Sid
Sid
@obsidiannebula.bsky.social
20s, they/he. Parent of 1, reader, writer, gamer.
Four year old got out of the bath and told me, "I feel like a grape." What does that mean. Happy for you I guess
October 18, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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I stood atop a concrete planter for a LONG time and the crowd just kept coming. Thousands and thousands and thousands of people. Incredible and inspiring.

#NoKings #Manhattan
October 18, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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If anyone wants to think about something more positive than the election, here's a site that describes the effects of a meteor impact with any parameters you pick. My students have to find the biggest impactor that could hit Lake Michigan without cancelling class:
impact.ese.ic.ac.uk/ImpactEarth/...
Earth Impact Effects Program
impact.ese.ic.ac.uk
November 4, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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🎶Five hundred men sacked for refusing to ever cross a picket line
The voices down the ages warning "never cross a picket line"
You must never cross a picket line🎶
November 5, 2024 at 1:03 AM
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IT'S FOODRAISER TIME!! Toss some money in the pot to help kids in Durham who depend on free school meals eat over the holiday break, and if the total goes high enough Greg will wear his cat Biscuit like a hat!
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10th ANNUAL
BULL CITY FOODRAISER
FUNDRAISING THREAD
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This isn't a trick! 🎃 We need your help getting groceries for elementary school kids in Durham NC!

➡️ GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/10th-annua...
➡️ PPGF: www.paypal.com/US/fundraise...

(Plus other donation options in thread!)
November 5, 2024 at 1:44 AM
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They're trying to scare people into shutting up. PLEASE don't ever shut up, friends. Normalize saying NO to bigotry and fascism.
Here's an example of a news org framing things in a misleading way. The article very precisely notes she lost 4083 followers but does not mention that her accounts have 5.6 MILLION followers combined. She's lost 0.073% of her following. I think she'll be fine. www.newsweek.com/alex-cooper-...
Podcaster Alex Cooper loses thousands of followers after Harris interview
Host of "Call Her Daddy" Alex Cooper, has lost thousands of followers on social media following her interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
www.newsweek.com
October 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM
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October 12, 2024 at 1:56 PM
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GAME ANNOUNCEMENT:

Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori – An Open World Horse Riding Game set in Historical Mongolia

www.themanequest.com/blog/2024/5/...
Game Announcement: Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori – An Open World Horse Riding Game set in Historical Mongolia — The Mane Quest
Aesir Interactive and Mindscape announce a horse game of unprecedented caliber today: Windstorm: The Legend of Khiimori is an open world adventure game set in the Mongolian wilderness.
www.themanequest.com
May 7, 2024 at 1:29 PM
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For those who are wondering if AI is the future of medicine, it just told Dril to chug piss to pass a kidney stone
May 5, 2024 at 2:52 PM
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CNN article crying and throwing up about UPenn protestors cruelly bullying a counter-protestor by uhhh putting him in a chalk circle that says "designated dingus area"
May 5, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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This guy's plan would cause the average Disney villain to step back and say, "Hang on. This sounds way too evil, and also very stupid."
The more you read in this article, the more you realize that he’s basically a 12 year old building an imaginary world in his bedroom. It’s just a complete childish fantasy of exclusion and retribution. If we ever let these guys (and there’re pretty much all guys) actually run cities, we are doomed.
The Tech Baron Seeking to “Ethnically Cleanse” San Francisco
If Balaji Srinivasan is any guide, then the Silicon Valley plutocrats are definitely not okay.
newrepublic.com
April 27, 2024 at 7:40 PM
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Am actually losing my mind at this
April 27, 2024 at 7:45 PM
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The Science Playground now has links to more than 120 cool science interactives, games, and collections. Tons of projects to wade through.

People have made such amazing things - and it brings me a lot of joy to help make them all a little bit easier to find. ⚛️🎢🥽

Play: thescienceplayground.com
April 25, 2024 at 3:13 PM
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If you weren't alive in the 80s, it is hard to explain just what a massively earthshattering moment this is, now I know what it felt like to hear that,smallpox was preventable in real-time
April 14, 2024 at 10:16 PM
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“When politicians talk about how much it will cost to act on climate change, for example, they almost always refer to economic models commissioned by the fossil fuel industry, which leave out the cost of inaction, which rises with every passing year.”
April 14, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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This is, obviously, a deservedly nuclear embarrassment for Tesla, but it's also looking increasingly like a regulatory scandal. There is no way this vehicle should've been declared street-legal.
April 14, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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49% of us were born closer to the boomers than the millennials and thus feel invested in fascism. 39% got repeatedly wiped out by recessions and are very tired. 12% have been stoned since 1989 and have no idea what's going on.
Gen X what the fuck is your problem
April 15, 2024 at 3:25 AM
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"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. Or, to use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace under these conditions: you are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."
A Profession, If You Can Keep It
Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.
contingentmagazine.org
April 15, 2024 at 2:01 AM
Terrible eclipse photography
April 8, 2024 at 7:33 PM
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The ink bottle lying on your desk... begins to crawl away..???
February 26, 2024 at 7:46 PM
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"Imagine a chunk of a big city ripped from Earth in the 1980s, set down on a fantastical planet, and cursed with one simple spell: every time you break a rule, you turn a bit more into a monster. Now jump forward 75 years and let's see what happens."

www.gamesradar.com/fantasy-comi...
Fantasy comic Lawful is a "revisionist morality tale" where breaking the rules makes you a monster - literally
Exclusive | Greg Pak breaks down his new collaboration with Diego Galindo
www.gamesradar.com
March 21, 2024 at 2:19 PM