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Bluesky feed is like

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OMG @wizardofdocs.bsky.social made me stuffed shell pasta. I"m having trouble moving due to all the cheese and I"m in heaven. I married the right person.

My parents gave @wizardofdocs.bsky.social and I a little money to start a savings account after the wedding and trying to find a bank that doesn't invest in fossil fuels and has a local location is terrifying.

I've only ever been with two of the biggest banks in Canada and ahhhhhhhhh

"War is hell."

Ethel Merman cameos as the lieutenant who thinks he is Ethel Merman in Airplane! (1980)

Kid, doing some chemistry-related homework for middle school science: "Dad, what is the name of group 14?"

Me, a chemistry PhD: [looks at the periodic table] "I... don't know."

Terminal Directive - Android: Netrunner by Adam Schumpert
#cyberpunk #scifiart

DEEP PHIL LORE:

My friend and I got double banned from the Santa Cruz Boardwalk's dime toss booth by both the booth operators and our parent because we won too much goddamn crap. And, boy howdy, was it craaaaaap. Like, ashtrays that shattered because they got too much sun.

Canadians will count and recount ballots as often as necessary to be confident in election results.

I just didn’t expect to be doing it over minerals??

YouTube video by Team FOLON Fallout: London - Rabbit & Pork DLC Official Launch Trailer

Aaah, nice! I was holding off on playing Fallout London until they released their big 'DLC' update. Adds a whole mess of sidequests on top of polishing up what was already there

And it's live now. Apparently they've figured out a launcher option for FO4 on Steam too

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZx...

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This is a point I feel people miss when it comes to actions like this.

"Moreover, I feel that the University administration’s actions have placed my long-term safety at risk by sending the message that harassment and bullying are effective means of having a professor put on leave."

What Happened to the University’s Commitment to Free Expression? Charley Kirk, uAlberta, and Me | Centre for Free Expression I was shocked when the University of Alberta administration informed me, one of its law professors, that I was being placed on non-disciplinary leave for my social media comments in the wake of Charli...

"Why would it bow to antidemocratic pressures by placing a professor on leave without their request, consent, or involvement? That any university would do this is beyond comprehension and is cause for alarm about the future of academic freedom in Canada."

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

The whippet snoozing underneath a tassled blanket with only her snoot emerging. The result is a rather wild fringe.

The whippet heard that we were doing northern working class stereotype discourse again and has decided to wait it out by pretending to be an Afghan hound instead.

📰 New study: Drone footage measured 272 dugongs across 18 countries.

Larger populations were generally plumper; small, endangered groups were leaner.

Socioeconomics matter—wealthier areas & MPAs link to healthier dugongs and human pressure lowers condition.

More: dugong.cms.int/news/global-...

I find it funny that I used to follow a bot that posted all edits to WIkipedia made from congress IP addresses.

There were two types of edits:
1) The most BORING edits about congresspeople (They joined this committee June 20XX, not July 20XX)

2) The nerdiest shit on like obscure Star Trek pages

A collection of bright yellow spots starts from the centre of the picture, from the strongest, central one. Clearly not periodically arranged, they have a point-symmetry evident since 4 equally spaced lines of stronger spots irradiate from the centre of the image. Between them, additional smaller spots form geometrical patterns vaguely resembling the fourier transform of an aperiodic crystal. The background colour alternate dark blue and soft teal, whose calm feeling contrasts the energy present in the bright yellow spots, looking like tiny fireflies.

My fellow #FourierTransform enthusiasts, here's a new entry in my collection ready for you, nr. 56! The real-space picture is an intersection of two tilings of squares, one tilted by 43°. Moiré pattern? Definitely related 💯

As always, you can find the high-res pair at behance.net/specialdefects

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13: If they d on't have a queer orgy in the Starfleet Academy show, they're wasting the premise.

8: the collapse of the Romulan empire following the supernova makes no sense.

Yes, evacuating a capital planet is going to be a massive, decade-long undertaking, but, like, the Romulans were more than capable of relocating their military and government locus to a planet within their borders.

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6: Lower Decks did what all good adult animation does: take a satirical premise, then build it's own identity on that framework.

4: Starfleet is a military organization.

Granted it's more the ideal of what military service could be, with a monomaniacal focus on R&D, which is very much part of the US military's purview, and restraint in use of arms.

2: contrary to how a lot of people think of it, Star Trek is more vibes over hard science. Specifically, the vibes of reconciling high clean values with the dirty reality of human reality.

I'm watching that documentary "Before Stonewall" about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting. The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one "known homosexual". The "known homosexual" is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson. So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there's nothing wrong with him mentally and he's never been arrested. When asked whether he'd take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he's gay, he says that they didn't up until tonight, but he guesses they're going to find out, and he'll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like ... why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says "I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself." 1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium. Despite the pseudonym, Dale's boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary. Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson's disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

I agree, but based on he Library of Congress Edits Wikipedia bot I used to follow, they do read a LOT of Star Trek Wikipedia articles.

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Product and Engineering
finally getting to the bottom
of who’s responsible for this mess…

Does anyone have a good, reasonably up-to-date review of cryo-EM uses and methodology for (relatively) high-resolution protein structure determination? For someone who doesn't have a cryo-EM background.

The REALLY hilarious response to this would be to partner with a glassblowing shop to have a glory hole on site, but not the type people are looking for. (The big glowing hole you put the glass in to make it hot is also known as a glory hole)

These are individually hand painted watercolors, not prints. Lack of reproducibility is part of the point.

In early 2025, beaver activity in the Brdy Protected Landscape Area, Czech Republic, contributed to the restoration of a wetland ecosystem. A family of beavers constructed a series of dams that coincidentally accomplished environmental goals of the Czech government, which had delayed its proposed project since 2018 for bureaucratic and financial reasons. The beaver-built dams saved the Czech government approximately US$1.2 million,

imagine if a family of beavers randomly showed up right now and finished whatever thing you've been putting off