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"At a time when #Thailand needs a strong, competent #government to handle numerous #challenges, the new #cabinet is just the opposite.. In short, it is not up to expectations, by any standards.. Evidently, the new cabinet is not based on meritocracy.. Some appointments are #astounding.. These cabinet appointments show #PheuThai is focused on its #owninterests instead of thinking abt how to move the #country forward. Tis cabinet cannot win #public #confidence, nor #trust"🤦‍♂️
https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/3062329/papering-over-cracks

There's something wrong with the state of #Texas. Its lack of #empathy, and #cruelty towards fellow #human beings is #astounding.

https://www.tpr.org/public-health/2025-06-22/judge-rules-texas-has-been-illegally-placing-people-with-severe-disabilities-in-nursing-homes-for-decades

#illegal #disabilities #nursinghomes

Congress passed a statute under the Medicaid Act in 1987 that required screening in order to identify community programs instead of automatically institutionalizing people.

"Texas just ignored the statute. At some point, the federal government came down on Texas and said, 'You can't do this anymore.' And shortly thereafter, we brought this lawsuit in 2010," Schwartz said. "The case was brought forth at that point on behalf of 4,500 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who were unnecessarily segregated in Texas nursing facilities. And they were not getting even minimally adequate levels of services that is required by federal law."

In 2013, the plaintiffs negotiated a settlement agreement with the state of Texas that would make community programs available as an alternative.

🚀🤖 "Astounding! A #bot plops into the coldest #abyss since your ex's heart. Minus 280° F! 🌡️🥶 But hey, that’s just a warm #Tuesday in the #tech writer's garage."
https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/03/athena-landed-in-a-dark-crater-where-the-temperature-was-minus-280-f/ #Astounding #Cold #HackerNews #ngated

The Fantasmagoric Finned Extraterrestrial

A terrifying encounter with an otherworldly spacecraft that defies all human imagination With its immense size and sharp fins, it hovers menacingly, evoking fear and fascination

See More Seeds: https://aidyslexic.raupulus.dev/collections/show/1761

#StableDiffusion #ai #ArtificialIntelligence #aliens #China-Miéville #spacecraft #fins #fantasy #fiction #galactic #cosmic #astounding #unearthly

Galaxy SF, review by Victoria Silverwolf, for Tangent

https://tangentonline.com/e-market-irregular/galaxy-sf-263-vol-1-no-1-august-2024/

#Galaxy #ScienceFiction #Magazine #Pulp #PulpMagazine #GalaxySF #scifi #science #StarshipSloane #publishing #Astrodon #reading #reader #review #AmazingStories #Astounding #RobertSilverberg

The amount of sheer #joy that Carly Rae Jepsen’s Cut to the Feeling brings me is just #astounding ☺️
#music #song #love 💜

The Book Bin (Salem, OR): The "Not at Night" Omnibus (2 different editions); Heinlein's "The Puppet Masters"; and a big rack o' pulps. #DerOrchideengarten #Feds #Weird #Astounding #Wonder #Amazing #CaptainSatan #Jungle #RareBooksLA

All but two potential GOP presidential nominee said publicly tonight they would support a criminal convicted by a jury of their peers as the final nominee for US president. #ASTOUNDING

@jdnicoll
Read Alec Nevala-Lee's book for the scoop on this. Campbell pushed all of his authors to include this bankrupt notion of "psionics" of one kind or another. Arguably a precursor to the 70's "human potential" movement.

"Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction"

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/astounding-alec-nevala-lee/1127457727

#ScienceFiction #Astounding #JohnWCampbell

Hommage to classic scifi pulp covers

#sf #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Pulp #Astounding #CGArt #3DArt #MastoArt #MastoArt3D #Render #RenderedArt #Fanart

Astronau in a white-is retro space suite with bubble helmet holding a scifi gun on the moon, earth in the sky above to the left and a classic pulp-rocket to the right in the background on the moon surface

Peter Pomerantsev: What, Actually, Is #Germany’s Problem with #Russia?
13. February 2022(!)
#astounding

https://www.zeit.de/kultur/2022-02/peter-pomerantsev-german-russian-relations-ukraine-conflict/komplettansicht

I've watched this 1/2 dozen times so far. I love seeing the female touch when it comes to #djembe #drums. These young women are #astounding. One of the commenters on this youtube video said exactly what I was thinking the first time I saw it.
"The thousand hours of practice behind this level of #synchronization!"
& also: "Wow!! Such brilliant synchronization with no retakes "

Girls of #RhythmPulze Institute #Ahmedabad performing a rhythmic act on Djembes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghgAMC-BZPE