Calling all physics/astronomy science communicators! Applications are open for the 2026 #Scicomm Collider at @perimeterinstitute.ca! A great opportunity for folks doing all kinds of astro/phys engagement to meet, network, and share expertise on connecting the public with science! ⚛️🧪🔭🎢
USians if you want to do something, call your elected congress members and let them know you expect to see them oppose the president's threats tonight and that it is such an unacceptable action that if he carries through, you expect them to refuse to vote on anything before an impeachment is called.
I'm up doing nerd shit (read: prepping a mod for tomorrow's Starfield update) and I just got my alert on Kindle. Legit paused in the middle of my nerd shit to start reading immediately.
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Buy SFF books and harass your congresscritters to get that loud rancid genocidal bitch out of office and into the deepest darkest dungeon we can find most expeditiously
Good morning everyone today is MOON DAY 🚀🌖🥰 #Artemis
The thing about LLMs is that they are an averaging out of language, and some of the constructions that are LLM tics ("not just x—but y!") are that because they were already overused, especially in marketing copy. LLMs just accelerate the process of cliché formation.
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The full globe? That is the NIGHT SIDE. I'm pretty sure I can see some satellites/debris glinting away on the periphery. Also the Aurora?!
What a bonkers beautiful world that supports and holds everyone and everything you've ever known and loved, and so much more.
Man I have never been so happy for a random pilot I have never met before
Reddit post titled: "What's the most elegant mechanic you've ever seen?" With the body text: "Elegance" meaning the most complex/nuanced outcome from the simplest input
A post from Reddit user fluxyggdrasil: The moment I think I "Got" Realis was a session where they were protecting a noble kid at a feast. Good kid, super naive, super surrounded by usurpers. One noble was found stabbed in the main hall. "Does anybody have a counter for the sentence "I always take drastic measures to achieve my goals?" The intent is to kill this woman." Naturally, the doctor of the group ran out and into the hall to save her. ...what they then learned was that this was a ploy to separate the doctor from the noble kid. "...The Doctor is busy, it's just you two now. And now I need to ask you: Do either of you have a counter for the sentence "I always wield an undetectable poison?" Their intent is to poison the child to death." No 'dice' or random chance, but watching those players SCRAMBLE over their sheets to try and find a sentence they could leverage in a way to counter this sentence and un-poison the kid. (Which credit where it's due, they managed to do!) But man, I never thought Diceless gaming would have any stakes or "High-Pressure" situations until I pulled that admittedly mean trick on them. Consider me a Realis believer. That entire mini-campaign was fantastic.
A follow up question from Strayl1ght: What was the counter? Now you have me invested A response from fluxyggdrasil: My Duelist PC countered by invoking their sentence +0 "I always carry a beautiful and distinct (weapon)." Their intent was to do some medieval-style bloodletting to get the poison out of the blood (or at least keep them stable long enough for the doctor to come back) as their weapon would be sharp as any scalpel, so it would be a much safer and easier cut to stitch back closed.
This is suuuuuch a good example of how Realis works. Both the way that it allows for a sort of narrative maneuvering /and/ the way it pushes everyone to really get creative with what they have on their sheets.
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Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you...
The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:
I'm gonna be honest, it's been kind of a rough week over here, and this just gave me such an incredible boost. What a stellar write-up!!
I think about this a lot, especially tied to sympathy/empathy, & how (western) ideas of happiness/joy as only meaningful or “true” if somehow (impossibly) permanent…
YEAR OF THE MER Mega-Thread since we're a couple weeks out and I kind of feel like throwing up.
Book 1 of 2 is out on April 7!
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And in the UK and wherever else they distribute in English from Titan: titanbooks.com/72438-year-o...
No, fuck you. You don’t get to suddenly decide that copyright matters when folks suddenly have access to the source code of your spicy autocomplete due to your own incompetence.
It's not just my opinion. Studies show that access to diverse books positively impacts children's reading scores. This fabulous study from First Book explains this in detail.
Successful readers read widely, and that means reading all kinds of books.
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I've seen people trying to defend it today by saying "No, no, I just use it to brainstorm, bounce ideas, I do the actual writing" and with all the kindness in the world I need to tell you: if there is a stage of writing you are not good at, you need to get good, not use the plagiarism machine.
I am very, very excited about this 👀
REALIS, the science fantasy TTRPG I’ve been working on for the last five years, is now live on Kickstarter!
55 Player Classes
150+ NPC Classes
29 Factions
20 Example Moons of Realis
GMing and Prep Guidance
Over 100 incredible illustrations from 17 artists!
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a cute puzzle for the day
I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Apr 1st 2026 (Tricky), in 01:10
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Yarn Spinner @yarnspinner.dev • 7m → Replied to Jason Imms The key to a good April Fools joke, we think, is to make something that is a) dumb, b) real, C) ONE HUNDRED PERCENT committed to the bit, and d) not making fun of anyone but ourselves* *…and corporate apology videos. Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.so... • 5m The problem with April fool's day in the video game industry is there are three kind of jokes: - Punching down at something people like - Stuff that would be cool but won't happen - Stuff that would be cool but won't happen because we are small indie developers and this project might break even
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We more than met our goal, but I upgraded our books, and our margins are tighter than I would prefer, so if you would like to Late Pledge for a two-person postcard game about holding on in uncertain times - it would also help me hold on in uncertain times!
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“Normal” has never had any meaning here except to mean complacency — especially if you’re white and well off.
Maybe other countries have a normal but not the US
*laughs in getting back to normal after Columbine*
*laughs in getting back to normal after 9-11*
*laughs in getting back to normal after Covid*
*laughs in getting back to normal after tons of other stuff between and before all that*
I don't like what we've done to the word "accessible"
would love to see a thread of small practical pieces of advice developers just starting out or unfamiliar with a genre might not know!
I’ll start: if you’re using a tag-based system, don’t just give everything an individual tag—look for thematic groups where similar events can lead to same outcome
For the first fucking time. Gonna put this tidbit in my slide deck about values in science and medicine.
the pitt is like. rediscovered lost technology of the ancients. secret ancient lost arts forgotten for a 1000 years. what if a show was well lit so you could see what's happening in it. what if the dialogue was good and also audible. what if episodes ended on cliffhangers. what if
