Eric L-M Shuman
@barzai.com
Historian ecologist; astronomy and experiential learning. Masters (Ancient Mediterranean). 🎲🌌🏺♻️🪔🌱🖖🦬 linktr.ee/barzaiObservatory
GameHoleCon 2026, THANK YOU so much for playing my game! It feels great to share Stars Eternal with the world. In Flight of the Demeter, one player said he'd never laughed so much at a convention game. In Gruverius Station -- WOW! What a world built in 90 minutes! TYSM!!!
@rhysyorke.bsky.social Hi Rhys! We chatted earlier this afternoon -- love your work.
You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)
Here‘s the whole sequence of my profile picture, starring Ozymandias.
Mickey’s in Cognitive Decline@mickeybiz.bsky.social · yesterdayPost your profile pic
I must say, “so-and-so led with contempt instead of curiosity” at least twice a week to explain why I don’t work with someone or like someone or trust someone. It’s vital.
MyCupOfTeaLCSW@mycupoftealcsw.bsky.social · yesterdayI totally agree. One of the things I probably say the most in my practice is the importance of being adaptable. That and curiosity are such essential emotional and intellectual muscles that are often atrophied in many people
For those whose political work consist mainly of electoral campaigns in blue districts, the terrain for fighting fascism can appear to be "elsewhere." But by attending to conditions that make fascism flourish, as @prisonculture.bsky.social does here, we can see there's so much work to be done here.
Stars Eternal about ready to hit the road for GameHoleCon 2026 — catch us in Madison, Thursday and Friday. Are you ready for Star Time‽
My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet
Stacey Abrams, President of Earth, launches the next Discovery.
The Spaceshipper 🚀@thespaceshipper.com · 3d agoStar Trek will wrap up its third era next year (the Roddenberry era, the Berman era, the Kurtzman era - Yes, that's a gross oversimplification). What would you like the next era of Trek to be like?
America was an empty mall. America was shoddy caulk oozing from a vinyl arc in a historic heatwave. America was a brutishly redacted Frederick Douglass speech on foam posterboard in a tractor trailer Freedom Truck. America was not even selling corndogs. www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
How Defunding the Arts Wrought Civic Disintegration
What Was America?: Art, Culture, and Politics in the Bicentennial Era tackles United States’ most ambitious cultural project: the bicentennial.
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I went to look at my photo albums and the first documentary evidence is Spring of the tear I turned four.
Gail Simone@gailsimone.bsky.social · 4d agoQUESTION OF THE DAY: This sounds like a joke question, but it isn’t. If it doesn’t apply to you, fine. But it’s a serious question with different levels of meaning. And I am genuinely curious. When did you first realize you were weird?
"Ahhhhh... bitter dregs" 🎶 Happy TOSS Birthday to Meyer Dolinsky, who wrote Plato's Stepchildren. #TOSSatNight
We all marched and protested against invading Iraq in 2003. The question, now that the Post-War Modern Era is Absofuckinglutely Over, is: What were the missed opportunities and bad decisions that took us from Eleanor Roosevelt to Donald Trump (1945–2024)? “Where do we go from here?”
Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof@evanbernick.bsky.social · 3d agoI am entirely serious when I say that this should be seen as a moderate position. It specifically and surgically dismantles institutions that did not exist pre-9/11 and assigns their functions much as they were assigned pre-9/11.
double self portrait as silhouette by kitchen coplight
Stars Eternal about ready to hit the road for GameHoleCon 2026 — catch us in Madison, Thursday and Friday. Are you ready for Star Time‽
The @illinoisdot.bsky.social - NIU partnership establishes NIU’s Northern Illinois Roadside Ecology Program, assembling researchers to study how transportation projects affect wetlands, wildlife habitats, endangered species and surrounding communities. www.rockfordnewsfirst.com/2026/10/13/n...
NIU, IDOT announce $40M research project to protect environment during road construction
NIU and IDOT are launching a partnership to study how road construction affects wildlife, wetlands and communities across northern Illinois.
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No one: Absolutely no one: Mina Harker:
Maggie Tokuda-Hall@maggietokudahall.bsky.social · 6d agoYOU GUYS TRAINS ARE AWESOME WHY ARENT THERE MORE OF THEM
tern: "Ten ways COVID denialists use exactly the same playbook as climate change denialists to justify doing nothing:"
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@1goodtern: Ten ways covid denialists use exactly the same playbook as climate change denialists to justify doing nothing:
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And in an increasingly complex society in collapse, we are going to need more expertise, not less. There's no way that we as individuals can know all that we will need to know to survive the coming years.
I've been immersed in research on Reconstruction in Lousiana and it's a very difficult truth to absorb that the white terrorist movement in the South was among the most successful terrorist movements in global history. Took 10 years but it won a total & complete victory through murder and atrocity.
After more than 200 years, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is coming home! I am proud to have worked with Chairman Rupnick to secure $1M to build a Tribal Government headquarters here, on Illinois soil. Honored to have played a small role in this long-overdue homecoming.
It was built by someone trained by/school of Archimedes. It featured differential gears way ahead of their time, a hand crank perpetual calendar. Abt the size of an old laptop, the inside covers were an engraved instruction manual. I did a lot of research on this thing. Love talking about it.
rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · last wk.Divers Found the World’s First Computer in an Ancient Shipwreck www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch...
Ladies and Gentlemen, it gives me great joy to announce that the Ancient Greeks had garden gnomes, as we do in our garden. Athens Archaeological Museum.
CDC moving forward with “wholly unethical trial” in African babies. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
CDC Is Moving Forward With a Previously Shelved Controversial Hepatitis B Vaccine Study
“It’s a wholly unethical trial, and it shouldn’t be allowed,” says Dr. Paul Offit of Guinea-Bissau study
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If you hunt through the code there are some great comments, including this passage from the lunar landing routine that ends with "OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD...". The Wizard of Oz reference has a neat twist: the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West was also named Margaret Hamilton. (6/6)
