DoubtingMichael
@doubtingmichael.bsky.social
I didn't become a software engineer to talk about other people's feelings, but here we are. He/him or they/them if you prefer.
Possibly of interest to some of my friends.
Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc@rahallclifford.bsky.social · 6d agoI just completed my 1 yr participation in the REVERSE-LC trial! Long covid is still with me, but I'm SO MUCH BETTER than I was a year ago. Friends with LC, please don't give up! More help is coming. For those that don't have it, pls vax n mask as you're able. Trust me, long covid sucks
Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Cosmologist: quantum fluctuations in the post-Inflation early universe were magnified to voids millions of years across. Or six months.
Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 2w agoInterviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? John Cage:
This morning, the D&D team and Magic's Studio X informed our leadership of our intent to unionize. We love the games we make and the work we do, and unionizing is how we protect that work. unitedwizardsofthecoast.com/news/dnd-stu...
Dungeons & Dragons and Studio X Join United Wizards of the Coast - CWA
Today, October 6, 2026, the designers, artists, writers, producers, and workers behind Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Duel Masters, D&D Beyond, and countless other games are uniting in soli...
unitedwizardsofthecoast.com
Dear Google Photos: if you're going to put together a cat album for me called "The One and Only", please try to make sure they are all of the same cat. Because there are quite a lot of black and white cats out there, as well as two in this house.
What I'm bringing to the job interview
Jess Nevins@jessnevins.bsky.social · 4w agoWhat I'm bringing to the job interview
If you see this post a beach photo from your phone.
GHOSTopher Bird@mightygodking.com · last mo.if you see this post a beach photo from your phone
Naga naga naga naga Naga naga naga naga Snakeman!! I woke up with this running through my head, and I don't see why it should be just me. (It's the Adam West Batman theme tune, if you were wondering.)
Minor frustration: I keep seeing posters for a film called Digger, and every time I have a moment of hope, and have to remind myself that it's not an adaptation of @tkingfisher.com 's wonderful graphic novel. Mind you, given it stars Tom Cruise, maybe the alternative would be worse.
The Akkadian/Sumerian poet Enheduanna (2285-2250 BC) is the world’s first named author. #CelebratingWomen
Dear UK government: emergency alerts are for things that are going to kill people imminently unless they take immediate action. They are not for warning against barbecues. You have an entire state and commercial media apparatus with which to disperse the second, non-emergency sort of message.
I am going to want to tell people about this some time.
James Felton@jimmfelton.bsky.social · 4mo agoI find the story of Hegelochus unreasonably funny. Imagine dying and the only trace of you millennia later is the time you accidentally said you saw a weasel in a tragic play in front of a packed audience, because people mocked you about it for centuries. (Thread for ease)
haven’t seen America this thoroughly embarrassed on the world stage since we lost that war we started with Iran like 3 weeks ago
Dear Mr Pop, while I enjoyed your track "Caesar", its references to both the Ides of March and Christians (for throwing to lions) shows an incoherent approach to Roman History that I do not expect from a leading septuagenarian punk rocker. Please do better. Yours etc.
You've had your last hundred haircuts.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4mo agoyou've leaded your last zeppelin
Excellent. Including the idea that Pythagoras based his ideas on data.
Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🎃 🌕@chronicleflask.katday.com · 5mo agoLove this bit on Ai from the Royal Society. A classic case of the probability engine getting itself in a mess and revealing its complete lack of understanding
This reminds me of my favorite Beatles factoid. These are the most common non-trivial words in the lyrics written by each member: PAUL: 1) love 2) know GEORGE: 1) love 2)know JOHN: 1) know 2) love RINGO: 1) octopus's 2) garden
He points out below that these are to scale. I always have trouble wrapping my head round these size comparisons, so this is great.
Paul Byrne@theplanetaryguy.com · 5mo agoThis is a composite of the Moon, Mars, and Earth I made. The Moon and Earth are from Artemis II, and Mars is from the Psyche mission. Each image was taken *in the last six weeks*
This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...
It's embarrassing. Literally. That word up there beginning with E.
Merriam-Webster@merriam-webster.com · 6mo agoWhat word is your spelling nemesis? This is a safe space.
My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"
Name Four Non-Person Things That Make Your Life Livable: 1) Music. 2) Boardgames. 3) Maths. (Can't do it, love to read about it.) 4) Running.
I quite like living in a town with urban foxes, but they're getting a bit cocky, occupying human spaces in broad daylight.
