Reposts from 24 November 2023

Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as: • Having money • Making close friends as an adult • Travelling the world without crippling debt • Being able to change the world • Getting better at something with practice • Getting 8 hours of sleep each night

my biggest criticism about the original Star Wars is that they called it a "Death Star". any evil imperialist organization worth its salt would hire a consulting firm to come up with something like "Liberation Sphere"

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I think the real reason our culture stigmatizes children who ask "why" a lot is that most adults are deeply ashamed of how infrequently they actually have good answers.

New short documentary from @openuk@hachyderm.io all about the state of #OpenSource in the UK. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxWy_qgMa50 And, yes, the video is CC BY-SA 😄 (I'm a board member at OpenUK)

Just mentioning for no particular reason, life sure is easier when you deliberately and carefully select the people you spend time with

"You shouldn't project modern gender labels back onto historical figures" OK great! I will no longer be calling them "men" or "women". Those are modern, socially constructed categories of person, and using them uncritically encourages us to assume that past cultures shared our expectations for appropriate gender performance.

Happy ‘discover what mailing lists you’ve been signed up to’ day.