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An Angry Scientist @anangryscientist.bsky.social · 46m

I picked up this game because of this post, and it’s delightful. sometimes I play with combat enabled because the militia raising system is cool and feels well grounded, but its also such a rich little world-builder. great if you want a specialized and atmospheric civ type game.

The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 16d

Game review (from 2024).
Manor Lords is a medieval city builder that I've made a modest contribution to as a historical consultant & beta tester for.
It tries to depict the middle ages in an accurate way, behind the scenes historians, experts & history addicts have been debating the tiniest details.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 11m

I've had people ask me why I don't support the genocide of Palestinians since "Hamas kills queer people" and I always ask if they think Israeli bombs and starvation are avoiding queer Palestinians or what.

I am a lot of fun at parties.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 18h

Just thinking for no reason about the time years ago I was asked by a Rabbi not to return to a synagogue because they were having an Israeli speaker and having a trans person there made the Israelis "uncomfortable."

Since Israel is so welcoming to queer people and all

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 3h

microsoft product (begging, pleading): save this document to my documents?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (twitching, shaking) this jpeg. save to pictures?

me: save to desktop

microsoft (weeping, throwing up): this email attachment... downloads?

me: desktop

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psychodroma @feathertrail.net · 2h

senior portrait, Pine Squirrel
Spruce-Fir High School Class of 2026

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 1h

My other favorite thing is when dogs get so excited they just start emitting random happy behaviors. Like grabbing the ball when we're about to go on a walk. She doesn't actually want to play ball! She wants WALK!!!

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 1h

I make tea. I set my timer on my phone. I continue getting breakfast. I think "wait, I forgot to set my timer! How long has it been, about 2 minutes?" I set the timer on the stove for T minus 2 minutes.

Reader, my phone and the stove went off within five seconds of each other. 😌

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 1h

attempting to do this to myself by thinking REALLY HARD about when my dog is so excited that she wags her whole butt

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 3h

“The concept of ‘noninvasive’ makes no sense here if we’re looking at mental health. What does that even really mean?” asked Florence Ashley [...]. “If one of the things that we look at is suicidality, that’s pretty f**king invasive. You’re dead.”

A discredited therapy for gay and trans youth is at the center of a Supreme Court case. Here’s what to know | CNN

The US Supreme Court heard a case Tuesday that will determine whether a Colorado law that prohibits licensed mental health professionals from providing conversion “therapy” to minors is constitutional...

www.cnn.com

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 1h

Turf grass / Home vegetable garden / Rewilding

We Call Them Water Dudes @jurisdudence.bsky.social · 4h

Corporate/ personal injury /criminal defense

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 3h

Yo, did I tell you that Ben and I did a video for Ralph? Cuz Ben and I did a video for Ralph.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRSZ...

Dr Eleanor Janega on the Secret Sex Lives of Medieval Monks & More | What Do You Want to Talk About?

YouTube video by Ralph World

www.youtube.com

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Tuxedo Catfish @tuxedocatfish.bsky.social · 2h

something i find very helpful on this front is realizing that you cannot actually directly beam experiences into someone else's head. this sounds obvious but it's the default way surprisingly many people think about art. what you're doing is basically giving someone tools to GENERATE an experience

Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 1h

A paper sign that says "The door bell is missing, please shake bottle of rocks", and then a plastic water bottle with some pebbles in it.

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Bethany Brookshire @beebrookshire.bsky.social · 2h

Today in I CANNOT BELIEVE I did not know about this word until now:

I learned about snarge.

Snarge: What is...er...left...when a bird and a plane collide. The bird bits, specifically.

Obviously I knew about birdstrikes but SNARGE?!

www.sciencefriday.com/segments/fea...

Feathers And Snarge: Identifying What’s Left After Birds And Planes Collide

There’s a CSI lab for birds that strike airplanes. The species that hits most often? Not the one you’d guess.

www.sciencefriday.com

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the ghost of kwisatz haderade 👻🏹 @booksandbows.bsky.social · 2h

btw what EMTALA requires is that you’re given a medical screening and your condition is stabilized instead of an ER refusing to see you or transferring you bc of what they think it would cost them treat you.

the ghost of kwisatz haderade 👻🏹 @booksandbows.bsky.social · 2h

the thing about EMTALA is there are no conservatives who actually understand EMTALA and they just read it as “we can’t let undesirables die in the street without consequences” and want to destroy it

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 2h

wait

what about him reminded you of jonelias

that uh seems like a fraught topic to be reminded of at actual work

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2h

A good example of why direct inflation adjustment of this sort is more deceptive than clarifying when applied over very long stretches of time where consumption patterns are very different.

Basic foods (bread/grain) probably devours a third of Cratchet's income, but not the modern worker's.

Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3h

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 13h

today I moved my fish tank to a different place in my room so I have more desk space for actual work! 🎊🏆🐟🏡

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 14h

oooooh rec accepted

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 14h

and the plant that grows wild in grasslands that burn regularly, but in the city it grows in graveyards because they scythe those every so often!!!

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 14h

i know it says unsexed but I just get Girl Vibes

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 14h

oh yes, yes yes yes. and the urban weaverbirds in Archenhold, and the sewer infra and the "we buried it in concrete in the foundations of a public works project" in Illuminations???

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compost is the ghosts of food @compostwitch.bsky.social · 14h

oh I love how that second pic looks like she's grinning

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 15h

Before his death, Rabbi Zusha said: “In the coming world, they will not ask me: Why were you not Moses? They will ask me: Why were you not Zusha?”

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