendations for a HomeKit one? I've been thinking of getting one

GNU Terry Pratchett. No-one is dead while their name is still spoken.

Nazi oligarchs have seized treasury control of an authoritarian White House and everyone seems kinda chill about it - The Shot Capitalism and democracy, despite what you’ve been led to believe, are not the same thing. Capitalism eats democracy if unsupervised.

Here's me.

'Nazi oligarchs have seized treasury control of an authoritarian White House and everyone seems kinda chill about it'

🤔

I hadn't realized leaded gasoline hit Gen-X so specifically. I always assumed it was the paint I stripped around the house, as a kid.

Fun fact the guy who invented leaded gasoline also invented ozone depleting CFCs. Thanks for damaging my entire generation Thomas Midgley Jr.

Gosh I haven't thought of this film in years, but now I must watch it!

Yes please!

Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people New book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species In 1769, nearly nine months after setting sail with Capt James Cook on his first voyage to the Pacific, Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander…

Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

1/ Here's my take on what's happening with DOGE.

I've got fed experience through contracting with Health & Human Safety, Head Start, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and DOD. I get brought in when people need to get shit done. Other people here have way more experience than me.

January reading

Temperature readings from Melbourne Olympic Park showing dramatic drop from high of 39.3C to 27.5C as change comes in

Storm is here

What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv

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Trump is back! How do we prepare for life under a brutal regime of AI climate crypto madness?! | First Dog on the Moon

I think that email has become too associated with work for me, it's hard to go back to finding it a pleasure

- Australia
- Belgium
- China
- Egypt
- Iceland
- Kenya
- Malaysia
- Mexico
- The Netherlands
- The Philippines
Any suggestions? Or would you like to join me in the challenge?

I'm taking on @thestorygraph.com Reads the World challenge this year, so on the hunt for recommendations fiction or non-fiction books set in and by an author from the following countries:

Some basic math about cutting government Putting the wild Muskawamy numbers in perspective

Muskawamy are claiming they will cut $2 trillion in government spending, and 75% of federal employees. Are such numbers feasible?
No, unless they absolutely gut state capacity and the safety net. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/some-basic...

Yes, I'm hundreds of kilometres away. It's a sign that the fire season is here. I'm hoping those affected are prepared and safe.

Bushfires still bearing down on western towns as cool change nears Towns in Victoria’s south-west face a nervous wait overnight as some bushfires continue to burn out of control, even as a coming cool change is expected to bring wild winds and heavy rainfall.

Woke up to the smell of smoke from bushfires brought on the wind www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

The internet is for cat photos, right?