I'm going to be in the UK next week, and I would rather be out in the Kalahari than enter the Tube in the summertime.

I am so ready.

I, a person who grew up in a tropical country, know how to deal with heat. I’ve also lived in places experiencing heatwaves with no ventilation / cooling, insufficient awareness of helpful fabrics / clothing, and poor transit options. You cannot individualize your way out of a climate emergency.

Great interview with the guy who translated all of Dark Souls into English (and probably half of From's other games). Translation talk AND my favourite non-toxic video game boy @lukewestaway.bsky.social ? youtu.be/vIbKALhzHVc?...

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ネギの保管の仕方がわからなかったので急遽作った

Telling my friends about the Rector of Stiffkey, the Church of England priest who got fired, exhibited himself in a barrel on Blackpool seafront in order to raise funds for his legal fight to get his job back. Never did raise enough money, and was then eaten by a lion in Skegness in 1937.

People don't seem to understand that "Chekhov's gun" is a metaphor. A gun doesn't literally have to go off in act 3. He's just saying that all plays should have guns in them

Interesting in labelling this a "bedroom generation" that they don't mention them coming of age during a plague that made them do everything from their bedroom

We have records of diabetes diagnoses going back 2,500 years. We only developed a reliable treatment (insulin) 100 years ago. Now we might have a cure. What an amazing thing to get to witness.

This thing where companies are happy to build their software from open source code and tools, but also want to make one small change so that they can claim their software is proprietary... 🤢

3D printer company Bambu Lab went after a small developer for using their own open source code. The blowback was enormous and may have exposed something far more consequential. aftermath.site/bambu-lab-agpl...

From the founders "Although our reporting emerges from very different histories and geographies, we found ourselves arriving at remarkably similar conclusions about power, fragmentation and the future of journalism in an age of informational instability." www.codastory.com/rewriting-hi...

High rise buildings, Hong Kong Island. #BlueSkyArtShow #Tall #Buildings #HighRise #HongKong

Cranchiids really can't help themselves but be some of the funkiest squids out there 🦑📷Gabriel Jensen (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

Creatives don't owe you shit. They fundamentally do not owe you shit. They made something. You saw it. There was never any responsibility involved. They don't owe you a "better version" of the work. They don't owe you "less problematic writing". They don't owe you more episodes. You deserve nothing.

Analog angel's thesis is pretty solid

This is what having a job is like

I think tech tutorials should be text with screenshots

shout out to that one avenged sevenfold song that's like can we make lyrics so edgelord that we can trick our entire meathead audience into enjoying showtunes

lol

With the Granta Prize & Harvard's grading quotas, we're seeing a systemic collapse of systems for allocating prestige, long in the making but accelerated by AI. We can, as with Harvard, enact punitive measures that erode basic sociality; or we can find new ways to foster learning and writing.

I have bad news for everyone recommending Duck Duck Go. They are pivoting hard to AI search, use AI for development, and for their art www.reddit.com/r/Vocaloid/c...

A lovely ancient etymology is that Akkadian had the word unnedukku for 'letter' (the kind you send), borrowed from Sumerian – not a Sumerian word, but rather a phrase meaning 'may you say to them'. It was a common initial request to a fellow scribe, for them to read out the letter to its recipient.

“I think the moment you fully settle into adulthood is the moment you learned how to use professional stress to cover for emotional distress. Who could say where the depression started and the burnout began? It was convenient if you’re uncomfortable with your own feelings.” Oof, @trungles.com

I come back to the pub to discover the quiz team that won the Daewoo Foot Spa did NOT take it home. I may have underestimated the low appeal of a charity shop foot spa. Maybe I shouldn’t have said “they were probably found dead in that”. Lessons to be learned

We asked Roland Barthes whether the author was dead

steam user reviews, at least on live service games / mmos, are functionally useless because live service / mmo players all hate the games they spend 1000 hours playing a year

Ha, just saw the current wave of user-reviews for Helldivers 2... I'm starting to think that a lot of people just have a fundamentally unhealthy relationship with games, and Steam has fully normalized it. All it takes is one big influencer to say 'I do not like this change, we must hurt them' now.

🎨 I liked this so much I had to draw it

I wrote these things for a few years. The stuff that pops up when you press F1. It's a soothing craft to practice, trotting an application through its paces so you can document all the steps and divide them up in a way that will map to what a user wants to do.

Does “nobody want to talk about it” or were you just published talking about it in Forbes?

Yup. Why I need compulsory pre-modern classes in any historian’s curriculum: you do learn to check your information very thoroughly thanks to [through gritted teeth] the nineteenth century.

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Trying to paint environments more often

My partner just said, "you know, instead of making postcards about your feelings towards the boring tasks you have to do, you could just do the tasks" Me - 🫤 ....☄️😀

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 501 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

Some life-saving books treasured, beloved or enjoyed by the Czar of All the Tolstoyan Multiverses over the decades and in the many incarnations of the #LateImperialLibrary. 🫅🏾📚🤓📖📝🗝🚪🌳🌍 📚💙 📚🖋 500 #AfricaMonth #AfricanWriters

— art raffle prize for @regandtor.bsky.social Mira

'Rain at Enryakuji Temple' - Asano Takeji, 1953. #JapaneseArt

Common misconception. There are six elements of gender, of course (Rapier, Sabre, Smallsword, Cape, Buckler, Main-gauche), but this represents two sets of three that are paired with each other to define 9 Genders.