Jim Wickson (oudler)

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

have you ever seen this checkmate before? 🤩

Why Apple and OpenAI are reportedly betting on AI hardware in 2026 Tech giants are betting that we are finally ready to invite a persistent digital device into our lives

Tech giants are betting that we are finally ready to invite a persistent digital device into our lives

NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly | CNN As the four-person crew of Artemis II prepares to launch on a historic mission around the moon as soon as February, some experts are worried about the Orion spacecraft’s heat shield.

The United States is just full of great ideas lately.

‘NASA is about to send people to the moon — in a spacecraft not everyone thinks is safe to fly’
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Amazing! Way to go Minneapolis!

Illustration of a sundial, with a large heading that says “Use Real Time”, and three smaller headings that say “Circadian Alignment”, “Morning Sunlight”, and “Permanent Standard Time”.

Use Real Time! Permanent Standard Time approximates natural solar time, for best sleep and circadian health. Ditch Daylight Saving Time!

Loosening Radiation Rules Won’t Help Us Get Nuclear Power Any Faster Relaxing radiation safety standards could place women and children at higher risks of health issues

Relaxing radiation safety standards could place women and children at higher risks of health issues

This is the most complete skeleton yet of our ancestor Homo habilis A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus

A partial skeleton dating back more than two million years is the most complete yet of Homo habilis, one of the earliest known species in our genus

How we draw the age of Trump and turmoil: two cartoonists go head-to-head | Martin Rowson and Ella Baron Martin Rowson has been drawing for the Guardian since the 1980s; Ella Baron since 2022. In paint and pixels, each is tasked with capturing the chaos and absurdity of our political moment

How we draw the age of Trump and turmoil: two cartoonists go head-to-head | Martin Rowson and Ella Baron

Talon: A Tarot Card Game is back again with a new deck based on the Tarot de Marseilles www.thegamecrafter.com/games/talon:...

🚨"We wonder why people in the 1930s were quiet, we need to show we weren't quiet. History is gonna look back at all the people that didn't show up—their grandkids are gonna ask what were they doing! It's like -10 degrees and we're here!" -Minneapolis ICE protester. LIVE NOW⬇️

in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today

Tarot de Marseilles
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How zoos are preparing animals for winter storm Fern This weekend’s freezing temperatures and snow won’t just impact humans—zoo animals need to get ready for the storm, too

This weekend’s freezing temperatures and snow won’t just impact humans—zoo animals need to get ready for the storm, too

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The scientific quest to explore the hidden complexity of ice Ice has many forms beyond the mundane stuff produced in a standard freezer

“Water is a beautiful, elegant system that consistently shows new, remarkable behavior,” a physical chemist said. “For something so simple, it has beautiful complexity.”

cards from a deck of Industrie und Glück style tarock deck are splayed on top of references for the game Slovenian tarok

GAME MECHANIC: trick taking. it's one of the most pervasive mechanics in classic games for a reason. I'll play any of em. I'm working on a trick taking rpg that has you play through a space opera.

pictured is my tarok deck, which I really need to get back to the table

Explanation Of Board Game Rules Peppered With Reassurances That It Will Be Fun

Explanation Of Board Game Rules Peppered With Reassurances That It Will Be Fun https://theonion.com/explanation-of-board-game-rules-peppered-with-reassuran-1819579569/

Wonder Man is perhaps the most un-Marvel MCU show ever. More FX than Marvel. It's also a fantastic and very realistic look at a working actor's life in LA

Destin Daniel Cretton sets the show's rhythm at an indie pace, which is refreshing, but hardcore fans may hate it

Ben Kingsley is Emmy-worthy

Human Heart Tissue Actually Can Regenerate After a Heart Attack, New Study Shows Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at least, that's what has long been presumed.

"In time, we hope to develop therapies that can amplify the heart's natural ability to produce new cells and regenerate the heart after an attack." @Sydney_Uni
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Ultimate tic-tac-toe A much more strategic version of tic-tac-toe. So basically…ultimate frisbee is to regular frisbee as ultimate tic-tac-toe is to regular tic-tac-toe ;)

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Mystery tower fossils may be a whole new kind of life Towering Prototaxites ruled Earth before trees—and they may have been a form of life entirely new to science

Meet the mysterious Prototaxites: “No matter what...it’s something weird doing its own thing,” one scientist says of the fossil

What even is consciousness? Scientists still don’t know A dive into how scientists are trying to understand what consciousness is and where it comes from

A dive into how scientists are trying to understand what consciousness is and where it comes from

25th Amendment

🚨"Theyr're dumping people in the woods" - Medical workers are flagging potential cases of federal agents releasing injured detainees in the most inhumane method possible. LIVE NOW⬇️