miss_s_b: The Blood is The Life 12-04-2012

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@ 2012-04-12 10:00 am UTC

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politics, problematic, the blood is the life

The Blood is The Life 12-04-2012

German Pirate Party overtakes Greens, survey by Forsa shows
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Carbon nanotubes: The weird world of 'remote Joule heating'
Mysterious science thing is cool!
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The BBC Wants You!
... if you're good at sewing. Sadly this is slightly too early in my skill attainment cycle for me to consider, but...
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Eastercon: It was fun, but…
This makes me sad, because I know that the people who run Eastercon are good people with good hearts.
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BREAKING: The range of published science fiction caters overwhelmingly to a white male audience.
More on the Eastercon thing, with some suggested solutions.
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These 17 Actors Were in Multiple Geek Properties, Get Over It
Is anyone else a bit disturbed by the erasure of McKellen's political activism here? I mean, here he is, trying to make a point about LGBT acceptibility and they blithely cover it up with geekery... I'd be pretty pissed off if they made Patrick Stewart's "This is what a feminist looks like" t-shirt into "this is what a starship captain looks like" too... But judging by the comments on the entry, I guess I'm just being a bit oversensitive and squee-harshy :(
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	no subject drunkwriter 2012-04-12 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	Ooh, was that on the Sunday morning? I think I caught some of that on the live feed. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

	no subject purplecat 2012-04-12 04:36 pm UTC (link)
	The multiculturalism in Steampunk panel? It must be said the panels all blur a bit, but I think it was Sunday evening. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 3 comments) (Show 3 comments)

	no subject drunkwriter 2012-04-12 05:17 pm UTC (link)
	I missed the start of the panel so no idea what the actual subject was, but when I logged in on the Sunday morning Adam Roberts and some other writers were talking about classism and Occupy and stuff. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 2 comments) (Show 2 comments)

	no subject purplecat 2012-04-12 06:25 pm UTC (link)
	Nope, that wasn't it. A quick glance at the program suggests it was probably `Occupy the Metaverse' that you saw. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject drunkwriter 2012-04-12 08:23 pm UTC (link)
	Could well have been. They did keep coming back to Occupy for no apparent reason, which does suggest it was supposed to be the theme. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)