WHO LIVES IN BARREL IN ANCIENT GREECE? DI-O-GE-NES! ODOROUS, ACERBIC AND CYNIC HE IS! DI-O-GE-NES!

At the risk of sounding a bit too much like @izzy.dizzydeer.gay, after watching Episode 7 of 'Ruri Rocks: Introduction to Mineralogy' I'm gonna be pretty pissed if Ruri and Shoko do not get together by series end. I mean, COME ON! It's there! It's palpable!!! FOLLOW THROUGH, YOU *COWARDS*!

Having a 3D Printer in hands is giving me ideas. Dangerous ideas. Ideas such as 'what if I modelled and printed a little model representing every 'High Frontier 4 All' patent card so I could make little models of my ship stacks during play?' Terrifying.

I assume this has to do with licensing and the new BSG game that is coming out, but BSG: Deadlock is honestly one of the best space-capital-ship tactics games I've seen, so I'd suggest frankly grabbing it before the Nov 15 cutoff if you can.

Always wondered about this.

Surprised at just how realistic 'Ruri Rocks: Introduction to Mineralogy' is in its depiction of undergrad researcher life. Up to and including the usage of people younger than oneself as a source of free, unpaid labour! 😀👍

Can't wait to watch a horror movie on my favorite free streaming platform, the main page of Wikipedia!!! The full 94 minute original Nosferatu is on up right now. Last halloween it had Night of the Living Dead!

🎃 Trick or treat! 💀 We're handing out chills with THE SKELETON DANCE (1929), the bone-rattling classic where skeletons swing & sway till dawn! 🦴 Get it & more #PublicDomain goodies in our #SpookySeason Collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ste... #Halloween

If I had a penny for every movie based on a plastic toy IP that skilfully co-opted its mandate to advertise a product into an actually competent film with an actual message and something to say starring Will Ferrell in a somewhat antagonistic role, I'd have two pennies. Which is like, REALLY weird.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

Vesper... TODAY

Vesper... TOMORROW

Really excellent custom-made CD case for the FTL soundtrack!

Either the stars have aligned or the end is nigh, because there's a new post on my blog! The second part of my Mass Effect Astrographics series is finally here, where we have a look at the... peculiarities... of Mass Effect 2's many systems. orangehexahedra.blogspot.com/2025/10/mass...

Today's Sophont: the Zhodani. Humans they might be, but to a Citizen of the Imperium, a society wholly built around Psionics might as well be alien...

"And now the weather report from our local correspondent Gabriel, in Rio de Janeiro. How's the weather in this beautiful early spring day?"

incredible photo on wikimedia commons that isn't currently used in any articles

a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."

This week (!) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of 51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet found orbiting a star like our Sun - since then, we've found over 6,000! To celebrate, @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com collected some astronomers' favourite planets: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Y'all should follow @hetlaursa.bsky.social, the English account of one of my favourite Brazilian artists, @hetthepumpking.bsky.social. Not only is her art generally kickass, she's also super well-versed in Brazilian folklore, so if you dig that she's the gal, pal.

its tough out there but so am i

“[We] 𝙘𝙖𝙣 defeat the false prophets of oligarchs who exploit fear and monetize hate.” youtu.be/hG8HZJhB4xo

never crossed my mind that the crab could consider the immortality of the crab too

I remember reading this last year on the Hellsite, and it made a very big impression on me. Worth the read.

The battle might be over but the war most categorically isn't – companies and conglomerates will keep coming after the Internet Archive again and again and again, trying to undermine one of the great bastions of knowledge of our time. Please, donate to the Internet Archive if you can. They need it.

A great little gem from @quantamagazine.bsky.social's article " The Road Map to Alien Life Passes Through the ‘Cosmic Shoreline’", written by Elise Cutts: “M dwarfs are both tiny and temperamental, the yappy lapdogs of astronomy.”

saw it Star Trek's anniversary today so here's a little something👏 While Voyager was the series I grew up with, my earlierst memory of Trek was actually seeing "The Devil in the Dark" when I must have been 4 or 5 years old. The visuals really stuck with me even when forgetting what they were from.

Happy Star Trek Day! Here are some of my favourite Lower Decks drawings from the last year or so.

Once again in sheer awe at Princess Mononoke and how it both REFUSES to vilify either side of the conflict it depicts, nor to depict violence as ever being virtuous, but instead as a sometimes necessary horror.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any men's rest room stall door in an institution of learning, must be in want of scribbles.

Some wholesome Trek content to start the week right #startrek #tng #voyager #ds9

Oh god Spaceshiptember is coming up again, isn't it...? My yearly reminder that I don't know how to stick to long-form routines... 🫠

Diogo cooks a lean, mean Starship folks.

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

I once went through a whole Kanji dictionary in order to find out how to write 'Gabu' (which is what my name would be shortened to in Japanese) in the singularly funniest way possible. In the end I went with 芽蕪, meaning... ... TURNIP SPROUT

Grim Reaper [ 2 ] Part 5 or 5.

And among the many great articles in this batch of JTAS, my first submission: the humble (perhaps too humble...) Flea Trader!

#TrekTuesday The Enterprise 'D' Wasn't a fan of her to begin with but I had an epiphany roundabout Season 2 when I came to realise how beautiful she is. #Lightwave3d #StarTrek

UK folks - reiterating that it's super important that you download Wikipedia for offline use like now-ish if you want to guarantee you can keep having that incredible resource!! www.howtogeek.com/260023/how-t...

i think the indieweb is such a great idea. but guys. you've gotta start talking like beginners. because the indieweb wiki is a travesty of "oh this is simple and user friendly [uses 30 acronyms in 2 sentences] see anyone can get it"