“Point me at the unit tests.”

Draconic Codex: A Pathfinder Review! Okay, it’s been a minute since there’s been a Pathfinder review here, and it’s time to change that! Let’s dive into some DRAGONS! NOTICE: Paizo provided me with a review copy of their new book, the Draconic Codex.

Draconic Codex: A Pathfinder Review!

Okay, it’s been a minute since there’s been a Pathfinder review here, and it’s time to change that! Let’s dive into some DRAGONS! NOTICE: Paizo provided me with a review copy of their new book, the Draconic Codex.

We will never know 🤷‍♂️

EFF is Leaving X After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X.

This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5)
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I have had to deal with the fallout from people not doing this more times than you would think reasonable. Four out of my last five gigs at least.

Dear devs, never use personal accounts when setting up integrations with external services. Always use a corporate account that will survive your departure. Please, I am begging you.

EFF is finally leaving X and here is a blog post about why: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

You can see why the exo-zodiacal light becomes an issue in imaging exo-Earths. Imagine turning this background glow around another star up by say 10x and the pale blue dot getting lost in the glare.

Not all heroes wear capes.

The real man-tasy was … the sci fi and fantasy we had all along.

Long Covid Predicted to Cost OECD Economies $135 Billion a Year The pandemic might be over, but new research indicates long Covid is likely to reverberate across OECD economies, costing up to $135 billion a year over the next decade.

A new study predicts that Long Covid will cost OECD economies $135 billion a year, due to people leaving the workforce, lower productivity, and healthcare costs. COVID is not over.

MY KINGDOM FOR A NEVER-ASK-ME-AGAIN BUTTON THAT WORKS.

SECONDED

I don’t know if it counts as enshittification exactly, but I wish every goddam app would stop bugging me to turn push notifications on every five fucking minutes.

Women

She is the antichrist.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Shingles vaccines make the astronauts’ bodies radiate light. Thank you for asking.

I would have thought it would be the COVID vaccine. Aren’t those astronauts too young for shingles vaccines?

Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth. [alt text from NASA]

The #Artemis II astronauts said they needed more superlatives to describe their view of the eclipse, when the Sun was behind the Moon and its near surface was faintly illuminated by Earthshine

Words I could never have imagined myself saying until I started taking GLP-1s: “sorry, I filled up on grapes.”

Some times I need to use the “Klein-fine” mnemonic. Other times I don’t need it at all.

One obvious bias here is that people looking into playing very personal games are unlikely to use a tool like Groupfinder

It lends itself better to trad-ish games in which the rules themselves work as a safety tool and it shows

Ben Roberts-Smith arrested over multiple war crimes Australia’s most famous soldier has been taken into custody over the alleged murders of unarmed Afghan civilians and prisoners.

Really hop they don’t screw this up

Excellent rebuttal to this week’s “Bluesky is dying” discourse.

Bluesky’s userbase ballooned post-inauguration and a lot of those users fell away, as is typical of such waves.

I was happily using Bluesky exclusively during that low bit on the left

$430,000 - Summer of the Witch A new Mystery! The infectious jingle of the Golden Clover Summer Solstice Music Festival promises the biggest celebration of the summer in Degoya County. But when the Latchkeys receive a package from a frantic doctor whose patient was murdered, they uncover a sinister plot tied to Golden Clover’s charismatic CEO, Daniel Carpenter. As festival preparations intensify, eerie masks, unsettling townsfolk, and strange technological rituals point to something far more dangerous than a music festival. With thousands of lives at stake, the Latchkeys must uncover the truth behind the masks and stop Carpenter before the solstice celebration becomes catastrophic. Inspired by Halloween III: Season of the Witch, Midsommar, and The Wicker Man. This stretch goal will be included in Signals from the Other Side.

My mystery for the Public Access TTRPG is one of the kickstarter stretch goals! Inspired by some of my favourite horror movies, it will be in the books if we hit the $430,000 USD mark! :D Back it now!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/gau...

Black-and-white photograph of Swedish physician and researcher Nanna Svartz as an older woman. She is seated in a laboratory, wearing a white lab coat with a dark bow at the neck, and smiling directly at the camera. Her left hand rests on a large vintage microscope in front of her, with books, papers, and lab equipment visible in the background.

Physician Nanna Svartz invented Salazopyrine (1941), a drug still used today to treat rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's & more.

In 1937, she became the first female professor for medicine & at a public university in #Sweden (Karolinska Institute). She died #OTD in 1986.

#WomenInSTEM #medsky #highered

'An MIT Media Lab study titled “Your Brain on ChatGPT” found that LLM users “consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” The tech oligarchs have somehow managed to enshittify thinking.'