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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, that's a different thing.

Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. Deliberately inventing new slurs so you can use them, and performing cruelty, are bad for you even if your target is nonsentient, and can easily hurt other people who observe your behavior.

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Tony DiTerlizzi @diterlizzi.bsky.social · 10h

Inktober, Day 8, "Reckless": I may have been a little reckless inking such an ambitious image over afternoon tea, but I've wanted to realize this drawing of a D&D Bulette since I first sketched it back in 2006.

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 12h

Suddenly, I noticed a faint smell of tuna. I looked over at my office partner, Dr. Hunt. She was grinning by the machine she'd built.

"It works!"

"Nice," I said. "What is it?"

"What you smell is the ghost of tuna!"

I felt something brush against my leg. The office filled with ghostly purring.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 12h

This year's Nobel - commentary and background, with a few more bonus MOF pictures of my own:

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Metal-Organic Frameworks

www.science.org

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Dumb Robot Stuff @dumbrobotstuff.bsky.social · 14h

Tech priest line up including my new servitor underseer

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 13h

It's true. Nobody has indeed campaigned for a Nobel Peace Prize quite like Trump.

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The Wonder of Tolkien @tolkienwonder.bsky.social · 14h

The first Silmarillion map. Drawn by Tolkien on an unused page from a University of Leeds examination booklet.

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 14h

Also, dehumanizing your enemies is a dangerous idea. Even if they are genuinely very bad people!

In fact, *especially* then, as it blinds you to your own, and your allies, potential to do bad things, and ultimately is an excuse to do awful things in the sure knowledge that it's justified.

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 15h

Try this.

www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treat...

Home Epley Maneuver

The home Epley maneuver is a type of exercise help that helps to treat the symptoms of benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV). You can do this exercise at home.

www.hopkinsmedicine.org

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 18h

A Chemistry Nobel that many had anticipated: metal-organic frameworks! Writeup coming on the blog later this morning:

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 was awarded jointly to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi "for the development of metal–organic frameworks"

www.nobelprize.org

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 17h

Innokkaana lihansyöjänä pitää sanoa, että on kyllä aivan järkyttävän tyhmä ja huono päätös.

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Josh Fischman @jfischman.bsky.social · 17h

Finally! After decades of also-runs, amazing molecular cages-which can do everything from trapping greenhouse gases to delivering and releasing drugs at specific parts of the body- won the Chemistry Nobel. Read @megha.bsky.social 's story, here, and watch for updates today.

2025 Chemistry Nobel Goes to Molecular Sponges That Purify Water, Store Energy, and Clean Up the Environment

Three scientists, including one from the U.S., share the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing “metal-organic frameworks,” versatile molecular cages that can trap contaminants, store energy and...

www.scientificamerican.com

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 18h

"If I fits, I sits."

Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 18h

I was about to post this if nobody had done it yet. Well done. 😸

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 18h

That's a very embarrassing take, you know.

Not as embarrassing as Badenoch obviously understanding nothing and learning nothing from Pratchett's books, but still embarrassing.

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 18h

To state the obvious: the people who say shit like this are never actually concerned about reducing casualities and killing as few people as possible.

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 21h

Also, it's not like LLMs (which are totally non-sentient) are "what the real thing is like". It's ignorance of the history of SF *and* ignorance of the 'AI' they're complaining about!

Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 21h

Cat-like noise detected. :)

David J Prokopetz @prokopetz.bsky.social · 1d

I spent like 15 minutes trying to figure out why my bathroom fan seemed to run more roughly whenever I stood in certain parts the room before realising the rattling wasn't coming from the fan; my cat was tucked away out of sight, and would start purring loudly whenever I walked past her hiding spot.

Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 21h

Yes, this. Practicing cruelty, even against inanimate things, makes you better at being cruel... and thus, a worse person.

Ben Cates @bencates.bsky.social · 1d

That means that in order to durably expand your empathy in any real way you have to put up some internal roadblocks against indulging in cruelty *even when that cruelty is objectively harmless*. You kind of have to be a bit of a joyless scold here because that's one of only two stable equilibria.

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 1d

As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

manyheadedmonster.com/2025/10/07/t...

The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming

This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

manyheadedmonster.com

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Eva Vilhelmiina @evelmiina.bsky.social · 1d

Inktober day 6
Teacher

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 1d

this is very, very good.

“…. aesthetics are not the sole determinant of value. A city does not need to be all cherry blossoms and street fairs to be worth protecting. No protest—no gathering of human beings in general—is going to be monolithically well-behaved.”

Brooke Jackson-Glidden @jacksonglidden.bsky.social · 1d

In the words of Detox, I’ve had it, officially.

If Portland Is a ‘War Zone,’ It’s Not Because of Portlanders

No, Portlanders aren’t “living in hell.” But even if we were, it wouldn’t justify a military takeover.

www.pdxmonthly.com

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Bruce Mackay @brucemackay.bsky.social · 1d

#Tolktober Day 7 Galadriel.

Illustrated postage stamp of Galadriel of Lothlórien. Pouring magic water into a magic basin so she can spy on her old boyfriend/sidepiece. Overlapping orange and teal.

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Lurks-no-More @lurks-no-more.bsky.social · 22h

Absolutely. Just do a search-and-replace on "God" with "reason", and you get an awful lot of the online atheists. Dunno what would be the buzzword for the lefty types, but there are *so many* with the exact same mentality.

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