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Suricrasia Online  

I already have a sci fi "story" in the form of a university course's lecture slides

docs.google.com/presentation/d

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Laz  

Happy Summer Solstice to the Northern Hemisphere, happy Winter Solstice to the Southern Hemisphere, officially starting a few minutes ago at 0854PDT/1554UTC.

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Micro SF/F stories by O Westin  

"Can... Um. I'd like to borrow this, please."
The librarian looked at the sword, and the girl holding it.
"That's strictly for secondary world use."
"I... Yes. Um. I know."
"Good. Will you need fencing manuals, or will a master train you?"
"I don't... Books, please?"
"Of course."

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whitequark  

The engineering of the giant dragonflies of the Permian: revised body mass, power, air supply, thermoregulation and the role of air density
jeb.biologists.org/content/jex

It looks like Meganeura monyi, with a mass of 150 g, would have flapped its wings at 3 Hz, which means it'd look more like a bird than an insect. It would also have a whole lot of thermoregulation issues even without flight; just rejecting solar heat.

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It's surprisingly hard to open 30 files in Excel at the same time when that's your actual goal.

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heather "werewolf" flowers  

ALTERNATE UNIVERSE WHERE SPACESHIPS ARE CALLED VOIDPLANES

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hyperlink's intern  

ya feelin' lucky, punk? Well, are ya? *hands you a fortune cookie*

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US (presidential&space) pol ~ 

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πŸ‰ @ waiting for 36C3  

in case of fire, just switch it off

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Andrew Cassidy  

Remember kids, the best payload for an SSTO is a second stage

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Warehouse Worker  

Aisle 8865, Shelf 7, Object AA:79:62:CB:F4:D9

A cardboard box with "ACME INFLATABLE BLACK HOLE" stenciled on the side. It is empty, except for a few spiders.

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iliana destroyer of worlds  

I've found my new favorite wikipedia caption

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Re: Question for transit wonks 

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Question for transit wonks 

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gdkar  

Ramen Shift

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Deeβ€―πŸ§‘  
@jordyd The abbreviation UTC is actually a compromise between Cat Universal Time and Temps Universel Chat
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beep boops and whoops  

same energy

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JP  

I just updated WadSmoosh, a tool that allows you to merge all the retail Doom content into a single (PK3) WAD file, to include SIGIL support: jp.itch.io/wadsmoosh

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LB: Yes, I'm an academic. Use libgen, use sci-hub. If a paper is open-access, then by all means get it through a normal source, but that's not always an option. (Also, I have some institutional access, so sometimes can haz pdf)

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πŸŽ€ chloecat πŸŽ€  

Hey, if you're in school and are having trouble paying for your textbooks, search them up on libgen.io to find them for free.

I'm realizing that a lot of people at my college don't know this and are skipping meals to afford overpriced textbooks, so it may help someone on here too. #sharingiscaring

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