#originstory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #originstory, aggregated by home.social.
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A Source of Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Space Has Been Identified
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A Source of Mysterious Repeating Radio Signals From Space Has Been Identified
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Recent graduate finbro dude with totally nepo housing sitch out on Long Island, hears about a rager in Brookhaven one weekend, wanders into National Lab, gets irradiated, becomes the Incredible Gatsby.
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I've never told the full story of how Aura Luxe actually started.
Until now.
It involves a decade-long marriage, a solo road trip that fell apart, a converted school bus, death threats, a restraining order, and a dream I had when I was 12 years old.
And somehow all of it led here.
Full origin story on Substack. Free to read. Link in bio. 🕯️
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@tomjennings i was walking with my head down one time and smacked into a telephone pole ... i was 16 and tryna to learn to play harmonica ... it hurt like a motherfucker and my friends all laughed and i threw the motherfucker away
not sure where i am going with this one
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@tomjennings i was walking with my head down one time and smacked into a telephone pole ... i was 16 and tryna to learn to play harmonica ... it hurt like a motherfucker and my friends all laughed and i threw the motherfucker away
not sure where i am going with this one
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In "The Incredible Gatsby", the eponymous title character by the same name is involved in a gamma beam mishap at Brookhaven National Lab on Long Island.
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In "The Incredible Gatsby", the eponymous title character by the same name is involved in a gamma beam mishap at Brookhaven National Lab on Long Island.
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In "The Incredible Gatsby", the eponymous title character by the same name is involved in a gamma beam mishap at Brookhaven National Lab on Long Island.
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WATCH/LISTEN: This is an EXCEPTIONALLY good break-down (& entertaining conversation) of the history & insanity of the attacks on the “15-Minute City,” aka the simple idea of HAVING MORE THINGS NEARBY. By @iandunt & Dorian Lynskey of #OriginStory. HT to @TheWarOnCars https://youtu.be/nDb66pFyO_o?si=Icz3jPwA0XMGb-na
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WATCH/LISTEN: This is an EXCEPTIONALLY good break-down (& entertaining conversation) of the history & insanity of the attacks on the “15-Minute City,” aka the simple idea of HAVING MORE THINGS NEARBY. By @iandunt & Dorian Lynskey of #OriginStory. HT to @TheWarOnCars https://youtu.be/nDb66pFyO_o?si=Icz3jPwA0XMGb-na
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The Strength to Choose: A Story of Growth and Identity. Stories shape our understanding of the world and ourselves. The story of Amilia Emberhart was created not as fiction, but as a reflection of the challenges and choices we all face. #Emberhart #Amilia #OriginStory https://youtu.be/2FcnUJhJlhk?si=OmVn6eEVb-YKKEO8
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The Myths, Benefits, and Legends of Apple Cider Vinegar
“This allowed for the production of massive volumes of vinegar cheaply,” laments Smith, “but at the cost of a decline in flavor” as flavor compounds are “stripped out.” For all the convenience and reliability of standardized, mass-produc…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchvinegar #Apple #deepdive #francais #france #French #originstory #Vinegar
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The Myths, Benefits, and Legends of Apple Cider Vinegar
“This allowed for the production of massive volumes of vinegar cheaply,” laments Smith, “but at the cost of a decline in flavor” as flavor compounds are “stripped out.” For all the convenience and reliability of standardized, mass-produc…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchvinegar #Apple #deepdive #francais #france #French #originstory #Vinegar
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2520536/the-myths-benefits-and-legends-of-apple-cider-vinegar/ -
The Myths, Benefits, and Legends of Apple Cider Vinegar https://www.diningandcooking.com/2520536/the-myths-benefits-and-legends-of-apple-cider-vinegar/ #Apple #DeepDive #francais #france #French #FrenchVinegar #OriginStory #Vinegar
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The Myths, Benefits, and Legends of Apple Cider Vinegar https://www.diningandcooking.com/2520536/the-myths-benefits-and-legends-of-apple-cider-vinegar/ #Apple #DeepDive #francais #france #French #FrenchVinegar #OriginStory #Vinegar
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Quick aside for anyone curious.
Alongside the overlanding videos and trip planning, I’ve started publishing a memoir in chapters. It’s very much a prequel: where I came from, what shaped me, and how I ended up doing… well, all of this.
Totally optional reading. The truck, the maps, and the dirt roads are still the main event. But some journeys start a long way before the trailhead.
https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-1-the-dee-dar-and-the-chemistry
#Memoir #CareerJourney #OriginStory #GameDevelopment #Writing
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Some of you know me from Command & Conquer and the Westwood years. Others from much earlier 8-bit games like Nodes of Yesod.
I’ve just published Chapter 1 of a memoir I’m serializing. It’s the prequel to all of that: council estates in Yorkshire, class and accents, coal fires, and a school chemistry experiment involving an extremely unstable compound.
This is the “whence.” How it all came to pass, long before any of it was obvious.
https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-1-the-dee-dar-and-the-chemistry
#Memoir #CareerJourney #OriginStory #GameDevelopment #Writing
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Some of you know me from Command & Conquer and the Westwood years. Others from much earlier 8-bit games like Nodes of Yesod.
I’ve just published Chapter 1 of a memoir I’m serializing. It’s the prequel to all of that: council estates in Yorkshire, class and accents, coal fires, and a school chemistry experiment involving an extremely unstable compound.
This is the “whence.” How it all came to pass, long before any of it was obvious.
https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-1-the-dee-dar-and-the-chemistry
#Memoir #CareerJourney #OriginStory #GameDevelopment #Writing
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youtu.be/i0aa1GHQuew
Because I wasn't done with done with this book series, apparently
#TheHeirsLair #HowIWould #DemonStorm #DemonStormRemix #background #cosmogony #originstory #backstory #scififantasyspecfic
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Now this is a fun twist on trick taking games. And amazing art too! #OriginStory #bgg #FamilyGameNight
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Now this is a fun twist on trick taking games. And amazing art too! #OriginStory #bgg #FamilyGameNight
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Origin Story. A podcast that explores the real meaning and provenance of social and political ideas such as Conspiracy Theory, Centrism and Woke. Find out what so many commonly used soundbites and buzzwords are really about.
https://www.containsmoderateperil.com/blog/2025/12/5/origin-story #podcast #originstory -
Origin Story. A podcast that explores the real meaning and provenance of social and political ideas such as Conspiracy Theory, Centrism and Woke. Find out what so many commonly used soundbites and buzzwords are really about.
https://www.containsmoderateperil.com/blog/2025/12/5/origin-story #podcast #originstory -
Some of you may know that I'm a huge Kingdom Hearts nerd.
Some of you may also know that I used to operate the largest KH fansite circa 2003 (and still own the domain).
Well, a couple years ago someone contacted me about it and asked to interview me. I grabbed some friends from the good ol' days. We did a thing.
The video has finally been edited and released. This was an absolute trip.
If you're a KH fan, it's definitely worth a watch. It covers some really important history for the fandom.
Origins of the Kingdom Hearts Community: What Happened to The Ansem Report?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_1b8OuBgQ0
#kingdomhearts #videogames #community #communitymanagement #fandom #fansite #OriginStory #KH
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Some of you may know that I'm a huge Kingdom Hearts nerd.
Some of you may also know that I used to operate the largest KH fansite circa 2003 (and still own the domain).
Well, a couple years ago someone contacted me about it and asked to interview me. I grabbed some friends from the good ol' days. We did a thing.
The video has finally been edited and released. This was an absolute trip.
If you're a KH fan, it's definitely worth a watch. It covers some really important history for the fandom.
Origins of the Kingdom Hearts Community: What Happened to The Ansem Report?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_1b8OuBgQ0
#kingdomhearts #videogames #community #communitymanagement #fandom #fansite #OriginStory #KH
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#Llamagrama 232 - Origin Story
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"So... what's your origin story?"
"My parents fucked, and nine months later, I was born."
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Since I get asked a lot about how I got into lockpicking, I figured I'd make a big ol' post about it.
Well, I have the nerdiest backstory for this skill.
So without further ado...First, the setup:
I helped make 5th Ed. D&D.
I regularly played in a campaign with friends.
I often played some sort of lovable rogue.
I also roll natural 1s *way* too often.
This became a running joke in-game.Next, the inciting event:
One day, after rolling a natural 1 and failing to pick a lock on a chest, setting off a trap, and then getting taken to death's door by said trap, I decided I was going to figure out how hard it would be to do IRL (with modern locks and homemade tools, which I figured would be *way* more difficult than medieval locks).
So, after game, I drove home, grabbed my kid, and said we're going to the hardware store for SCIENCE!
Now, somewhere in the back of my head was the notion that street sweeper bristles were suitable for making lockpicks (probably from reading the Anarchist's Cookbook, Poor Man's James Bond, or something like that as a little kid). So we looked in the gutters along our walk to the hardware store and managed to find two bristles by the time we got there. I bought like $50 worth of assorted locks, and we walked home.
Once home, I watched a YouTube video just to see what the tools they were using looked like, and then found a small file and some pliers, and made a simple lockpick and turning tool. Then I set to figuring out what the heck I was doing through trial and error.
By the end of the night, I'd opened all of the locks I bought (at least once), and I had my answer—a professional rogue with decent tools should succeed at picking most common medieval locks about as often as they succeed at tying their shoes.
Unbeknownst to me, I'd rolled my own natural 1 on my save vs. falling down the rabbit hole. So now, a decade later, I've taught at conferences, placed in tournaments, been sponsored by a security company, created (and eventually deleted) my own locksport YouTube channel, and have hundreds of locks in my bedroom. Over the years, I branched out to all sorts of locksport-adjacent skills, but picking is still my favorite, and I regularly teach new folx how to pick locks and improvise tools.
So that's it. That's how being a total nerd led me to discover what turned out to be one of my biggest passions in life—defeating other folx' security for fun.
Pictured: (left) my first turning tool, (right) my first lockpick.
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Origin story of far-right Israelis is like every bad-guy origin story:
Generational trauma made them into the same murderers that murdered their great grandparents.
We see this in comics & movies all the time, as the origin story of the villain.
My question is this: Why do we still act surprised? 🤔
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Ah yes, because everyone has been on the edge of their seats wondering about the dramatic origin story of the @ sign 😴. #BBC, you did it again—turning #punctuation into a thrilling epic nobody asked for 📜➡️🐌. Next up: the secret life of the semicolon! 🎩✨
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250923-the-3000-year-old-story-hidden-in-your-keyboard #@Sign #originstory #semicolons #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, because everyone has been on the edge of their seats wondering about the dramatic origin story of the @ sign 😴. #BBC, you did it again—turning #punctuation into a thrilling epic nobody asked for 📜➡️🐌. Next up: the secret life of the semicolon! 🎩✨
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250923-the-3000-year-old-story-hidden-in-your-keyboard #@Sign #originstory #semicolons #HackerNews #ngated -
A Collision With Another Planet Could Have Allowed for Life on Earth https://www.wired.com/story/a-collision-with-another-planet-could-have-allowed-for-life-on-earth/ #Science/Space #OriginStory #Science
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VFX modelling supervisor: “The director says to make the mountain bigger.”
Modeller: “Nothing more specific?”
Supe: “Nope”
Modeller: “That’s okay, I’ll just scale it in X”
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'British Chinese compose nearly one per cent of the British population, but they are culturally and politically ignored with precious little representation in politics or television.
In this Origin Story special edition, we trace the history of the British Chinese community, from the days of Roman Britain to the present day.'
#OriginStory The British Chinese – Hidden generations
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The foundation of Weathervane's Revenge is laid bare in our FREE prequel novella! 🔍 Sign up to our newsletter now! #WeathervanePrequel #FreeNovel #CharacterBackstory #ToxNet #BookLovers #OriginStory https://www.wildflintbooks.com/patreon-content/weathervane-seeds-of-redemption
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Discover how Ash became the vengeful farmer in the FREE prequel to Weathervane's Revenge! His origin story will shock you 😮 Available now with newsletter signup 📧 #WeathervanePrequel #FreeBook #ToxNet #OriginStory #JFlintWilder #BookLovers https://www.wildflintbooks.com/patreon-content/weathervane-seeds-of-redemption
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Before seeking revenge, Ash had a very different life. 🌱 Discover his past in our FREE prequel novella! #WeathervaneOrigins #FreeNovel #CharacterBackstory #ToxNet #BookNerd #OriginStory https://www.wildflintbooks.com/patreon-content/weathervane-seeds-of-redemption
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Ash's complete backstory revealed in "Seeds of Redemption" - FREE with newsletter signup! 📧 #WeathervaneOrigins #FreeNovel #CharacterBackstory #ToxNet #BookLovers #OriginStory https://www.wildflintbooks.com/patreon-content/weathervane-seeds-of-redemption
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The complete setup to Weathervane's Revenge - yours FREE with newsletter signup! 📚 Don't miss this exclusive! #WeathervanePrequel #FreeNovel #CharacterBackstory #ToxNet #BookLovers #OriginStory https://www.wildflintbooks.com/patreon-content/weathervane-seeds-of-redemption
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The Origin of the Research University
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/the-origin-of-the-research-university
#HackerNews #ResearchUniversity #OriginStory #HigherEducation #AcademicHistory #Innovation
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The Origin of the Research University
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/the-origin-of-the-research-university
#HackerNews #ResearchUniversity #OriginStory #HigherEducation #AcademicHistory #Innovation
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What if "Weekend at Bernie's" (1989) was actually the origin story for The Walking Dead?
#WeekendAtBernies #zombie #WalkingDead #TheWalkingDead #OriginStory #WhatIf
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What if "Weekend at Bernie's" (1989) was actually the origin story for The Walking Dead?
#WeekendAtBernies #zombie #WalkingDead #TheWalkingDead #OriginStory #WhatIf
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Weekly output: Signal war-plans chat, AT&T limits autopay discount, Google travel search, my Washington Post origin story
I had a roughly four-and-a-half-day workweek, thanks to my taking Thursday afternoon off to see the Nats home opener–and then spending Thursday night seeing one of Arlington’s finest punk-rock bands, Tsunami, play a set at the Black Cat with co-headliners Ida. I’d last set foot in that venue on 14th Street in 2007 for a show by another great local indie-rock outfit, the Dismemberment Plan, and it was great to be back there.
Patreon readers got an extra post this week, a review of the book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter that examined how Musk’s disruption and destruction of government functions seems to follow the script he improvised in that disastrous takeover of Twitter.
3/24/2025: Trump Officials Accidentally Add Atlantic Editor to Signal Chat About War Plans, PCMag
I had to write about Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s recount of being added by mistake to a Signal chat about plans to strike Houthi militants–and I was glad I could include a disapproving quote in this post from an information-security expert and West Point grad I know.
3/26/2025: AT&T’s Full Autopay Discount Will Soon Require Your Bank Details, PCMag
Seeing AT&T suggest that subscribers get its credit card if they don’t want to allow direct withdrawals from their bank accounts but still want some kind of autopay discount made me think of how airlines now push their own credit cards.
3/27/2025: Need to Get Away? Google’s Travel Search Can Now Track Hotel Prices, PCMag
I thought the hotel rate tracking was the most useful part of this announcement, so it was interesting to see Ars Technica’s Ryan Whitwham lead with the screenshot-analysis part of the company’s news–and surface some details I hadn’t gotten.
3/28/2025: My First Byline: Rob Pegoraro, Your First Byline
I’ve enjoyed reading the how-I-got-started testimony of journalists on Ryan Teague Beckwith’s newsletter, so I couldn’t resist excavating some old e-mails and memos to write my own recollection.
#ATTAutopay #autopayDiscount #GoogleHotelSearch #GoogleTravelSearch #HouthiPCSmallGroup #JeffreyGoldberg #MikeWaltz #originStory #RyanTeagueBeckwith #Signal #SignalChat #TheAtlantic #TrumpInfosec #YourFirstByline
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Weekly output: Signal war-plans chat, AT&T limits autopay discount, Google travel search, my Washington Post origin story
I had a roughly four-and-a-half-day workweek, thanks to my taking Thursday afternoon off to see the Nats home opener–and then spending Thursday night seeing one of Arlington’s finest punk-rock bands, Tsunami, play a set at the Black Cat with co-headliners Ida. I’d last set foot in that venue on 14th Street in 2007 for a show by another great local indie-rock outfit, the Dismemberment Plan, and it was great to be back there.
Patreon readers got an extra post this week, a review of the book Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter that examined how Musk’s disruption and destruction of government functions seems to follow the script he improvised in that disastrous takeover of Twitter.
3/24/2025: Trump Officials Accidentally Add Atlantic Editor to Signal Chat About War Plans, PCMag
I had to write about Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s recount of being added by mistake to a Signal chat about plans to strike Houthi militants–and I was glad I could include a disapproving quote in this post from an information-security expert and West Point grad I know.
3/26/2025: AT&T’s Full Autopay Discount Will Soon Require Your Bank Details, PCMag
Seeing AT&T suggest that subscribers get its credit card if they don’t want to allow direct withdrawals from their bank accounts but still want some kind of autopay discount made me think of how airlines now push their own credit cards.
3/27/2025: Need to Get Away? Google’s Travel Search Can Now Track Hotel Prices, PCMag
I thought the hotel rate tracking was the most useful part of this announcement, so it was interesting to see Ars Technica’s Ryan Whitwham lead with the screenshot-analysis part of the company’s news–and surface some details I hadn’t gotten.
3/28/2025: My First Byline: Rob Pegoraro, Your First Byline
I’ve enjoyed reading the how-I-got-started testimony of journalists on Ryan Teague Beckwith’s newsletter, so I couldn’t resist excavating some old e-mails and memos to write my own recollection.
#ATTAutopay #autopayDiscount #GoogleHotelSearch #GoogleTravelSearch #HouthiPCSmallGroup #JeffreyGoldberg #MikeWaltz #originStory #RyanTeagueBeckwith #Signal #SignalChat #TheAtlantic #TrumpInfosec #YourFirstByline
