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cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

Here’s a photo of my cat trying to catch a bubble. You’re welcome.

Found an early draft of the lyrics to “Mack the Knife”: When that shark bites with his teeth, babe And that horse walks with his legs

behold my pitch for one extremely cursed dnd campaign

RIP Renato Casaro, an Italian artist known for his film posters. He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

I posted a software development question on Stack Overflow and someone edited it to change my capitalization, punctuation, and styling. I am truly baffled.

A single arrow turns the tide of a battle, and its archer is swept into the service of a conquering prince. PEREGRINE is a 28-page minicomic printed on a RISO SF5130 digital duplicator in black and lime green ink. Also available in digital format. 🏹 emilycheeseman.myshopify.com

The richest video game character is Cash Vandersnoot

I had an anxiety dream last night that I was driving my car over a series of descending canal locks and now here we are

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

RIP Danny Thompson: bassist for Pentangle, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, Davy Graham, Bert Jansch, June Tabor, John Martyn, Donovan … www.clashmusic.com/news/legenda...

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Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

The Bologna museum of coin-ops and pinball seems to have unearthed the original schematics for the early (1976) Sega coin-op Heavyweight Champ (today considered to be lost media). Using them, the game could now theoretically be rebuilt from scratch.

My problem with everything is that I know For A Fact that the purpose of life is frivolity. It is to fool around & pursue joy.

Gendered profession names are so weird. Can I be a seamster? Or a teamstress?

I’m playing 80s Oregon Trail and Tiffany just died of Pac-Man Fever

50 years ago the first 6501 and 6502 CPUs were made available at the WESCON trade show in San Francisco. However, MOS found out they weren't actually allowed to sell anything on the show floor so set up shop in a nearby hotel. Chuck Peddle led the team that created the 650x family of processors.

There was something really special about how 8-bit games would be enhanced by hand-drawn art found in guides and magazines. Pictured here is a segment from Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen - Official Guidebook, 1990, detailing a mountain village.

I wonder if legendary Babylonian queen Semiramis is related to Harold Ramis

Chibi crew of the Enterprise from Uchusen Magazine Vol. 47, 1989. SD Tasha is great and it's funny seeing early clean-shaven Will.

Novel idea, statistician romance: Variables and Variability

Novel idea, crumbling fast food romance: Fries and Friability

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Bard City Blues was delightful! wyngraf.com/bardcityblues/

Someday when the DBAs form a union I hope they call it LEFT JOIN

Today’s companion: headed to CT to play some D&D

becoming a bit of a pet complaint at this stage but I'd love to see a study that shows that British readers actually prefer a massive chunky book, because I love a little paperback so much I can't imagine everyone else loving these huge editions

Alrighty let's try this! Experimental Watercolor & Ink DnD commissions! (I want to play around. So style/approach may differ slightly from the examples!) Please feel free to reply/DM with questions, DM or Email [ [email protected] ] if you're interested! (Prices include US Shipping)

Everyone says cool beans but I would prefer some warm beans

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Hey, hey! The latest issue of @retrogamermag.bsky.social is out, and I've got a big, chunky feature about Final Fantasy VI! Should be available everywhere in the UK, and international readers (like me!) can get a copy online (physical or digital) right here: www.magazinesdirect.com/us/retro-gam...

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There are tons of graphic novels, academic papers, film and TV scripts, & prose novels/nonfiction on the LibGen list Anthropic used. As settlement approaches, make it easy for the class action lawyers to contact you! Here’s how Part 1: is your work in Libgen? www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

When play D&D, want

My favorite Elton John song about gambling is “Penny-Ante Bets”

Novel idea, cold case murder romance: DNA and Deniability

Novel idea, melodramatic horse owner romance: Stable and Stability

The best time to gamble at Quark’s is when some main characters are about to have a conversation. You’re pretty much guaranteed to get dabo during the establishing shot.

This is important, I think. Aesthetics aside, part of the reason I buy so many used books is that at B&N or whatever, I’m confronted by shelf upon shelf of expensive trades and hardcovers. It’s hard to spend $20+ to take a chance on something new. Not every TPB is this way, but it’s getting worse.

I really think this is a conversation that needs to be had, especially as hardcover prices climb above $30 & trade paperbacks are hard to find for under $20. That $10 mmpb price point looks really appealing, & even more so when trying a new-to-you author.

What has it got in its pocketses, precious?

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Today in Mark As Read, @mollytempleton.com's ode to the vanishing mass market paperback: reactormag.com/we-all-miss-...

Novel idea, bank romance: Credit and Credibility

Novel idea, lawyer romance: Lies and Liability