Sarah Rugheimer is the bee's knees when it comes to explaining the realities, prospects, hopes and dreams of searching for life out there in the cosmos. This one will be worth a watch for sure. #FellowEdinburghFaculty 🔭👩‍🔬

A reminder that if buying isn't ownership than piracy isn't stealing.

I've just written a review of the system-neutral horror adventure by @irny.bsky.social tl;dr; Buy this if you like running modern horror games! planesailinggames.com/review/2026-...

Don't worry gang, the Americans of Bluesky have a solution!

The joint statement is carefully worded that it was an agreed decision between both parties but I suspect the "I've been cancelled" tour will continue

This is my favourite match-up so far. By a wide margin. It’s going to be a hard one to top.

🚀 A great Traveller sandbox doesn't require an entire sector of prep. Learn how to build player-driven campaigns with factions, patrons, rumors, recurring NPCs, and meaningful choices that create memorable adventures. www.cyborgprime.com/traveller-rp... #TravellerRPG #TTRPG

Even in relatively recent builds, installing AC is not always easy. We live in the US in a 15-some year old house. The layout of the house is almost aggressively unsuited to heat pumps/split systems and in-window AC would require us to completely replace the windows in at least two rooms.

I first heard about “prediction markets” maybe 15 years ago. They’ve always struck me as being basically the same thing as betting on horse races and while their predictive powers are touted, their actual function is to take money out of the pockets of marks and into the bookies’.

The political story of this era is a petulant, narcissistic generation demanding to ruin a future they will not be a part of. Pulling the ladder up behind them wasn’t enough; their arrogance and vanity demanded more.

KS campaign for a podcast in which two white guys talk about Apple. Spare me 🤮

Six years since the start of COVID and this type of misinformation by omission is still rampant. The best protection against airborne pathogens is wearing a high quality mask.

#DataCenters You know what to do.

Sloplexity - the additional difficulty to understand, maintain, test, and safely modify code generated by undisciplined prompting.

#ProTip: Always check that you have a green build before passing your vibe-coded PR to a colleague for review.

How do you put this sentence in an article about the Trump administration literally banning a frontier model for unknown/unclear reasons? www.cnn.com/2026/06/21/t...

It is possible to achieve full marks without understanding the assignment.

It's liiiiiive youtu.be/rbcVCDr6PZI

I need you to know that the shipping container into which the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope was packed for transport to the launchpad is called the Chariot, and the barge pulling the container to Cape Kennedy is called the Pegasus. So yes, this is a picture of a Pegasus pulling a Roman Chariot.

Build a bike light with the Circuit Playground. It senses when the bike is braking and lights up NeoPixels when the bike is slowing down. Guide: learn.adafruit.com/circuit-play... #3dprinting #adafruit youtu.be/5YMgtzF4oa4

Florence Nightingale is known now as basically "pioneering nurse" but much of her fame in her time was driven by the fact that she showed the military, w all kinds of charts & receipts, how many soldiers they lost to diseases & preventable conditions. But sure, let's go back to 19th Cent conditions!

My latest, in which I enjoyed the small catharsis of thinking about what would happen to Elon Musk's body if he stepped out onto the Martian surface in his "NUKE MARS" t-shirt - for @noemamag.com. The Mars Delusion www.noemamag.com/the-mars-del...

I simply do not understand how moving humanity to a planet that at a minimum doesn’t sustain any complex lifeforms would be an easier or better alternative than bringing the temperature back down slightly on ours

“My core competencies are crafting LLM rage-bait and headlines that smooth-brained idiots can’t help but click on. This is why I can’t leave the Nazi bar.”

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

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

My interview with Richard Fidler on 'The Memory Code' is replayed again. Although this is nearly ten years old, they have replayed it a number of times. It is still my favourite book and favourite interview. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr... #Memory #Stonehenge #Neolithic #Monuments #Indigenous

This is incredible. Parents - your boys can also get the vaccine to protect themselves and curb the spread.

Interesting read. Truly a shame today's women are still subjected to this BS. #WomanAstro #WomeninSTEM #WomeninScience #ValentinasDay

This is such a weirdly meanspirited article that gets one of the details of the finale wrong (it was a koala-tee, not a “cool tea”) and another contestant had “claimed” fun wordplay for the series and was annoyed when Kumail did it, which is absolute projection. Taskmaster doesn’t need this.

A phrase with almost universal application.

A beautiful filament of plasma erupted from near the Sun’s north pole today! Beautiful stuff.

Back in the 90s a friend lent me a tape featuring South African jazz pianist Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim). I copied the tape and spent years tracking down the album, but had no luck. Eventually I found it when music streaming became a thing. Vale Abdullah Ibrahim, who left us today.

Vale Abdullah Ibrahim 😞

Fun fact - Aetna's AI chatbot will route you to human support when you type 'ffs' into the chat and hit send. You can guess how I discovered this.

As union loses 20% of membership to layoffs, Paizo’s CEO shares his concerns for the future of the company www.rascal.news/as-union-los...

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

First, you can say that about Abbott regardless of the topic. Second, why the fuck does anyone care what his opinion is on this matter? Why is this in the news?

I’ve been saying this for years.

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

We have no money. You know this. Why do you keep asking why we’re not doing things we used to do? It’s because we have no money. We. Have. No. Money. We have no money. There is no money left. It’s all gone. None of us have it. No money. Nope. Money gone. We don’t have it. No.

Annoyingly, the picture is an artist’s impression and the article doesn’t give any details about whether the witness were indoors or out. If the former, it is most likely a reflection of a lighting fixture. You might think people wouldn’t be fooled by something like that, but it has happened.

The only reason to have a trillionaire in a world where countless children are starving is to sacrifice him Wicker Man style to pagan Gods so as to bring good harvest to feed the starving children.

Great thread :)

I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand

found a little buddy and brought her to a nice flower shrub, but why are her wings so mangled? :( #invertebrate

i'm not a Trillionaire. Buuuuut... counterpoint: i've never paid someone to make it look like i play computer games.