Alex G
@alexiterick.bsky.social
Scientist, board gamer, SFF fan, cyclist, lapsed rower, cryptoclassicist, lingthusiast, fiddle player.
These are great! I have my grandfather's old one somewhere (he was in the US Navy in the early 1950s).
Lucy Bellwood@lubellwoo.bsky.social · 3mo agoEasily one of the best things anyone’s ever sent me: a spinning semaphore guide! If you flip him over the little fella’s facing away from you so you can do sending flags one way and receiving flags the other.
I think the French translator got the wrong sense of "ground breaking" here... (The skeleton is literally breaking out of the ground)
every fiction book i've bought this year has been because someone on here posted about it. Not once have i regretted it. if you like a book TELL THE WORLD. this post brought to you by Ada Palmer's Too Like the Lightning which is MAGNIFICENT. Go read it. my thanks to whoever shared that on my feed
Pick up the nearest group, turn to p.42, and post the second sentence. "Any hint of negativity will be compensated for in another area"
Piccolo Seaplanes@wildblueponder.bsky.social · 6mo agoPick up the nearest book, turn to p. 42, and post the second sentence: "Funerary stelae from Abydos and elsewhere often invoke Wepwawet and Anubis alongside Osiris."
A kindle sale!! Get it now! It’s ebook is annoyingly expensive so this is great!!!
Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey@beamjockey.bsky.social · 10mo agoA little bird's tipped me off: Ada Palmer's fantastic book INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE is on sale for $3.99 in its Kindle incarnation. I already have a hardback, thanks, but e-book lovers on tight budgets, curious about the Big R, may wish to acquire @adapalmer.bsky.social's much-talked-about tome.
Is this where Bari Weiss is trying to put the 60 Minutes special?
I'm fender critical. Not stowing fenders while under way is lazy, inefficient and an obvious sign of poor seamanship.
M.O.D.O.X.@modox613.bsky.social · 11mo agoI’m bender critical. Spending extended periods of time drunk and/or high not only won’t help your circumstances, it’s not even particularly fun.
NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) is now accepting applications #chemsummer #chemsky 🧪⚗️ www.nist.gov/surf
Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
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Another thing about everyone on Bluesky besides us all being 38 and all liking Star Trek Deep Space 9 is that we all live in Philadelphia
Importing the archive: The New Scientist is the only source of band names you’ll ever need. #newscientistbandnames
Advice for new BlueSky users: DON'T ASK US ABOUT: rocks troll's with sticks All sorts of dragons Mrs. Cake Huje green things with teeth Any kinds of black dogs with orange eyebrows Rains of spaniel's fog. Mrs. Cake
Bo Thompson@gaudipern.bsky.social · 2y agoAdvice for new BlueSky users: Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
If you're placing callers on hold and playing music, just let the music play. You don't have to have it pause it every two minutes to play the recording reminding me to stay on the line and someone will be with me soon. All that does is get my hopes up that an actual human is coming to save me.
Denethor gave up without a fight because he spent too much time staring into a telecommunications device that only showed him the most frightening and depressing information. Don't be like Denethor.