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  1. dea adhd medication

    The DEA's scare tactics likening Adderall prescriptions to the opioid epidemic betrays its addiction to manufacturing drug panics to protect its authority amid the drug war's failures.

    The Drug Enforcement Administration has found a new bogeyman to justify its failed prohibitionist crusade — prescription medication for people with ADHD. — Read the rest

    The post DEA fuels moral panic over ADHD meds to justify its failed drug war appeared first on Boing Boing.

  2. trump maga

    By now the world knows about Donald Trump's crappy day as he snoozed and oozed in the courtroom after airing his grievancesthis morning, and who better to gaslight the ol' fart than the Lincoln Project?

    In fact, the anti-Trump Republican group didn't let any time go to waste. — Read the rest

    The post The Lincoln Project gaslights Donald Trump and his stinky, crappy day (video) appeared first on Boing Boing.

  3. BIble Trump Review

    No one will be surprised that Stinky Donald's Bible is a cheap ripoff, perfectly representing his grift.

    YouTuber Tim Wildsmith got a copy of Trump's "patriotic" Bible. The typeface is hard to read, the paper is cheap, the cover is low quality, and all in all, it is a perfect representation of the salesperson. — Read the rest

    The post Hands-on review of Trump's cheap bible (video) appeared first on Boing Boing.

  4. Atari classic games

    TL;DR:Save 30% on the My Arcade Atari Game Station Pro gaming console, two wireless joysticks, and more than 200 officially licensed titles with a new open-box model: $69.99 (reg. $99.99)!

    Let's play a game: If you could go back to your childhood for just one day, what would you do first? — Read the rest

    The post This $70 officially licensed Atari console comes with 200+ built-in classic games! appeared first on Boing Boing.

  5. Want to take a screenshot that looks like a photograph of a screen taken at a jaunty angle with extreme depth-of-field, like in stock art or whatever? Blurmatic has you covered.

    Throwing my hat into the depth-of-field ring, here's a fun tilty blurry browser demo

    You can select which part of the image is in focus, choose a high, medium or low blurring effect, drag it around to make different angles, and download the results as an image. — Read the rest

    The post Blurmatic makes screenshots with a depth-of-field effect appeared first on Boing Boing.

 

Aliette de Bodard – In the Vanishers’ Palace

 

Somtow Sucharitul – Starship & Haiku

 

Tricia Sullivan – Occupy Me

 

Peter Watts – Maelstrom

 

Charles Stross - The Atrocity Archives

 

S.P. Somtow – I Wake from a Dream of a Drowned Star City

 

Thomas Pynchon – Gravity’s Rainbow

 

Iain Sinclair - Radon Daughters

 

Ken MacLeod - Cosmonaut Keep


Andy Weir - The Martian

 

Ian Sales – Adrift on the Sea of Rains

 

Lavie Tidhar - Central Station

 

Liz Williams - Empire of Bones

 

Doris Lessing - Shikasta

 

Doris Lessing – The Sirian Experiments

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