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I try not to drive faster than I can see. 2006 TIME Person of the Year Astronomer, actor, etc. TinyMUD's Captain-Nemo. SCA East, Known World Players (KiCMA as Jotun-Eirikr Bjarnason)
Proud to be the 254th villager 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Merryshire Detective Club! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
Merryshire Detective Club
You play amateur detectives in a cosy-fantasy setting. Your band of plucky investigators solves mysteries (quite often, murder mysteries) that crop up with remarkable regularity in the lovely little h...
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Check out Merryshire Detective Club on @BackerKit! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...
Merryshire Detective Club
You play amateur detectives in a cosy-fantasy setting. Your band of plucky investigators solves mysteries (quite often, murder mysteries) that crop up with remarkable regularity in the lovely little h...
backerkit.com
The wildfires in Ontario and Minnesota are a direct consequence of the high temperatures and low rainfall resulting from a major July heat dome event. A year ago we showed that these events had tripled in frequency due to human-caused warming: penntoday.upenn.edu/news/extreme...
Michael E. Mann@michaelemann.bsky.social · 3w agoSummer 2023 called. It wants its apocalyptic haze back... www.independent.co.uk/us/voices/ai...
Yes! The @hplhs.bsky.social and @chaosium.bsky.social are putting out an Innsmouth sourcebook! I absolutely loved the Arkham one, I can't wait to get this in my greedy little hands.
great to see this feature on GRB 260310A !! ft. comments from grad student + lead author, Collin Christy, + Profs. Kate Alexander + Tanmoy Laskar !! vvv cool result 🧪🔭☄️
National Radio Astronomy Observatory - NSF NRAO@thenrao.bsky.social · 3w agoUsing the NSF Very Large Array, astronomers detected polarized light from a gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow + Faraday rotation in a GRB (a phenomenon in which magnetic fields cause the polarization of light to twist as it travels through space) for the first time at radio wavelengths! #RadioAstro
Looking forward to it!! Sidney's artistry is unique and captivating; for those of you new to it you are in for a rare treat!
Sidney Arcane, Author@sidney-arcane.bsky.social · 3w agoI MADE A BOOK: The Time Traveler’s Final Mission Pre-Launch Edition “An absolutely mind-blowing adventure that turns traditional time travel stories inside out. It was impossible to put down.” —Richard Dansky ≤30 will be @campnecon.bsky.social (leftovers direct thru me). Official full launch TBD.
Liverpool's stew - Scouse www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/stories/best...
The 'BEST' Scouse recipe
Scouse is our city's traditional dish. A stew often made with lamb, beef, or both, it originates from the word 'lobscouse', which was a stew often eaten by sailors throughout Northern Europe, popular ...
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David Perry considers a pressing question - and how it has been handled before. www.startribune.com/trump-banner...
Perry: How should the U.S. remember its would-be autocrat once he leaves the White House?
"When some emperors died," David M. Perry writes, "successors condemned their memory, ordering statues smashed, their faces scrubbed from portraits, their names erased from inscriptions and their lega...
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Brand new in our Bandcamp store: "Caveat Imperator", a previously unheard 67-minute aircheck of Firesign riffing on KPPC in 1969! firesigntheatre.bandcamp.com/album/caveat...
Caveat Imperator: Live on KPPC 1969, by The Firesign Theatre
16 track album
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Here's a photo of the 200-inch mirror from the Caltech optical shop. There's a paper replica of Newton's telescope in the center hole. Chief Optician Marcus Brown has a replica of one of Galileo's telescopes balancing on his shoulder.
"The truth, as this war shows, is that evil and folly can march hand in hand along the path to national self-destruction. This war was a strategic disaster, but it was also an ethical disaster." Capitulation Day open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
Capitulation Day
The dimensions of defeat, and the chance for recovery
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Obama has long been a spokesman for "creedal nationalism." His speech lays this out, but also calls out those who believe "some groups are more equal than others." That's key. We need more Dems to point out that Trump/MAGA reject the Declaration's core promise: newrepublic.com/article/2121...
Can’t help but notice all the people who said Obama would desecrate the White House with Escalades and rap music on the South Lawn are absolutely loving this UFC fight on the South Lawn. Probably just a coincidence.
Exactly. I'd bet the idea would never occur to him.
The Rude Pundit@rudepundit.bsky.social · 2mo agoImagine how shitty a human being you have to be to have the money to end world hunger on your own and not doing it. Now imagine doing it would barely scratch your wealth and you refuse. Now imagine deciding to use your wealth to kill the starving instead. That's the level of evil we've reached.
“We assess that President Trump’s chronic need to reward loyalists and appease dictators is a primary driver of America’s path toward authoritarianism.” zurl.co/cFpKr
The Backrooms seems rather like "The Night Floors" from the "Hastur" section of the Delta Green/Call of Cthulhu RPG "Countdown" book. Right down to the yellow walls.
That is more in line with how I wrote this a day before the Times www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Trump Could ‘Break Everything’ With His $1.8 Billion Slush Fund
Trump’s “Anti-Weaponization Fund” isn’t just a payout to his supporters — it’s a loophole that could lead to a complete subversion of the Constitution.
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...and I bet he told it all. Just like he does to Russia
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoQ: Did you talk to Xi about the cyber attacks that he's done in the United States? TRUMP: I did. And he talked about attacks we did in China. You know, what they do, we do too. We spy like hell on them too. I told him, 'we do a lot of stuff to you that that you don't know about.'
"Tom Hiddleston is Benedick. Hayley Atwell is Beatrice. Two of their generation’s finest actors star in Tony Award®️winner Jamie Lloyd’s joy-fueled reinvention of Much Ado About Nothing."
Just waiting for the "I did that" stickers of Trump to appear on gas pumps. Wait that's just for when it happens under Democrats for reasons they couldn't control but not when the GOP POTUS starts a war in the middle east that chokes off Hormuz?
The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3mo agoall this sweaty calvinball horseshit feels like hysterical panic from the court
16. The Republicans do this wholesale. Name a current social problem in America and they will tell you the cause is "illegals." The whole truth, however, is almost certainly the opposite.
