Leah Hung

YouTube video by CosmicPumpkin University Challenge S55E18 - Sheffield v Strathclyde

This week’s University Challenge had questions on William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social and Brandon Sanderson

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I’d have to pretend to be an augmented human, and that would be a strain. I’d have to change, make myself do things I didn’t want to do. Like talk to humans like I was one of them.

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

What have you enjoyed reading this year? (Am looking for book recs for extended family book group, this year I had them read Lock In which was a hit with them!)

It’s on PBS in the US.

10/10

how about no

The more I see people using "casted" instead of "cast" the more I realize that I am a grumpy old fart who only wants to see the language evolve in my preferred directions, nevertheless I will happily judge you for it if I catch you doing it, look, my dude, the accepted past tense is shorter okay

As a Dodgers fan, I literally feel like Sarah Connor at the end of the first Terminator. That’s how good the Blue Jays were.

Like we won but I’m so traumatized I’m going to lose custody of my son because I trained him to shoot weapons in Nicaragua and I’ll end up in a max cell at Pescadero

I spent a lot of time (valuable time I could have been viewing/reading my saved entertainment media) arbitrating arguments I didn’t give a shit about.

Exactly!

Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.

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This time line sucks

On a boat tour we go past a Container and I get excited to see a GESeaCo container 😂 My employer in the 90s 😂

Sharks from species once thought harmless kill and eat snorkeler in feeding frenzy Sharks from species once thought harmless kill and eat snorkeler in feeding frenzy

Sharks from species once thought harmless kill and eat snorkeler in feeding frenzy

This is one of the Preservation “free bots” you hear so much about. They have “guardians” (owners) who are responsible for them, but they get to pick their own jobs.

YouTube video by alanswatches Governor JB Pritzker at No Kings Rally Chicago October 18, 2025

If anyone wants to hear IL Governor JB Pritzker’s 10 minute speech at the protest in Chicago today, I recorded a video. Handheld, bit jerky-jerky at points but I managed to get it all. youtu.be/xNyTS9MdZm8?... #nokings

Hot damn! Shakespearean realness!

I’m currently reading Empireland, so I will order more of Sanghera’s work from Blackwells and maybe our family holiday card will just be all of us reading his books.

I saw the delightful video Sathnam Sanghera shared to promote his new kids book: Journeys of Empire. I shared a link to the book to my brother in the UK as his kids like history and it’s important to read diversely. I did not get the reaction I expected and was pretty thrown.

A story in the parts

A story in three parts

Going to need to know the sample size this was extrapolated from 😂