I'm a couple of chapters in and this is great - big rec if you're into Russian military history
Jesper Haglund
@jesperhaglund.bsky.social
Mostly here to talk about SFF stories and how to bring down capitalism. Sadly doubt they can be combined. Sports talk may also occur.
Ikea, H&M, Lidl, Jysk – butikskedjorna där anställda inte kan leva på sin lön arbetet.se/2026/08/18/i...
Ikea, H&M, Lidl, Jysk – här kan anställda inte leva på sin lön
Stora butikskedjor har satt deltider i system: ”Vansinnigt.”
arbetet.se
In today's sports news, this guy has transferred from Southampton to Northampton - www.bbc.com/sport/footba... (Non-UK people this will not be funny for you, don't worry about it)
Joe O'Brien-Whitmarsh: Southampton midfielder joins Northampton Town
Northampton Town sign Southampton midfielder Joe O'Brien-Whitmarsh on a three-year deal for an undisclosed fee.
bbc.com
I dag är det 31 år sedan en 14-åring mördades av nynazister i Sverige för att han vägrade säga att han älskade nazister. Glöm aldrig John Hron
Recently replaced the office chair with a lounge chair when I'm doing the kind of writing that needs thinking and creativity, and I'm so upset I didn't do it before. Word count has tripled.
I have some thoughts about the new Spider-man that I will try to draw a comic about but for now here is this prescient comic from *2016*
Mba'éichapa! 🇵🇾 We need someone who speaks Guarani to help us write a sketch in the next episode of Map Men. If that’s you please get in touch!
We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
404media.co
Ny bok avslöjar Kristdemokraternas kopplingar till nazismen. 1951 förklarar Lewi Pethrus att gaskamrarna slukade miljoner eftersom judarna inte hade ”lyssnat till Guds röst”. När partiet grundas 1964 kommer fyra av åtta i styrelsen från nationalsocialismen www.expressen.se/kultur/bocke...
HYNEK PALLAS: Ebba Busch – nu är bevisbördan uppfylld
Den nya boken ”Sista brevet till Hitler” beskriver Kristdemokraternas grundare Lewi Pethrus kopplingar till naziströrelserna. Hynek Pallas imponeras av materialet Markus Lundström och Tomas Poletti Lu...
expressen.se
SFF worldbuilding advice--quick and dirty way to make your fictional religion seem real is to give it contradictions, and if there's a text involved, put in a few jumps of logic between scripture and actual belief and practice. It's like adding perspective to a drawing, BOOM 3D.
EEric J. Harvey, Ph.D.@blindscholar.bsky.social · yesterday
I would go further and say that, in every case, it is impossible to predict the nature of any community’s religious beliefs and practices from the content of their sacred texts. 
Listened to the first Alphabeat album yesterday and had a great aul time
Alphabeat - 10.000 Nights (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by alphabeatuk
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Name one thing you'd like to see more of in SFF stories. Daily practices. Like the Belter shower in The Expanse. The Radchaai gloves in Ancillary Justice. The cards in The Mask of Mirrors.
There needs to be a dedicated Mutter tab where you grumble about something. Nobody can quote-post and replies are limited to that gif of Robert Redford nodding.
The number of writers I have seen backtrack on their own truth due to Internet pile-ons drives me up the fucking wall. Note it's never the mediocre white guys who run off and stop writing. It's ALWAYS the marginalized people. RF Kuang's book Yellowface had me ROLLING with the absurdity of it all.
HELLO it is finally "SIX the Musical's proshot is out in cinemas in the US!" Day!!! (You don't understand how long I've been waiting for this.) Therefore, I'm gonna post more K Howard! Pics by @inthelongrun.bsky.social, Parr is @lazcosplays.bsky.social, and Aragon is @atomic_lannie423 on Insta
Sharing cuz it’s Friday and we all need some salve vs the apocalyptic levels of ignorance, idiocy, & idolatry don’t we? youtu.be/mGgMZpGYiy8?...
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
YouTube video by TheCureVEVO
youtu.be
René Goscinny would have been 100 today. Here’s my version of his most famous creations - Asterix and Obelix.
Gen Z kids; you have a fantastic opportunity to troll older people by posting things like 'is it really true that people used to have sex in the past?'
🚨TWITCH is using your account to train Amazon's AI by default 🚨 TO OPT OUT: Turn it off by going to www.twitch.tv/settings/sec... It's hidden all the way at the bottom.
Hey folks, it looks like all the EA websites are down, including ours. This is, hopefully, a temporary issue, and not the result of an interdimensional portal accidentally swallowing bits of the universe. Again. Fingers crossed we’ll be back soon!
this is wrong, because the right to vote comes from living in a democracy, not from paying taxes. people who do not pay taxes are allowed to vote and plenty of people who do pay taxes cannot
Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · 6d agoStudents should vote where they - or their parents - pay taxes. I use to ask Dartmouth students: "Who has a car?" Some hands go up. "Who registers their car in New Hampshire." The hands go down. "Vote where you registered your car."
News from Finland: “Despite the arrival of a newborn on the service, [train] IC49 continued on schedule.”
High-speed delivery as baby born on Finnish train
There are no previous records of a baby being born on a VR service, the rail operator says.
yle.fi
Instead of invasively asking who's top or who's bottom people should start asking women friends who's the granny weatherwax of the friend group and who's the nanny ogg
Very sad to hear of the death of actress Cheryl Hall. Appeared in virtually every well known TV series of the 1970s and 80s. Probably best known for Citizen Smith, opposite her then-husband Robert Lindsay. Also appeared as Shirna in Doctor Who's 'Carnival of Monsters'.
Okay, I admit, I think if I played Serena Williams at tennis I'd take one point. Not because I'm anywhere near good enough, mind you. But because just like Björn Borg let Mats Wilander take the first game when the latter entered the ATP tour before winning 6-1, 6-0, she'd be polite.
This is not a criticism as such, but how often do you think comics creators take what it would be like wearing an outfit like the one the woman here is wearing would actually be like beyond, "it'll look good," before deciding to draw it that way?
![A comic book panel from a sci-fi comic. In the background, some kind of monster with a lot of teeth lies slumped over a small "flying car" type vehicle, with a small amphibian-looking alien in a blue jumpsuit inspecting it.
In the foreground is a burly, 1980s action-hero looking character with a big gun, and his back turned to the viewer is asking, "Är ni oskadd?" ("Are you unharmed? [you in the polite plural]") of a woman who could be anything between 20 and 40 years old with dark hair, wearing pale blue leggings under a pink bodysuit with puffy shoulders.
The woman is answering "Ja... Men titta vad Thorken gjort med min flygare!" ("Yes... But look what the Thork has done to my flyer!")](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zzjxdpki4bxdvhszhi5jawo6/bafkreiclq55ddbqznislb2j5drxirtvn4wr6x3qmqyey5qqypfdt62zzbu)
