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A screenshot of FFXIV dialogue. ???: Hard to look away, isn't it? Meryall Botanist: But they're more than pretty flowers. "Heartblooms" are attuned to ambient emotion.

A screenshot of FFXIV dialogue. Krile: I'm afraid I'm not familiar with that term. Nidhana: Akasa? It is one of the unseen energies defined by Hannish alchemical theory.

A screenshot of FFXIV dialogue. Nidhana: But even for us, akasa is a somewhat abstract field of study. A lack of practical application lends itself poorly to formalized research. Nidhana: Which is why my analysis of your flower can amount to little more than idle speculation. I am sorry...

Harped on this before, but terms introduced in Endwalker—Etheirys, dynamis, Elpis flowers—all have common names, and these names are most likely restricted to Sharlayan scholarly papers.

The star is known as Hydaelyn (if not simply "the star"), dynamis as akasa, and Elpis flowers are heartblooms.

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

I had someone run decades of my field & academic work into an LLM, read an error-filled 2 pg summary, & tell me they understood my work.

I’m not concerned w/ being replaced. I’m concerned w/ being replaced by a tool that substitutes experience for efficiency & knowledge for expediency.

Wanted to just remind all my West Coast homies to keep cool and hydrated! Love y’all!

If you love life, O Horus, upon his life staff of truth, do not lock the gates of heaven, do not bolt its doors. (Pyramid Texts) (ALL)

U.S. Plan to Unblock Strait of Hormuz Collides With Realities of Global Insurance The U.S.-centric insurance idea runs counter to the realities of an international market, according to industry executives.

Yeah you get a Gift Link for this one.

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Hope Square Enix sues their asses off, pretty sure Jenova is copyrighted and unlike Tolkien, the holders are still alive.

A deranged guy saying he’s going to see “Mother,” before going on a murder spree sounds like a case of AI psychosis that could actually happen.

Invasive parasite that spreads its seed into other things that it then grotesquely puppets with the goal of sucking the planet dry and then repeating the cycle? Which is then spread willingly by irresponsible rich folk who believe it to be the next frontier of human evolution?

Yup, checks out.

No one else wanted “I was stupid enough to try this” written on their tombstone.

2 panel comic Panel 1 is titled “Client Feedback (2012) Red Guy sits at his desk typing on his laptop. There is a bubble on the right hand side of the panel showing his screen. A small text panel says “and the”. There is an arrow pointing to the bottom of the words with a correction box that reads: “Text is slightly misaligned. Please fix” Panel 2 is titled “Client feedback (2026) Red Guy is slouched on chair typing into his phone. His phone screen shows a panel of text that is complete gibberish. This time the correction reads “not alphabet but who give a fuck”

client feedback in the GenAI era

Swords Into Plowshares: Recast | Reclaim Swords Into Plowshares: Recast | Reclaim, presents the concept drawings by semi-finalist design teams for the Swords Into Plowshare project

Starting this Saturday, 6pm March 14, never-before-seen photos and the first bronze ingot from Charlottesville's melting of the Robert E. Lee statue will be on display at the Jefferson School. Come meet the artists and ask them how their work can enhance our parks. www.eventbrite.com/e/swords-int...

Woke up when I began answering reference question aloud while sleeping. Disappointed that I can't claim dream patrons in real world library user stats. I really need more rest.

Business cards, printed, never used in a box on the kitchen table: do they become an artifact, a holy relic, tucked carefully away wrapped in a favorite bandana or t-shirt? Or merely a paperweight, perhaps, holding down the birth certificate, Social Security application, immunization records for the child he never held until eventually, with the regret reserved by people who can't bear to waste for things only taking up space, they're shuffled off to a corner, then a closet. One day, will curious little fingers turn that drifted detritus into a toddler's totems of make-believe, playing with a child's intense sincerity at their father's abrogated dream?

I have some words.

greyscale image of Haurchefant and a viera wol in multiple poses

comm for @haurchefant.gay I got to draw scenes from their fic hehe 🤭💖

#ffxiv | Haurchefant/wol

A pencil illustration of Hades and Persephone. The two are embracing, with Hades appearing sad and Persephone reassuring. Crocuses bloom in the foreground, and Persephone's hair is also full of blossoming crocuses; both a sign of the approaching spring, which perhaps is why Hades is sad. It's time for Persephone to return to the upper world!

I got this drawing of Hades and Persephone finished up today as well. I'll adjust the color and contrast in photoshop and get it printed on watercolor paper to start painting! 😊 (I also see a few proportional issues to fix before proceeding 🤨)

yesterday’s was Norlan Guzman-Fuentes, a Salvadoran stepfather of four. they had just bought their first house. his hobby was fishing. his partner called the Salvadoran consulate after she saw the shooting on the news and that’s how she found out. they wouldn’t release his body so she could bury him

yesterday’s & today’s were the two men who killed in that detention center shooting in Dallas in September. both young dads, big loving families, nothing worse than one DUI each, but they couldn’t run when the shooting started because they were shackled. ICE never bothered notifying their families

Fray: Such is our lot. Such is the fate of all who are born─to suffer and to die. Do not seek forgiveness, for it will not ease the burden. It weighs as it should.

The public pushback on this seems to be what prompted her face-heel turn.

I think a woman can wear what she wants in her own home no matter what a racist robot has to say about it

Rare Kam Buckner L. I’d sooner be forgotten a thousand times than have a highway named after me.

Here’s a better idea. In 2020 we renamed (Stephan A.) Douglas Park to (Anna and Frederick) Douglass Park.

Let’s change (Andrew) Jackson Park to (Jesse) Jackson Park.

A bunny with a piece of buttered toast in its mouth hops on all fours down a footpath in a city. Rounding a corner, it is about to crash into a different bunny, also in a hurry.

Daily bunny no.3255 has a meal on the go

In continuing to align all my product types, some more previously candle/melt-only FFXIV scents will become available as wearables, and some that only had a roll-on will have a fragrance balm version added!

Very cool! I still have a little bit of the Sword of the Fury left. 😆

First 6 Days of Iran War Cost U.S. $11.3 Billion, Pentagon Says

The 2026 National Science Foundation budget is $8.75 Billion.

peony (xaela au ra) and elish (blond midlander) sharing a warm morning embrace

#sketch #peony🥀

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

work in progress of FFXIV Count Edmont

WIP. On a roll with these dads and we've finally come to my favourite one