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Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

Very happy with today's EDHREC Spellify Salt (edhrec.com/games/spelli...)

They hounded Aaron Swartz to death for downloading papers from jstor but society is now supposed to just accept mass theft because this thing can write that TPS report *for* you. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_S...

Devon Fungus group are doing another Decoy Park foray on Sunday 11th October, starting at 10.30a.m for UK Fungus Day. It would be nice to see you there.

*blackadder theme* His head is bigger than a fence He breathes, and everything gets warmer His urge to trample represents A nation's nuclear war trauma Godzilla! Godzilla! The scourge of beast and man! Godzilla! Godzilla! He's flattening Japan!

This news is important because all the fucks out there actively attempting to wreck the world want you to think that the work is hopeless and just mitigating the worst case scenario. It's not. Fucking keep going.

Very much enjoying all the mundanely familiar UK scenery details in Silent Hill: Townfall.

If you want to understand the current debate about ASI extinction risk, please please read this. I explain how you've almost certainly been misled into thinking this is about saving humanity--it's NOT. The term "human extinction" doesn't mean what you think it does!

I would like to be able to see a strategy behind the apparent lack of action on the black-clad “protesters” blockading ports. I cannot see anything happening though and it seems that they have just got away scot-free in a way retired climate protesters didn’t.

100's of fascists storm Dover *explicitly* to block roads with the threat of violence in a racist "protest": No arrests. Just Stop Oil members plan to disrupt a highway in a zoom call: 4-5 year sentences. The pigs don't go after fascists for the same reason Peter Parker never fights Spider-Man.

You don't realize the power of water until you watch it casually roll a boulder the size of a house down a valley in Nepal.

@cultureshipnames.bsky.social

The abstract should tell you what you really need to know. Please read what the authors have written and not what interpretation an LLM gives it. (4/n)

I was able to translate the menu, briefly seen in the restaurant/bar on Mat'aar XII in #StarTrekSNW's "A Case of Chiaroscuro". It contains some spelling mistakes (fixed) and as you can see, several familiar c/mocktails are available in the bar. :-) Here's how I managed to decipher the text: 1/8

Some fungi I found growing in the sequoia national park in Cantabria, Spain #fungifriends

In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/

There has been update to the definition of what is and isn't a mana ability with the newest version of the Comprehensive Rules: An activated ability is no longer a mana ability if its cost or effect moves a card to or from a library. Selvala 1.0, Chromatic Sphere, and Millikin no longer count. 1/

Thanks, Gmail, for forcing your (unwanted and unused) hardcoded labels into the "More, Label as..." list in non-alphabetical positions, despite them all being set to "hide". ✨ Enshittification! ✨

Last week, about a third of the History department were able to gather together on graduation day. Rather than lend our intellectual authority to the official procession and ceremony we invited our students to come and celebrate their achievements with us in a shady courtyard. They came. 1/

Got sent to do a graveyard clearance. We were told we had 3 days because there were only 8 headstones in the area to clear, and we could do two burials a day each because the headstones were all 20th Century. However, the graveyard was 1,100 years old...

This video clip of a swan landing on a lake is best enjoyed with AUDIO ON. Mute swans (Cygnus olor) are among the heaviest flying birds & require a long runway, which means we get the majestic approach, a few furious moments of webbed feet slapping on water, then the majestic splashdown.

This is a good write up of the Nature anisotropy paper debacle. But while Sawala is right that it's unfair to the referees to expect them to have caught the big "elemental" mistake in the paper, he's also being very generous - there is another important error that the referees *should* have caught.

South West Water pumped 9,500+ hours of untreated sewage into the River Otter in 2024. On 18 June I led a Commons debate demanding action, but it's still flowing. Make the polluters pay to clean up their mess. Add your name: richardfoord.org.uk/sewage

Listen folks. You have to stop clicking random links DM'd to you on Discord. Legitimately.

"Something just brushed past my leg!" — Luke Skywalker, #StarWars Image credit: tempestkc on Threads #LincolnMemorialReflectingPool #USA

In a bluesky memes-crossing moment, I think I need to tag in @tappytoeclaws.bsky.social?

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Not actual veg 😹

At the end of the term I asked my college creative wriing students to submit anonymous thoughts on AI. No real surprises: Mood ranges from resignation to despair, capitulation from embittered erosion of standards to total, feelings of betrayal from deep to furious. 1/

If anyone in the UK wants to buy a bunch of Idoneth Deepkin models that are new on sprue or new in box, I need to shift my pile of shame to pay for my car repairs

As the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote looms, and therefore also the 10th anniversary of it entering the fray of frontline politics, I look around me at the devastation left by the right wingers who caused this, and I am cross.

Those agendas and biases can be anything! Case in point: you think the fruit in the garden of eden was an apple because a guy translating the story into Latin wanted to make a pun.

Ted nails it. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

Your lunch is my lunch! 😺

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For what it is worth, these photos US President Donald Trump posted appear to be the same picture, manipulated in different directions. And the original photo is from July 2004, when George W. Bush was president.

For those of you who are interested in Magic: The Gathering, can I recommend a watch of this? A nice insight into a long-lived competitive deck archetype, Doomsday. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9n2...

Rare moment for Oreo being on my lap. Only because @kalosach.bsky.social is at the gym. #ProofOfCat

The German illustrator, Heinrich Kley, had a birthday yesterday! I first discovered his loose, yet frenetic, drawings in a 2-volume collection back when I was in art school. Left: "Nightmare" from the AD&D Planescape Monstrous Compendium, 1994. Right: Kley's cover the arts magazine, Jugend, 1910.

Why Brainstorming With a Chatbot Will Not Actually Help All That Much: So, I saw someone point out that when you're going for ideas, the best thing to do is to throw away the first two and the third will be the/a good one. This is not entirely wrong!