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@Richard True! This was the point of Mike Roweβs, Dirty Jobs. I have a lot of respect for those people willing to do those jobs that keep society running and that most people take for granted.
Discovery ChannelDirty Jobs with Mike RoweFoul & FabulousSeptic Tank TechnicianMike Rowe, host of Discovery Channel's series Dirty Jobs, learns how to clean ...
The room they are in is just off the Oval and is designed as a private office for the President. Trump - who at his best, is an obsequious hotel manager - likes to give WH tours and is seen here showing off how he converted the office into a merch shop.
The people here are so shallow, they voted for this. We're gonna die.
Here's A Look At The Official Box Art For Kirby Air Riders On Switch 2
Oof, noice.Nintendo has wrapped up its Direct presentation for Kirby Air Riders and has subsequently revealed the official box art for the title on Switch 2.Launching on 20th November 2025, the box art isn't really anything surprising; it's basically a variation of the main key art we've seen since the initial Switch 2 Direct back in April. Still, it ...
In this thought-provoking video, philosopher Stefan Molyneux dives deep into the history, psychology, and economics behind the Baby Boomer generation. From p...
"What censorship accomplishes, creating an unreal and hypocritical mythology, fomenting an attraction for forbidden fruit, inhibiting the creative minds among us and fostering an illicit trade. Above all, it curtails the right of the individual, be he creator or consumer, to satisfy his intellect and his interest without harm. In our law-rooted society, we are not the keeper of our brotherβs morals -- only of his rights."
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Iβm really intrigued by the "RAD FUTURE" snippetβit sounds like a bold and thought-provoking take! Iβm not very familiar with Isabelle Boemekeβs work, but this excerpt definitely piqued my curiosity. Do you think this book is worth diving into? Iβd love to hear your thoughts!
p.s.: Just a bit of #AltText would make it even better: The image shows an open book with a page titled "TL;DR" in large, bold letters. The text on the page: "TL;DR Degrowthers drive me nuts. In my experience, they almost always come from energy-rich societies and yet somehow romanticize poverty, like it's some kind of spiritual awakening. Contrary to what proponents of this philosophy may tell you, using lots of energy isn't inherently bad. In fact, energy abundance is the secret to human happiness and equality. We've already figured out how to grow economies without increasing emissions. All we need to do is sub out the dirty fuels of the past with clean ones. Ifs not rocket science, unless you count nuclear as rocket science, which, let's be real, it kind of is. " The text is divided into two columns and is set against a light gray background with a grid pattern. A thumb is visible at the bottom of the page, indicating that the book is being held open. The background is slightly blurred, with indistinct objects visible, suggesting a casual setting.
Oh, I didnβt even realize I was the second one! π Thatβs actually such a great little momentβit really shows how welcoming and inclusive the Fediverse can be. π Thank you for editing
Haha, I love this energy! π This is such a great (and frustrating!) example of how DRM can backfire π DRM is such a needless barrier, and your solutionβdownloading it again without the restrictionsβfeels like a tiny act of rebellion for the greater good. (And honestly, good for you!)
I bought Rad Future earlier this week and immediately remembered why I don't buy books in the usual stores: the reason why I didn't post an alt text earlier was because the f'cking DRM prevented me from doing so.
So, now I just downloaded the book again, without the DRM, just out of spite and because I really want to be able to quote snippets.
Degrowthers drive me nuts. In my experience, they almost always come from energy-rich societies and yet somehow romanticize poverty, like it's some kind of spiritual awakening. Contrary to what proponents of this philosophy may tell you, using lots of energy isn't inherently bad. In fact, energy abundance is the secret to human happiness and equality. We've already figured out how to grow economies without increasing emissions. [continued]
I think some degrowthers get capitalism's "burn the planet for some profit" model and the general "technological progress" thing conflated. There are nuanced positions but they tend to get drowned out. Clean energy abundance - 100% possible & a unnalloyed good. Using it to eliminate all forests so the whole world can eat beef? Not so much.
We have to have a large advanced manufacturing base to do anything except watch billions starve. We have to organise better.
I'm Joe in the UK, I've been in touch with Aseel from the Sehwel family for over a year now and have been following their difficult struggle to afford medication, shelter and food in Gaza.
Β Β Β Β Β Β What if the βgrassrootsβ political movements reshaping American cities arenβt grassroots at all, but rather illegal tax-exempt charity funded operations disguised as community activism?
Today is Tuesday, and every week on this day I try to raise donations to feed my family for a whole week. I swear to you that I am unable to do so today, after a night I couldnβt sleep because of the bombing, filled with anxiety and fear. #gaza @palestine
Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct: Everything Announced
The Kirby Air Riders Nintendo Direct has come to an end after 45 minutes of fresh gameplay details and release date information from director Masahiro Sakurai himself.
"The justification and the purpose of freedom of speech is not to indulge those who want to speak their minds. It is to prevent error and discover truth. There may be other ways of detecting error and discovering truth than that of free discussion, but so far we have not found them."
-- Henry Steele Commager (1902-1998) Historian and author Source: Freedom and Order, 1966
British MPs have warned that the government must not allow British nationals to fight in the Israeli military after it emerged that IsraelΒ is mulling the recruitment of Jewish youths from abroad to fight in its army due to severe manpower shortages.
Keir Starmerβs Labour government has had a dismal first year in power. In an interview, socialist leader Jeremy Corbyn explains why itβs time to create a new left-wing party that empowers working-class people.
Tales of Xillia Remastered Launches October 31; Sadly, Xillia 2 is Not Included
Bandai Namco has announced that the next entry in the Tales of 30th Anniversary Remastered Project is Tales of Xillia Remastered for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC via Steam on October 31, 2025. Players can anticipate quality of life enhancements, namely toggling enemy ecnoutners on and off. Plus, original DLC will [...]
Charlie Jane Anders' *Lessons in Magic and Disaster* drops today: it's a novel about queer academia, the wonder of thinking very hard about very old books, and the terror and joy of ambiguous magic. It's my kind of novel!
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In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic. A young witch teaches he...
Stefano Cerio has shot eerie abandoned cruise ships and empty ski resorts at night. Now, the Italian photographer has travelled all over China β from Happy Valley to Amazing World and Treasure Island Pirate Kingdom β to catch pleasure playgrounds in β¦
My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
Enshittification: itβs not just youβthe internet sucks now. Hereβs why, and hereβs how we can disenshittify it.Weβre living through the Enshittocen...
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
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The release date for Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive Kirby Air Riders has been announced by Nintendo following a special Direct presentation. The post Kirby Air Riders Release Date Announced appeared first on Insider Gaming.
Charlie Jane Anders' *Lessons in Magic and Disaster* drops today: it's a novel about queer academia, the wonder of thinking very hard about very old books, and the terror and joy of ambiguous magic. It's my kind of novel!
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic. A young witch teaches he...
There's a kind of magic I *love* to read about - the kind where it's not entirely clear whether the person purporting to do magic is acting entirely on instinct, and neither they nor we can be entirely sure whether anything magical has actually happened. This ambiguity just *tickles* something in me, the part of my brain that tries to bear down on traffic lights to make them turn green, or on board-game dice to get a good roll.
It's the mode of Iain Banks's *The Wasp Factory* and Kelly Link's *Book of Love.* It's a mode that Anders does superbly, and has done since her 2016 debut novel, *All the Birds in the Sky*:
That's the kind of magic at the heart of *Magic and Disaster*, which tells the story of Jamie, a doctoral candidate at a New England liberal arts college who is trying to hold it all together while she finishes her dissertation.
For Jamie, holding it together is a tall order. Her relationship is on the rocks, her advisor is breathing down her neck, a smartass alt-right kid in her class keeps trolling her lectures, and to top it all off, her mother Sarina has withdrawn from society and is self-evidently preparing to lie down and die, out of grief and penance for the death of her wife, who died of cancer that everyone - her doctors and Sarina - downplayed until it was too late.
That would be an impossible lift, except for Jamie's gift for maybe-magic - magic that might or might not be real. Certain places ("liminal spaces") call to Jamie. These are abandoned, dirty, despoiled places, ruins and dumps and littered campsites. When Jamie finds one of these places, she can improvise a ritual, using the things in her pockets and school bag as talismans that might - or might not - conjure small bumps of luck and fortune into Jamie's path.
Jamie's never told anyone about the magic, but when she and Sarina have an especially bitter confrontation, it slips out. In desperation, Jamie gives her mother - a campaigning lawyer who has withdrawn from life and become a hermit - a demonstration of magic. Her mother approaches the demonstration with a lawyer's don't-bullshit-me skepticism, but something in her responds to the magic.
When Jamie leaves her, Sarina tries to bring back her dead wife, a forbidden conjuring that has disastrous consequences.
Jamie had hoped to give her mother something to live for, but catastrophic magical experimentation wasn't what she had in mind. Soon, Jamie is dragged into Sarina's life, to the detriment of her relationship with Ro, a fellow academic who is rightfully suspicious of Sarina and the effect she has on Jamie.
When Ro finds out about the magic, the relationship breaks, and now Jamie has to face her problems alone.
Those problems keep mounting. Jamie is working on a dissertation about a 300 year old "ladies' novel" that promises to reveal some profound truth about the life of its author and her challenge to the role that she finds herself confined to as a woman, but it's slow going.
Jamie's advisor is at pains to remind her that there are dramatic changes in the offing to the university, and that Jamie had best get that thesis in *soon*. Meanwhile, the Men's Rights Activist bro in Jamie's class keeps upping the ante, mixing disruptive "just asking questions" behavior with thinly veiled transphobic digs (Jamie is trans, a fact that is woven around her relationship to her mother and to magic).
Anders tosses a *lot* of differently shaped objects into the air, and then *juggles* them, interspersing the main action with excerpts from imaginary 18th century novels (which themselves contain imaginary parables) that serve as both a prestige and a framing device. There's a lot of queer joy in here, a hell of a lot of media theory, and some very chewy ruminations on the far-right mediasphere.
There's romance, heartbreak, danger and sacrifice, and most of all,there's that ambiguous magic, which gets realer and scarier as the action goes on.
This is a wonderful magic trick of a novel from a versatile author whose work includes YA space opera, hard sf adventure stories, and a wealth of brilliant short stories. It's a remarkably easy novel to read, given how much very difficult stuff Anders is doing in the writing, and it lingers long after you finish the last page.
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, head of the Technological Defense Division at Israelβs National Cyber Directorate, was arrested in Las Vegas on suspicion of attempting to lure minors for sexual purposes, according to the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Dβ¦
NATO chief says that Russia produces as much ammo in 3 months as all of NATO does in a year.
Euronews fact checked the statement and found that ammunition production may have been approximately four times more than that of the NATO Alliance in 2024.
On paper, NATOβs economy is 25 times bigger than Russiaβs, once again illustrating that GDP measure doesn't tell you much of anything about the real economy.
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has repeatedly said that Moscowβs annual ammunition production capacity is four times greater than that of the western alliance.
oh! Nevermind I lied. I couldn't make the connection because those niggas changed the art style like every other episode so I can't identify the characters on appearance alone.
season 2 and 3 had a relatively similar style, I liked the style changes between seasons because they kind of reflected the audience.
The very simplified style of the first one fit with how everyone thought him being a cynical socially awkward weirdo was actually very cool, then the style got more detailed in the latter seasons when they all start to grow up and move past cringe teenager things (though unfortunately plenty of the audience still thinks the show's message is that being unnecessarily cynical is very cool and healthy).
Richard
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in reply to Richard • • •@Richard True! This was the point of Mike Roweβs, Dirty Jobs. I have a lot of respect for those people willing to do those jobs that keep society running and that most people take for granted.
I will never look down on these fine Americans.
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in reply to Obi-Two al-Menashani • • •@zephyrotv @Richard
What does it pay?
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Dirty Jobs : Foul & Fabulous : Septic Tank Technician (Discovery Channel)
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in reply to Obi-Two al-Menashani • • •They definitely get me out of many sh**ty situations.