Paul (SwordofWit)

The order of science:

1.) Discover there’s a deadly problem
2.) Work for years to solve it
3.) The problem may not be gone forever, but we’ve won
4.) People forget the deadly problem actually existed
5.) People decide this must mean the science to solve it was a hoax
6.) The deadly problem returns

Oooh, I can finally actually take my staple teas (Mistress Grey and Sinus Relief) to make at work! Huzzah!!

Screenshot of product page for Friday’s Evening showing new dropdown with option to choose loose leaf or teabag

What’s this?

New feature testing on most of the teas online! Around end of month we’ll be keeping some of these options, retiring others. For now, go ham and help us test this structure!

Heartwarming: payment processors help thousands in the LGBTQ+ community get over their phone anxiety

my mom taught me there's two kinds of businesses: hot dog stands and art galleries

- hot dog stands protect territory and keep competition off their turf
- art galleries benefit from more adjacent art galleries, cluster together to amplify reach/support

youre an art gallery, not a hot dog stand

the whole fucking point of being in a creative space is that you get to make friends and play games. rudeness to your peers isnt shrewd business — its a counterproductive affect borrowed from higher stakes industries without regard for what it means or does or how it makes ppl feel

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

Owlbur

Nintendo released a survey asking for feedback on physical and digital games.

This is definitely the chance to make your voice heard about Switch 2 Game Key Cards.

Source: theWellRedMage

Survey: nintendoofamerica.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Luke Skywalker stands with his back to the viewer, about to climb into his XWing. He watches other X wings takes off into space towards a sunrise.

Had a couple of free days to work on this piece. I always love drawing Rebel Pilots and Rogue Squadron. I wanted to make Luke less of a focus in the piece and draw the eye past him to the X-Wings.

Someone on here said that videogames offer a fantasy of predictable rewards for one's work, which in real life might not be rewarded at all. I think about it a lot!

Protest movements that stop as soon as they start seeing results fail.

Protest movements that keep going until your whole squad is across the finish line win.

Sketch of Cerby by Jane Pica, the Cerbus pup from Warriors and a Wee Wonder. All three heads nice, as Diana says.

Cerby made their debut in this week’s WARRIORS AND A WEE WONDER 💕

I'm a huge fan of Absolute Wonder Woman if it’s not obvious by now 😂

About 80% of my grammar suggestions from Microsoft Word are “why not use a simpler word here for clarity?”

No. Fuck you.

I will use a complicated word for evocative precision whenever the muse’s clarion song demands ebullience, vivacity, torpor, or solemnity, you shit-ass suck machine.

incredibly happy to see Valve being this terse and no nosense about this

the calls and emails are WORKING and this is 100% the sign to keep at it

looked up the clip just because sometimes people change his words for captions that end up innocently reshared, but upon finding it decided to share the video because hearing him say it makes it 1000% more definitely true and everyone will listen/believe more than reading it written out

If you want a super easy way to improve the lives of your freelancers TODAY - stop using NDAs.

Our make believe games almost never need them, and too often all they do is keep artists silenced about the COOL SHIT they have been working on, which makes it harder to find further opportunities.

The person at Apple who replaced the standard headphone jack with a lightning cable jack

Legend of Zelda fan art. BOTW link and Zelda and dancing in front of a mirror whose reflection shows multiple iterations of other Zelda’s and links dancing together in the background.

A dance that never ends #loz

From r/chatGPTpro, 25 minutes ago: chatGPT blocked at work Today my job decided to block the site. I use chatGPT to create SOPs (standard operating practices) and power points and polish my emails. What should I do now four question marks. It has 0 upvotes and 20 comments

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

It is not understood thoroughly enough or widely enough that "be the absolute best person in the world at your job" is a less reliable and slower way to make money than "have some money already" is.

Wildly successful animated film, part of the reason it worked was beCAUSE of how it was animated.

Studios immediately "What if live action tho"

I first started reading both @tkingfisher.com's & @mostlybree.kitrocha.com's books entirely because I enjoyed following them on BlueSky so much!

And picked up books by @stephanieburgis.bsky.social (and several other new-to-me authors) entirely because BlueSky people I follow kept recommending them!

What comic book panels live in your head rent-free?

The final page of @tessfowler.bsky.social & @bdavewalters.bsky.social's D&D: A Darkened Wish #4, always.

It may be doomed, but sometimes you just gotta cling to the faintest spark of hope, & resist to the bitter end alongside your friends anyways

I grew up in NYC and people stare at me, completely aghast, when I tell them my mom let me ride the subway to school and back, alone, when I was 12.

Was there risk? Yeah, maybe? But rush hour on the subway in NYC was not the most dangerous place I could be at 12 years old.

Just gotta contribute to a four-author anthology, then!

2024 NYC subway murders: 8
2024 NYC traffic fatalities: 237

Good morning to everyone who collected Beanie Babies when they were a kid, and to them only. You should probably take an ibuprofen and stretch out your joints before moving on to your next task.

Spider Man and Sauron meme YOU HAVE FULL CONTROL OF THE NARRATIVE! YOU COULD USE IT TO ADVANCE THE PLOT! vs BUT I DON'T WANT TO ADVANCE THE PLOT. I WANT THE CHARACTERS TO FUCK I am on Sauron’s side obvs