Raqefet Cave in Israel was a sacred burial site for the hunter-gatherer culture known as the 'Natufians' around 13,000 years ago. More recently, we've also discovered here the earliest evidence of BEER BREWING from grains. Even more remarkable because these people HADN'T INVENTED AGRICULTURE YET.

Traces of 13,000-Year-Old Beer Found in Israel

According to the authors of a new study, the discovery marks the earliest-known evidence of beer production among ancient peoples

smithsonianmag.com

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Sen, but Spooky@dresdencodak.com · 6d ago

The Klingons are great when you realize they're not really a warrior race as much as they are a bunch of theater people with knives

It’s a very short outline for an adventure, but it’s kinda fun!

Kevin Sonney@sonney.com · 4d ago

It's ASTARION day! Did you see that @tkingfisher.com wrote a 1-shot adventure to go with it? You can get it as part of the Book Club Kit at bg3books.com/book-club-kits

It was terrible to be a sadist's plaything. It was infinitely worse to be their only plaything. #bg3 #astarion #BaldursGate3Astarion @tkingfisher.com

IP asks you to thread a needle, to write a story everyone knows, and in some cases are extremely...passionate about, and it's difficult to pull off. @tkingfisher.com pulls it off.

@tkingfisher.com wrote a character who is doomed, who knows he's doomed, and who WE know is doomed, but it's Hadestown: we all think it might turn out this time.

The best way I can describe Astarion in ASTARION is that he's...desperate for who he was, even though that person has been stolen, vivisected, and put through a cheese grater.

Bex@musicgamer460.bsky.social · 4d ago

www.bookfrenzi.com/fantasy/bald... here it is, my thoughts on Baldur's Gate 3: Astarion by @tkingfisher.com it's good, it's really really good but it is also DARK!! This story is not for the faint of heart (I'm deadly serious!) but it is still so GOOD! Hope you enjoy it :)

Go read Diane’s books! Seriously, they are the best!

Diane Duane@diane.dianeduane.com · 3d ago

Over at #Ebooks Direct: our #Autumn #Sale is on! All our #sciencefiction and #fantasy #ebook bundles have had prices cut to make it easier for you to pick up some new-season reading. And you get our free lifetime replacement guarantee! Do stop by and take advantage of us. dduane.link/AutumnEbookS...

lot going on with ruk, the 500,000 year old genderfucky semiamnesiac android eugenicist who kinda looks like if mrs doubtfire was a nosferatu.

emily blight 🐦‍⬛@threnody.northsky.social · 3d ago

goddamn it, i would also wear andrea android’s slutty color-blocked robo-romper. they should invent an emily who is 22 and has ample time after work to hang out at the docks.

Annie sometimes needs meds that need to go in wet food. The problem is, if she's getting wet food, I have to give some to Rogue or she will attempt to steal. Or I have to put Rogue in another room until Annie is done eating. But I have found wet food Annie likes but Rogue refuses to touch XD

Last year I had to go through airport security with a cooler bag full of frozen cattle hair samples. This year it will be frozen cattle hair and liver samples. Can't wait to see the look on airport security's face this time XD (It's for science reasons, easiest way to bring the samples back)

a very common phenomenon is people rejecting the conclusions of propaganda, but accepting the premises. you can passionately disagree about how the trans problem should be handled, and it will still keep you from asking "what do you mean, 'trans problem?'"

Squeaky Llama🏳️‍⚧️@squeakyllama.bsky.social · 5d ago

I think people need to remember propagand operates via emotional manipulation, when they say "you are not immune to propaganda" it doesn't means that you could be fooled by some fox news bullshit, but to be aware of someone trying to manipulate your feelings to sell you ideology.

and behold a pale horse. and the name that sat on him was death. and hell followed with him

Meta's "Muse" launched with a nasty zero day flaw that gave hackers the ability to spy on Mac users, openly gives root access to people pretending to be Muse agents, and invited strangers over to another guy's house without telling him

Meta's Latest AI Product Is A Terrifying And Hilarious Mess

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable

karlbode.com

I posit as a trans man that the reward is that you get to fall peacefully asleep at night instead of lying there mortifyingly aware you could have intervened and did not.

Hannah Vardit@hannahvardit.bsky.social · 5d ago

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

OMG, @seananmcguire.bsky.social have you seen this?

Tom Larkin@tomlarkin.bsky.social · 6d ago

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

Hell yeah it’s another book birthday! Time to dive into @seananmcguire.bsky.social’s latest October Daye book :)

The 12yo has declared it Terre-de-Haut Racer Awareness Day! This endangered snake only lives on 2 small islands in the Lesser Antilles: Terre-de-Haut and Terre-de-Bas. It feeds on lizards & small rodents. It can reach a metre in length. Harmless but might release a “cloacal secretion” if disturbed.

Terre-de-Haut racer - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Very proud of the amazing Dr @ordinarystarman.com who has now graduated and can get "Dr" on all her bank cards. Also not everyday you hear someone you work with on the radio because they're the first Samoan PhD in astrophysics from UoA: www.rnz.co.nz/news/pacific...

First Samoan astrophysicist encourages Pasifika students to reach for the stars

The first Samoan person to graduate with a PhD in physics at the University of Auckland has encouraged Pasifika students to remember that they belong and can succeed in academia.

rnz.co.nz

My Dungeon Denizens pre-order shop is now open and includes these 1.5" Dungeon Crawler Carl pins! 😁🥳 dungeon-denizens-13258.backerkit.com/hosted_preor... #artShop #fanArt

What an absolute legend www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bodhana Sivanandan: British schoolgirl becomes youngest woman grandmaster

The 11-year-old has broken another chess record after a remarkable performance representing England.

bbc.co.uk

As annoying as it's going to be, I hope in ten years' time we have a robust enough social safety net to catch even the former tradwives whose husbands left them for 18 year olds

Kashana@kashana.blacksky.app · 5d ago

January 2025: I’m a trad wife who thinks women who work should be burned at the stake, please ignore the $50,000 I make on insta posting butter I had my servant churn Today: did you know women are people? I promise never to sell you gals out again unless its convenient

The "social contagion" thing drives me screaming angry. When I was young I had no clue trans ppl existed. I'd never met anyone trans. I saw cruel caricatures in pop culture occasionally. When I realized trans was a thing someone could be, it hit like a lightning bolt. My life felt newly possible.

*panicked yelp*

Sarah Andersen@sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · last wk.

thank you, Bluesky, for being my pumpkin full of frozen raw meat in my enclosure

jadehawk "FREE ŁINK"@jadehawk.bsky.social · 7d ago

ah. you are the zoo tigers: requires large habitat with lots to pounce on and a regularly provided pumpkin full of raw meat as enrichment activity

fun fact: one of the things that made me decide "no, I will get an actual diagnosis", rather than just assuming, was the subtitle of a thread about ADHD on the SomethingAwful forums because it hit so hard it hurt it was along the lines of "if you were lazy, you would be having fun"

Ghostly Bree@mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6d ago

for fucking REAL. the depth of trauma for those undiagnosed with ADHD is real. not just the way we feel like we're constantly failing (because everyone is telling us we are) but not understanding WHY because we have no context to understand other people aren't struggling with the things we are.

There's no real point in arguing with his mouth noises, particularly not when preaching to the Bluesky choir, but this is *noteworthy* nonsense. If the revenue were real (it's not), then it would be revenue *of the United States government,* equally available to a Democratic Congress to spend.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "Because of tariffs, we are taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of profits. It's one of the reasons I can offer, if Republicans win the House and Senate, $5,000 to every adult. We can do it and the Democrats can't, because the Democrats don't have any income."

Time for JAMES! Time for confusion and chaos and WAFFLES and the difficulties of dating while a Price (also dating in Portland, which is its own weird thing).