Reblog by @wonn-sann · 8 images 💬 323  🔁 149486  ❤️ 127323 · Please make a post about the story of the RMS Carpathia, because it's something that's almost beyond belief and more people should know about it. Carpathia received Ti…

thinking about the carpathia again late at night on the 113th anniversary of the titanic going down

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In 18 years, the best day (by far) we've had for new subscriptions was triggered by a reader who posted two sentences and a link on Reddit. Never underestimate word-of-mouth. Thank you to everyone that has done that for us over the years. It all adds up and continues to make a difference.

Researchers identify potential link between retinal changes, Alzheimer’s disease A team of scientists at the Indiana University School of Medicine has identified that an eye condition affecting the retina, the light-sensing tissue in the back of the eye, may serve as an early indi...

Interesting study suggests that retinal changes might be a sign of Alzheimer's, which could lead to earlier diagnoses.

medicine.iu.edu/news/2025/02...

Firefox is adding groups, and try the Sideberry add-on. Sidebar tabs in a tree with collapsing groups

Try Firefox. It's the only non-Chrome-based browser left

Trump’s Airplane Crash

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more

They're also one of the reasons our tax code continues to be a mess and hard for regular people to navigate! They want you to be unable to do it easily yourself.

Truth.

Overlooked No More: Karen Wynn Fonstad, Who Mapped Tolkien’s Middle-earth (Gift Article) She was a novice cartographer who landed a dream assignment: to create an atlas of the setting of “The Hobbit” and “The Lord of the Rings.”

Excellent obituary of Karen Wynn Fonstad, the superlative cartographer of Middle-earth, Pern, D&D, Narnia, etc. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o...

"[Neil Gaiman] has felt entitled to take what he wants from a woman, without her permission, and without any acknowledgment of her contributions."

On the influence of Tanith Lee's TALES FROM THE FLAT EARTH on THE SANDMAN:

Willem Dafoe would act the hell out of that

BBC article “it’s also worth remembering that the very concept of a personal carbon footprint was popularized by a wide reaching 2005 BP media campaign. “It was the most brilliant example of ‘it’s your fault, not ours’” says Westervelt. “It’s a framework that serves them really well because they can just say ‘Oh well, if you really care then why are you driving an SUV?”

Said so much better by @amywestervelt.bsky.social who knows far more about climate than I (or most people) do [full piece: www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Terry Pratchett's "Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socio-economic unfairness". The best quote I've ever read about why being poor can be so expensive.

New Year's Resolution: Block any "AI" accounts anywhere, you don't even have to feel bad about it, it's not like there is someone on the other end

Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?

Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.

Kennedy Center Concert Hall stage with a single stool and microphone stand

At the Kennedy Center to see John Oliver

GuildWars 2 Screenshot of a Charr dressed as Beast holding a greatsword covered in roses

It doesn't drop petals, but it does bloom on draw

I always assumed Nohamapetan was just to screw with Wil

Give the gift of short fiction this holiday season. Or get some for yourself. You've earned it. Red horizontal stripe. Green vertical stripe. Both offset from center with text on the left and magazine covers for Clarkesworld on the right. A red bow sits on top of the magazines. The magazines are on top of the stripes to the right.

Anytime I do some subscription marketing, I feel like I should apologize. Thing is, if we don't market, we don't survive. I'd like to keep doing this job, even with all the "AI" nonsense we deal with. So...

Give the gift of short fiction this holiday season.
clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Oh, I have this book in my personal library, and also was fortunate to know Ford, all too briefly. He was a treasure.

Worth noting, as far as I can tell, this only applies to personal accounts located in the US. If you're in any country that has to comply with GDPR, you shouldn't have anything to worry about.

turns out regulations are a good thing actually

Let's make this clear: My mom's test results for nearly two years indicated possible cancer, but neither she nor her doctors knew this because of a private agreement between her insurer and pathologists to occasionally lie about abnormal or ambiguous test results and falsely report them as normal.

It's not a contest if there's not a chance

My Spotify Wrap-up: Nothing. Because I won't use Spotify until they start paying the artists they profit off of.

Terry Pratchett was a wise and gifted writer!

D&D Maps A catalog for user created maps and links to maps by other artists suitable for use in any D&D campaign, adventure, or encounter.

A lot of Patreon places post samples here www.reddit.com/r/dndmaps/

Retailers Locked Up Their Products—and Broke Shopping in America CVS, Target and other chains have barricaded everything from toiletries to cleaning supplies. It’s backfired in almost every way.

Seems like people wanna talk about all the locked-up stuff at chain pharmacies and big box stores today. Here’s a gift link to a feature I published a few months ago about why retailers started putting so much stuff behind plexiglass and how badly it’s backfired. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Subnautica. Beautiful, atmospheric, great story.