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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · 10h

POV, you're my PhD supervisor, and you've just told me I need to write my research down

The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Jul 9

I must sound insane at work to say things like
"Yeah writing my D&D science books has actually been really useful experience for writing my PhD thesis"

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Jun 24

Im at a loss for what spell it could be

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Antoine Vernet @antoinevernet.bsky.social · May 27

A few weeks ago, I came across the @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social account on YouTube. Who came up with a really cool way of writing spells in DnD (if you are into networks, at least) 2/4

youtube.com/shorts/hXbkB...

Wizard Reading Circle #dnd #dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons #spellwritingguide

YouTube video by GorillaOfDestiny

youtube.com

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Dannagal Goldthwaite Young @dannagal.bsky.social · May 2

Your regular reminder that NSF grants built the internet and helped the U.S. dominate tech.

Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · May 1

BREAKING: NSF has frozen all grant funding, as of yesterday. It's unclear when they will resume funding awards, or why the pause has been put in place. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

www.nature.com

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · May 4

The proposed NSF cuts in America are genuinely insane. I can't see a single benefit that could possibly outweigh the long-term and short-term costs to every aspect of life.

That is, of course, assuming their goal is to make life better...or that they're acting on any semblance of logic.

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Mar 29

Nvm got it

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Mar 29

Me trying to figure out why my Druid code stopped working for no reason

a pixel art drawing of a man with gray hair and a blue jacket

ALT: a pixel art drawing of a man with gray hair and a blue jacket

media.tenor.com

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Mar 22

Arcane Engineering for sure

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Jwst Feed @jwstfeed.bsky.social · Mar 3

New MIRI image of NGC 1514 was released in a recent article.
arxiv.org/abs/2502.212...

Coadded images of NGC 1514 at 7.7 µm (upper left), 12.8 µm (upper right), 25.5 µm (lower left), and a three-color composite image of the three. The origin (0′,0′) corresponds to the position of the central binary star.

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Feb 24

The hardest part of a PhD is having to think "I don't envy the person who has to do all that work" before realising you are the person

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Feb 19

Genuinely very frustrating

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Josh Gold @joshgold.me · Feb 19

I slightly modified the #DND spell writing system by
@gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social
and built a little tool to supplement my non-existent art skills.

You can mess around with it here: joshgold.me/tools/dnd-sp...

Here are two variations of Phantasmal Force (one of my favorite spells):

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Feb 19

Starting a new campaign and realising with much frustration that individual purchases haven't been allowed on D&D Beyond for almost a year.........

Genuinely got me and my players thinking why we bother using digital character sheets anymore

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Feb 18

They're doing so well

lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · Feb 17

Here is a nice mushroom

A single Stereum mushroom is curled up like a perfect paper cone on top of an icy log, a tuft of snow is nestled in it

All photos by me

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Feb 11

If true, this would be insanely devastating. Like..."bias"?? "Inclusion"??? These come up all the time in standard scientific writing??????!??

(Also, it'd still be evil even if it was applied in a way that only impacted people...)

Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Feb 10

1. EXCLUSIVE

Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information.

The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

The NSA's "Big Delete"

Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion." The "...

popular.info

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Feb 11

"There is a curse.
They say:
May you live in interesting times."
-Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times

Dr. SkySkull @drskyskull.bsky.social · Feb 11

Hey I am starting to think that that dude who once told me “may you live in interesting times” didn’t mean it as well-wishes

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Feb 8

I have so many projects to work on and I've had so little time outside of work

Until now...

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Ben Rosen @benrosen.bsky.social · Jan 26

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Jan 25

I anticipated some rightwing weirdos in my comments for today's video but what's amazing to me is the difference in tiktok and youtube's vibe

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The Geek Influence @thegeekinfluence.bsky.social · Jan 21

Sometimes you just have to step back and realize you made something pretty incredible.

The Mighty DM's Dice Box from materials to completion (minus all the hard work 😅). Wait till you see the inside...

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Jan 21

It's hard work being the office Artist :(

A baddly drawn cartoon frog with pointy teeth and a vampire cloak and the caption "Frogferatu" in a gothic german script on a whiteboard.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · Jan 20

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Jan 20

It's so good!! I can't believe someone else is making maps in the way I do, surreal. I literally saw it and went, "I don't remember drawing that"

Aly S 📚🐈🐈‍⬛🐱 @alysummers.bsky.social · Jan 19

Here's the map for my current work in progress. Big shout out to @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social for the videos that inspired me and provided tips! #amwriting #writersky #firstdraft #bookmap #worldbuilding

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The Gorilla Of Destiny @gorillaofdestiny.bsky.social · Jan 18

I'll especially miss all the musiciansand animators I found through tiktok