Raph

What a legend

This is a photograph of the edge of one of Saturn's rings, looking down from above. Those spiky dark shapes are shadows. Shadows of giant towers of ice and dust grains clumped together that rise up to three *kilometres* above the 10-m thick rings.

Legend

I got the covid and flu vaccines a few days ago. If you can, get yours soon! Stay healthy and keep others safe 🤙🏼

I wish there were a hundred more Cat Hickses at every level of this tech doing work like this (and kudos to whoever *is* already doing that)

So rad!

Damn!

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Thornhouse -- another piece inspired by all the haunted house novels I have been reading over the past year. I just can't get enough of them.

Next up.... zombie? stressed Office worker with a bag over their head and off the clock. very scary!

optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty ttrpg designer: The Cup is Half-Full or Half-Empty depending on your Outlook Status (OS) which is derived from your Resilience and Cynacism stats.

optimist: the cup is half full pessimist: the cup is half empty ttrpg editor: here you refer to the cup as half full, but in the next chapter, you refer to it as half empty. for clarity, we should standardize on one of them in the rules text, even if players might use both descriptions at the tabl

Finally going through my photos from our trip to the Southwest. We spent the last few days with family in New Mexico, and good lord was the weather dramatic. One evening it was simultaneously raining, sunny, thunderstormy, double rainbowed, and smokey from nearby wildfires.

The shadow isn’t very visible, unlike on this photo: bsky.app/profile/dsco...

This is Wednesday's solar eclipse. Photographed from lunar orbit.

We're doing this because it is critical that people in the same physical community interact with each other more in low-stakes, positive ways, and also it makes life more fun. Maybe you know someone who needs a pep talk/off ramp from the stranger danger mindset. www.eventbrite.com/e/1994617919...

A bar sign in Japan

A solar eclipse. On Saturn. By Titan. Photographed from Earth. 📷: AJ Smadi (StardustAstro/Correct_Presence_936)

Now *that’s* an Easter egg

What a vibe

Todays 'coffee n sketching' effort. "you cant even dent a tank with that!!"

This is an all-time quote from Kojima

I know most of you have read it and absorbed it by now, but if anyone reading this is new to the hobby; give this a read/to your GM. diyanddragons.blogspot.com/2019/10/land...

Happy birthday to Margaret Calvert, designer for much of the UK road signage system. 90 today! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margare...

My new game, the Roots of Soledad, launched two days ago and is almost fully funded! So I'm super excited 😄 Soledad is a magical realism RPG, with lots of drama, supernatural weird things, and deeply human relationships. www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

Roots of Soledad is finally crowdfunding! Matthijs is a legend to me; he invented the Not So Easy system The Zone uses and playing Archipelago (hosted in an RV, in the desert, but that’s another story) was my gateway into TTRPGs. So excited to get my copy 🤩 www.backerkit.com/c/projects/n...

What in the WORLD?! These are incredible

Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space. And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Perhaps of the greatest photos ever taken. Captured by the crew of Artemis II this morning, looking at all of us through the window of the Orion capsule. The outline of the window is faintly visible in the photo. Breathtaking. (📸 NASA)

Oof that is gorgeous!

Que atmósfera! 😱💛

If you’re in London there’s a great show on of Becher’s typologies. Gas tanks, water towers, winding towers, framework houses and preparation plants. spruethmagers.com/exhibitions/... Ends March 28

Yes yes yes yes yes yes!!!

Man this aesthetic 😍

This style of light doesn't really appear in animation anymore. You know it when you see it -- it's bright, hot and almost dangerous. Our new issue explores the tricks behind it, and how one artist has revived the look for the digital age: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/dangerous-...

do you like fucked up houses? do you wanna build your own? i've just released a 1.5 update of my gmless mapmaking game house, with some quality of life tweaks and a refreshed layout! purchasing it also now gets you a scp-flavored hack i wrote ages ago! marns.itch.io/house

A legendary archive!

Paddington Bear (the film version) and the half-skeletal soul-eating bear thing from Annihilation were made by the same VFX team. They wanted to name Annihilation Bear after a less salubrious London railway station. It's called Homerton. I am not making this up.

A blast from 2015, dredged up by my Apple Photos—some things never change… and me making boids flock is one of them 😂

I loved dipping in and immediately encountering eyes turning purple, irises to flowers—💜 where this story is going! I gotta say, it’s such a rare gift to listen in on the beautiful horrors told at tables I otherwise wouldn’t get to visit! 🥰 Thank you for playing The Zone!

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