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The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...

This could be your dream job!
PhD in ecology, and English and Japanese language skills required... working for POKEMON!!!

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In this photo it looks like with more even lighting it would be great for chroma keying out, but maybe you're not going for invisible bathroom walls?

Elizabeth Sampat @twoscooters Follow I don't wish we could abolish gender, I just wish it were less an identity and more of a hobby. So you'd get people who are like "Oh yeah, l'm a woman when I have the time," or "I'm a man but I'm not very good at it yet" along with the CrossFit gender types who are SUPER INTO IT

A friend just saw this in the wild and you know what? I stand by it

For the record, no, I did not have time to make a game this weekend (which also means my ratings will not count)

Back in the Before Times I used to stream myself playing jam games right after the jam, with priority given to people who came to watch me play their game. Going to revive that with @d2jam.com having just happened this weekend.

musician Gary Numan, born March 8, 1958, aged 68

actor Gary Oldman, born March 21, 1958, aged 67

Happy Gary Retrograde everyone!

The next two weeks are the only two weeks out of the year when Gary Numan is older than Gary Oldman

Ah, March, snow on the ground, high of 68F, low of 39F.

Carmen Sandiego from the 90s cartoon

Happy International Women's Day to the original International Woman

I grew up listening to this recording. His memory for a blessing.

This is bonkers. I don't think I've seen a better shot in curling, _ever_.

I use one every morning for at least an hour and half the week I spend like 4 additional hours looking at one. I don't think I have SAD.

Zoltar the fortune telling machine. It’s an animatronic head and torso of a man with a fake crystal ball and some tarot cards in front of it.

“I asked ChatGPT”
“Grok says it’s true”
“I think Claude gained consciousness”
Hey quick Q, do you think this guy can see the future?

I cannot capture this with my camera but the snow mostly has a pink tinge due to the setting sun, except in shadow where it has a typical blue tinge. And of course it's all white. Outside is covered in trans pride right now.

Coffee, straight out of my nose.

The mechanic removed the back plate and inhaled through pursed lips. "Who did this?"

"I did," the robot said.

"How?"

"I took one arm off, put in a wireless interface so I could still use it, and put it in a vice, then turned-"

"OK. Why?"

"I needed fixing."

"You are allowed to ask for help."

I get it. It’s enraging. Infuriating. Maddening, even.

And: if you want uptake to improve, you cannot do that by accusing people of hating their children. It’s actually a really great way to get them to double down.

Also, how many of you are wearing masks?

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Yeah weirdly 200 year old trees don't grow back overnight, especially if you didn't set up a succession when you cut them down.

Nobody likes it except that one guy who gets to change the really big clock because they let him swing from all the gears while he does it. The Old Clock Master they call him. He gets up there on those gears and gets to swinging and whooping and he's the only one who likes this.

For that matter, my username predates Eternal September

Oh I didn't realize it was cops saying the slurs

A spell for all my trans friends and loved ones.

My username is almost old enough to be bullied off social media for being old.

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Down2Jam The community centered game jam

Jam starting in 4 hours!
Still plenty of time for you to join at d2jam.com

#gamedev #gamejam #indiedev

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

AGENT SMITH: you hear that mr. anderson? that is the sound of inevitability. it is the sound of your death. goodbye, mr. anderson...

KEANU REEVES: my name... is Da_Puzzy_Smasher_64

[onboard nebuchadnezzar]

TRINITY: why did it have to be him

MORPHEUS: we don't get to choose these things, trinity

There used to be an old sign by the path, warning passers-by of the local sleeping willow, which would trap the unwary with fatigue, engulf them while they slept, and release them a hundred years later.

There was a new sign:

"This sleeping willow is full."

And a map of other locations to try.

Honestly, he's a man who announced a Senate bid while still sporting a Nazi tattoo. That's disqualifying and I don't need to parse out if he's a secret Nazi, an open Nazi, or just someone who obviously doesn't belong in the Senate because, again, he announced his Senate bid while he had Nazi ink.

The image shows a rectangular Roman dice tower (turricula) made of four copper alloy (bronze) plates with punched cut-out Latin letters and cut-out decorative patterns. At the bottom front is a stepped exit chute with small bronze bells attached to the opening. The tower is a Roman anti-cheating device. It has an open top and is hollow inside except for three staggered, downward-sloping plates, designed to randomize dice as they fall, ensuring unpredictable dice rolls. When the dice rolled out of the exit chute they rang the bells! There is a decorative dolphin either side of the stepped exit chute. The top of the front plate has two decorative pine cone finials. Height 25 cm. There is a single die shown next to the stepped base to illustrate how it was used. The front inscription reads: PICTOS VICTOS HOSTIS DELETA LVDITE SECVRI Translated as: ‘The Picts defeated, the enemy has been destroyed, play in safety’. Around the top of the three remaining sides, a second inscription made with cut out letters reads: ‘UTERI/FELIX/VIVAS’ translated as ‘Use happily; may you live well’. Found at a Roman villa at Froitzheim in Germany in 1985.

Roman anti-cheating gaming accessory!

This Roman ‘turricula’ (dice tower) was used to ensure a fair roll of the dice! 🎲🎲🎲

Dice dropped into the top, tumbled over sloping internal levels, and appeared randomly below.

From Froitzheim, Germany, AD 300-400

📷 LVR-Landesmuseum Bonn

#Archaeology