Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 6 by Sakae Saito
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What dark purpose compels a girl and her android companion to wander post-apocalyptic Japan?
Touring After the Apocalypse, volume 6 by Sakae Saito
Interesting Links for 29-10-2025
Oct. 29th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Labour Deputy Lucy Powell says EHRC's single-sex spaces draft is 'not right'
- (tags:LGBT transgender GoodNews bigotry UK labour )
- 2. Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows
- (tags:games windows Linux )
- 3. A satellite runs Doom from orbit, using Ubuntu on Arm
- (tags:space doom games )
Five SF Stories Featuring the Sudden Formation of New and Exciting Bodies of Water
Oct. 28th, 2025 10:09 amjames_davis_nicoll
Sorry if you're a fan of boring old dry land...
Five SF Stories Featuring the Sudden Formation of New and Exciting Bodies of Water
Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams
Oct. 28th, 2025 08:55 amjames_davis_nicoll
How could a man die in front of Atocha Chief of Police Loren Hawn when that man died twenty years before?
Days of Atonement by Walter Jon Williams
Bundle of Holding: Cthulhu Reborn
Oct. 27th, 2025 03:19 pmjames_davis_nicoll
Nearly two dozen Mythos investigations in many eras from the open-license Cthulhu Eternal tabletop roleplaying game line produced by Cthulhu Reborn.
Compatible with your favorite Lovecraftian percentile-based systems)
Bundle of Holding: Cthulhu Reborn
Clarke Award Finalists 2020
Oct. 27th, 2025 09:09 amjames_davis_nicollWhich 2020 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
1 (2.3%)
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
37 (84.1%)
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
4 (9.1%)
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
13 (29.5%)
The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
1 (2.3%)
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
18 (40.9%)
Bold for have read, italic for intend to read, underline for never heard of it.
Which 2020 Clarke Award Finalists Have You Read?
The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine
Cage of Souls by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
The Last Astronaut by David Wellington
The Light Brigade by Kameron Hurley
Interesting Links for 27-10-2025
Oct. 27th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. 4 Halloween Costumes That'll Make Him Say 'Oh Cool Yeah I Haven't Seen that Show'
- (tags:Halloween costumes funny TV )
- 2. Time Immemorial turns 750: The Medieval law that froze history at 1189
- (tags:history law UK viaPatrickHadfield )
- 3. Why Warm Countries Are Poorer
- (tags:poverty economics geography temperature disease trade )
- 4. Chatbots Are Repeating Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
- (tags:russia ai propaganda )
- 5. Megafauna was the meat of choice for South American hunters
- (tags:prehistory SouthAmerica food animals )
- ai,
- animals,
- costumes,
- disease,
- economics,
- food,
- funny,
- geography,
- halloween,
- history,
- law,
- links,
- poverty,
- prehistory,
- propaganda,
- russia,
- southamerica,
- temperature,
- trade,
- tv,
- uk,
- viapatrickhadfield
Life with two kids: Very wet test subjects
Oct. 26th, 2025 08:07 pmandrewduckerIn other news I took Sophia's phone away from the kids while they were in the bath and now they're repeatedly pouring cold water over themselves while shrieking like baboons.
Database maintenance
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dw_maintenanceGood morning, afternoon, and evening!
We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)
I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.
Ta for now!
Photo cross-post
Oct. 25th, 2025 10:29 amandrewducker
One of these children won at Ticket To Ride: First Journey, the
other...did not.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Books Received, October 18 — October 24
Oct. 25th, 2025 09:20 amjames_davis_nicoll
Eight works new to me. Three fantasies, two horror, two SF, and one hard-to-classify RPG. One of the SF books is pretty horrory, so maybe that should be three fantasies, three horror, one SF, and one hard-to-classify RPG.
Books Received, October 18 — October 24
Which of these look interesting?
Abyss by Nicholas Binge (May 2026)
6 (12.5%)
Testimony of Mute Things by Lois McMaster Bujold (October 2025)
27 (56.2%)
Morsel by Carter Keane (April 2026)
4 (8.3%)
The Cove by Claire Rose (May 2026)
6 (12.5%)
Outgunned by Riccardo “Rico” Sirignano & Simone Formicola, with art by Daniela Giubellini (December 2024)
6 (12.5%)
And Side by Side They Wander by Molly Tanzer (May 2026)
16 (33.3%)
Lightning Runes by Harry Turtledove (March 2026)
8 (16.7%)
A Long and Speaking Silence by Nghi Vo (May 2026)
24 (50.0%)
Some other option (see comments)
0 (0.0%)
Cats!
37 (77.1%)
Interesting Links for 25-10-2025
Oct. 25th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. The nerdiest music video of all time
- (tags:wargames video music history uk france )
- 2. The Reform Backlash: Caerphilly By-Election Result Shows Nigel Farage's Party Is Much Weaker Than It Looks
- (tags:politics uk wales )
- 3. 'Mind-boggling' poker fraud used X-ray tables, high-tech glasses and NBA players
- (tags:poker fraud mafia )
- 4. Armed police surround teen after AI mistakes crisp packet for gun
- (tags:ai guns epicfail )
- 5. Bad therapy is causing 'emotional Thatcherism'
- (tags:therapy counselling society )
- 6. What the new Northern Cyprus election result means
- (tags:Cyprus turkey )
- 7. ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web
- (tags:viaPatrickHadfield browser OhForFucksSake ai )
- 8. Bosses of Dungeons & Dragons club in £150k court fight sparked by alleged 'dungeonmaster cuddle'
- (tags:roleplaying business law UK )
Exit Sigil
Oct. 24th, 2025 08:51 pmjames_davis_nicoll
We have made the difficult decision to end development on Sigil. T
Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala
Oct. 24th, 2025 08:57 amjames_davis_nicoll
High school student and semi-professional tarot card reader Danika Dizon assists her PI mother to look for a missing person... a teen who vanished after Danika gave her a tarot card reading.
Death in the Cards by Mia P. Manansala