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@nerdanel.bsky.social

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"Sickos" meme: a man wearing a shirt that says "SICKOS" looks through a window and says "Yes... ha ha ha... YES!"

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

That's a really good finger drawing! I draw on my phone using my finger sometimes. Here's one I did two years ago of a D&D character I made at the time! (More details in the alt text.)

My D&D character, Foresight, a tiefling with pink skin and white hair. She is a divine soul sorcerer, the chosen of a goddess linked to fate and the harvest. Foresight is wearing simple, earth-tone clothes and has a sickle sheathed at her hip. She holds aloft a pair of astragali, while silvery runes shine in the air around her hand. Fields of wheat and pumpkins grow on the left side of the background, while to the right, there is nothing but parched, barren soil with bones and crows.

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This ratio really says it all. We don't want AI datacenters, and we don't want Tina Peters walking free.

Screenshot of the statistics on Polis' post.
545 comments, 35 reposts, and only 11 likes.

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I got Greta Thunberg. I wish I were more hope-pilled, but I do think this is pretty accurate for where I am right now.

89% Woke — 11% Chud
39% Techbro — 61% Neo-Luddite
34% Hopepilled — 66% Doomer
77% Davos — 23% Dubai
Your closest match: Greta Thunberg, Swedish environmental activist

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

"THEN PERISH" with Obama's eyes, from the classic meme.

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

And this one I was really excited to make: it is much more "primitive" than the previous two ships. This is a slower-than-light interstellar ship. More details in the alt text! I skimmed the rulebook for Mobile Frame Zero: Intercept Orbit, then decided to disregard it and build whatever I want.

A long LEGO spaceship, mostly white and grey. This ship predates FTL travel and other more fanciful tech that the other ships in this thread are assumed to have. The front half of the ship contains the crew cabin, then a long strut and a radiation shield protect the crew from the nuclear drive system.

This ship would accelerate continuously for the first half of the voyage, to reach a "nearby" star system as quickly as possible, then decelerate for the second half of the voyage, so as to actually stop in the destination system.

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Inspired by @monsterologist.bsky.social, I have started building little LEGO spaceships! Here is a cruiser of some sort with a little escort vessel that can fly separately or dock up to fly and fight together, kind of like the (IMO underutilized) saucer section on a Galaxy-class ship in Star Trek.

Two LEGO spaceships. One little one and one really little one. Both are white, blue, and grey. The front half of the larger ship is dominated by a pair of massive cannons. (Please excuse all the cat hair everywhere in this photo. The cat hair is unavoidable in this house.)

The same two ships as in the previous image, but now the little ship has docked with with bottom of the larger ship to make one big warship with a lot of guns.

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Time once again to pull out one of my favorite xkcd comics.

xkcd #2501: Average Familiarity
"Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars."
"And quartz, of course"
"Of course."
Caption: Even when they're trying to compensate for it experts in anytime wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Isildur: "I know just what to do with the Ring of Power."
Elrond: "Destroy it, right?"
[beat panel]
Elrond: "DESTROY IT, RIGHT?!"

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

10 games to get to know me! It has some overlap with my 10 favorite games of all time, but it is not exactly the same as that list.

A picture of me wearing a mask with rainbow butterflies on it, surrounded by box art from 10 games: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, FTL: Faster than Light, Pokémon Ruby Version, Dragon Age: Origins, Crusader Kings III, Mass Effect 2, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Metroid Prime, Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. (Alpha Centauri is surrounded by little hearts because it's still my favorite game of all time.)

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Your comment plus your profile pic are really giving this energy:

An xkcd:
"Silicate chemistry is second nature to us geochemists, so it's easy to forget that the average person probably only knows the formulas for olivine and one or two feldspars."
"And quartz, of course."
"Of course."
Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field.

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I met Char a few hours ago, actually!

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

I think I oscillate wildly around this plot on a day-to-day basis, but I spend by far the least time in the Deltarune corner. My overall average is roughly here. Peer-review: I have trans masc friends with very cottagecore aesthetics; perhaps "gardening grandma" should be renamed to include them.

The Queer Fashion plot from the original post, with a dot about two fifths of the way down between "Runway Model" and "Gardening Grandma."

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Dani @nerdanel.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I like this decklist so much. The only card I could think of adding to make the game even more of a chaotic mess (I mean that in a good way) is Grip of Chaos.