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Has anyone done a superheroes hack of #BladesInTheDark? It feels like it would work really well for more street-level, clean-up-the-city/district type games.

Three years ago, my dad said that all fish are the same shape. Out of spite, I decided to draw all 478 families of bony fish listed in Nelson 2016. There's still some stuff I need to edit and some fish I want to redraw but, after 985 days, I finished my big dumb fish project last night.

I support replacing animal testing where we can. I also study why we can't yet. The FDA just took a step that treats the replacement as closer than it is.

This article in The Atlantic about the grown-up LEGO market struck me as off, written by someone who just can't quite bring themselves to understand why grown-ups would build LEGO sets (and notably didn't seem to talk to anyone to ask). www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

if i take a walk in my little walkable neighborhood to buy fresh flowers and crunchy nectarines and my serenity is punctured by the sound of your tesla flipping in the air, i will blow up your car with a rocket launcher

Procedurally generates beautiful abstract line drawings on page load (refresh for a new drawing).

Let's talk a little more about Margaret Hamilton because she deserves it In 1961, Margaret Hamilton was tackling massive systems, having previously wrangled room-sized computers that blared like a foghorn whenever they crashed.

*sigh* Of course they do.

Not that I think anyone sees my posts needs this reminder, but…

This goes a lot harder than I was prepared for.

Americans are relearning the lesson we learned during the Gilded Age of the late 1890s, when robber barons ran the government and the economy for their own benefit: Oligarchy is incompatible with the common good. I'm hopeful we'll respond with a new progressive movement.

dd.extra-life.org/team/73494 This November 7-8, my students in the CCAC Anime and Video Game Club are participating in Extra Life, the annual 24-hour charity gaming marathon for the Children’s Miracle Network, which provides lifesaving hospital care for kids in need. Help our team save lives here!

15 years ago when Apocalypse World was new and people were beginning to understand and work with it, it was seductive to look at "acting under fire" and see, not one basic move of several, but the template underlying all the game's moves. Like @kierongillen.bsky.social 's classic gag:

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

This is a great piece. It’s a shame it’s on substack. Read it or don’t, she describes why they were at the game, what help her husband offered and why she deferred that help. She also describes the pain of the comments after. In particular she addresses Kuiper and Krukow and asks they do better.

Saying Wizardry feels like cheating given how omnipresent D&D has been in my life, but probably Wizardry.

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

Make a band edible: Shrimp Bizkit

Sadly accurate. We do not want to go back to the people we were on September 12.

Volcano of Fire Erupts Under the Stars While waiting near midnight to see a possible eruption of Volcn de Fuego (Volcano of Fire) in Guatemala last month, a ready camera captured this extraordinary image. Image Credit: Diego Rizzo #Astronomy

And yet my friends wonder why I refuse to give up my 15-year-old dumb TV.

We have yet to imagine any kind of alien more bizarre and unfathomable than what exists on our planet, in our oceans.

As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.

BREAKING: The world's most sensitive dark matter detector has announced it has spotted something it can't easily explain: a single event that's tantalizingly consistent with a type of theorized dark matter particle. Very early days yet, but pretty wild. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

When you see! Something bad! You don't have! To force it on your friends! Just don't hit repost when you see something a fascist said! Has someone quoted it and added a cool slam dunk? They are a coughing covid case on a packed train with a wry grin instead of a mask! No need to spread that!

@mapquest.com , you’ve given me a really strong reason to like you right now but your search is unusably bad. Limited results, no filters for fine tuning. “Restaurants near me open now” is a basic use case for maps/GPS on a phone.

MORE. UNIONS.

If there’s ever an Elon Musk biopic, I think it’s only right that a South African play him. I think Trevor Noah would be perfect for the role.

is there a pulitzer for photo captions because if so @theguardian.com just won it

Don’t take the bait. Whether ICE planted drugs or there were drugs DOES NOT MATTER. It’s irrelevant to the murder. Feds want us to debate drugs in a story that’s about murder. Stay focused on the murder. It’s not about the victim’s virtue or lack thereof. It’s about ICE murdering people.

Officers shooting a man, running away from law enforcement, who is not a target of law enforcement, and who poses no threat to law enforcement, is murder. Federal officers do not have the power to commit summary executions because they are aggrieved.

APTLY NAMED.

A $500k federal award on a basic question returned a Nobel & a cure for a disease that shortens 100,000 American lives. Cutting foundational research doesn't save the money. It moves the payoff to whoever kept funding the boring science. #YourTaxDollarsAtWork #NIH #NSF #BasicResearch #CRISPR

So, I think people have the notion that I saw BIRTH OF A NATION was racist and that's why I want to remove it from the canon. That's not actually true. I kept hearing about how BOAN was the first this and the first that but as I started watching more silent movies, the math was not mathing.

💡 The laser was a solution that preceded every problem it would solve. Nobody in 1953 could list its applications, because those applications did not yet exist. That is what foundational research looks like before anyone knows what it is for.

Naturally, a day after I complain about this I get reverse rainbows in both Connections and 4x3. Someone is taunting me, and it might be me.

One of today’s menu suggestions is “meat sauce with hidden vegetables.” Which, naturally, I initially read as “meat sauce with hidden variables.” Now I’m just mad that my Bell’s Pepper Inequality joke won’t work.

Weirdly proud of this (not today’s).

Some good insights from Mr Kenson on the deeper implications of including gender equality in your worldbuilding.

🔬 Your tax dollars once paid a grad student to surgically remove a gland from a chicken's rear end. In 1952, Bruce Glick at Ohio State started cutting the bursa of Fabricius out of chicks, an organ unexplained for 300 years. Nothing happened. It looked useless. 🧵1/6

Part of the reason why we used to fund pure research is you never know what’s going to end up being useful.

It must take _so much energy_ to be a terf or a transphobe. Know what's easy? And I mean, dead simple super easy for lazy bastards like me? When someone says "Hey, my gender is [this]" or "My pronouns are [that]" you just say "Okay, cool" And that's it.

Renewables will win, that’s been clear for the past year or two at least. The only question is if the US can come to terms with that or be left as a smog-filled irrelevancy.