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John Skylar, Ph.D. is a science fiction writer, a scientist, the host of Immodest Proposals NYC, and the founder of Better Worlds.

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jellycreamjammedart: elierlick: Your annual reminder to not...

jellycreamjammedart : elierlick : Your annual reminder to not donate to Salvation Army! “be quiet” i think the f not

OK so I am finally playing through Horizon Zero Dawn (I know, 5...

OK so I am finally playing through Horizon Zero Dawn (I know, 5 years late) and there’s this bit where you’re in the house of this jackass trader and you need to get in his basement, where he has a bunch of personal correspondence stored. And there is a stack of ingots you can drop to get in there. I gotta wonder…was this an Ea-Nasir joke??

Help Las Vegas NM reclaim its historic synagogue, organized by Jim Terr

Help Las Vegas NM reclaim its historic synagogue, organized by Jim Terr : I wanted to share this campaign by the Las Vegas NM Jewish Community to repurchase their original historic synagogue building from the local Catholic diocese. They only have until the end of September 2022 to raise $200k to do this, because the diocese is selling in order to cover the cost of a massive court settlement over…

I actually did bite my dm with explicit consent. because I was trying to argue that a ranger/barbarian’s bite would be d6+Strength Modifier. and not d4+Strength Modifier. and he was like lmao human bites aren’t even that strong. and I said bet. and he said well bite me then as strong as an 18 attack roll would be (the prison guard had 14AC btw) and we had to stop the game because he had to go get stitches. also he didn’t wanna say he let himself get bit to win an argument that he lost so badly he’s in the emergency room, so he was like “a rat did it” and the nurse turns her head 12 degrees to the left and sees my bloody mouth. and goes “yeah okay that happens” and we did get the barbarian bite attack to be d6+Strength Modifier. I’m also now engaged to this guy and this campaign I get to be the dm!

Absolute rollercoaster, but congrats on the engagement - Paper

So Charles Tyrwhitt has a custom shirt design tool and it has...

So Charles Tyrwhitt has a custom shirt design tool and it has absolutely no safety protocols. They would 100% have let me buy…whatever this thing I made is. With mother of pearl buttons.

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PSA FOR GENTILES: The worst slur in the English language for Jewish people begins with the letter K….

tikkunolamorgtfo : PSA FOR GENTILES: The worst slur in the English language for Jewish people begins with the letter K. This means that every time you jokingly refer to words like kill, Karen*, etc. as “the K word” or “the K slur,” you are inadvertently giving all your Jewish followers a collective heart attack. Please keep this in mind before accidentally implying that…

Also it’s honestly nice to be reminded that I did something a long time ago that people still like….

alexseanchai : puffedwheatsquare : masaotheheckindog : the idea that it’s ‘creepy’ to interact with things posted a long time ago is so terrible for artists and contributes to the pressure to be constantly creating new work, at an unhealthy and unsustainable rate. I hate it so much. The idea that it’s “creepy” to interact with an artist’s old work from a while back is especially stupid since we…

I’ll tell you what’s problematic about being over 40 and being friends with someone under 25: if you…

roach-works : storyknitter : berlynn-wohl : I’ll tell you what’s problematic about being over 40 and being friends with someone under 25: if you say “but I am le tired” they do not understand that they are supposed to say “well have a nap AND ZEN FIRE ZE MISSILES” memes that did irreparable damage to my vocabulary

workingclasshistory:On this day, 13 May 1985, Philadelphia...

workingclasshistory : On this day, 13 May 1985, Philadelphia police attacked the home of Black liberation and environmentalist group MOVE with automatic weapons, then dropped a bomb on it, killing five adults and six children, destroying 61 homes in the predominantly Black neighbourhood, and making 250 people homeless. Almost 500 police officers fired over 10,000 rounds of ammunition into the…

magpiestudio:magpiestudio: WE WILL OUTLIVE THEM © 2019 haven’t...

magpiestudio : magpiestudio : WE WILL OUTLIVE THEM © 2019 haven’t been on tumblr in a long time (f ind me here ) but i’m proud enough of this to come back & share it here too. thinking about making prints - if/when i do, they’ll be available on Six of Hands . sending strength & solidarity to my Jewish community, especially my fellow queer & trans Jews, & love to anti-fascists of all kinds fighting…

wilwheaton:(via 4mv6078as6u81.jpg (952×960)) Tony Fauci is a...

wilwheaton : (via 4mv6078as6u81.jpg (952×960) ) Tony Fauci is a goddamn hero. I wouldn’t have a career without this guy. Period.

COVID Transmissions for 4-26-2022

COVID Transmissions for 4-26-2022 : Yesterday’s issue of my COVID-19 newsletter.

Haven’t been on here in a while, have I? Well. I think with the way things are going, that may...

Haven’t been on here in a while, have I? Well. I think with the way things are going, that may change.

A Jew is Always too Late: a Spiel on Purim

johnskylar : johnskylar : Jews are always a little late. It’s a rule of our culture that if you’re going to a Jewish event, you have to expect that it’s going to start late, because there’s always going to be a crowd of people who need an extra ten minutes. The Jewish relationship with time is a complicated one. In fact, I can think of lots of examples–Nazi Germany most notably–where the Jews were…

I now run a daily newsletter where I provide insights on COVID-19 using my PhD expertise in emerging…

I now run a daily newsletter where I provide insights on COVID-19 using my PhD expertise in emerging RNA viruses. Sign up here: COVID Transmissions

katherinebarlow: nifeandaccurate: katherinebarlow: nifeandaccurate: katherinebarlow: I dreamt...

katherinebarlow : nifeandaccurate : katherinebarlow : nifeandaccurate : katherinebarlow : I dreamt that there was a new meme that went, “If I dids it, I dids it. If I didsn’t, I didsn’t.” There was a third line, but I forgot what it was. happy to report i’m back on my bullshit and a rare variant HOW DID YOU KNOW THEY WERE CAT MEMES IN MY DREAM >:3€ THAT’S IT, THAT’S THE MEME FROM MY DREAM

I saw one of those “you have 2 cows” things for American capitalism but I didn’t like it so I wrote…

I saw one of those “you have 2 cows” things for American capitalism but I didn’t like it so I wrote an alternative: You have 2 cows. You put them both in the bank, which loans them out to a businessperson. There are now 4 cows on the books, even though only two exist. The businessperson sells options on the cows’ milk production and also leases them to a milking conglomerate. There are now…

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dduane: spaceexp: ISS crossing in front of NEOWISE....

dduane : spaceexp : ISS crossing in front of NEOWISE. Once-in-a-lifetime shot. via reddit WOW.