Trevor Murdock

Yeah my assumption would be that trivia knowledge peaked in the 80s for kind of the opposite reason - people have even less need for it now that you can get an answer from your pocket or asking Alexa

Big yikes

Sopranos
Sex in the City
How I met your mother

A fair point

What if the primary point of the 51st state rhetoric is to scare Canadians into not pointing out the increasing differences between Canada and the US as we continue to be a democracy while the US descends deeply into a fascist dictatorship.

Hey climatesky, some colleagues asked for recommended resources on *transformational* #adaptation and while I get the concept I'm not at all familiar with the literature - any suggestions from good foundational papers to practical case studies?

You got it, and here I thought I was being sneaky

The Masked Singer
Password
America's Got Talent

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Welcome and thrice welcome

This is peak bluesky

Graham, I definitely think you should try it at least once but in the meantime you're welcome to pop over anytime for storytime with grandpa gamer to live vicariously through being regaled with what it was like to see Star Wars in 1977 at a drive-in.

I see a lot of Canadian news and discussion because of seeking out folks to follow but also a decent amount of European, Australian, and New Zealand posts as well, peaking at times of different times of day...

Did he designate "MeToo" as a terrorist organization also ?

Thank you Paul F. Tompkins for totally doing that on purpose to make everyone else who has reskeeted hastily feel better about themselves and also to maintain your relatable street cred now that After Midnight isn't an available venue for it. I see you.

Chilling, horrifying, and really challenging to the ability to maintain faith in humanity

Incredible

Comic by cardboard-crack.com with stick drawings of a man and woman playing magic the gathering, with 4 panels. In panel 1 the woman says "Even though the Magic community has made progress in recent years, there are still problems with sexism and stores aren't welcoming to women." In panel 2 the woman continues "But as players we can make a big difference by letting people know what's not okay and calling out questionable behaviour." In panel 3 the man throws up his hands with an exasperated look and says "Jeez can't I just have fun playing a game without having to deal with these social issues!?" In the final panel the woman responds "That's the same thing I'm asking for."

Exactly. Makes me think of this excellent comic by @cardboard-crack.bsky.social

It's also where I saved all of the best sources for debunking various myths (for folks having good faith discussions) everything from safety of GMOs, args for and against nuclear to actual science of gender. All that stuff that's harder than ever to find since search engine quality nosedived

Public service announcement: Pocket.com is closing and you only have until Oct 8 to export your data. Anyone else who has oodles of cool @dndbeyond.com related links and things like that stored there - here's your heads up. Dang really liked being able to categorize and tag links there.

Despicable

Time travel doesn't count - basically I'll watch those in the order the characters experienced them. Haven't gotten to a place where different seasons of different series overlap. Not sure yet - probably- unless it seems too complicated.

I haven't but it looks very cool.

Tried to find the article that I first found Obi Wan order in and even though I have AI search turned off I can't seem to find it.

I might have saved it to Pocket and thanks to looking I see it's shutting down - I'll check once they email me an export of my links

So cool

I did star wars in "obi wan" order and liked that a lot.

Been watching all Star Trek in chronological order & during SNW learned season 3 was coming out - neat coincidence so I shifted to weekly & that has been awesome. But now what? Go back to binge mode & watch SNW s4 & 5 out of order or put the whole project on hold until they come out?!

Also almost too bad that it looks like for at least the next week the weather is such that we really won't need either heating or cooling - sorta want to take it for a whirl

Samsung heat pump in a stairwell

Almost 17 years to the day after replacing and oil furnace with a heat pump, this beauty has just replaced a natural gas furnace. They've gotten a lot smaller!

Been over a decade since moving from the house with the first one so have to remember set points and difference between day and night etc

Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity - Nature By analysing the smartphone data of 2,112,288 participants, in particular observing and comparing the activity of the same individual in two different environments, we find that increases in the walka...

A cool natural experiment using cellphone data finds that, when people relocate to more walkable areas, they walk more and are more active. Why does this matter? Because many related studies were affected by self-selection bias, where people who like to walk might choose to live in walkable places

Such a valuable resource - I really hope some funding can be identified and soon to avoid big gaps at all the remaining stations.