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The Cocoon Nebula (IC 5146) is a young stellar nursery located approximately 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. Spanning about 15 light-years across, it is a region where new stars are actively forming within a dense...
Someone gave me a thought exercise to find ways to improve myself. Imagine I am my own evil twin. This evil twin knows everything about my life, and he is out to destroy my life and take everything away from me. To make it easier to...
This is the weekly visible open thread. Post about anything you want, ask random questions, whatever. ACX has an unofficial subreddit, Discord, and bulletin board, and in-person meetups around the world. Most content is free, some is...
In Dreamshot I’ve been working closely integrating AI providers with the product. AI replaces tools, not people The artist's eye is still needed; getting images or clips simply checking a series of requirements isn't enough It never...
One road trip that’s always been on our bucket list over the years has been driving the entirety of Route 66 from beginning to end... Chicago to Santa Monica... but we’ve never managed it. This year, however, is Route 66’s 100th...
198? Clockwize Platform: Amstrad CPC Next up into the Games That Weren’t archives is a very early single screen shoot-em-up, which was being developed by David Bradley. The game has no name at this stage, and was recovered from some work...
2018 Regency mystery, first of a series, by Sarah Zettel writing as Darcie Wilde. After her father's business dealings came to ruin and he fled with her elder sister, Rosalind Thorne has made her way in the world as a social convenience:...
The Empire continues to rise with today’s post, with two sets of the Imperial Specialists Personnel Expansion painted up. I went with the standard feldgrau uniform for the Imperial Officer here, though she does look a little too shiny...
As regular readers will be aware, I’ve been making my way through the Dalkey Archive Press Library of Korean Literature for a number of years now. I was sent review copies of the first books, but since then I’ve been fortunate in that my...
Our writing group began life when we all wrote a scary story for Halloween in 2005. Every year after that (for a while) we held another "scary" round and would contribute stories to a Halloween themed contest. In 2009, for The Scary...
Over the past year I've discovered the joys of pourover coffee, and especially the fun in trying out new coffee beans from different specialty roasters in Japan. Luckily my husband drinks coffee too, so with two cups a day we've got a...
Duncan Rawlinson photographed this winter scene in the 1000 Islands region of Ontario, Canada. The monochrome image presents a church facade where icicles hang from the roofline above a pointed arch window. Snow blankets the dark roof...
Willa (Menemerus semilimbatus). Betsy Mason Jumping spiders can see as well as house cats — despite being less than 10mm long in most cases. I find this astounding, but people almost never seem as impressed as I think they should be when...
The shortlist for this year's Ursula K Le Guin Award has been announced, and I'm once again planning to try and read them all before the prize is awarded in October. (I previously read all of the 2024 prize, and you can find those posts...