Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.
Hey Bluesky, j'aime pas faire ça mais j'ai besoin de ta magie, j'ai un pote transgenre qui se fait virer de chez sa mère qui ne l'accepte pas à la fin de la semaine et j'ai pas moyen de l'héberger pour l'instant. Quelqu'un à un contact d'une asso ou d'un refuge sur Agen (47) qui pourrait l'aider?
** Reposting this story I wrote last year.
#GnuTerryPratchett
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Thanks!
Whatay lovely!! Can folks who are somewhat-loosely philosophers (logicians?) also apply to this?
A machine has never had to decide whether it was better to get an hour of drunk sleep or just stay up and go to class, therefore a machine cannot be a college student.
What sort of dream job is this?!
Global warming: Hold my room-temperature beer
Who wants a last-minute trip to Gibraltar? ✈️☀️
We have a rare, paid opening for an Irish History expert to join the Spirit of Adventure this Sunday. If you have your passport ready and the gift of the gab, we want to hear from you! 🇮🇪
Details in the graphic below. 👇
📧 casting@pastpreservers.com
The Jabberwock?
rough (like uff in buff)
cough (like off in scoff)
drought (like ow in cow)
though (like o in no)
thought (like aw in saw)
through (like oo in woo)
Enough.
Congratulations to San Francisco for inventing the long-prophesied banana that costs ten dollars sfstandard.com/2026/03/11/g...
We're thrilled to announce the Ctrl-Z Award, a US$2,500 prize for researchers “who discover substantial errors in their published work and take meaningful steps to correct the scientific record."
Covered by @nature.com today; read more here: centerforscientificintegrity.org/2026/03/10/a...
It's always "have you considered medicating your ADHD" and never "thank you for the mentally-stimulating sentence structure"
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Too real
Ancient RMP hits different
The second greatest scene in cinema history, of course, is "I AM A LIBRARIAN" from the same movie
youtu.be/iAmJm0zkpIc?...
the mummy understands that we want looney tunes action sequences, smoking hot bisexual eye candy and scary ass monsters and delivers
thinking again about the greatest scene in cinema history
Applications for IES Fellowships in the 2026/27 academic year are now open!
You can apply for an ECR or Research fellowship, with terms from 6 months to 3 years.
The application deadline is 10 April.
ies.sas.ac.uk/fellowships/...
Un poster intitulé "Les fromages" sur lequel on voit plein de petits fromages anthropomorphisés.
Je prépare des trucs.
we need to address the end of good-paying jobs for melancholics, like lighthouse keeper or fire tower watchers
DO IT!!
oh i...i wasn't prepared honestly whew Lord
Image from Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham, with new text: I do not like it, Sam-Alt-Man. I do not like Your AI scam
in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy
The biggest change in software development is not AI code, but a permission structure for disregarding quality in the pursuit of velocity
blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony...
it was going to happen, death comes for us all. but man. what a legend
