Three 🦀s in a trenchcoat

They should add a second child and see if omelas gets more awesome

Yeah

How MCDM designed Draw Steel alongside their fans Step one: raise millions. But what’s step two?

Draw Steel will launch with a freight train worth of momentum behind it, all by design. Thomas spoke with @hellomcdm.bsky.social's James Introcaso about smelting a sharp RPG out of so much fantasy heartbreaker iron.

They sure do let you add a lot of attachments

One House Dem called Auschwitz a "soup de jour," telling @axios.com Hitler is "setting a trap for the Democrats, and like usual we're falling for it."

“Rather than talking about the tariff policy ... we're going to go take the bait for one jew.”

@schumer.senate.gov you'll be remembered as a collaborator for allowing the money that builds the camps I'll be gassed in

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

Brief break from hawking The Onion to tell everyone I just subscribed to Wired. Please support publications who do brave work right now.

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It gets easier if you commit to "laundry in the sink" with quick-dry fabrics, but it only works if you can get away with only wearing those, and the laundry is still annoying.

I did a month in New Zealand out of a single backpack, and I ended up mostly washing socks + undies. Pants and tops? Ehh.

I'm not convinced that the politics of the killer matter more than the politics of the act.

The only class I wish I'd spent more time with in college was the technical writing bit.

Software's the easy part. Communicating is hard.

A pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Science communication, every other day: "Anyone can understand nuanced science concepts if we explain them with beauty and rigor! If we listen and connect! We need to be creative and deep and..."

Today: PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DON'T STARE AT THE SUN.

I work in tech and every day the "I keep a gun next to my printer so I can shoot it if it makes a noise I don't recognize" tweet becomes realer

6 delicious looking tacos on to-go trays. They're covered in guac, pico, and other stuff

Tacos

This is entirely on-brand for NASA. I'd put good money on this getting shared around and up, and everyone who saw it being delighted.

Do you think, if I offered them $5 on the side, I could get a Taco Bell employee to make me a Crunchwrap supreme, but to crack a dorito taco in half and use that as the bone?

*shooting a CEO with a harpoon gun* it’s sad but necessary. If we don’t keep their population in check they’ll destroy the environment

Baltimore Sun was tasked with covering corruption and they made sure to highlight the new bosses efforts

Bawlmer reporters throwing two big fingers at the new bosses. TURN THIS UP.

Map of New Mexico showing the NMDOT 2024 snowplow name winners: Snowzobra Bisc-Snow-Chito Walter Whiteout EE, I snow, huh? Ctrl-Salt-Delete Mr. Snow It All Better Call Salt Darth Blader Snowplowpilla Billy the Skid Sleetwood Mac That’s All Slick

Please enjoy the winners of New Mexico’s snowplow-naming contest.

I actually don't know if it's the same thing he's referring to.

And I've got no idea. I just know stuff from reading a ton of Paul's posts, and reading through the docs a bit. 😅

Expanding on that; you could, for example, prevent a relay's known IP from connecting to your PDS, but that's a _very_ flimsy protection, trivially bypassed.

> host your own PDS
Yup

> relay discovery of PDS
think "fill out this google form and my relay will add you". Different relays may have different criteria or methods

> restrict read access to PDS
Some apps may have encryption (ex: DMs), but generally anything published is public.

Fever xkcd.com/2877

there's theory and then there's praxis

A bare leg, showing off a fresh tattoo that goes the whole length. It is a long and wispy watercolor, with many mixed color areas. The entire thing is split with bold black "cracks" of various thicknesses, almost organic. A tiny group of black dots is off in a corner of it.

A close up of the previous image, showing the black dots in detail; they're space ships traveling together. They're mostly shaped as long, spindly craft, with weird shapes jutting out the sides. Tiny triangle craft are interspersed.

A tiny, discreet red dot tattoo, looking almost like a blemish; a tattoo artist used it to test for an ink allergy. The same artist signed it, way larger than the dot itself. The signature is a square, containing a K , with the bottom "arm" acting as the same for the R. The whole signature looks like it was sketched.

Got my big leg piece finished up! My little fleet of people, sticking together and helping each-other in the beautiful horrific void.

And the artist (Kinsey Roehm) agreed to sign (and touch up) the allergy test, as a bit.

A good PR (and good code comments) should communicate just how annoying a particular thing was.

The number of times I've put something like "# Listen. I know this sucks. But buckle up and listen before you try to 'fix' it..."

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I do similar "year themes". Based generally off of CGPGREY's video.

2024 is "The Year of Community"

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Lego technic set of a earth and moon circling the sun.

Calling all historians of science -- Lego is releasing what's basically a orrery: www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

A white, fluffy cat with tan face markings looks up. It's cross eyed, and its tongue is reaching all the wave over its nose.

A tabby cat sits strangely on a railing: its head is shoved through, as is much of its torso. All legs remain behind. It's as if it were restrained on a roller coaster.

Cat Update: still weird.