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my brother brought home a SF trilogy from his woodworking course

written by the mycologist (phd? maybe?) teaching about artistic uses of wood fungi, under a pen name

it's about space lesbians & the back cover contains the phrase "telepathic control of cellulose"

and I haven't picked it up yet because I'm afraid that nothing could live up to my hopes & expectations

Underwear, advice request 

@memnus@octodon.social ok to boost?

Wondering what to put in the description field on an image? A quick guide:
1. Just say what's in the image--you don't need to say it's an image.
2. Describe only what's relevant to the conversation. "Annalee writing in a notebook" or "An example of candid portraiture" or "A person using a fountain pen" are all good captions of the same image, in different contexts.
3. All text that's meant to be read should be transcribed. Screencap? Transcribe. Sign in background of selfie? Don't transcribe.

@shoofle You look like you're building an android in your garage :D

@green @orrery @emanate @Heffboom_Konijn one thing I've seen done is people actually writing out "CW: whatever" in the cw line when it actually is an especially serious business warning

@LoganDice The journeyman electrician I was apprenticing under would sometimes deliberately hit himself with 120VAC to wake himself up in the morning.

@LoganDice The journeyman electrician I was apprenticing under would sometimes deliberately hit himself with 120VAC to wake himself up in the morning.

If having a coffee in the morning doesn't wake you up, try deleting a table in a production database instead.

@Leucrotta I can't remember if this was in the book, but the movie had a bomb orc blowing up Helm's Deep so I think he already had gunpowder?

@xenon well, maybe not the full complexity of a microprocessor. But definitely multiple transistors on one die.

questioning snack product copy 

Wait. What the heck does "fresh ground" mean for a packaged product?

One cool thing about how fast memes and slang come and go these days is how easy it’s gonna be to date texts. The English subtitles for Yakuza 0 contain the word “butthurt,” so in the absence of any other context I can date the translation to between 2014 and 2016.
#linguistics #gameing

Hmm. Maybe part of why I don't find the idea of putting more time into NMS exciting is because all the upgrades feel really incremental, not actually capability-changing.

Holy shit look at this costume. I only learned side-glow fibers were a thing a couple weeks ago. Probably better than el wire for many applications.

instructables.com/id/Fiber-Opt

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