Mark Murphy

📢New version of #RStats package {semEff} out now on CRAN (0.6.0), with new print() and summary() methods for prettier printing of effects tables and a bunch of other improvements and fixes. See murphymv.github.io/semEff/ for intro, docs, and examples (incl. two new vignettes).🧵

Vincent Di Fate #scifiart

Rodney Matthews art - 'Chase the Dragon' #fantasyart

Bruce Pennington

Public perception of H. R. Giger's art focuses extensively on his dark "alien" and "biomechanical" paintings - but the master created a WIDE range of weird and liminal work - including many colourful or just whimsical pieces...

Yes!

If you're anxious, stop for a moment. Focus on things you can change right now. Start The Work. Sharing my Art as a mental suppliment. It's about Balance and Strength. I'm with you. - Marcel

Angus McKie, 1978

Dan Simmons, one of the greats of science fiction, passed away yesterday. Hyperion is one of the finest pieces of science fiction - and of literature - I've ever read. arstechnica.com/culture/2026/0…

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ROB GRANT - 1955-2026 We are devastated to learn of Rob’s passing and send love to his family and friends. He will always live on through his amazing creativity, storytelling and humour. Travel well, Sir. 💔 #reddwarf

Beetles get all the hype for being insanely diverse, and it’s almost fair enough since 1 in 4 animals is a beetle 🪲 BUT wasps might actually outnumber them Some estimates suggest that most wasp species remain undescribed, and their true numbers are much higher. This makes sense if you consider that for every other type of insect, there could be a specialised wasp that parasitises it… and if you add the wasp species that parasitise those parasites… This a wasp world. 🤷🏼‍♀️ We’re just living in it.

🚨 New dinosaur species discovered in the Sahara Desert Paleontologists just announced a wild new dinosaur from the Sahara: Spinosaurus mirabilis This massive, fish-hunting "hell heron" had a huge scimitar-shaped head crest, lived 95M years ago in what’s now Niger, and rivals T Rex in size. First new spinosaurid in over a century!

@TheFilmStage RIP.. we can bring him back tho right?!

Tom Noonan (1951—2026)

@NTFabiano The outdoors:

Exercising outside is better for the brain.

The first written use of fuck, from 1528, inscribed by a monk who seems to have been pretty pissed off with an abbot.

Vibe ✨

Strategy has acquired 1,287 BTC to increase its BTC Reserve to ₿673,783 and has increased its USD Reserve by $62 million to $2.25 billion. $MSTR strategy.com/press/strategy…

@TheCinesthetic Yes however we DID NOT NEED the overly dramatic 'NOOOOO' from Vader in the newer version, less is more FFS.

The Death Star exploding and Vader throwing the Emperor in Return of the Jedi (1983) is pure release.

Other work by the Ladybird artists ‘Gusty Twilight’ Artist: CF Tunnicliffe

@ArchAbhor @TheCinesthetic Absolutely 💯

@TheCinesthetic Underrated and overhated. People were just butt hurt their favorites were killed off screen and it had a bad ending for the main character. I love when horror films go the nihilist route

Alien³ (1992) is the rare studio sequel where the director’s frustration is visible on screen. Fincher may disown it, but the austerity, nihilism, and refusal to comfort the audience give it more personality than most polished blockbusters ever manage.