Two slices of meat lover's pizza on a white plate. The slices are supporting a black plastic coffee stirrer bent in half and poking into each slice.

A brown paper towel draped over the black coffee stirrer (not visible) to prevent cheese from the pizza from sticking to the paper towel.

My personal favorite life-hack: when I need to microwave pizza at work, I use a coffee stirrer to prevent the paper towel from adhering to the melted cheese.

I'll look forward to accepting next year's Nobel Prize in physics for this innovation.

🧪 #AcademicSky #pizza #lifehack

Survival-themed cyberpunk RPG where instead of weapon durability, you need to purchase a subscription for each weapon, which depletes based on how much damage you inflict. Hit points exist in-universe as a value calculated by your weapons' built-in biometric scanners to meter subscription usage.

If you hated that book in your school days, it is quite possible it was poorly taught or wildly inappropriate to the experience of a teen.

Three panel comic. Panel 1: baby monkeys in overalls jumping on a bed, having fun. Panel 2: one of the monkeys falls over the edge of the bed, reaching out as he falls. Panel 3: one of the other monkeys, now looking super buff and badass, grabs him by the arm to save him heroically. “Monkey Stronger Together.”

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

The sci-fi and horror anthology shows frequently use published short stories for their plots. I like the idea of expanding the idea to other genres of shorts, surprised I can't think of anything off the top of my head that fits that bill besides the old, adorable Wishbone series on PBS 🐕

“Screenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: ‘Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18–25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.’ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text ‘TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.’ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a ‘Learn More’ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.”

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

I fixed my stopped shower drain. Please clap.

Eric's Notes: Robert E. Howard, Grettir the Outlaw, and the origins of two-fisted Weird Fiction I’m a big fan of Eric Williams’s blog, where he posts his read-throughs of classic pulp fiction.

good ol' REH's birthday today, so why not go read this thing i wrote for @chalicotherex.bsky.social's news letter about Robert E. Howard's particular love for a very specific and very idiosyncratic translation of the Norse saga "Grettir the Outlaw"
adamsnotes.substack.com/p/erics-note...

YouTube video by KREM 2 News ICE agents posing as utility workers near Portland, say state representatives

ATTENTION OREGONIANS

ICE agents have started dressing up as utility workers to lure us out of our homes/get permission to enter. Do NOT open your door for them and verify that you are dealing with a real worker by calling the police or your utility company.

youtu.be/ZLvKiNi5jJ8?...

Photo of the DVD case for the Megazone 23 Collection. This 1985 cyberpunk anime OVA and its sequels feature themes around anthropomorphic AI entities, and large virtual world contructs.

Been thinking about this one. Time to revisit Megazone 23

a man leaning against a wall with a serious look on his face ALT: a man leaning against a wall with a serious look on his face

Before things get creepy in The Exorcist III, George C. Scott watches It's a Wonderful Life. Therefore: CHRISTMAS MOVIE!

Our Exorcist III commentary is out!

Black and white image of the SalesForce Tower in San Francisco on a foggy morning. Taken early, so lots of contrast.

Honored to have my photograph “Fog” selected for the “Focus: Shadow and Light” exhibition at Black Box Gallery @blackboxgallerypdx in Portland, Or. #blackandwhite #photographyexhibition

"There's... er..." My new assistant bookseller faltered.

Over by the window, an open book hovered. As I looked, a page turned.

I picked up my hag stone and peered through it.

"Just a ghost. That's a relief."

"What else..."

"Imps, devils, people with invisibility spells. The last are worst."

Here's a scary portrait I took of a seagull about to swallow a crab. 🫣 I post a new image from myself most days. If you like wildlife photography please consider giving me a follow! ☺️

#birds #birdphotography #photography #wildlife #wildlifephotography

Before Left Shark, there was the backup dancer from this performance, vamping and dancing with all she's got!

Happy Friday everyone

Don't give up. You can cuss the whole time. But don't give up. Says Skeletor to his literally the worst henchmen.

A white mascot with a red hat which says “ATM” and blue pants stands in a park, waving.

Tomio Hanko is a character shaped like a Lawson Bank ATM. He prefers to be called Tommy. He always wears high-waisted slacks to make his legs look longer. He does his best to act cool, but rarely succeeds.

My rice cooker instructions manual included cooking instructions for a spongy cake.

It's not your imagination. It's not that you're getting old, or doing something wrong. It's just the usual suspects when tech works worse.
I've largely gone back to typing letter by letter like it's 2001.

You ever read one of those sentences that gets better with every word?

i have been diagnosed by zojirushi as “neuro fuzzy”

A video tutorial about painting the powerfist of my Plague Marine Champion is available on my patreon. My style of painting dirtier miniatures looks a bit like a comic book. The full video is 1h long, has my commentary, list of the colors that I used and the view of my palette 🙂 #warhammercommunity

*head bobbing, constructing a tune around the rhythmic squeak of that one pump at the gas station

when you’re hot under some blankets and you push one foot out into the air it’s the same as a mech venting a bunch of heat. i’m right

Had many false starts over the years with trying get through a Dickens novel. Trying again with audiobook format, which has allowed me to finally pin down the problem-the dude writes the way Polonius talks.
Not exactly a "Brevity is the soul of wit" guy.

Also, watercolors and fountain pens ♥️

Painting featuring a young white woman, upper half, in an interior facing forwards at her dressing table, in a white vest-like top holding her long dark hair in one hand and with a slight smile

Self Portrait at the Dressing Table,1909 by Zinaida Serebriakova #WomensArt