@nerdlings #ICYMI this week's #MiniatureHighlights has more treats in store!

@lonespelunker 's completion of his #LordOfTheRings army
https://mastodon.social/@lonespelunker/114447574803308283

@mylulei 's popping blue bowchosen warriors https://mastodon.pnpde.social/@mylulei/114478644753367239

@peppepperoni 's big stompy #BattleTech machines
https://metalhead.club/@peppepperoni/114454960783975776

@pidgeon_pete 's striking paint schemes on her equally striking own sculpts: https://mas.to/@pidgeon_pete/114449484960831114

I #HobbyVerse

#ICYMI: As we struggle to make sense of the Trump resurrection and supporters of Poilievre, words seem to fail us.

“Fascism,” “authoritarianism” and “populism” are bandied about, but they fail to adequately reflect how conservatives in North America seek and hold power.

Crawford Kilian writes.

https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2025/05/01/What-God-Name-Happening-Politics/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial

#ICYMI: Here's part 2 of our article series documenting conditions at Dheisheh refugee camp in the occupied Palestinian West Bank and hearing stories from Palestinian activists resisting the ongoing Israeli occupation.

https://unicornriot.ninja/2025/a-people-on-the-brink-life-and-death-in-dheisheh-camp-pt-2/

#ICYMI: The rise of end times fascism

The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. Our task is to build a movement strong enough to stop them

From Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/apr/13/end-times-fascism-far-right-trump-musk

#ICYMI: Last month, I chatted to Jeremy Hadall from the Satellite Applications Catapult about #robots in orbit.

Catch up here - https://www.robottalk.org/2025/04/11/episode-117-jeremy-hadall/ or wherever you get your podcasts!

#ICYMI - #SNL
#saturdaynightlive
#weekendupdate

#Trump Shares #AIGenerated Image of Himself as #Pope
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vj8lVuEUjlI

#Diddy’s Trial Kicks Off, #USNavy Loses #FighterJet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWb03wGXOwY

Michael Longfellow on #RealID
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsRaQ6a2s9U

Two #Applebees #Barflies Darlene and Duke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeAvG1FrUqg

In case you missed it... here are some of the stories featured on SustainabilityOnline.net over the past week. Featuring news from Mace, Glimpact, European Audiovisual Observatory, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and more.

Keep up to date with all the latest news and insights at www.sustainabilityonline.net – a business news website with a sustainable mindset. #icymi #news #business #sustainability #esg

Sen. Elizabeth Warren has this list of Trump's "100 corrupt acts in 100 days":
https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-warren-reads-100-acts-of-trump-corruption-into-congressional-record-to-mark-100-days-of-the-trump-administration
#ICYMI #Trump #WorstPresidentEver #politics

#ICYMI: On this week's #SETILive, Franck chatted with scientists Artem Y. Burdanov and Julien de Wit from MIT about how they used #JWST to find 138 small asteroids, improving our #planetarydefense capabilities. Watch the full interview: https://youtube.com/live/Igqlj7rsxqw

@nerdlings #ICYMI, today's second #MiniatureHighlights, third post with this double feature :D

@pixelworship 's battle bot https://gamepad.club/@pixelworship/114434118270927897

@r.morgan105 's robo tentacle dude https://metapixl.com/p/r.morgan105/823755587252091583

@Slyphic 's #HeavyGear robot assassin https://mastodon.wssmagazine.com/@Slyphic/114421909602627787

@xombiehamster 's #40k battle nun on gigantic hero rock https://mastodon.social/@xombiehamster/114415950506709506

#HobbyVerse overflowing with so much goodness!

#Nerdlings
#MiniaturePainting
#MiniPainting
#PaintingMinis
#WarhammerSocial 2/2

@nerdlings #ICYMI, today's 2nd #MiniatureHighlights, double featuring bcs prolific posts!

@andy 's brilliant diorama (which MUST win for seagulls' sake): https://social.4142.io/@andy/114433764582518644

@hanksha_miniature_painting 's #Underworlds skaven: https://mastodon.social/@hanksha_miniature_painting/114425538622652860

@minx 's brave stikkbomb wielding grot: https://eldritch.cafe/@minx/114416201936803030

@onarollgames 's Labour Day Workers' Army Dwarfs https://dice.camp/@onarollgames/114434216721930678

#HobbyVerse overload!

#Nerdlings
#MiniaturePainting
#MiniPainting
#PaintingMinis
#WarhammerSocial 1/2

@nerdlings, #ICYMI, I missed the #MiniatureHighlights last week, so here's for 2w back!

@coreworlder 's angry #AoS bronze age warriors: https://dice.camp/@coreworlder/114386632885627510

@iris_of_ether 's lovely #DungeonMeshi Marcille: https://kind.social/@iris_of_ether/114385035982576525

@madcollector 's #marvelzombies power couple https://retro.pizza/@madcollector/114365259884626151

@Shine_McShine 's #ToW empire clubber https://neopaquita.es/@Shine_McShine/114366099158672616

This was a very active #HobbyVerse week!

#Nerdlings
#MiniaturePainting
#MiniPainting
#PaintingMinis
#WarhammerSocial

#ICYMI from my #blog: "Beltane Tarot Spread 2025."
https://itinerantlibrarian.wordpress.com/2025/04/30/beltane-tarot-spread-2025/

#ICYMI Interview with the #IJCAI2025 Ethics Chair: Prof. Marija Slavkovik, active in multi-agent systems, machine ethics, and computational social choice: https://www.uib.no/en/svf/172637/professor-slavkovik-ai-key-better-future

#ICYMI: Thanks to a quick-thinking netizen, authorities were able to arrest and convict a man who had been exploiting minors online and in person.

In May 2023, a concerned citizen reached out to the Philippine National Police (PNP) via one of their Facebook pages, reporting Teddy Jay Mejia for suspicious activities. Investigations revealed that Mejia was involved in producing and selling child sexual abuse materials.

Read more: https://www.gameops.net/2025/03/filipino-authorities-bring-down-online-predator.html

#ICYMI: Last month, I chatted to Dr. Tanja Katharina Kaiser from the University of Technology Nuremberg about evolving multi-robot teams.

Catch up here - https://www.robottalk.org/2025/04/04/episode-116-tanja-katharina-kaiser/ or wherever you get your podcasts!

#ICYMI: Deception, exploited workers, and cash handouts: How Worldcoin recruited its first half a million test users

The startup promises a fairly-distributed, cryptocurrency-based universal basic income. So far all it's done is build a biometric database from the bodies of the poor.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/06/1048981/worldcoin-cryptocurrency-biometrics-web3/

#ICYMI new video on my YouTube channel: "Black Punk Now: an Under 5 Review."
https://youtu.be/e_ZcuENG0wM?si=phtqPm3llL6O5i0h

#Under5Reviews where I tell you about a book and help you decide to read it or not in under 5 minutes.

#books #reading #ItinerantLibrarian #BookReview #reviews #punk #Black #video #bookstodon #BlackMastodon

@bookstodon

#ICYMI: World’s Top 111 Corporations Have Caused $28T in Climate Damages, Study Finds

Study authors seek to attribute climate damages to individual corporate polluters in order to hold them accountable.

https://truthout.org/articles/worlds-top-111-corporations-have-caused-28t-in-climate-damages-study-finds/

#ICYMI: Tyee reporters visited some key riding events in B.C. and filed the reports below.

#CdnElxn2025

https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/04/28/Join-Us-This-Election-Night/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial