Glasgow 2024 – a Worldcon for our Futures – though perhaps not disabled futures. marikness.wordpress.com/2024/09/22/g...
(Posting this several weeks after the convention partly because I was hoping to have some sort of statement from the conrunners, a statement that at this point does not appear to be forthcoming.) G…
Thanks! I had no such problems as the only female in most of my honours computer science classes. But the Doctor Who society initial experiences put me off that completely.
There was a Doctor Who society at St Andrews when I was there in 1990, so a little younger, but I'm not sure if it's the same society there today! I gave up on it after being unpleasantly hit on by a fellow society member during my first meeting! As a female fan I decided I had better things to do.
Absolutely!
New DNA-based findings about the Franklin expedition lost in 1848. Warning: includes cannibalism. But fascinating research. arstechnica.com/culture/2024...
Scientists matched DNA of living descendent to Capt. James Fitzjames of the HMS Erebus.
Full of cold and sleeping masses at mo due to my progressive neurological disease. But delighted to wake 4.30pm just in time for 5pm Jacobite Studies Trust Workshop event organised by @funkyplaid.bsky.social Inspiring & exciting research possibilities discussed by Dr Clare Loughlin at Aberdeen Uni.
Looking at downloading MacOS 15 (Sequoia) - quite an upgrade from my MacOS 12 (Monterey). And boggling at just how many hours it would have taken to download the nearly 15GB update file on our home broadband before we upgraded to part fibre recently, and downloads increased tenfold ...
Vintage TV adverts for classic British comics found in Dundee basement www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The collection of 1950s adverts for comics like Bunty, Jackie and the Dandy have been archived online.
Some photos from my husband's Saturday afternoon walk in the Dighty Burn wooded river valley near our home in eastern Dundee, Scotland 📷📸🎞️🪶
A speckled wood butterfly seen near the Dighty Burn in Monifieth, Dundee. Two others were spotted spiralling around each other as they flew about. 📷📸🎞️ #ukwildlife#butterfly#butterflies
