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30 or so game developer. it never stops it never shuts up. ffxiv, star wars, video games, and draws blog is nerdlordholocron (xivtwtpocalypse folks go there). they/them.

[lostinhistory]

[curlicuetruth]

found this in one of the news articles

I can’t decide whether seven bushmaster bites means you should stay away from bushmasters or declare yourself bushmaster king

[titkoks]

[toomuchtaylor]

This man nearly died to create this for us. The least we can do is watch it from start to finish and then share it immediately.

[robotsfromouterspace]

...actually now i'm wondering if there'd be a benefit to putting discreet sound absorption panels throughout museums. yeah some of them are architecturally impressive as hell but So Much Sound Carries In Those and not everyone has figured out that it's polite to talk softly in museums

[porcelain-dollbones]

snakes really make you appreciate how gross mammals really are. squamates are very dry and clean

[porcelain-dollbones]

a bird is a kind of reptile that has learned to be yucky.

[catilinas]

more benches in museums

the benches need to have backs!

[autistobrat]

I’m lying face down on the floor. Reblog to join.

[corvidcall]

to anyone in the areas impacted by the wildfire smoke, my #1 biggest piece of advice as someone whos been dealing with wildfire smoke in the NW united states for years, is build yourself a Corsi-Rosenthal Cube

they perform as well as expensive HEPA air cleaners, and are comparatively VERY inexpensive. all you need is a box fan, 4 air filters, a piece of cardboard, and some duct tape!!!!

i think it took us maybe a half hour to put ours together, if that, and we replace the filters every 3 months. it's really made a HUGE difference, both when the air quality is bad, but also with our allergies

[o0fyuu0o]

Saw these easy to read instructions on Twitter. Stay safe 💚

[sun-cheyne]

Also just a handy, DIY air filter in general, if a bit bulky. For a less bulky and cheaper (but also less effective) solution, you can simply tape one filter to the fan, cut a shroud if you'd like.

[snowriddenwolf]

just FYI, this is quite literally what the climate scientists at my work who specialized in wildfire smoke impacts recommend. it works great, it's cheap to make, and it will make a noticeable impact on your air quality.

[mechanicalriddle]

i have asthma & keep one of these running in my room perpetually. after I set it up the difference in my sleep quality was pretty much night and day. Dont waste your time on proprietary air filters; SIMPLY bust out the duct tape

[klapollo]

Washington Post is paywalling the article but it looks like Taylor Farms — a consumer bagged salad brand that also supplies produce to grocers and fast food chains like Taco Bell, Walmart, McDonald's, Chipotle, Burger King, KFC, and Meijer —may be at least one of the sources of the current cyclosporiasis outbreak.

Taylor makes bagged greens, salad kits, chopped salads, the works. Keep avoiding supermarket greens, but keep an especially close eye out for this brand/supplier. The above list of grocers and fast food chains is NOT exhaustive, so please continue getting lettuce and other raw produce taken off your burgers, sandwiches, etc.

[triplehamburgerjack]

Their other brand is EARTHBOUND ORGANICS!!!

[robotsfromouterspace]

Unpaywalled Reuters link, dated 7/17/26:

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/wendys-chipotle-say-they-are-not-affected-by-cyclosporiasis-outbreak-2026-07-17/

[silverjirachi]

extremely curious

were you taught to leave one space after a sentence when typing or two?

One, USAmerican

Two, USAmerican

One, non-USAmerican

Two, non-USAmerican

Voting ended onJul 17

I'm from the US and was taught two but I'm beginning to think this is just a freak thing my school did that has no bearing in the rest of the world

[digitaldiscipline]

The transition from two to one spaces happened during my adult life. I was there gandalf, deep magic, etc.

[augustdementhe]

Two, Americanly, and it was a FUCKING FRUSTRATING transition.

[palaeoplushies]

My grandmother, who is 99, does two spaces (UK) but she was taught to type on typewriters. She also really likes keyboards with super clicky mechanical keys because that she hammers at because that's what typewriters were like.

She hates smartphones and non-tactile keyboards but texts like a champ with a numpad phone. I think she stopped keeping up with technology when she was like 85 so like fair enough let her play spider solitaire on the PC and send emails and Facebook. She's been online since windows 3.1 she deserves a break.

[love-ardour-anarchism]

“If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself—as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation—you may hate it, or deify it, but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.” Ursula K. Le Guin "American SF and The Other" in Science-Fiction Studies 7, 1975.

[deadgravity]

You don't have to grieve alone.

[socialistexan]

[robotsfromouterspace]

...Yknow what would be an actually good feature to add to this site. Ability to easily find all reblogs that an OP added to their own post.

[robotsfromouterspace]

i am once again asking shops to be open after 6pm

[screambirdscreaming]

On the subject of knowledge systems, I'm also always wanting to pull apart "science" as it is talked about into several aspects that need seperate treatment.

There's Science as an ideal: a way of approaching the world and learning about it. The idealization of observation and questioning, of coming up with theories but being willing to change them as you observe more.

There is Science as a practice: a way of implementing the ideal. Methodologies for observation, theory-building, and testing. The discussion of these methodologies which also seeks to analyze which are effective, how they can be improved, what their limitations are.

There is Science as a body of work. The accumulation of science-as-practiced, where many generations of work have built on each other and continue to analyze and relate to earlier work.

And there is Science as an institution, as an arm of the Academy. Who decides which approaches and perspectives are legitimate? Who does the observation, who pays for it? The academic project has historical roots deeply tied in imperialism: a philosophy of Knowing the world as part of the project of Owning the world.

Science as a body of work is deeply tied up in science as an institution - not because this fundamentally follows from the accumulated practice of science as an ideal, but as a matter of historical fact. This is the body of work we have.

All of these aspects are in conversation with each other - and with realms of life and society outside of "science" specifically. How exactly the ideal of science should be defined, has varied over history. The iterative effects of changes in methodology and philosophy accumulate in the body of work. The changing body of work changes the goals and outlooks of the academy. These aspects of science are not separable. But neither are they synonymous.

Very often, I see critiques of science-as-practiced rebutted with appeals to the legacy and legitimacy of science-as-institution. Meanwhile, critiques of science-as-institution are brushed off with appeals to science-as-ideal.

To understand the body of knowledge we have constructed, where it comes from and how it operates, we have to be able to address these aspects as distinct, and to build language of analysis for them individually, and for how they interact.

[zxid]

collection

[fishlung8877]

[keyofjetwolf]

[captainlordauditor]

[lagtrainzzz]

i think transfems should be allowed to be good at sports.

sometimes a trans woman wins against a cis woman. sometimes a cis woman wins against another cis woman too. yet only one of them is allowed to win without facing consequences.

it's not enough to support transfems in sports if your support hinges on us being bad at them.