Georgina Voss

Any suggestions of good STS scholarship (journal articles, book chapters, other) on disability and technology? never been quite satisfied with ones I've used before in teaching...

As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.

The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.

(please show me the Halloween costume from the hero who decides to dress as the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist? ty)

www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/we-eat-the... FYI the very excellent artist and writer Crystal Bennes is taking pre-orders for her next artist's book, which is a documentary project on global industrial fertilizer supply chains, if you follow me on here you're probably into this sort of thing

The appropriate reparations for centuries of extractive colonialism is freely providing the resources — technology, tools, money — to build out local renewable energy infrastructure globally, so that every human community has access to energy ample to meet all their needs so they can thrive.

Mad Max: Fury Road (2025)

Checking my 'great ideas' notes from the pub last night and the one new item is "Dr Butter's Boardroom Bones" - a velvet bag of scrying bones, for you to throw on the table and consult yourself every time a colleague says they "asked chatGPT and..."

It is very annoying to have to keep pushing back against thie targeted and weaponised hatred trans folx but on we go. Please do respond to this consultation if you can x

"We have merch"

ROSENCRANTZ: Let's play questions.
CHOTINER: How do you play?
ROS: How do you think?
CHOTINER: I don't know that's why I'm asking.
ROS: Statement, 0-1 me.
CHOTINER: What?
ROS: What don't you understand?
CHOTINER: I'm trying to conduct an interview and you -
ROS: Statement, 0-2 me.
CHOTINER: OK wait-

Gritter tracker | Traffic Scotland Traffic Scotland gives you the real-time information you need about Scotland’s trunk road network

Gritters in Scotland keeping it* real: www.traffic.gov.scot/gritter-trac...

*how to name machines

ME (crawling under the bed to pet the cat who is trying to nap there): I LOVE you.

CAT: [grunts]

ME: You are the PEFECT little man!!!!

CAT: [horrifying gurgling digesting noises]

The actor Terence Stamp - a handsome man in his late 50s with grey hair - wearing a suit, sitting in a carriage whilst holding a small skull

(also Terence Stamp as the [uncredited] Devil!)

Better to reign in Hell, than collectively serve in Heaven.

(if you would like a film with a lot of pups in it, a gentle nudge towards 'The Company of Wolves' - lots of v charismatic Belgian Shepherds with dye jobs running around, together with a few of the big guys)

be the citation that you want to see in the world

NEW book review! James Dyer reviews Systems Ultra: Making Sense of Technology in
a Complex World, published by Verso.
Read now at academic.oup.com/jdh/advance-...

also astonishing love for Samuel Blenkin's work as Boy Kavalier! Never-ending delight for performers who put their whole body to work (also the pyjamas obv, really happy to see the move away from gilets into craft).

Graphic by Finnegan Shannon with a white background and black text. Below is a QR code and hashtag #DisabledRage. Text reads, RAGE WITH US

There is a lot for disabled people to be enraged about. I partnered with artist Finnegan Shannon on #DisabledRage public art. All graphics are downloadable & feel free to share and wheatpaste all over your community

disabilityvisibilityproject.com/disabled-rage/

Steph, it is time for you to become a father of both a goblin child *and* a tiny revolutionary library.

This piece reminds me so much of Ruth Reichl's review or La Cirque for the NYT, as both 'Dinner as the Unknown Diner' and 'Dinner as a Most Favoured Patron' www.nytimes.com/1993/10/29/a...

A notional design studio. — ethanmarcotte.com A design language, if you can keep it.

'[America By Design] proposes that one man alone can define “design” for the country...digital design intended for the privileged few, actively excluding people who don’t conform to a specific, discriminatory definition of “eligible.”' +++, from @ethanmarcotte.com ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...

woman in a dimly lit industrial tunnel setting wears an orange NEORSD hard hat and safety goggles. she stands behind a microphone stand, adjusting her goggles with her left hand as she reads from a booklet in her right hand.

a crowd of writers in orange hard hats seated in an industrial tunnel under LED lights, two people stand in front of the group speaking behind a mic stand.

what other utilities do you know that would host a zine reading in the bowels of a treatment plant

A Venn diagram with this, and testing whether she's a witch by whether she floats

Very much enjoying the Timothy Olyphant -> Malcolm McDowell pipeline, since you ask.

[extremely on-mushrooms voice] hear me out. what if we destroy capitalism by feminizing having money

12% under nemesis NDA

Together: small vine tomatoes, nectarine, green olives (Perello gordal picante), red pepper, a little finely chopped red onion, burrata, balsamic vinegar + good olive oil + salt + pepper. (You may also accompany with bbq'd chicken thigh with crispy skin).

A member of the Bene Gesserit order.

Thinking a lot about Winnie Soon's Unerasable Character Series, on the horrors of erasure and the scale of unheard voices within the contexts of digital authoritarianism and the 'blank paper' protests in China
(calls.ars.electronica.art/2023/prix/wi... / transmediale.de/en/event/the...)