Matthew Blodgett

The trouble with rational NPCs is they all run screaming from the irrational PCs. Still a good idea.

I will never not repost this

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Sounds a lot like Io?

This is one of the most beautiful things I have witnessed, the craft here is impeccable.

He proposes releasing some ICE prisoners to labor on farms where the employers will “own them” and be responsible for them.

Historians have spent decades meticulously proving the straight line between slavery and modern capitalism’s concept of the laborer—or we could just let them say it.

If you come to Corning, I know a few people who work at CMOG and would be happy to arrange a special tour.

This is from The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson aired on May 20th, 1977.

Carl Sagan says something very important, a strong message that didn't lose any validity since then.

The blog post mistakenly uses “Steal” instead of “Steal”, implying that Dwarves are thieves.

That’s a grudging!

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

How could any of us have known a recession was going to hit us by the middle of 2025?

I wonder... did anybody see this coming? 🤔

NA has ~4000 native bee species (plus many other pollinators). Many (probably most) are not generalists and will only visit a handful of plants, ignoring unknown ones.

You can easily find out if a plant is native to your area by googling the genus + “bonap”. The bonap website has maps for every species in the genus showing to the county level of the plant is found there. Look for Bright Green. Blue is bad.

This is your yearly reminder that “wildflower” is a marketing term and if you buy a wildflower seed mix it is probably mostly Eurasian species and you are not helping your local pollinators. You may even be introducing invasive species to your neighborhood.

This was 156 days ago.

An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

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The Angst fens? No thanks.

A box of Kellog's Sugar Smacks from the 1960s, with a picture of Spock holding a phaser. "Space Energy Comes From Sugar Smacks" and "Free Space Mission Badge Inside" are on the box.

Modern cereal needs to up its game.

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

I just spilled some liquid nitrogen and as I watched the droplets glide across the floor on their vapor cloud I noticed two collide and they set up a beautiful high amplitude n=2 oscillation. I should have taken a video, I could have measured the viscosity and surface tension.

A metal halberd head in the shape of a bird, with the blade forming wings and the head of the bird looking to the right. It is in a museum cabinet with a black background.

A very nice early C16 bird-headed halberd belonging to Mamluk sultan Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Gawri. On display in the Topkapi Palace museum in Istanbul.
#archaeobirds #ancientbluesky 🏺🗃️

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce.

Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.