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Writer, resting actor, recovering bookseller, extinguished professor. www.stephendedman.com Interests: Sf, horror, urban fantasy, GURPS, Shadowrun, palaeontology, astronomy, forensics, mythology, movies, theatre, cats, travel, weirdness.

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06.03.2026 16:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's been years since I saw a star.

05.03.2026 20:32 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Villains and Vigilantes 3.0 Mighty Protectors Softcover You can combat the forces of evil! Find their hidden enclaves with your super-senses, and bust your way in with powerful fists! Use your incredible agility or invulnerability to ward off their attacks...

MIGHTY PROTECTORS is V&V3e, the superhero #ttrpg @Jack Herman & I created in 1979. With integrated random & point-buy character creation!

Softcover: www.lulu.com/shop/jeff-de...

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PDF: www.drivethrurpg.com/browse/pub/3...

Review: www.rpg.net/reviews/arch...

06.03.2026 11:59 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Despite promising to protect VA healthcare, the Trump admin quietly eliminated 14,400 medical vacancies — including 1,500+ doctors and 4,900 nurses — at a VA already reporting severe staffing shortages at 90% of its facilities. ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

05.03.2026 15:14 👍 29 🔁 22 💬 4 📌 0

If you want to know who the NYT really is, as an institution, I once again encourage you to go to the page for their official PR attack-dog account, @nytimespr.bsky.social, and read their replies

06.03.2026 11:21 👍 112 🔁 31 💬 7 📌 1
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Australian gas producers reap windfalls as Iran war chokes global supply Santos, the country’s second-biggest listed oil and gas producer, finalised a deal with a commodities trader at more than double recent market rates.

We should be taxing the fuckers into the ground.

War profiteering used to be a bad thing…

www.afr.com/companies/en...

06.03.2026 11:49 👍 398 🔁 126 💬 14 📌 5

Of course #complicitmedia are all going with “Trump says” rather than stating what @hcrichardson.bsky.social does: He can’t just replace Noem with someone even worse. Senate needs to be involved. A dictator in aspiration only so far.

06.03.2026 12:04 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Working on a q&a lecture for a class today: The story of robots is always a story about slavery. The story of LLMs labeled as AI is a story about class, and which humans pay the cost, including the physical toll on their bodies/minds, and the lack of water and electricity, so data centers can exist.

05.03.2026 15:10 👍 594 🔁 168 💬 8 📌 0

You're gonna need to sit down for this one, but the side that bombed every school in Gaza, and denied bombing the girl's school in Iran (blaming a misfired Iranian missile), has now admitted it did bomb the girls' school after all. Astonishingly, the cover story was a lie.

06.03.2026 12:16 👍 349 🔁 121 💬 13 📌 5
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Trump’s War now providing a massive influx of cash for Iran’s ally Russia so they can continue to bomb civilians in Ukraine while we ask Ukraine for help against Iranian drones. Trump’s foreign policy in a nutshell.

06.03.2026 12:06 👍 2282 🔁 963 💬 143 📌 46
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No War...

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

06.03.2026 12:34 👍 73 🔁 38 💬 0 📌 1

From Russia with love for Trump’s good old buddy.

06.03.2026 12:11 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Woman who put holes in friend's condoms found not guilty of intent to harm A Bunbury woman has been found not guilty of intent to cause harm after she admitted to tampering with her housemate's condoms while she was in a "fit of rage".

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

06.03.2026 11:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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US investigators 'say American strike most likely responsible' for Iranian school massacre New York Times investigation also suggest United States most likely behind air strike that killed at least 165 in city of Minab

US investigators 'say American strike most likely responsible' for Iranian school massacre - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-investigators-say-american-strike-most-likely-responsible-iranian-school-massacre

06.03.2026 10:26 👍 42 🔁 23 💬 5 📌 3

Wait. They are releasing Epstein files to distract Americans from the war in Iran now?

06.03.2026 02:49 👍 9839 🔁 1882 💬 384 📌 113
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English doesn’t need protecting in New Zealand – but other languages do

The proposed English Language Bill assumes a problem. In reality, English dominates public life while many heritage languages struggle to survive.

06.03.2026 10:36 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Between this and the US courts maintaining that "AI" work is not itself copyrightable, good news for actual humans.

06.03.2026 10:37 👍 88 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0

Thread. (TLDR: the House of Lords DCC report on AI came down hard on the correct side of the debate, rather than siding with industry lobbyists.)

06.03.2026 10:34 👍 469 🔁 161 💬 8 📌 2
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What Finnegans Wake Teaches Us about AI As AI becomes ever more interwoven in daily life, new research from Nina Beguš, PhD ’20, and Gašper Beguš, PhD '18, is beginning to map out machine learning’ "latent space," the hidden mathematical ar...

A fascinating article about how researchers use Finnegans Wake to assess AI's learning process.

gsas.harvard.edu/news/what-fi...

06.03.2026 10:39 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
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Two Big Things Trump Doesn’t Want You to Know or Even Think About His Iran War is intended to deflect attention from them

Two Big Things Trump Doesn’t Want You to Know or Even Think About
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06.03.2026 11:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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03.03.2026 16:42 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

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04.03.2026 21:26 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

04.03.2026 02:51 👍 16483 🔁 2657 💬 265 📌 135
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Marsupials in the news again? Yes! And this time it’s good news | First Dog on the Moon Lazarus taxa * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

Marsupials in the news again? Yes! And this time it’s good news | First Dog on the Moon

06.03.2026 05:54 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 3
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The Kyle and Jackie O indulged Australia’s most vulgar iimpulses Kyle and Jacki O's success offers a reflection on the contradiction between the kind of society we say we want and the kind of media we prize.

<I>Kyle and Jackie O Show</i> indulged vulgar impulses

www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/enterta...

06.03.2026 06:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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LOL, love the headline.

'The Kyle and Jackie O phenomenon thrived on attention and relied on a formula. Be rude, crude, humiliate someone, obsess about sex, take cheap shots at vulnerable people, repeat. Melbourne looked at it and said, “Nah, we’re good.”

'Bottom line: it’s hard to shock an […]

06.03.2026 04:31 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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The Liberal review explains the defeat – but not the path back The leaked review into the Liberal Party's 2025 election defeat is more a post-mortem than a blueprint for a future government.

Liberal review explains defeat – not a path back

www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...

06.03.2026 05:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Albanese confirms 'military assets' sent to Iran Anthony Albanese has confirmed Australian "military assets" have been sent to the Middle East amid an operation to rescue stranded travellers.

Chaos as thousands ordered to evacuate Beirut

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/world/2...

06.03.2026 05:41 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Every time I see that left rendering I think about this guy

06.03.2026 05:24 👍 174 🔁 20 💬 7 📌 2

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. ASCII porn in IRC Channels. I watched hamsters dancing to looping MIDI after eons loading on 14.4k modems. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

06.03.2026 03:51 👍 191 🔁 19 💬 4 📌 0