My student told me he ran his paper through an AI checker to see if it would get flagged even though he wrote it, and it offered to “humanize” his paper by changing the sentence, “Illicit cocaine use is responsible for many potential adverse cardiovascular events” to “Cocaine is a bad, bad drug”
Dr. Phil Acula, Vampire. Not changing it
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(he/him) I like coffee. Programmer/magician for Atooi and Transolar. I've seen shit that'll shock ya eyelids. I have no sense of humor and also I never lie. I am normal and can be trusted with strawberries
RIP Emperor Commodus you would have loved Magic The Gathering
The Right: "If Rome was around today, the world would be united around their great works!" The Left: "If Rome was around today, it would be a fascist hellhole!" Romans if they were around today: "Woah. Board games are like, REALLY good now. This is crazy."
A Knight approaches... and she's a flying space mountain cat?!?! Cam's journey throughout the domes gets crazier every day! We're happy to present another member of the TeaKnights, Lady Lavender! The knight of the Sky Dome! Wishlist TeaKnights on Steam right now! #indiegame #indiegamedev
someday I will learn that "national bestseller" and a sticker on the front that has a morning show endorsement does not mean that a book has anything more interesting to say than Candyman 3
It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍
A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰
JEAN GREY: Professor, we have a problem. A young mutant is here to join the school XAVIER: How wonderful! What could the problem be? JEAN: His mutation is that he only has one eye in the center of his forehead XAVIER: JEAN: SCOTT SUMMERS: *sigh* I'll go hide
JEAN GREY: Professor, we have a problem. A young mutant is here to join the school XAVIER: How wonderful! What could the problem be? JEAN: His mutation is that he only has one eye in the center of his forehead XAVIER: JEAN: SCOTT SUMMERS: *sigh* I'll go hide
Beautiful! And a climate friendly drink to toast it! Guinness is fast on track for zero emissions - moving to heat pumps helped cut costs as well as reduce emissions!
Guinness' main brewery is replacing fossil fuels with heat pumps
Fossil fuels have long been relied on to produce the electricity, heat, and steam the beer-making process requires.
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Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: the main character grows up unable to see, hear, or speak
Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Concerns over water flouridation get a little out of control
This is how you should charge into the weekend and, really, the rest of 2026. via @absolutely-not.bsky.social
As part of Nintendo's push for online services on the Wii, one of the many applications they made was the now-offline "Wii-Woo", which would contact emergency services immediately upon startup. Nintendo stated to only use it in a real "Wii-mergency".
the solar system is a pizza evidence: the moon is made of cheese and Mars is made of a really big pepperoni
throwing in a rec for Careless People, a book by the former Facebook head of Public Policy 2011-2018(?) with fascinating and horrifying details of how shit the platform is Waterstones (UK Barnes & Noble) is marketing it heavily, as the author can't due to ongoing lawsuits to stop her publicizing it
I love 30+ real and new notifications on my bluesky account
Does anyone know how to get this on the radar of more VN people? Almost all the response has been from books, which is fine, and makes sense given the circles to which I have access, but I'd like to get beyond those if possible.
I'm gonna try to put together a Horror bundle on Itchio for october, if you've got a horror e-book or vn, go ahead and message me a link. 📚📦
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
yeah like i'm going to the mayo clinic... right after i go to the mustard dealership and the relish agency. get real
the thing about indie games is that if someone designs one single game I love, I’ll get whatever they make for the rest of their lives and pretty much always have a good time. people are so attached to ip but imo you really gotta know the creators.
If not for Tim Curry, Brennan wouldn't have gotten a job at CollegeHumor, and Dropout would be a very different place today...
Remember, it's always morally correct to lie to get a vaccine
Fact check: Pfizer has been approved as well as novovax. Looks like they’ll all be shipping “within days” Up to 60% of Americans will likely qualify Here is the HELLA LONG list of “preexisting conditions” which includes stuff like depression or simply being physically inactive.