A light overview of the book and my thoughts at the end. Last night, I finally finished Queering the Asian Diaspora by Hongwei Bao. I bought this book in London at Housmans Bookshop, known for their radical and progressive publications. Queering the Asian Diaspora by Hongwei Bao, published in 2025. The title was what attracted me. As someone who identifies with all of the above, the book felt like a must-read. I began reading early in the year and thought I would finish fairly quickly as the…

I ran out of time yesterday, or perhaps it would be more correct to say that time got away from me. I planned to write more about the election, of course. I planned to write about my online classes; the curriculum/tech/assessment experts revamped the class, and there have been surprises, like the video students posted instead of a written discussion post, which worked surprisingly well, except for how much longer it took me to grade them.What I posted just after midnight as election day passed…

Jen, la antaŭeniro. Fek al faŝismo. Usono vekiĝas de sia febra sonĝo. #lang_eo #esperanto #usono #usa #unitedStates #politics #uspol #politko #politkoj #meme #memes #memeo #memeoj #malcolmInTheMiddle #usmidterms

Since I’ve already said plenty on this subject, this time I’m just going to leave you with a link to a collection of earlier essays; remind you that all government is at best a necessary evil rooted in the idea that might makes right; and point out that there is absolutely nothing “conservative” about the current regime, and nothing “liberal” about the so-called opposition party.

A few things lend a particularly zeitgeist-y heft to this Graun essay about “cellular agriculture”, better known (perhaps to its due detriment) as “lab-grown meat”. One of those things is, of course, its being very much of a piece with the more general trend of disillusionment with regard to the brash promises of technological progress to be delivered by venture capital; that it has been (re)published in the immediate aftermath of the striking volte face of the US midterms serves only to…

Welcome to a Thursday Pressing Concerns! It has four records coming out tomorrow (November 6th): new albums from Lou Turner, Wilder Maker, and Slack Times, plus a split EP between Really Great and Miss Bones. The October 2026 playlist went up on Monday, so check that out too if you haven’t yet. If you’re looking for more new music, you can visit the site directory to see what else we’ve written about lately. If you’d like to support Rosy Overdrive, you can share this (or another) post, or…

Suppose I’m working on an article for this site and I have a conversation about it with a friend. I tell him what I’m thinking, and he offers an observation I hadn’t considered. Maybe he tells me something I didn’t know. Maybe he challenges an assumption I’ve made. Our conversation helps me develop my thinking, and the article I eventually write is better for it. Would anyone question whether the article was my own work? I don’t think so. Writers have always developed their ideas through…

Taken on the 2nd of October, 2026 Huaqing Palace and Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Museum City of Xi'An

Before mobile phones, radio and even the telegraph, fire beacons were used as an early warning system designed to alert communities to the approach of hostile forces. The beacons were deliberately positioned on prominent high ground, allowing one fire to be seen from another. When an enemy was spotted, a chain of burning beacons could then relay the warning across the landscape.The system was particularly important during the threat of invasion by the Spanish Armada in 1588. Beacons could take…

I was drawn to this book for two reasons: first, it’s about Countess Erzsébet Báthory – I read about her in Sonia Velton’s The Nightingale’s Castle a few years ago and have been meaning to explore further – and also, I enjoyed Clare Whitfield’s previous novel, Poor Girls, and hoped this one would be just as good. The Last Handmaid is set in the early 17th century and is narrated by Catalina, a young woman who finds herself alone in the world after losing first her mother and then Varga, the…

After finishing the fort I got stuck straight into the Moroccans, that I’m calling Beni Sahran (sons of the desert). They are a coalition of tribes with one uniting goal, push the French out. There were no set uniforms for them so they wore their day to day garb and their weapons were mostly bought from European arms traders, stolen from adversaries and, in some cases, family heirlooms. They mostly wore white, off white and brown colours but some would have brightly coloured sashes and turbans.…

Progress, however small is progress non the less and last night saw the completion of the paving - the Peco code 55 is now buried…I intensely dislike this sort of work, it is fiddly and requires patience and neatness. These are skills hard earned through practice and whilst the latter is somewhat natural the former is certainly a challenge!The result though is a project that is coming to life and already feels scale agnostic - for whilst the modes are small the telltale of overscale rails and…

"I wonder who they areThe men who really run this landAnd I wonder why they run itWith such a thoughtless handWhat are their names and on what streets do they live?I'd like to ride right over this afternoon and giveThem a piece of my mind about peace for mankind.Peace is not an awful lot to ask."So sang David Crosby.A long time ago.The AI A-Listers are the people who own the future, or at least believe they do. Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, Huang and their kind. They command fortunes, armies of…

This is a twofer - both myself and the in-house testing team - our thoughts for the Player Advice Blogwagon. In-house test team thought a bit and suggested the following: 1. Do not run off doing your own thing. "Don't split the party" is not just a safety measure, it lets more people get more done because the single 'camera' of the DM's attention can play upon more folk at once if everyone sticks together. 2. Avoid "That's not what my character would do" - find a way that makes sense in…

BAITEDAuthor: RR HaywoodGenre: ThrillerReleased: 2026Rating: ★★★★☆Find Ollie Perkins. There’s just one problem. Mike isn’t allowed to ask anyone about him. He can’t say his name. He doesn’t know what he looks like. So Mike takes a job as a security guard at a highly secure data facility on the edge of town and waits. Then things start happening. Lies get told. A body turns up. Foreign agents begin circling. Mike realises he's being watched and that he's not the only one looking for Ollie…

Microsoft Entra Conditional Access can close some important identity gaps. It can also interrupt normal work quickly if an MSP enables a broad blocking rule without understanding what a tenant relies on.A successful policy save tells you that Entra accepted the configuration. It doesn’t tell you whether someone can still sign in to their accounting app, register a replacement phone, access Teams from an approved device, or recover the tenant during an emergency.That’s why I would treat…

I’ve been away on holiday, so weekly links took a little break too. I’m back now, and here’s this week’s reading. 🕰️ Ten Minute Focus Safari will ’dark mode’ your site for you — Safari 27.3 beta introduces an opt-in Adaptive Dark Mode that automatically adapts light sites to dark ones. If we stop, we lose — Piccalilli calls on web educators to keep teaching, arguing that practical experience, specialist skills, and creativity still matter when working with LLMs. Branding Tomáš Brousil on how to…

a story —Mama, where do stories come from? Annia splattered the water, creating ripples in the sky. It was a nice cool feeling. She did not care for swimming in spring, but she enjoyed how her feet played without her. —Look up there. —Her mother pointed to the water at the horizon, the sun greeting them as equal—. What do you see? —The sun? The water? —No, what do you really see? What does that remind you of? —Spilled milk. —She giggled, thinking of her mother’s question as silly. —What else?…

Cover version of the month #126 The McCoys cover The VibrationsI was planning to feature Hang On Sloopy by The McCoys in my regular Trust Me feature ... then I found out that it is a cover version! This classic song was written by Bert Russell and Wes Farrell, and originally performed and released as My Girl Sloopy by The Vibrations in 1964, reaching number 26 on the Billboard charts.The Vibrations original live recording still has the same riff and groove that The McCoys would amplify, speed…

1986 SF/horror, dir. David Cronenberg, Jeff Goldblum, Geena Davis: IMDb. Seth Brundle has an invention that will change the world, but…

KP-1 (Figure Debut) Star Wars Droid Factory Item No.: ??? Manufacturer: Disney Number: n/a Includes: Card, RX arm Action Feature: Comes apart Retail: $19.99 Availability: October 2026 Appearances: Obi-Wan Kenobi Bio: KP-1 was a masculine K-series astromech droid associated with the Hidden Path. In 9 BBY, the droid was found on the planet Jabiim. (Taken from the figure's trading card. This is literally the exact same bio on Wookieepedia. Coincidence?) Image: Adam's photo lab. Availability: Click…

Biko loves her donut toy. And I love when she holds it like this . The post Donut appeared first on @Kevuhnn / 📸 / 📚 / 🇨🇦.

Frost this morning again. Not bad later. Car washing. H.Doc.B1. making 166 to date. Bert tested X former. It’s gone ok. Cleared all lab bins. Jean leaves to night.

While everyone was still asleep, I went for an early morning run in the Harz. Mystic scenery.

Today is the first true chilly winter day; three degrees, feeling like zero. As much as I feel a helm is needed during rush hour, biking in the cold without warmth is painful. Instead, I wear my earmuffs; soft, foldable, adjustable, the colour of happiness. Because of them, I do not use my earbuds, they hurt me as the earmuffs press them to my ears. It was a musical commute. The birds, the wind, the bikers and pedestrians just waking up. Inspiring, the sea opened, the sun rose higher, the…

How the illiberals were defeated, until the next time * It is November 1932 and there has been a general election in Germany. Christopher Isherwood was to write: “On November 7th the election results were out. The Nazis had lost two million votes. The communists had gained eleven seats. They had a majority of over 100,000 in Berlin. “‘You see,’ I told Frl. Schroeder, ‘it’s all your doing.’ We had persuaded her to go down to the beer-shop at the corner and vote, for the first time in her life.…

Well, that was exciting and perhaps the beginning of a whole new era. The results are in and the happy winners will be taking their seats after Monday’s vote. Monday? Yes, of course. The municipal elections in Prince Edward Island were Monday… what you talking about? Oh, that. Sure. Fine. Well, yes it was fun. Halloween was fun, too. Got dressed up in orange and black and sat out on the front step. Just to be clear, that is a Mandavilla still alive outside with two months left to go in the…

Less Than Angels by Barbara Pym published 1955 [excerpt] As they got out of the bus and walked along the road, they heard a number of explosions, some in the distance, others startlingly near, and once the night sky was illuminated by a rocket which broke in a shower of green and golden stars. There was a smell of gunpowder in the cool frosty air. ‘Why, it’s Guy Fawkes night,’ said Miss Clovis, ‘what fun!’ …They ventured further into the garden, then stopped in the middle of the lawn to gasp at…

Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto music community, a new compositional challenge is set before the group’s members, who then have five days to record and upload a track in response to the project instructions. Membership in the Junto is open: just join and participate. (A SoundCloud account is helpful but not required.) There’s no pressure to do every project. The Junto is weekly so that you know it’s there, every Thursday through Monday, when your time and interest align. Tracks are added to…