Claudia Kern (@kernforce.bsky.social)

@kernforce.bsky.social Oct 12, 2026, 9:46 PM

arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...
Here's my nuanced, eloquent and unemotional first reaction to this development: 🤮 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

@discoverypanel.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 5:07 PMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

🔴 WIR SIND LIVE! Der große Staffel-4-Rückblick zu Star Trek: Strange New Worlds läuft JETZT – schaltet ein und macht mit im Chat:
https://www.discoverypanel.de/strange-new-worlds-staffel-4-unser-grosser-live-rueckblick-diesen-sonntag/ 🖖

@kernforce.bsky.social Oct 11, 2026, 9:23 AM

Stephen King's IT Department

@alexeibat.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 10:42 PMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

horsepower 🤝🏻 hit points

A tumblr post by goatsandgangsters

an interesting linguistics find! so I'm reading this text from 1908 and it keeps referencing "hp" in the context of "not being at full hp" "applying your full hp to a task" etc
and I'm like...... okay that is a perfectly normal way to describe energy and reads totally clear to me, but l KNOW you don't mean hit points/health points which is the first place my brain goes, so what are YOU using hp to mean
and it's not explained in-text, which means it was common enough to not warrant explanation to the 1908 audience, so gotta look elsewhere
horsepower. turns out it's horsepower.
and I'm absolutely FASCINATED that a commonly used initialism from 1908 now stands for something different
AND YET the contextual meaning is still the same to a 21st-century reader
I could hand this guy my nintendo switch and hed be like, ah yes I understand, this ''''pokemon" loses horsepower throughout the fight
language is amazing
#linguistics #language #words #hp #horsepower #i just like this

@discoverypanel.bsky.social Oct 8, 2026, 8:15 AMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

Zehn Folgen, zehn Podcasts, absurd viele Meinungen. 🖖 🔴 Sonntag, 11.10., 19 Uhr: Wir blicken **live mit euch** auf Staffel 4 von #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds zurück – inklusive Chat. Was war großartig? Was eher Gorn-Ei? 👉 discoverypanel.de #SNW #DiscoveryPanel

@bjoernsuelter.bsky.social Oct 7, 2026, 8:22 PMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

UNTERSTÜTZT UNS AUF PATREON! Ab sofort könnt ihr unsere Arbeit aktiv & gleich doppelt unterstützen.
Einerseits unser Geek!-Magazin, andererseits den Podcast #PlanetTrekfm von @kernforce.bsky.social & mir, der seit 2017 sendet. Also reinschauen & mitmachen! Hier: www.patreon.com/geek_magazin/

@discoverypanel.bsky.social Oct 6, 2026, 7:00 AMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

🖖 Heute vor 60 Jahren feierte „The Enemy Within” (S01E05) Premiere!

https://www.discoverypanel.de/episode/tos-s01e05-the-enemy-within/

@conifergirl.bsky.social Oct 4, 2026, 1:14 PMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

@depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social Oct 2, 2026, 12:10 AMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

The Phantom of Heilbronn, also referred to as the Woman Without a Face, was a presumed female serial killer whose existence was inferred from DNA evidence found at 40 crime scenes across Austria, France and Germany from 1993 to 2009.

In March 2009, investigators concluded that the supposed serial killer did not exist, and the DNA belonged to a woman who worked at a factory that made the cotton swabs used for collecting DNA samples

@discoverypanel.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:00 AMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

🖖 Heute vor 30 Jahren feierte „Apocalypse Rising” (S05E01) Premiere!

https://www.discoverypanel.de/episode/ds9-s05e01-apocalypse-rising/

@discoverypanel.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:00 AMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

🖖 Heute vor 35 Jahren feierte „Darmok” (S05E02) Premiere!

https://www.discoverypanel.de/episode/tng-s05e02-darmok/

@ncdominie.bsky.social Sep 28, 2026, 5:24 PMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

Great moments in Scottish engineering history: James Watt tries to work out how his phone attaches to his selfie stick.

Statue of James Watt. In his right hand he holds a telescopic stick with a frame at the top; in his left he holds a flat object about the size of a large smartphone. He is scowling at the possibly-not-a-smartphone as if he is tempted to yeet it into the sea. On that basis, it probably _is_ a phone.

@heidefranck.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:17 AMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

UNS REICHT’S – WEIL ES NICHT REICHT

Heute ist internationaler Übersetzertag, und heute protestieren wir öffentlich gegen unsere niedrigen Honorare – weil es nicht reicht. Die prekäre Einkommenssituation von Übersetzenden wollen und können wir nicht länger hinnehmen! #weilesnichtreicht

@kernforce.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 10:17 AM

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@discoverypanel.bsky.social Sep 26, 2026, 7:00 AMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

🖖 Heute vor 25 Jahren feierte „Broken Bow, Part I” (S01E01) Premiere!

https://www.discoverypanel.de/episode/ent-s01e01-broken-bow-part-i/

@adapalmer.bsky.social Sep 20, 2026, 1:50 PMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version. buff.ly/i3f0PhR
#ShareGoodNewsToo

@pastpostcard.bsky.social Sep 23, 2026, 8:12 PMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

We are going to hire a car and go to Las Palmas tomorrow & hopefully won't see the Germans Audrey puked spaghetti on.

@becauseivy.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 8:48 AMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

It's Thinking Thursday, delete your robots

@bjoernsuelter.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 6:35 AMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

WER WIRD SUPER-GEEK? @ MAGIC CON BONN
Auf der diesjährigen #MagicCon suche ich in meinem #Quiz den "Super-Geek". Alle Infos, Disclaimer und Teilnahmebedingungen gibt es hier: planettrek.de/ab-jetzt-bew...

@simulacrumvacui.bsky.social Sep 21, 2026, 8:32 AMReposted by @kernforce.bsky.social

Achtung, Achtung, eine Ankündigung: