control-group.bsky.social

Has anyone ever seen GabeN and Patrick Rothfuss in the same room at the same time? #JustAsking

A squirrel runs along the top of a wooden fence carrying a muffin.

A man lies sprawled on the floor of his kitchen, beside a still-warm oven, blood seeping from dozens of claw marks on his face and neck. Sirens begin to wail in the distance as a shadowy figure silently slips away from Drury Lane.

I watch PBS’s Nova religiously and learned last night that Oxford has developed a new vaccine for malaria that has 70-80% efficacy and it just got approved by the WHO and will save millions of lives in the years to come. Sharing some good news bc it tends to get lost out there.

Feels like I’m about halfway through, and so far #AlanWake2 is as good as a sequel gets. Remedy outdoes themselves every time. #videogames

**reaiizing I’m being bricked into an open-plan classroom with multiple activity centers where my enemy intends to leave me to die**

“For the love of God, Montessori!”

Panel Says That Innovative Sickle Cell Cure Is Safe Enough for Patients The decision by an advisory committee may lead to Food and Drug Administration approval of the first treatment for humans that uses the CRISPR gene-editing system.

Man, we needed some good news and this is *really* good news. www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/h...

A dog laying on the ground with a person pulling the leash attached to harness that is on the dog. Around the dog are several phrases.

When you’ve addressed the easy points for the R&R and now it’s time to tackle the points that will restructure your whole paper and make you write significantly more…

Some day, I will submit a paper to a journal and I will NOT have to reset my password.

Today is not that day.

#academiclife #bioethics

FWIW, the FVTT implementation of PF2E is excellent. Of the systems I have played/run in Foundry - PF2E, 5E, CoC 7, Primal - it is easily the fullest-featured and most GM-enabling.

I've already pre-ordered the sketch covers of the books. :) But there are a lot of considerations. My Vaults campaign is barely level 3; it'll still be going thru the remaster. But I'm running it on Foundry VTT, and the PF2E module gets updated with the remaster. Not sure where we'll land.

PF here. There isn't anything more WotC could do to fix the OGL fiasco, but the whole affair sucked the fun out of it. So I switched my campaign to PF2E; all the rules being free, the remaster shouldn't interrupt us; I can still use my books. TotV's problem is I own A5E if I want not-technically-5e.

BeOS

guys like SBF and Elon have spent their entire lives being able to talk their way into or out of just about anything, which causes them to struggle in situations where it would be useful to shut the fuck up

Pumpkin with "inferring causation from correlation" carved into it

happy statistical halloween 🎃

I love dinosaur documentaries, but I wish we had similar docuseries about really deep time. As in before trees evolved. Show me the Cambrian explosion. I realize we know way less about those epochs, but I am happy to accept reasonable hypotheses and extrapolations.

what the hell did he know

Need to settle on a modern #CallOfCthulhu scenario for a one shot this weekend. That needs to for really real be a one shot, not a one but really probably two shot. Something from Fear’s Sharp Little Needles? From The Things We Leave Behind?

It’s called “LA Wine Bar.” It is in Iowa City. It has exactly six wines available. Also excellent (for Iowa) bibimbap.

Bluesky devs: we have heard your requests and finally added DMs to the web app!

me: oh god

Bluesky DM: *notif pops up*

me: *clicks it reluctantly*

BS DM: okay so uh you all meet at a tavern. and it's raining i guess?

1: Call of Cthulhu
2: Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
3: Santorini
4: Amber Diceless
5: pass?

Turns out in 40 years of gaming, I don’t think I’ve ever played a superhero game. Unless the old Micronauts board game counts (it doesn’t).

Every now and again, I suddenly realize that Roger Zelazny is no longer with us, and we’ll never get to know what Ghostwheel got themselves up to in the end, and it makes me sad every time.

Stephen R. Donaldson and Piers Anthony for me. Quite a different experience than the Asimov, Brooks, Feist, Eddings, Le Guin, Duane etc etc that my parents helpfully kept at eye level for me around the house.

Mom where do babies come from? Yeah Mary, where DO babies come from?

I would like to know how Um, Actually's "Needs More Pixels" minigame wasn't called "Enhance!"