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Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 4h

like sooo much..

Hard/soft power. Sentient spaceships. Otherness. Cyborgs. Animal -> human -> machine. Thinking vs Simulation. AI feeling pain? Non-human Experimentation. Colonialism. AI Nation States. Feeling in tune with Machines like Cars. Cyberpunk. Solarpunk. Optimism for the future.

Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 4h

The Other Skies, Same Airspace: Military Uses of the Nonhuman in Speculative Fiction @octocon.bsky.social talk with Cristina Diamant and Iuliia Ibragimova was really cool

Beserkers! Sentient ships. Post-human. Cyborgs. AI. Cloned intelligence. Chrono-normativity ..more

#Octocon #SciFi #Ireland

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Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 4h

He is the one! :-)

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Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 6h

The online Many Shades of Villainy @octocon.bsky.social
panel discussed a lot incl Certified comfortable villains. Charisma. Old vs new worse villains. Humanising. Redeeming. Endings. Character Journeys. Ascended villains. Antagonists. For/against world orders. Antiheroes.

#Octocon #SciFi #Ireland

Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 7h

A quick google for info websites:

[ uberheroes.co.uk ]

and

[ hope4lifeni.org.uk/uberheroes-y... ]

Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 7h

Inspiring @octocon.bsky.social talk on The Power of Comics to Start the Conversation by Dee Nixon & Holly O'Brien of UberHeroes NI

Incl Supporting Children & Young People, Mental health, Trauma, resilience, Physical activity, hope, processing time, 2nd-order false beliefs

#Octocon #SciFi #Ireland

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Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 8h

The @octocon.bsky.social What If... panel had some cool discussions on Freewill/determinism, History as a river/stream, Tailoring a What If to an audience, Empire, Handling big changes, Losing meaning, Overdone What Ifs, Socialising, Lost lands and Reality perceptions.

#Octocon #SciFi #Ireland

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Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 10h

Enjoyed the @octocon.bsky.social talk: Not the Usual Tricksters: Starting with the Middle Ages with Gillian Polack @gillianpolack.bsky.social

Incl lewd buffoons/fart Jokes, criticising establishments, Robin Hood, cultures/religions, Irish tricksters, behaviour versus acts

#Octocon #SciFi #Ireland

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Octocon @octocon.bsky.social · 14h

Wakey wakey, everybody. It's #Octocon time!

#Octocon2025 #Fantasy #Scifi #Fandom #Cosplay #ScifFiConvention #ReadingCommunity #WritingCommunity #comics

a penguin in a snowflake sweater is holding a mirror and spoon

Alt: a penguin in a snowflake sweater is holding a mirror and spoon

media.tenor.com

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 1d

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Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 1d

:-D

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 11d

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Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 2d

I just completed an activity with Runkeeper runkeeper.com/cardio/9d263...

I just completed an activity with Runkeeper https://runkeeper.com/cardio/9d26381f-1f87-4bc8-873d-273a9e23a514

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 2d

watching this was such a fun way to learn a little about Ethernet

TracketPacer @tracketpacer.bsky.social · 2d

what happens if u cut 4 wires out of an ethernet cable & then plug it into yr PC

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Octocon @octocon.bsky.social · 2d

Who will you find at #Octocon2025 ? All our wonderful guests of course. Check out who's coming to #Octocon this year!

https://2025.octocon.com/octocon-guests/

#SciFi #Fantasy #Fandom #ReadingCommunity #Cosplay #Comics #WritingCommunity

Octo the Octopus dressed as a reporting wearing a hat that says Press and holding a microphone.

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Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 2d

I just completed an activity with Runkeeper runkeeper.com/cardio/e867f...

I just completed an activity with Runkeeper https://runkeeper.com/cardio/e867f192-13ab-4ab5-b1ba-4924f8c7e642

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 3d

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

Screen shot of Project Monarch app map of progress of a monarch butterfly from southern Ontario to Oklahoma.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 15d

With MOTUS tag on board, the monarch is released! It immediately flew straight up, did a couple of circles to re-orient and then went about its butterfly business. There’s so much to learn about monarch migration and tracking individuals like this beauty is an important source of data! (4/4)

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 15d

UPDATE: I saw it happen! At the Birds Canada research station at the tip of Long Point I watched an expert ever-so-gently and carefully put one of these tiny tags on a monarch. Let me walk you through the steps (1/4)

Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 21d

So cool to visit the Motus workshop at Birds Canada headquarters. The Motus community is studying the movement of birds, bats and insects. This tiny radio telemetry device will fit on a Monarch butterfly 😲 #invertebrates #birds 🌿 www.birdscanada.org/bird-science...

Brown wood-sided building with a wi Dow and a door. Sign above the door says, “Motus Workshop and Research Laboratory”.

Tiny antenna with a rectangular box on the end. The whole thing is on an open hand and is about 5cm long.

Orange and black butterfly on purple flowers.

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Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 3d

Taking the Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot for a Spin | What The Future

[ www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwga... ]

Taking the Unitree G1 Humanoid Robot for a Spin | What The Future

YouTube video by CNET

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 4d

You can buy a unitree g1 on Walmart now, wtf www.walmart.com/ip/Unitree-G...

Robot or human?

www.walmart.com

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Sarah Drasner @sarahedo.bsky.social · 5d

💥 did a small drawing explaining the JS execution model including the event loop. I hope it’s helpful to folks. Debugging is always easier when the underlying implementations are understood.

Drawing explaining the JS execution model and event loop

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Paul Mara @paulmara.bsky.social · 4d

That's a really cool illustration. I can't think of any I've seen like it that weren't part of a tech scene in a tv show or film.

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CSS by T. Afif @css-only.dev · 5d

Here is my idea with less of code

css-tip.com/tooltip-anch...

The trick is to play with the margin property to show/hide the arrows.

cc @una.im @bram.us

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Andrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 10d

CNSA has released an image of Tianwen-2 in deep space using a robotic arm, giving us a proper look at the spacecraft and return capsule for delivering samples from near Earth asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa. Tianwen-2 has been in space for 125 days, is 45 million km from Kamoʻoalewa.

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