Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org

Well, that's a rather ominous email to get right before classes start.

#HigherEd #Teaching #Academic

With some excellent last minute help from the person who made the knife, my sister, and my sister's friend, we got the LED knife working in time for the show.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/XfK2faCaz3BCcC6Q6

#SivaAfi #dance #Samoan #Telugu

Finished The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin. Very creative and well-written.

@feditips It's nice to see this issue being discussed with a goal of doing what's best for the users rather than the owners.

Who called it "selling indulgences" when "prayola" was right there?

Now that I've shifted from GM to player in my #FateCore space campaign, I've decorated my notebook as appropriate for my character, Susan the passive-aggressive uplifted #capybara.

#ttrpg #SmashThePatriarchy

I beat a 1-dan in an even game, so maybe my KGS rank is legit. It was a very short game, like one of those samurai duels where they run past each other and then one of them falls in half.

#go #igo #weiqi #baduk #shodan

Dagnabbit! Our glow show for New Student Orientation is on Sunday and my LED fireknife has a loose wire. I doubt I'll be able to repair it because (a) I don't really know anything about electronics and (b) the guts are all glued deep inside the thick PVC pipe that makes up the body of the thing.

Backup plan is to just spin a knife with no wick attached, as a sort of ailao.

The Fire Marshal won't let us use fire right now because it hasn't really rained in a month and the landscape is too crispy.

#FireKnife #dance #electronics #samoan #SivaAfi

#Scottish people: what do you think of Julie Nolke's #accent in this sketch?

(Conversely, I find Karen Gillan's American accent totally convincing.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxb-s58-ntE

White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to make all publicly-funded research open access.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/ostp-issues-guidance-to-make-federally-funded-research-freely-available-without-delay/

#science #research

Is some big site down for everyone or just you? There's a way to check:

https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

(Hat tip to @mdhughes.)

Confused to receive a "your package is out for delivery" email at 10 PM.