@oaktag
Scientist & software engineer in Seattle. Interested in social justice, feminism, building dense housing, tabletop roleplaying gaming, and more. Parent of 1 gifted kid and 1 disabled kid. No terfs, GOP, or other bigots tolerated.
NEWS: The Trump administration confirmed it bombed a girl’s school in Iran.
It's one of the most devastating military errors in decades.
Trump lied about it. Pete Hegseth gutted the office preventing civilian casualties.
175 are dead. Most were kids. Hegseth should be fired.
I went to an office building in Manhattan and visited a store with a dozen kinds of fake dirt.
NO NO NO YOU DON’T
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
www.freetaxusa.com
Great article about Murderbot the show: collider.com/murderbot-ap...
We're about $8500 away from making this happen.
"How does he know how many watts a light is just by looking at it?"
Uh... Back when there were incandescent lights it was easy to tell by how much light it put out
(...is old)
Now she's trying it out with audible commentary
"So Shadow Earth is just... Not as good as Amber?"
Yup
"Oh my god he's just ATTACKING a medical professional?"
She shoulda listened to him when he said he was leaving
My kid needs to read a SFF book for school, and wanted something short. Bounced off an Andre Norton because language has changed in the last 70 years
I'm like... Nine Princes in Amber is short and the author is pretty readable, I've definitely got a copy in the basement
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
Just called my senators. Their staff picked up quickly, I left a message.
Do it.
That's wild. I guess don't use @proton.me anymore
If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.
Instead of spraying for mosquitos this summer, try the Mosquito Murder Bucket!
It's cheaper than paying a company and doesn't kill all of the beneficial insects in the area.
#garden #gardening
It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for.
Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.
For all the but how can we afford space exploration folks…this means we’ve already spent more on this war that started last week than Cassini cost in the 26 years it took to build, launch, and operate it.
I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell your Washington State legislators to pass the most progressive version of the Millionaire's Tax!
Write your own letter here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
really one of the strangest media cycles in history, where mainstream media actively hid the fact that the columbine killers were popular upper class preppy kids with full on neo-nazi ideologies and instead pretended they were victims of bullying
Jayme Lawson from Sinners hit the nail on the head and said how I felt with the whole BAFTAs situation.
Spoke with a PI whose postdoc is trapped abroad because of social media vetting. It appears the postdoc missed disclosing one account and it's unclear if they can come back… ever.
This is the country we live in now.
Three service members were murdered by this administration, in the course of murdering a bunch of children, and, oh yeah, that one guy we put in power and then decided we didn't like.
And they are now winging towards me
So my day had a pretty good start 😁
Have you found something small to buy that made your day better lately?
... Anyway
I searched the internet and found one tiny batch bespoke dice shop selling dodecahedron d4 and d6
doublesixdice.com
I prefer numbers to dots, but these are still ok
So ffs, since 2 and 3 and 4 and 6 all go perfectly into 12, WHY AREN'T THERE MORE DODECAHEDRONS IN MY DICE BAG
But alas the dice are just d6s. IMO a barely adequate die.
Whereas a d4 is a terrible embarrassment of a die. It doesn't roll. Like, at all. Don't get me wrong, I love platonic solids, but the use case just doesn't fit.
Fair warning: IMO the d12 is the best of all dice and it's a shame that it is not more used. D12s roll the best, satisfying while still coming to a stop in a reasonable time, and they are stackable.
One of the add-ons to the Kickstarter is special dice...
This was occasioned by the Temeraire RPG Kickstarter (www.kickstarter.com/projects/mag...), the system of which seems to be "roll X d6, 5&6 are successes"
Hello strangers and aquaintances! How is your day going?
I woke up this morning, and wondered why d4s still suck.
I heard stories of people who've fed crows, and been given gifts in return. It sounded charming, so I began doing that.
Then, one night, there was a rapping on my bedroom window. I stumbled up and opened.
A crow flew in and spoke: "They're coming for you. You must flee."
I only just made it out.
For fucksake, Senator Cantwell, why are you still voting YES to confirm ANY Trump candidate for any office? At this rate, your constituents will be calling for your replacment. @cantwell.senate.gov
CW: transphobia.
See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤
This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did.
But it's not just similar. It's *identical*.
In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938.
Paragraph 175 and 183.
