HEADS UP.
BSky added a feature that allows people to be notified every time you post. A fine feature!
By default, it's set to allow anyone to do this. If you are prone to stalkers though:
*Under Privacy and Security settings, you can change this to only allow people you follow back to use this.*
I am pleased to see academics pushing back hard against the unquestioning adoption of AI. This quote captures all of my concerns in a nutshell.
its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further
At one point, I got a lot of Rakuten receipts for this person, just ordering random stuff… and Spotify log in validation tokens 🤷♀️
The Japanese person who keeps mistyping their email as o e of mine is at it again. Not sure what Weverse is, but I won’t be authenticating my email with them for the confused person.
Is there a way to change the date display on Bluesky (default app) to d/m/y instead of the US order?
Oh shit guys—I might be an AI and didn’t even know it. 😂
A few #Aurora shots from southern #Tasmania last night. Was very bright with colours visible to the naked eye, but colours were dominated by green and purple.
The top 9 boardgames Tsana played in 2024, sorted by time spent playing. Image shows box covers on the left and other stats in the right. Most played games were: Frosthaven, Unsettled, Legends Untold, The Adventures of Robin Hood, Terraforming Mars, Sleeping Gods: Distant Skies, Star Realms Rise of Empire, Daybreak, Tiwanaku. The other stats include 223 games played over 334 hours with 30 different people. 90 new-to-her games were played.
2024 has come to a close, which means I can safely review my board gaming stats of 2024. Our challenge for the year was to play all the games in our collection, which we succeeded at. Plus we played a lot of new games.
My last language peeve for the year.
Don, in the clothing sense, is a verb. It doesn’t mean “wearing” it means *putting on*.
If someone is walking down the street “donning” a coat/skirt/suit of armour, they’re still getting dressed
They may have (past tense) “donned” a hat for the outing, though
Just a couple days left at this price if you want to never subscribe again …
If you are part of the follow-back culture that just arrived in the past month from twitter, that's fine. I'm glad it works for you. But it was never part of Bluesky before you got here. Please stop harassing me (and everyone else) to follow you back. We are allowed to have personal boundaries. 🌸
Mug and teapot featuring a continuous lunar landscape with craters and three astronauts admiring the Milky Way and stars above.
Mug and teapot featuring a continuous lunar landscape with craters and three astronauts admiring the Milky Way and stars above. Detail of teapot.
Mug and teapot featuring a continuous lunar landscape with craters and three astronauts admiring the Milky Way and stars above. Detail of mug.
Mug and teapot featuring a continuous lunar landscape with craters and three astronauts admiring the Milky Way and stars above. Detail of astronauts.
Custom Tea for One: Milky Way and the Moon
I remember reading these as a kid. Then Mum started making baked potatoes in the style described in the book. We called them Milly Molly Mandy potatoes
A starter pack for Aussie writers of sci fi and fantasy.
#scifi #aussie #australia #fantasy #sciencefiction #writers
No.
Voting.
On.
Who.
Gets.
To.
Be.
People.
(H/t @nkjemisin.bsky.social)
Calling all Women Game Designers and Developers - we are only a third of the way through this Starter Pack. There must be more of you/us out there?
Please spread the word, we'd love for you to join and share the amazing work you're doing in #games.
#gamedev #indiedev
go.bsky.app/Bn9UUz2
I dropped a fountain pen last night, nib first. Intense panic. But turns out it’s basically fine. Made a small hole in the floor though 🤷♀️
6-armed, multi-colored feathered Christmas tree-topper covered in multi-colored eyes of various sizes
Friends et al, if you see an image of this tree-topper floating around the internet, it is mine and my spouse's creation, and we would simply like credit for it!
I was lucky enough to be interviewed for this fun piece, and Tansy used WAY more of my quotes than I'd expected (which is awesome!), so basically: buckle up for a lot of Opinions. ;)
I just found out that around 20% of the neanderthal genome still exists today in living people!!
No individual person has more than 3 or 4% but we don't all have the same bits. If you add up all the bits we've found, about a fifth of the Neanderthal genome is still present on earth today.
At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.
Recommending Family Pack on Netflix. French movie which is basically One Night Ultimate Werewolf* the movie. Or, what if Jumanji was about One a night Ultimate Werewolf* instead.
*Technically, a similar but legally distinct game.
Pink/red rooftop illustration of European style houses. A witch and some friends are sitting on the roof
A witch and her friend at a library/study. The illustration is mostly orange and teal
A witch sitting around massive trees
The cluttered desk of a witch. A little radio, some crystals. Tarot cards
Life of a witch
A black and white photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell looking at a printout in front of the large radio dish she used. She is wearing cat's-eye glasses with her brown hair pulled back. Her head is turned towards the camera and she is smiling.
The printout where Bell and Hewish noticed the regular signal associated with the pulsar.It is a green-yellow graph paper with a staticky red line showing occasional spikes. There are hand annotations labeling the spikes and recording the time and date of each one.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell transformed astronomy #OTD in 1967 when she made the first observation of a pulsar.
She and advisor Antony Hewish initially dubbed the object LGM-1 (“Little Green Men”) for its regular signal, but soon identified it as a rotating, magnetized neutron star. (1/n)
🧪 🔭 👩🔬 ⚛️
Anyway here’s a cheerful piece about how the Sun will eventually destroy all life on Earth (but not by exploding, so, you know, there’s that)
Two books, side by side. On the left is Psynode by Marlee Jane Ward, depicting the left half of a bald feminine head and shoulder against a grey-green background with falling matrix-style numbers. On the right is Prisoncorp by Marlee Jane Ward, with the cover depicting the same person who is now sitting behind bars, with her arms through the bars and handcuffs around her wrists. She is also wearing fingerless gloves.
Love how Auspost sends the notification that a package is coming today when it has just been delivered. (Not sarcasm, it does amuse me.)
Seems like a really good way to scare a bunch of huge companies about the potential for litigation and get them to delete their Twitter accounts.
The good news is, I found book 3 (and 2) in paper from an indie bookshop in NSW. Waiting for the delivery later this week. At least I’ll have the full trilogy on my shelf.