1. The book I have read the most times is “Constellation Games” by Leonard Richardson. Runner up is…Tombs of Atuan, I think (maybe Stranger in a Strange Land?)

time is a flat circle (positive)

Poem hunt! Late C19/20th, something along the lines of "Be a flower, sweet girl, be a flower / stay [minimising compliment] and neat / Or thrust yourself into a tree and have the world at your feet." Possibly 'be a rose'? But not the E Dickinson Gentian poem. Search skills failing, any clues?

Text adaptation of Andrew Kelley's Software Should Work 2026 keynote andrewkelley.me/post/dont-ta...

I am concerned about C.J. Cherryh, who lives in Spokane WA. I am no longer on Facebook and do not have her personal contact information. Can anyone confirm that she and her partner are safe from the Old Trails Fire?

We must imagine Sisyphus to be a bike messenge.

I’d love a good think piece from one of the Wikimedia organizational sociologists on why/how the only “thank” button *that requires confirmation* is on Wikipedia, a site that nominally loves pro-social behavior.

Hitting this goal will also allow TNN to launch fellowships for particularly marginalized trans journalists, which is desperately needed in this field.

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“Thyroid medicine recalled nationwide” “The Levothyroxine Sodium Tablets [from Major Pharmaceuticals] were recalled because they are subpotent, meaning they are not fully effective” If I’m understanding right, I think this is a generic equivalent for Synthroid. thehill.com/homenews/599...

Thyroid medicine recalled nationwide: FDA

The Levothyroxine Sodium Tablets were recalled because they aren’t fully effective, said the FDA.

thehill.com

The dichotomy of "good UIs don't change lest they surprise and frustrate users" vs "all creations live and change over time, what makes you think software should be any different"

"This Infinity Day, we’re celebrating one of math’s most mind-bending concepts with events nationwide" infinitesums.simonsfoundation.org/events/infin... August 8th: watch out, people may be venturing into infinity IN YOUR AREA! ♾️

Infinity Day

What does it mean for something to go on forever? This Infinity Day, we're celebrating one of math's most mind-bending concepts with events nationwide, and discovering all the surprising corners of…

infinitesums.simonsfoundation.org

There's a joke in software: What idiot wrote this bad code? Oh yeah, me six months ago. As an older, wiser, software engineer I can say: What idiot wrote this code? Me 20 years ago

Heck with it; if my skeleton is going to Be This Way and keep me awake, I want to hear about your cool wheelchair Yes, yours What's your favorite thing about it? What's the best one you've ever driven? Do red ones go faster?

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Playing "neopronoun or typo"

The study is: gather a cohort of people with B12 <250 or so. Compare oral, IV, and injection supplementation. Measure symptoms before and after ~3 months of treatment. Patients widely report that blood serum B12 has nothing to do with how they FEEL, but that number is the only thing studies look at

I’m not published enough to have a full ego shelf yet, but I do have a combination ego/aspirational shelf, where my work is set between others I admire in hopes that osmosis will improve matters.

Immigrant Punk@porcupunk.eurosky.social · last wk.

Enough of the horrors and doom scrolling. Let's talk about something fun. How do you arrange your books?

anyone got a pro hockey romance they love? mm, mf, ff, other, all great, but please no female figure skater falls for male hockey player. (pro writing, not pro hockey)

I was just thinking about this. Two specific examples: 1. 20 years ago, Gardner Dozois wanted to reprint a story in Year’s Best SF, but he couldn’t find contact info for the author. 2. There’ve been people who we wanted to invite to be Otherwise jurors but who we couldn’t find contact info for.

BillieB@billie.bookstoreromanceday.org · 3w ago

Authors, I am BEGGING you: Please have a dedicated website with, at bare minimum, a list of your published works and current contact information. You don't know how many potential opportunities you're missing out on by not having even the most basic website.

Apparently large swaths of the T-Mobile network are down nationwide, but someone please explain to me how it's only affecting one of my phones and the other one still has service. Bizarre!

Slogan suggested by @lizamezzo.bsky.social, who is pure class

Free idea: browser extension that donates $5 to charity every time you click a “show message by a user you’ve ignored/blocked” link

Thoughts on the various Trump administration proposals to revamp US science funding - and what they all have in common:

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

science.org

what're some good vegetarian(-friendly) colombian, peruvian, ecuadorean and/or salvadoran dishes? i want to explore more restaurants in our neighborhood but my wife and i are not trying to tuck into bandeja paisa

In business school back in the 20th century, I learned about line and staff employees. 🧵

Maybe he's veggie and has his own food? No. He brought 4 burgers to a bbq with 5 people. No other food

We only found one possibility. A social media company had quietly allowed users to start having emojis in usernames. We tested that, but just having a emoji didn't bring down the platform. But when that user made a mention of our customer's name, it did. 4/

Copy editing tip: if you state that someone looks like “the male member” you should probably specify in the same sentence “of the band.”

reading old Usenet/email japery from www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/joke/i... , such as satire on how different programming languages/databases/OSes allow you to shoot yourself in the foot, briefly evoked a sense memory of my first Silicon Valley job decades ago