Alexander Hay

Sigh. May as well jump on the bandwagon, but with my own spin. For every 'Like', I will post up a song and a reason why I think it slaps, as the young 'uns say.

Last week's #HorrorWritersChat has now morphed into True Crime.

Its good to know that most people's plans for the midterms involve doing something more than dooming and posting about it.

🕷️💤 New paper in time for 🎃! Do #spiders really sleep? In our new study on #Portia fimbriata we tested all behavioural criteria of #sleep and found evidence for regulated, two-stage sleep with recurring REM-like stages. Out in @pnas.org! @roesslerdaniela.bsky.social 📄 tinyurl.com/3fky8ze7 🧵1/9

I very much enjoy that Crow Country continues to sell itself very nicely every Halloween, with not much input from Adam or me needed! Is this the only holiday with a whole genre attached? Xmas doesn't seem to have that many seasonal games, aside from Elf Bowling and maybe Die Hard Trilogy for PS1...

In today's Russian papers, surprise at the the defeat of Moscow ally Aleksander Vučić in Serbia. One paper: “Russia can expect nothing good from this.” Another: “The results benefit the EU.” But several point out: “The Serbs are dependant on Russian gas.” #ReadingRussia

its insane how not many people are talking about how republicans with the help of several moderate democrats are building out the largest abusive medical conversion therapy operation in modern american history

The books that helped plant the current violent, obscene brand of Christian nationalism in the public consciousness www.typebarmagazine.com/left-behind-...

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

A slowly-dying Far Right party.

The history of the Western Desert Campaign is Punctuated by Churchill yelling "GET ON WITH IT" at various commanders, usually at the worst possible times

Whatever happened to the poppy watch accounts? They were most amusing and damaging to arseholes.

Ah, I see Death Flower Obedience Season has kicked off again.

'I am just, like, SO racist and genocidal, but like, in a totally reasonable way, y'know?'

I mean, they’re too modest to say but it’s clear that Anthropic are the true heroes of the AI story

Scab.

‘My dream is for us all to live in a dystopian nightmare where technology never stops interfering with you for even a second of the day.’

From Boeing's B-52 to quantum ramjets, H. David Froning explored field propulsion, gravity modification, and the possibility of faster-than-light travel. FULL STORY: www.altsci.net/herman-david...

We need to stop always making the far right the subject of political agency and the object of voter decisions in our analyses of contemporary politics. The success of the far right is not inevitable. But single elections do not signal the end of the far-right threat to our democracies.

Many comments on the great election victories in Brazil and Serbia state that the authorian right is in decline or that voters have rejected far-right authoritarianism. That is a wrong interpretation of what happened. Progressive movements mobilized and beat the authoritarian right. That's different

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Don’t mind me just swooning over how amazing these late-blooming part shade-loving Salvia glabrescens look right now. #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #February2Frost #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱

the contrast between seeing US democrats fall over themselves to embrace idiot transphobia all year and tonight seeing footage of the president embracing my (trans) congresswoman, Erika Hilton, at the election night party

Daily sketch 🌅🪾🥷🐈‍⬛️ Can you spot the Cat ? #ink #sketch #artsky

I think my most contentious take on the publishing industry is that we allowed the term “indie” to shift from meaning being published by small/independent presses to being self-published, and I think this was a bad thing

After Careful Thought, Teen Applies To College Where Family Donated Building https://theonion.com/after-careful-thought-teen-applies-to-college-where-fa-1819577078/

Prove me wrong children Prove me wrong

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

I really need the world to understand this: THE MOST VOTED CONGRESSPERSON PERSON IN BRAZIL IS A BLACK TRANS WOMAN. Her name is Erika Hilton. DO NOT LET ANYONE THROW TRANS AND BLACK PEOPLE UNDER THE BUS.

A few pixels worth of digital violin, playing a sad tune.

evil demonic murder executioner evil vagabond mercenary swordsman

And Ghislaine Maxwell for head of UNICEF?

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