Who knew ridiculously long deployments and demanding op tempos run a ship and crew into the ground!
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h agoKeeping people constantly deployed has a mounting cost. www.ms.now/news/conditi...
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Voth enthusiast. G1 Ponies are awesome. Jumpchain Enjoyer. PFP by Baja ( @baja.bsky.social )
Patrick Chovanec@prchovanec.bsky.social · 7h ago
Here is Rose Harper's personnel file from #StarTrekSNW's "The Griffin Incident"⬆️. As can be seen, Harper previously served on the USS Exeter, Captain Ronald Tracey's ship from the #StarTrekTOS episode "The Omega Glory" (here in the remastered version of the episode ⬇️).
I don’t get a lot of opportunity to share the peacock-turkey battle photo I took last year, it looked like a dinosaur showdown:
Please call it the Freedom Party. Don't Google it first, just do it.
David Gilbert@davidgilbert.bsky.social · 7h agoNEW A group of anti-Trump MAGA figures are prepping to run a third-party candidate for president in 2028. The name at the top of their list: Tucker Carlson www.wired.com/story/maga-i...
The specific focus in this video on the way these tools get under your skin and train you to depend on them is an aspect I personally find existentially terrifying. youtu.be/TtvICev9sBE?...
The Hank Green Situation is Weird and Sad
YouTube video by Regular Eyepatch Wolf
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This little drone design is up for $$$ offers if anyone wants them. I imagine they are sent to scout environments normally too hostile for other machinery, so they have limited transforming abilities to adapt (flight mode and swimming mode.)
Kieran@toadally.bsky.social · 22h agoAlien Drone Getting Ahead Of Itself
🌌 From stable wormholes to first contact with the Borg, the 24th century contains a multitude of Star Trek’s™’s most defining events. Tell your own Star Trek™ stories from the era in The 24th Century Campaign Guide, available for preorder now. UK: buff.ly/mpYANKH US: buff.ly/U230eUp #StarTrek
As Spiritographers, we've documented Spirits from countless different worlds, each bringing their own stories and quirks with them. Even after all these years, however, there are still a handful whose origins remain a complete mystery. Kindlestar is one such Spirit. 💙⭐
New Evidence Suggests Dinosaurs Had Quinceañeras https://theonion.com/new-evidence-suggests-dinosaurs-had-quinceaneras/
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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El-Sayed, an epidemiologist, backs Medicare for all and decries corporate money in politics. He beat Rep. Haley Stevens, whose supporters said she would have had a better chance in the fall. n.pr/4fTo83l
Progressive Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan's Democratic primary for Senate
El-Sayed, an epidemiologist, backs Medicare for all and decries corporate money in politics. He beat Rep. Haley Stevens, whose supporters said she would have had a better chance in the fall.
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We're not quite at the IXION (2022) level of "the moon gets destroyed by a billionaire" 🤏
The moon is destroyed | IXION | Prologue cut scene | game clip
YouTube video by VideoWorld
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Jon Dear@accordingtojond.bsky.social · 13h agoEvery day is like shit Quatermass now.
I saw one of his pieces at the Palm Springs Art Museum and it was fabulous
Sarah Archer@sarcher.bsky.social · yesterdayIt's Textile Tuesday, and you know what that means: a piece by artist Faig Ahmed called "The Dragons of Karabakh" that's woven to look like an antique Central Asian carpet is melting off the wall into a puddle. More about the artist here: faigahmed.com
I've decided to publish a #BattleTech campaign system I was working on to Itch. I'd say it's about 80% rules complete, but I've not been able to play-test it myself. If you were looking for something a little different from Chaos Campaigns, maybe give it a go? avernus-labs.itch.io/battletech-f...
BattleTech: Frontline v0.8 by Avernus Labs
A fan-made campaign system for BattleTech
avernus-labs.itch.io
Posting these lovely character sheets I commissioned from the talented Emily Stepp! @emilyart.bsky.social #dinosaurart #creatureart #dinosauroid #seism
Gonna start a little thread for my historical fiction project #PARADOXICA Set in late victorian England, Time travel to the mesozoic has become quite the industry, for both scientific research and (for better or for worse,) tourism. Here we have Lana Carter taking her friends dromeosaur for a walk 😇
Check out August's free short stories over on our webstore! Get your copies before they are removed from the store forever on August 31st! bit.ly/SR-FF-Emergen... bit.ly/BT-FF-Targets-Up #fiction #free #shortstory #Shadowrun #BattleTech #mecha #cyberpunk
Pretty accomplished: queer.newark.rutgers.edu/interviews/u...
Ulysses Dietz | Queer Newark
Ulysses Grant Dietz served as curator of Decorative Arts at The Newark Museum from 1980 until 2017, and was appointed Chief Curator in 2012. As the curator of 114 exhibitions covering all aspects of t...
queer.newark.rutgers.edu
Zebulon Vitruvius Pike@vitruviuspike.bsky.social · yesterday
SpaceX rocket's upper stage is set to unintentionally crash into the Moon on Wednesday. The collision poses no danger to Earth but will leave behind a lunar crater u.afp.com/SHSp
One of the great joys of running a Vampire chronicle for people who have never played Vampire before is tossing them into a stew of contradictory conspiracies. Vampires love to present themselves as erudite and sophisticated, but they have very little evidence about their own supernatural world. +
"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo
![The firm is fully owned by Jared Kushner and has a staff of approximately 20 people.[2][5] By 2024, the firm had returned no profits to its investors.[6] The firm has been controversial due to conflicts of interests arising from Kushner soliciting funds from Middle Eastern governments while also working as an envoy having direct and indirect dealings with those governments in his role in the second Trump administration.[7] According to reporting by Bloomberg News, investors in the firm do so with the expectation of influencing the Trump administration.[8]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2jjromh55tf7pp7s4hsvurf4/bafkreihebdzjog2hp37o2q3enjyrsi46btqktev76ogpneczsrrzl55fo4)
Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterdayEA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...
