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As a lad, I learned that you build a fire in a tipi shape. I've been making fires that way all my life. Today I tried the log-cabin shape for the first time, and it was life-changing. Caught faster, didn't need stoking. Way better.

Am I in RuneScape? Did I just level up my Fire-Building skill?

The monk asked the master, "Does a dog have Buddha-nature?"

The master replied, "bitch please"

@witchrubylove.bsky.social

a person wearing a yellow shirt is standing in front of a curtain Alt: a person opens a curtain and is knocked over by intense sunlight

opened my curtains and the sun hit me in the face like a three hundred pound spitball launched by little Susie, the second-grade bodybuilder training for a career in competitive weed-smoking. this shit ain't nothin to me man

(unnecessarily) Oh, you're going for a walk in the woods? Should we tell all your forest friends?? Should we notify the wise old owl??

Scrungaloids is coming out in 12 days, and the STLs will come with a version 1 of the skirmish game of the same name Lexie and I wrote this year. I'm incredibly proud of it mechanically and I want to talk about why.

oh, this is delightful. can you confirm or deny rumors that all scrungaloid models are in fact life-sized?

A screenshot of repo web page that reads: Title: Remove Windows Ai Why? The current 25H2 build of Windows 11 and future builds will include increasingly more AI features and components. This script aims to remove ALL of these features to improve user experience, privacy and security.

"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.

Geese is them guys what hangs out by the pond and honks at ya

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

remembered an obscure piece of lore during a LotR Extended Edition viewing party last night, and now I can't stop whispering the name "Maura Labingi" to myself

that just means you're in the lead now, 2-0. until your greatest enemy falls in the hole twice, you're winning on goals

yes but that's normal. burning buses and greased poles are how we get around

Clearly; you're the one with the goatee

Dragonsweeper by Daniel Benmergui A roguelike minesweeper adventure

Here's something for your Monday break time, that I just learned about from from the excellent @cigumo.bsky.social - Daniel Benmergui's newest game, 'Dragonsweeper,' a Minesweeperlike dungeon crawl! Fiendishly fascinating... and a GREAT soundtrack! danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper

pretty ironic after everything the Pikachu regime did

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on.

Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

Thank you so much rahaeli - When I heard this news I went to Wikipedia and quickly gave up. This thread actually taught me what I wanted to know!

seasonal haiku:

The fall winds skitter
A cardboard box through the square
Unless... Solid Snake?

press C to Crouch. press W to Walk. press S to Step backwards. press A to go Askance. press D to go Dat Way

Ok so what if I wear a fun sock in the top half of my outfit, perhaps as a pocket square or sock puppet. I think that should be fine right

I see. Hope you get things worked out with them! And looking forward to the new release

Devastated to see that this had been privated--this was easily my favorite version of the song. Is it still available anywhere else?

Sitcom exec: "You're telling me his name is *Bongino*? The jokes are gonna write themselves!"

Other sitcom exec: "Okay, get this. What if he's the director of the FBI? No, wait, deputy director."

First exec: "Genius! Greenlighting it now."

Every time I hear the name Dan Bongino, for a moment I assume he's a washed-up comedian with a primetime sitcom. Which I guess isn't too far off

Why name it FOXHOUND when they could have named it Shadow Moses Wizard Gang

Stanhill, Lancashire, 1764. Wear and carpenter James Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny, the first practical spinning-frame, to make the tedious task of producing cloth a little bit faster. He doesn't know it yet, but this will destroy the world. Spurred by inventions like his, the industrial revolution will transform everything -- work power, the wealth of nations. Society as we know it began here, and it wasn't great for everyone. But a group of weavers and textile workers saw this future coming. And did their best to prevent it.

"Curse you spinning jenny, you ruined everything!" The standard narrative does that LUDDITES were foolish lunatics who, in fear of technology, decided progress was bad, and started hitting it with sticks. But the truth is entire ways of life were being destroyed. Previously, skilled craftsmen were respected for the time and effort it took to do their work. The entire family usit would form a cottage industry - creating something valuable, and command a decent living. But when a machine can work 10 times faster its owner can charge less for the prodcts- craftsmen couldn't compete and were left out of work almost overnight. And as factories became a fixture of the british landscape, these now unemployed labourers often ended up working the factories that had just destroyed their way of life. Britain was the most prosperous nation in history, factory owners became extremely wealthy and influential. But the people doing the actual work saw almost none of it.

Factory work paid little, since "the machines" did "the real work" human labourers were deemed unimportant and replaceable. FUN FACT!: Factory owners preferred to hire ORPHANS since less people would notice if they were maimed or killed on the job! Now the owners quickly realized the workers might notice they did all the work for almost no pay. If they went on STRIKE or ARGUED FOR HGHER WAGES, this would threaten their tremendous wealth. In 1799, Parliament passed the Combination Act, which made FORMING TRADE UNIONS, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, AND GOING ON STRIKE ILLEGAL. Organizing against the rich became a crime.

If you were living through it, opposing the industrial revolution wasn't techno-phobia. It was SELF-DEFENSE. The combination act forced unions underground into secret societies. And the greatest secret of all was their leader - Ned Ludd. Ned had been a folk character for years. In one version after being whipped by his master, he smashed two knitting frames in a rage. In more fanciful versions, he then escaped to the Sherwood forest, here he lived among the animals as their king. Some versions specifically call him 'Much Better Than Robin Hood'.

Happy Labor Day!

Today we're bringing you The First Union, as told by HBomberguy (@hbomberguy.bsky.social) and illustrated by Skutch (@skutchdraws.bsky.social) It's the dawn of the industrial revolution, and of the way many of us work...

Have you ever heard of the term "Luddite" from an elder?

maybe if it was less eternal he wouldn't have to keep summoning it over and over

who up crafting they snelm