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One of the best shot of Total Solar Eclipse from 08-04-2024.
Via @nasa-official
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HEY SOLDIER
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The strength economy is in shambles.
100% Karlach just thinks a deathmatch is a fun friendly time
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Queen
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Vimes’ meeting with the Patrician ended as all such meetings did, with the guest going away in possession of an unfocused yet nagging suspicion that he’d only just escaped with his life.
-- Terry Pratchett - Men At Arms
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BUG KNIGHTS BUG KNIGHTS
Knights who are bugs. Bugs who are knights. You understand.
knightly dyke goals
I'm pretty sure There's A TTRPG For That!
The Unofficial Hollow Knight RPG is one of those, providing you with a way to play as the bug knights of the Hollow Knight universe. It even has an expansion, called Lands Beyond!
UMBRA is another game inspired by Hollow Knight, but with a focus on combat that makes your players feel powerful. You are all protectors of the Kingdom of the Ashen King. Choose a Knight House, learn powers called Soul Arts, and go on adventures!
In Bug Battle, you're playing a wargame on a hex map, but intead of controlling legions or mechs, you're controlling different kinds of bugs! It's hard when the world is so big, and so many things want to kill you.
Micro is a game about bugs, but what's to stop you from also being knights? It's a 24XX game, which means the rules all fit on one page, and there's plenty of roll tables to give you ideas. Go forth and adventure!
The Last Quarter Moon l Rami Ammoun
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This meme is inescapable on French insta so I'm posting it here for all to enjoy
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ALT
Voting as Fire Extinguishter (poem by Kyle Tran Myhre)
When the haunted house catches fire:
a moment of indecision.
The house was, after all, built on bones,
and blood, and bad intentions.
Everyone who enters the house feels
that overwhelming dread, the evil
that perhaps only fire can purge.
It’s tempting to just let it burn.
And then I remember:
there are children inside.
This is called the "analog loophole" and there's nothing anyone can do to stop it. They can encrypt and copy-protect all they want, but eventually the file has to be sent to a speaker and/or screen, and it has to get there in a human-readable form because that's the whole dang point
The simplest way to exploit the analog loophole is just pointing a camera at a screen or a microphone at a speaker, but direct recording is also always possible and always will be. Anything that can be displayed can be saved and displayed again
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One of my favorite things is taking someone to the Great Lakes for the first time - or describing how you can fly over them and see only hundreds of miles of glittering blue water and no coasts at all; how they have their own Coast Guard (the only lakes to do so); that the Earth's rotation steers their currents; that they're studied using ocean models; that they have wrecked more than 6000 ships - and watch them realize that the word "lake" is misleading and that they had no idea of the size and majesty of them at all.
Some fun facts about her majesty, Lake Superior:
- It has a surface area of 31,700 sq. miles, roughly the size of South Carolina or Austria.
- It's incredibly deep and has enough water to cover all of North and South America to a depth of 12 inches.
- Waves over 30 feet have been recorded.
- Its deepest point is 1,333 feet, which is the third lowest point in North America
- Its average temperature is around 36 degrees Fahrenheit (2 Celsius), which inhibits bacterial growth in bodies, diminishing bloating and gas, and frequently shipwreck and drowning victims to sink to the bottom and never be recovered.
Distinctly remembering @kedreeva describing a bachelorette party where they watched the sun rise over one great lake and drove to see it set over the other and @nencheese said "why didn't you just go to the other side of the lake" and Ked had to explain that the other side of the lake requires a passport
We watched it rise from the Michigan shore of Lake Eerie, and then drove across the state to watch it set from the Michigan shore of Lake Michigan!
The thing keeping them from being called inland seas is that they're freshwater. They're plenty big enough to be called seas otherwise.
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CLUE 1985 | dir. Jonathan Lynn
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Just some funny AO3 notes I found in the wilds.
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