nox @nox@weirder.earth
cartoonist & illustrator • occasional traveller • nonbinary (they/she/he) • astronomy enthusiast
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Dungeons & Dragons is in the business of selling fantasy. Not the stuff with the magic and monsters -- the part where you *actually believe* that you and several other likeminded adults will be able to coordinate your schedules on a regular basis.
remember when the internet was fun and full of possibilities? yknow how now it's a miserable hell? reminder that what happened is that capitalism colonized it and now it's just as shitty as everything else capitalism's got its hooks in
like. seo, algorithms, targeted advertising: these are all DESIGNED to keep you from finding some weirdo's X-Files fan page or geocities star trek web ring. I would 1000x rather find those than tweets from the u.s. president, yet here we are #thankscapitalism
Since I know there are at least several of us on here that are in the process of learning languages, I thought I’d share this site: https://www.thefablecottage.com/
There are several classic fairy tales told with translations, for language learners. There’s french, spanish, italian, and english, though I haven’t looked closely enough to say any more details than that. But it looks promising!
#SummerReadingList of books that have stuck with me:
Station Eleven - Emily St John Mandel (fiction)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From the Crematory - Caitlin Doughty (nonfiction)
His Dark Materials trilogy: Northern Lights/Golden Compass, Subtle Knife, Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman (fantasy YA)
I have the start of an idea for a fun summer project thing here. My favorite thing about high school was summer reading lists, but I haven't been in high school for quite awhile.
Anyone else want to assign each other some summer reading? Like maybe anyone who's interested use the #SummerReadingList hashtag and make like 3 "must read" recommendations, people looking for reading material pick one and talk about it tagging the one who recommended it.
Does that sound fun? Any other suggestions?
My favorite thing about high school was the introduction of summer reading lists. Looking back, I can't say I actually liked the specific books we were assigned, they haven't been essential to my thinking in any way, but I liked the *idea*.
So. let's do better. What would you consider some essential reading for your fellow booklovers here on Mastodon? Use the tag #SummerReadingList to share/discuss.
Theme - Still On My Mind.
What books *have* stuck with you and affected you long-term?
Last week at my current side job, and it doesn’t feel quite real. I have tomorrow and Saturday left, and then I start working from home.
If a service dog approaches you by itself, it's trying to get you to follow it. I didn't know that until today but now I do!
Planetary nebulae are generally round/elliptical or bipolar-butterfly shaped.
We don't know exactly what the collimation mechanism is for the bipolar PNe. (Left my image of M97, right Hubble image of M2-9)
I don’t know much about Peertube (the link I just boosted) but I’m really intrigued by the idea.
Peertube, an ActivityPub based alternative to YouTube, is running a crowdfunding campaign https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform
Comes at an important time, with YouTube blocking legitimate videos on (incorrect) copyright grounds, such as MIT's OpenCourseWare videos and the Blender Foundation's videos https://torrentfreak.com/youtubes-piracy-filter-blocks-mit-courses-blender-videos-and-more-180618/
TIL There are music typewriters and they came in all sorts of shapes, sizes, and mechanisms
tired: I googled it
wired: I DuckDuckWent for it
People are really into my Joy-Division-but-with-cats shirt today 
As much as I love my partner, I’m looking forward to having an evening alone (well, with Penny the cat, lol). It’s a nice feeling.