Here I wrote about my trip to Confracisco, the 51st Worldcon in San Francisco in the latest Journey Planet. Thanks to Christopher J. Christopher J Garcia and Jean Martin

https://www.journeyplanet.org/journey-planet/issue-91-san-francisco

You ever think to yourself “but I am just one person, what can I do to make a difference?”

It turns out that “wear an inflatable frog costume and go downtown” is actually a really reasonable answer.

#portland #portlandfrog #uspol

Liquid Glass is cracked, and usability suffers in iOS 26

With iOS 26, Apple seems to be leaning harder into visual design and decorative UI effects — but at what cost to usability? At first glance, the system looks fluid and modern. But try to use it, and soon those shimmering surfaces and animated controls start to get in the way. Let’s strip back the frost and look at how these ch

https://www.osnews.com/story/143522/liquid-glass-is-cracked-and-usability-suffers-in-ios-26/

#Apple

I've posted more of my 100% human-made drawings.
https://pixey.org/p/carturo222/882773749898419786

I cannot believe American politics is being dominated by a SECOND meme frog.

This zany two-frog country, man.

@GyrosGeier @d1ss0nanz @cstross Ah, the "libertarian" type of Pirates.

Paging @Princejvstin.

My laptop glitched and set its clock almost three years into the past. According to my notifications, for the first time since, like, the George H. W. Bush administration, I was to owe no one an online response to anything for "almost 3 years." I was about to pour a nice drink and open some longreads.

Students ask me iF vIrUsEs NeEd ceLLs tO LiVe aRe ThEy ReAlLy aLiVe?

And I answer "If I sent you to the rings of Saturn, you're not alive. If you need the biosphere to live are you really alive?"

#biology #evolution #gaia

A decade after the Paris Agreement, global greenhouse gas emissions are barely rising, up just 0.3% a year since 2015, compared with 1.7% before. https://eciu.net/media/press-releases/2025/paris-agreement-at-ten-brakes-slammed-on-emissions-growth-finds-analysis?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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On pedocon theory: why movement conservativism is inextricably entwined with paedophilia (and why the POTUS is probably a paedophile too):
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

A prime minister is a minister that is not the product of two smaller ministers and thus is only divisible by 1 and itself.

Today is National Coming Out Day!

It's also Freedom to Read Day, aka the last day of Banned Books Week.

This feels right — because the main reason they try to ban books is to keep people from dreaming they could ever come out.

My latest newsletter: https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/they-want-to-ban-books-to-keep-us-from-coming-out/

waited my whole life for this shot.

#photography #LandscapePhotography #Alberta

I threw away a permanent marker the other day. Today it showed up on my desk again with the word "permanent" slightly bigger and underlined

@cstross Deutsche Bank recently published a warning that it is currently 24 times DotCom or 4 times subprime bubble.
The good thing might be, that Europe is late at the AI table.

How Caribbean workers helped win the second world war has finally been revealed.

"Commissioned by the Imperial War Museum, Cornwallis Cloth ends ‘archival silence’ around invaluable West Indian contribution to war effort."

Do click through to read the article which gives a lot of context.

This film/exhibition looks to be fascinating, is long overdue, and is a timely counter to the flagshagging myth making of the far right.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/09/new-film-explores-how-caribbean-workers-helped-win-second-world-war

Con or Bust is accepting applications now for the Goldman Fund to send Palestinians to the 2026 Metropol Con in Berlin! If you're Palestinian, or identify as a member of the Palestinian diaspora, get your application in by October 16, 2025.
https://dreamfoundry.org/con-or-bust/#Application

The lake sturgeon (a 100-year-living, 90-kg relic from the age of dinosaurs) is returning to Missouri’s rivers after near-extinction from dams and pollution. The Missouri Department of Conservation has reintroduced thousands of hatchery-raised fish since the 1980s, rebuilding wild populations, reviving a keystone species and signalling broader recovery of the Mississippi basin’s river systems. KRCG
https://krcgtv.com/newsletter-daily/ancient-fish-species-makes-historic-comeback-in-missouri-rivers?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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This will never not be funny!