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![Name: Taspar Egg
Card Type: Equipment
Lore: Boiled taspar egg is a Cardassian delicacy. Raw taspar egg can serve as nourishment during especially desperate times, or be used to debase a prisoner during torture.
Card Text: While you have a captive, your [Car] personnel present are either INTEGRITY +2 or INTEGRITY -2. You may change this at any time, even when facing a dilemma. (Unique.)
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Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
Two Working LEGO Printing Presses | LEGOยฎ Ideas
The development of mechanical printing changed how ideas move through the world. Once text and images could be printed rather than copied by hand, knowledge wasโฆ
beta.ideas.lego.com
feels like weโre all looking around and going โis everyone else suffering from normalcy bias, or am I just crazyโ which does not exactly make for good vibes
Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net ยท last wk.it really feels like we're hurdling towards something meaningfully breaking and everyone is just waiting to find out what it is
I do not think anyone has to leave twitter for bluesky but I do think everyone has to leave twitter
Anil Dash@anildash.com ยท 2w agoThere are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow theyโre not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.
MERCX: โ.. Moving 2 million barrels of oil from West Africa to China now costs $15.88 per barrel. No wonder all my tanker stocks hit new 52-week highs last Friday. .. I still think the biggest problems in the oil market are ahead of us, not behind us.โ
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther awayโand on the other side of the Sunโmighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
Modern executives do not want to be in whatever industry their company inhabits. Instead, they just want to run financial tricks and fuck around with the company's stock searching for infinite money glitches. The idea of focusing on a company's primary product is antiquated by today's standards.
Mark Anderson@emer.net ยท 3w agoDo execs even like TV and Movies?
The agreement was signed out of the public view a month ago by Pentagon official Robert Kadlec and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, echoing my reporting. It establishes a 10-year framework that officially runs through September 30, 2036.
Revealed: inside the US military's plan to tap huge sums from the NIH
An agreement paves the way for hundreds of millions of dollarsโ worth of projects to be transferred from the NIHโs institute for infectious diseases to the Department of Defense.
nature.com
New in PN: @ninajankowicz.com on the golden age of disinformation โIโm not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless thereโs serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information."
Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation
โMemory-holing is core to all of the narrative coups Republicans are achieving right now.โ
publicnotice.co
Me just reading the news that I get via social media
Colin Dickey@colindickey.com ยท 3w agoMe, describing what itโs like to read your awful posts
"War is Good Business Invest Your Son," by Seymour Chwast, 1968 seymourchwastarchive.com/collection/w...
Bye Tim Curry. You made pollution weirdly sexy and confused a lot of millennial kids with that. Sleep well.
Every day I have to hear about some asshole
On Monday, Sept. 14, senior reporter Maya Dukmasova will lead a Freedom of Information Act workshop with the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project. Register to learn best practices for submitting FOIA requests. buff.ly/ohSuQQv
FOIA Fall: FOIA Requests 101
Join us for a hands on workshop facilitated by a journalist working with Injustice Watch.
givebutter.com
"yes, we did shred the entire social contract with the people in our society who tend to have both a sense of entitlement and extremely specialized technical expertise and project management skills. this is a recipe for stability and progress"
์น ๋ฝ์ฑํ๋์ค@lcj-faure.bsky.social ยท last mo.Surely its OK if a lot of these workers are instead simply UNDERemployed instead of UNemployed! People will be just fine doing gig work buying groceries for the upper classes for the rest or their lives!
When I moved to France, the U.S. was bad but not broken. It's been quite an experience watching my old country burn itself down. Here's a slice of American dystopia: I can't send postcards and letters to the US anymore. Everything must be registered, and that's no guarantee it'll get through customs
ABOUT TOOLS An ancient manuscript discovered too early. Enigma from the distant future, meant for the eyes and minds unbound by time. 28 pages describing unknown technologies in an unknown language. The interpretation is entirely up to you. Available for free at the link below!
The euphemism for Great Depression just dropped.
Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social ยท last mo."The jobless boom has arrived," per WSJ
i made a template you can use to think about what "frame/negation/kirby" looks like for other issues. For example: Frame: DOGE is a govt efficiency project to save $ Negation: Actually it made things less efficient and cost $ Kirby: DOGE was a project to break and privatize federal bureaucracy
The correct answer to โDid Woke 1 go too far?โ is โFuck you.โ
