September 23rd, 2025

Posted by Margherita Bassi

Chicago River Swim

Over two decades after a band bus dumped hundreds of pounds of human waste into the river, the Chicago River Swim raised $150,000 for ALS research and swim education programs.
posted by [syndicated profile] savagelove_feed at 11:00am on 23/09/2025

Posted by Patrick Kearney

I need help figuring out how to tell my kids I am non-monogamous. I’ve been non-monogamous for over five years and have been married for nearly fifteen years. My husband and I have three kids together, the oldest of which is now 14. My husband and I have not been sexually active for nearly eight … Read More »

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posted by [syndicated profile] savagelove_feed at 11:00am on 23/09/2025

Posted by Nancy Hartunian

A gay man is lucky to be in a throuple relationship. But he worries that he’s having too much sex, and thinking about sex so much that it’s distracting him at work. Is he a sex addict? What can he do to cool his fevered libido? A strong, confident woman likes casual hook-ups. Her friends … Read More »

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Episode 2678: Lost in Time... and Lost in Space. And Meaning

Mysterious background characters are cool. Always drop them into adventures. You don't even need to do anything ever again with the vast majority of them. They add verisimilitude, making your campaign setting seem alive and populated with real people.

But when you need someone to suddenly be important, then that shoeshine boy they met three adventures ago can turn out to be someone highly relevant and interesting.

aurilee writes:

Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)

And the players will never trust background PCs again. Or at least, never trust that shapeshifters they kill are actually dead without personally disintegrating the body afterward. At least Babu can't split themselves into multiple beings. That really would be a nightmare of an adversary.

In retrospect, perhaps we should have been much more suspicious about the frog being. At the same time, it's not exactly surprising the new identity didn't get investigated more. There were at least four different scenes between landing on D'Qar and this one where the players are getting ready to attack the Peace Moon! I mean, why bother to get bogged down with a single background detail when there's a hyperspace cannon planet attack to prepare for? Especially when Jim's character is gathering up explosives.

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September 21st, 2025
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posted by [personal profile] kalloway at 12:15am on 21/09/2025 under
Whew! A whole week got away from me. I am a little behind on the Accidental Advent, but I will have time this week to catch up. ^^;;

(Sunday's belated post)

Yesterday was our annual family expedition to Eastern Market in Detroit, so my fridge is filled with vegetables. At some point shortly, all stir-fry all the time, lol. I am very excited. I didn't mean to buy as much as I did, but everything looked so good!

It's Tokyo Game Show week and as usual, I took a couple of days off for it. Honestly, the official streaming schedule is pretty anemic. There are two or three things I might watch, and one S-E stream. I'm not sure who else might have streaming presentations that I want to watch...

(but since it's my ~annual 'clean the utility room' weekend, I'll also be doing that!)

I finished my [community profile] iddyiddybangbang project and will be posting it later in the week! I took one of the amnesty dates both because I was So Busy last weekend/week and because I just wasn't done. But now I am (and I suppose if I'd not been so busy I might've finished then?) and I've also leveled up my time management and project management skills.

Yeah, mostly I'm just thrilled to have the Project done!
September 22nd, 2025
posted by [syndicated profile] xkcd_feed at 04:00am on 22/09/2025

Posted by Ed Cara

Mpox

Years after scientists retired the term “monkeypox” for being inaccurate and stigmatizing, the federal government has started using it again for no clear reason.

Posted by Cheryl Eddy

Jimmykimmelscreengrab

'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' will be back on ABC tomorrow, its 'indefinite' suspension coming to an end after boycotts, protests, and concerns over free speech.

Posted by James Whitbrook

The Mandalorian And Grogu Trailer Breakdown

Our first look at the next 'Star Wars' movie is light on story details, but filled with nods to the wider galaxy far, far away.

Posted by Ece Yildirim

Portland,,or,,usa, ,dec,10,,2023:,cookie,consent,notice

Instead, users might be able to set cookie preferences on their browsers that can go for every website.
posted by [syndicated profile] cakewrecks_feed at 01:00pm on 22/09/2025

Posted by Jen

Woohoo!! National Punctuation Day is coming!  

 You know what to do!

I stand corrected.

Bakers, contrary to popular belief, those curved thingies are not sideways "happy hugs" for your text; they're parentheses. But I'll make this easy for you: YOU WILL NEVER NEED PARENTHESES ON YOUR CAKES. So don't use them. Ever.

No, not even for a name in all caps.

 

And not for anniversaries, either.

 

Gosh. I bet "Mom" is really feeling like part of the family right now.

 

 Which brings me to my next point:

STOP IT WITH THE QUOTATION MARKS ALREADY.

 

Why are these numbers in quotes? Are they euphemisms or something? Are these people not really 13 and 59? And why does this keep happening, anyway?

 

Oh.

 

Thanks to Monica, Debb D., Tamara M.,  Alyssa V., Amy C., Rachel C., and Aurora C. for helping me cover parentheses and quotation marks. Tomorrow: COLONS! (You'll have to check back to see which kind.)

*****

P.S. And here's the official t-shirt of National Punctuation Day:

Punctuation Saves Lives

Proof that educating can also be entertaining!

*****

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September 22nd, 2025next

September 22nd, 2025: Now I wish that my computer really DID have a Valu-Maxx Junior processor sticker. I for one LOVE to lower expectations!!

– Ryan

drglam: Karyotypes of 12 Drosophilid species, animated (karyotype)
posted by [personal profile] drglam at 09:30am on 22/09/2025
 My boss has pulled off a miracle, and found some funding. My job (and FlyBase) is safe for the next year.

We're still waiting to find out whether the grant is reinstated. Our Cambridge UK site (also safe for a year) will have to do some scrambling, as current government policies have cut off international funding for grants.

We've lost a lot of people at Harvard; a retired curator who was doing a few hours a week, our New Mexico curator, and one of our sysadmins were let go at the end of August (plus we'd laid off the senior curator and senior developer just before the current nightmare). Our project manager was let go by Harvard a couple of weeks ago. The other remaining curator and one of our two developers are leaving in mid-October, as they are feeling too burned out and traumatized to keep going, so they've accepted layoff. We're left with one curator (me), one developer, and one (.6 FTE) sysadmin.

Cambridge and Indiana aren't (yet) losing people. There's three full-time developers at IU, and a lot of curators (no devs) at Cambridge, half of whom were not funded under the main FlyBase grant.

Posted by Ellyn Lapointe

Science Fair Windowd Water

Researchers developed an atmospheric water harvester so effective it was able to extract moisture from the air in Death Valley—one of the driest places on Earth.

Posted by Gayoung Lee

Lithium6 Fusion

An innovative method for trapping lithium ions has led to a promising technology for extracting precious lithium isotopes—a crucial ingredient for fueling nuclear fusion experiments.
posted by [syndicated profile] io9_feed at 12:01pm on 22/09/2025

Posted by George Dvorsky

2025 Gizmodo Science Fair Awards

An experiment that transformed lead into gold, a satellite designed to manufacture drugs in space, and many other fascinating projects all took home trophies at this year’s Science Fair.

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