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Started the #pride&progress cowl tonight. Really looking forward to seeing the finished piece!

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Prime Video: So, Good Omens Season 2 

Neil Gaiman: Yes

Prime Video: What‘s the Story? 

Neil Gaiman: No story, just vibes.

Prime Video: Neil, we need a little more to work with. 

Neil Gaiman: Okay, do you remember Sister Theresa Garrulous and Sister Loquacious from Season 1?

Prime Video: Yes?

Neil Gaiman: They‘re in a coffee shop AU.

Prime Video: Aaaand?

Neil Gaiman: And they need to fall in love. 

Prime Video: But Neil what about Crowley and Aziraphale?

Neil Gaiman: Oh, don‘t worry. They‘re already in love. 

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Brilliant

Why do 3.5 inch floppy disks seem so much more pleasant and edible than the 5.25 inch ones?

cause they are. 

5.25″ and 8″ disks were designed by IBM engineers who wouldn’t know good consumer good design if it bit them on the cock. They designed shit for Men With Short Hair And Pocket Protectors who did Important Work at like Raytheon or something. 

The 3.5″ was designed by Sony, who had been building appliances for the home since the 40s. They designed TVs and radios and the Walkman: They knew how to design a pleasant object to use in the home, and they understood all the sort of design choices that entails! 

It needs to be pleasant to look at, it needs to be sturdy so it can handle being dropped and stuffed into bags, and it needs to not look too “computery” to scare off the non-technical users. The 3.5″ floppy disk is an example of all those design goals applied to the overly-computery floppy disk, and they knocked it out of the park. The 3.5″ disk is very touchable, because it was designed to be from the beginning. They expected people to handle them, because that’s what stuff for the home is supposed to be. It’s a thing like a credit card, you can pick it up and play with it or stick it in your pocket or purse and it can just deal with that, because it is designed to be used by humans, as part of their everyday life. The older floppies are just some computer stuff designed to be used by trained technicians who knew how to handle it delicately and not damage it. 

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This appeals to my interests.

Exclusive: Discworld TTRPG in the works by studio behind Fallout wargames

Modiphius, the studio responsible for tabletop adaptations of Star Trek, Fallout, and more, is working on a Discworld TTRPG.

Having secured the rights to the beloved series with an agreement from the late author Sir Terry Pratchett's estate, Modiphius is already at work on a Discworld roleplaying game "around the city of Ankh-Morpork and the wider Disc." This will hit Kickstarter later in the year.

Read more here.

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The Metropolis of Tomorrow - art by Hugh Ferriss (1929)

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Hello Mr. Gaiman

Just wanted to quickly ask you a question. Is good omens an appropriate show to be watched by a 14 year old. I kind of have a feeling it's wrong , because of the language sometimes. If it is please correct,.

Thank you

PS- I mentioned you to my mother, she dislikes your last name because it sounds like Gay-man ( gay get it?)

It depends on the 14 year old. For me, I think of it as a family show.

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I see myself in this.

The thing is, I was totally going to write today.

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Nice!

✨everything is fossil-ble🦴🦖

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Out of context quote from my shadowrun session: “Of course everyone has a murder room in their house, all of mine did”

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I’m keeping pride around all of the time.

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Ooooo!

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Katamari is great.

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It’s easy to get lost in the shuffle.

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My wife says this is the work of a psychopath

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Just knitting things:

•Getting sent that "No grandma, like this!" "Oops i made a scarf" meme monthly

•"Do you know how to make this?" *hands me a picture of an obviously crocheted granny square* (i can crochet too but like. C'mon)

•"Can you make me this" yes but it will be $4 per row, $3 if you handwrite me an apology

•"Can you knit me a sweater?" Absolutely not. I won't even knit myself a sweater

•Endless. Old. Lady. Jokes.

•"Do you really need more yarn?" Yes. Yes i do.

•Being sent art of characters knitting and you can just tell the artist has never seen anyone knit before

•Being given gorgeous, probably expensive yarn as a gift but the skein is too small to make anything and you have no idea where it was bought from

•Dropping a stitch. (People who crochet exclusively do not know how lucky they are, at least skipping a stitch won't destroy the project)

•The endless internal debate of intarsia vs Swiss darning (intarsia sucks. You can pry Swiss darning from my cold dead hands)

•Never ask me to make the 4th doctor's scarf. I'll kill you.

•Getting a weird amount of automatic respect from old ladies who otherwise wouldn't like you (the big ass septum ring seems to dissappear the second I'm holding some knitting needles i swear)

•Not remembering if you left off on a knit row or a purl row

•Spending 4 hours online looking for the perfect safety eyes (legend says I'm still looking)

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