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The Scientific American Staff’s Favorite Books of 2025 Here are the 67 books Scientific American staffers couldn’t put down this year, from fantasy epics to gripping nonfiction

67 SciAm staff favorite books of 2025:
provocative fiction, biography, science (natch), politics and more.

#BookSky

AI image prompt: child visibly underfed and showing vaccine-preventable disease symptoms opening Advent calendar and overjoyed to find another fascist obituary

Every day is opposite day with the con-artist/predator regime. They open their mouths once and lie twice.

Not even AI.
The jokes practically write themselves, don't they?

As the Forever DM of my classmates' gaming circle back in 1984ish, one of my more popular NPC arcs had an orc transcend his "always chaotic evil" roots to become a paladin. We all still had a lot to learn about distinguishing personhood from identity but what we're calling "woke" now ... nothing new

Staples carries posterboard lightly preprinted with 1" or 1/2" grid lines - a $4 alternative to Chessex's $28 vinyl dry-erase mats. Retrace every 3rd line on a 1/2" grid for a 1.5" scale battlefield.

#ttrpg life

Somehow I never saw the original The Running Man until yesterday. Maybe it's just nostalgia but I feel like RoboCop was by far the better 1987 protocyberpunk flick.

~4% of people have aphantasia (inability to fantasize / lack of sensory imagination) - but that doesn't seem to predispose to other mental health risks.

Joonie says stolen cheese is the sweetest. 🧀

By now we should all know about recordings of "Deck the Halls" to the tune of "War Pigs", but who's recorded the lyrics of "War Pigs" to the tune of "Deck the Halls"?

tbh it would be in the top 3 least interesting things you could post.

There's thirst magnet content posted every 35 seconds on bsky,90% is AI and all the actual humans are desensitized at this point.

See the grifter regime add buzz to the overheated bubble sector.

See how many retirement funds collapse when the bubble bursts.

Get pants with bigger pockets

Seriously, more screen space is worth it

$460 LEGO Barad-dur, or $500 LEGO Rivendell?

This guy looks like a Batman villain

I'm sure I'm not the first to observe that Hulu definitely needs more Cthulhu

Does R have anything comparable to Python's Selenium library for web-scraping and automation?

All you really had to say was "he's lying yet again". The firehose stream of lies is calculated to exhaust critical thinkers, I don't think it's productive to dignify and entertain every bad-faith claim RFK Jr drops.

Practicing 7.5mph sprints. .12 mi is kinda my limit at that speed.

also: wtf @ 835 calories

Have you tried web-searching "what are bluesky starter packs" and "how to gain followers on social media"

#BookSky et al.

Joonie vs. Goliath vs. platypus

Sounds a lot like ECoin in the "Mr. Robot" TV series.

(If you haven't seen it ... ECoin is "the bad guys")

Ayn Rand would like a word
(or just the letter A really)

Hear me out: cats who actually make biscuits

First mile at 4.5mph, then mixed speeds up to 7.5mph between cooldown walks.

If you think it's crazy on a Sunday morning, you should see it on a Friday afternoon.

pics?

Change a letter, make a singer/band less appealing:

Pink Flood

The phrase "The Great Migration" is already taken. It refers to the movement of African-Americans from the rural South to Northern urban centers circa 1910-1940.