this is the patron deity of gacha gamers pic.twitter.com/mapzRasEet
— a real gundam (@hontou_gundam) May 30, 2023
LATimes (the story focuses on whether the executive is impermissibly running a side business mining bitcoin in Colorado, but):
[He] secured an economic development deal with Colorado Springs Utilities, a publicly owned electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater services utility, in 2018, to get a reduced rate for electricity.
[He] said he chose to invest in Colorado Springs because he was able to get “a one-of-a-kind building.” He secured a “very low” rate in Colorado Springs for electricity, he said.
In 2018, the general manager of energy supplies at Colorado Springs Utilities was [a man who worked with the DWP executive] at the DWP before [the man] was hired by Colorado Springs Utilities in 2015.
[That man then] rejoined the DWP last year as its chief operating officer, the No. 2 position at the utility.
"The Asian sheepshead wrasse, also known as kobudai in Japan, is a hermaphroditic species, meaning that it has both male and female organs which allows it to change its sex."THE STORY https://t.co/zAUVBQUmRn
— sami 🍇 TXT IN LA (@seokjeanist) May 26, 2023
@california.shelling Some sharks give birth to live young, and others are oviparous, meaning they lay eggs. California horn sharks mothers lay these corkscrew egg cases. When it comes out, it is very pliable, but hardens over time. Hope this lil guy makes it! 🦈 #shark #sealife #oceanlife #fyp ♬ original sound - California.Shelling
A still life experiment I did a few years ago pic.twitter.com/Y7NRyXpb1y
— mpkoz (@mpkoz) May 19, 2023
Nope, a Samsung tv and Kinect
— mpkoz (@mpkoz) May 20, 2023
Here’s where that flying tire impacted in turn 2
— Andrew Kossack (@AndrewKossack) May 28, 2023
@IMS #indy500 pic.twitter.com/MLexGcUu5q
The setting is a post-weather-apocalypse Earth instead of space stations, but otherwise, it reminded me a lot of Cuarón's Gravity, as a young woman with new wetware upgrades is absolutely bombarded with one catastrophe after another. My complaint is the best kind--I wanted to see what happened next.
Not available online or even mentioned on the author's site to my knowledge, I read it in The Best American Science Fiction And Fantasy 2022. It also got the cover illustration on The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, November-December 2021.
Discord's captcha is asking users to identify a 'Yoko,' a snail-like object that does not exist and was created by AI. https://t.co/EZY7VvEX0U
— Motherboard (@motherboard) May 27, 2023
The original article is from 1998:
Before women were encouraged to surf, the girls in Hana must have been unbelievably bored
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One afternoon I went to Hana to meet Theresa McGregor, one of the best surfers in town. I missed our rendezvous and was despairing because Theresa lived with her mother, two brothers, and sister in a one-room shack with no phone and I couldn’t think of how I’d find her. There is one store in Hana, amazingly enough called the General Store, where you can buy milk and barbecue sauce and snack bags of dried cuttlefish; once I realized I’d missed Theresa I went into the store because there was no other place to go. The cashier looked kindly, so I asked whether by any wild chance she knew a surfer girl named Theresa McGregor. I had not yet come to appreciate what a small town Hana really was.
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Last year, the surfer moms in town held a fund-raiser bake sale to send Theresa and two Hana boys to the national surfing competition in California.
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I stayed up late reading about how Christian missionaries had banned surfing when they got to Hawaii in the late 1800s
And the follow-up from 2021:
Tell me how the story came to be. How did the assignment happen?
Well, it was kind of funny. I had been doing stuff for Outside, and Susan Casey, who was then running Women Outside, said to me, “How would you like to do a story about these girls who are big surfers in Hawaii?” Generally, I come up with my own story ideas. It’s rare that I respond well to someone’s suggestion. But I thought it sounded great. And as I recall, I basically got a flight and went, and when I arrived in Maui, I started calling the different girls whose names Susan had given me. And one after another, they said, “Oh, I don’t surf anymore” or “Yeah, I’m not that interested in surfing.” It was every reporter’s nightmare. It was like, “What? You don’t surf anymore? Here I am in Maui, and I spent all this time and the magazine’s money to come here, and none of you guys surf?” I was very discouraged.
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Do you remember that first drive out to Hana?
Oh my God, yeah. Anybody who has done that drive doesn’t forget it, because it is a very challenging road. It’s not very far, and I’m a totally fearless driver—I have no fear of driving anywhere—but it’s the most harrowing drive
Via.
I was just talking about the mug I use from a project my dad worked on from the 70s. Sadly it's defense related but I can't do anything about that.
— Pink Frankenstein (@pinkfranken) May 20, 2023
I appreciate the conflicting feels it gives me each morning. Also it isn't that over sized nonsense. pic.twitter.com/NG3c7O9nvy
WINNER OF THE 2022 HUGO AWARD FOR BEST NOVELNow a USA Today bestseller!Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2021Amazon's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021Bookpage's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of 2021Goodreads Choice Awards Nominee for Best Science Fiction Book of 2021
WHO MADE THIS pic.twitter.com/LzqUIsxByF
— Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens (@CSMFHT) April 28, 2023
Hop-latent viroid, or HLVd, shrivels pot plants and reduce how much weight they produce by as much as 30%. It also destroys the amount of THC, pot’s most common active compound, that a plant produces, greatly reducing the value of affected plants.
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It’s now infected at least 90% of California’s cannabis grows, according to a 2021 estimate. It’s spreading globally
FWIW, a Reddit discussion
Inspiration for the silkworms building Runners comes in part from Neri Oxman's incredible work, and the amazing potential of natural fabrication processes and materials. #MarathonTheGame https://t.co/H7nHZXYRbp pic.twitter.com/tGdE9skrIn
— Joseph Cross (@josephacross) May 26, 2023
Biodesigned.What are three questions every biodesigner must consider?Neri.What is life? Artificial wombs and embryos made from skin cells are already revolutionizing reproductive biology. CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing technology can be programmed to target specific stretches of genetic code and edit them at precise locations. Gene drives may soon provide an effective means of accelerating the inheritance of genetic modifications through specific wild populations or entire species. With these systems in place, we can permanently modify genes in living cells and organisms to treat genetic causes of disease, while also controlling genetic expression. From here, creating or permanently altering life is all too real.
Responding to unsustainable construction practices that contribute to waste, Oxman and The Mediated Matter Group developed fabrication methods that are attuned to natural conditions and lifecycles. Almost sixteen feet tall, the Aguahoja pavilions are 3D printed structures that use 5,740 fallen leaves, 6,500 apple skins, and 3,135 shrimp shells as building materials that decay naturally, thereby enriching its environment rather than poisoning it.
they actually gave padawans ugly hair to save my life because i never would’ve recovered from this pic.twitter.com/ccX8VVP5l4
— grace ✿ ms star war (@adaciousy) May 13, 2023
At the BBTS today, the sale also includes lots of Marvel Legends and a deluxe Richard Dreyfuss figure by NECA.
a collection of more than 200 of Ebert’s most biting and entertaining reviews of films receiving a mere star or less from the only film critic to win the Pulitzer Prize
OH, JARNATHAN!@LegacyEffects #DungeonsAndDragonsMovie pic.twitter.com/1vhgczPdyN
— John Francis Daley (@JohnFDaley) April 2, 2023
The first time I felt the power of these wings! An amazing time playing #jarnathan on @DnDMovie @Wizards_DnD thank you to @JohnFDaley @JM_Goldstein and @LegacyEffects pic.twitter.com/OYxMUtbonu
— Clayton Grover (@Jarnathan_DnD) April 3, 2023
The Texas House will vote on accusations that include bribery, dereliction of duty, disregard of official duty and obstruction of justice.
The attorney general did not respond to a request for comment, but in a statement earlier Thursday, he criticized the investigation as unfair and accused members of the Legislature of being fake Republicans
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His wife, state Sen. Angela Paxton, may soon decide whether he deserves to be removed from office
Feel free to grab the free PDF here!https://t.co/2QbKL8cjNe pic.twitter.com/NBhHkwFnaF
— Josh Clark (@tinywoodsman) May 24, 2023
Supposedly, the two staff members didn't gamble, but had undisclosed conversations with a parent who was gambling.
It previously was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education....The lottery particularly disadvantaged Black residents.
ebay has itNot sure I've seen a more sinister looking cookbook title and cover pic.twitter.com/dxfSIUHAZs
— Steven Sheil (@SSheil) April 17, 2023
Tiny volcanic islands mucking up the water look cool from space. https://t.co/L6Z3SeyuOg pic.twitter.com/eBZgz2bx2k
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 13, 2023
Bloomberg on rules designed to prevent secretive litigation financing:
Louisiana is advancing legislation to require disclosure of litigation finance agreements, making it the latest in a string of states to clamp down on the lawsuit funding tool.
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The legislation underscores how states are pushing to restrict the opaque litigation finance industry that topped $13 billion in assets under management last year. Wisconsin and New Jersey already require disclosure, and US District Judge Colm F. Connolly in Delaware has required it for certain patent cases in his courtroom.
Matt Levine wrote about the rule in Delware exposing a particular patent troll in today's newsletter:
The downside of scale in litigation is that, if you are constantly suing everyone in the world for infringing on your portfolio of patents, people are going to start rolling their eyes when they see your lawsuits. “These guys again,” they will say. “Patent trolls,” they will say.
But you can sell your patents to somebody else. You can, for instance, find some guy, and give him one of your patents, and then pay for him to sue people who make things that allegedly infringe on the patents, and sign an agreement with him where he’ll give you most of the money if he wins and just keep a little tip for himself for letting you use his name. And then when he sues, he doesn’t have a long history of patent litigation, and maybe people won’t roll their eyes at him.
Or maybe they will.
Becky's "glasses" pic.twitter.com/W9Vl3ESgDC
— CJ Fogler (@cjzer0) May 23, 2023
IT. #WWERAW pic.twitter.com/MHWwVI7VgM
— Rebecca Quin (@BeckyLynchWWE) May 23, 2023
It’s not bad in hand 😂🤣 pic.twitter.com/lqBXUwBpau
— Gundam Ver. Chu 👍 (@SoulinkChu) May 21, 2023
Monster Arts, Figuarts, and Robot Damashii
— Gundam Ver. Chu 👍 (@SoulinkChu) May 21, 2023
Along with dozens of other titles, the first season of Y will be removed from Hulu (likely never to be available anywhere else again) this Friday, May 26
Jimmy Butler complaining to the referee *before* helping him up 😂 pic.twitter.com/tLtnwCJau9
— CJ Fogler account may or may not be notable (@cjzero) May 22, 2023
dedicating the rest of my life to writing the fan fiction of Diar DeRozan being allowed to attend the play-in game in Miami and how the playoffs would have gone without the Heat.
— Rob Perez (@WorldWideWob) May 22, 2023
(At least the Lakers won't be pressured into giving Dlo a supermax in the offseason)Mazulla just rolls this out and plays “The Town” during halftime pic.twitter.com/1iuVnD2Qt6
— Gian Morales (@G_On) May 22, 2023
Ejection Error pic.twitter.com/my0zRIWxAo
— 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕨𝕒𝕧𝕖 (@RavageEject84) May 19, 2023
Tables have turned on Thundercracker! 😂🎶🎵🎶#Transformers #toys #Jazz #Thundercracker #Decepticons #Autobots #TakaraTomy #Fanstoys pic.twitter.com/zfjIz2jXny
— Stryder Wolfe (@StryderWolfe) May 20, 2023
I just ordered him some new chew toys.
— 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕨𝕒𝕧𝕖 (@RavageEject84) May 4, 2023
He just can’t have nice things. pic.twitter.com/KOBQ5oSuwE
Review: UniVerse: A Dark Crystal Odyssey, Royal Opera House ★★★★ this spectacularly weird, spectacularly bleak riff on the Jim Henson fantasy film from Company Wayne McGregor is a real thrill ride https://t.co/xN6fBu4F8t pic.twitter.com/lGKKHOWhNj
— Time Out Theatre (@TimeOutTheatre) May 19, 2023
the show takes key elements and themes from the movie – fantastical creatures, the destruction of worlds, and as the programme note puts it ‘ecological overtones’. What we’re given is a 70-minute plotless mystical odyssey through different realms, encountering a cornucopia of creatures, elements and humans....It might leave you panicking about the state of the world, but it’s a wild ride. Buckle up and let it take you away.
just urgently need everyone else on earth to know what it looks like when there’s an island event and the oscar meyer weinermobile has to take the local ferry, thanks pic.twitter.com/JdcszUC9Xf
— 🧃you or someone you love🧃 (@hannahmsays) May 21, 2023
I’m listening, I’m learning https://t.co/IEp8IF3THH
— 🧃you or someone you love🧃 (@hannahmsays) May 21, 2023
DANG pic.twitter.com/R6Z4eg81Ke
— Andre (@twittndre) May 19, 2023
The immersive Chewbacca snitching experience
— Hayris Bask 💫 (@StarWarsEnergy) May 19, 2023
Egregiously snubbed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Vol. 10
— The Live Version (@EvilPilotFish) May 17, 2023
Remained successful & relevant over 3 decades. Blurred the lines between pop, punk & new wave...
THE B-52’S- GIVE ME BACK MY MAN, 1980pic.twitter.com/Cb2zWzgJ43
Pat Benatar and Neil GiraldoDuran DuranEminemEurythmicsDolly PartonLionel RichieCarly Simon
Robert Yang writing about Before The Green Moon:
From the beginning, you're given an ultimate end goal: earn enough company scrip to buy a ticket to the moon. Instead of a raccoon banker oppressing you with a mortgage, it's a faceless Moon Company exploiting every poor soul left on this post-apocalyptic Earth. Brilliantly, the already astronomical price of the moon ticket actually increases during the game. Imagine if Animal Crossing had the bravery to charge interest on the home loan!
Well, Before The Green Moon is brave, brave enough even to suggest that farming isn't exactly a picturesque Hallmark movie. Instead, you're stuck in this abandoned GameCube game and you need to somehow earn enough to buy a moonshot out of this dump. How are you gonna do it?
Mr B. Dickolas himself at ACEN @maskofbun pic.twitter.com/9G9UVoT1iE
— Per_Fekshen || ACEN 🌸 (@Per_Fekshen) May 19, 2023
@tartecosplay AMAZING!! @maskofbun DO YOU SEE THIS pic.twitter.com/Sm1jBRwmTr
— ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ @ acen (@Alison_Senpai) May 19, 2023