Falconian Productions

Falco (He/They): #TTRPG Writer/Publisher || #TheBlood | #EldritchDefenders || Twitch Affil. (falco1029) || Programmer, Leftist
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Campaign is over, but you can still get the basic PDF and Print-on-Demand as late pledges for the next few weeks!

#TTRPG

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Find it here and back us if you possibly can! It's still possible to hit the stretch goal in the final 48, and if not, every pledge still helps the book become as good as it can be!

https://t.co/d9Nh04W4DA

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Been some delays to the work progress due to some pretty hefty RL stress and underlying issues. Will get back to it soon.

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New #Helldivers2 short on #EnemyArtillery!

https://t.co/bgK4coZDDU

[Falconian Productions @FalconianP]

New #Helldivers2 short on #EnemyArtillery!

https://t.co/bgK4coZDDU

[PenelopeJ4de @AlfKebab]

Best economic system in the world update

[The Vertlartnic @TheVertlartnic]

Ebola Unlikely To Cause Anyone Any Harm, Say White People

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New #EnemyArtillery video!

More #Helldivers2 shenanigans!

https://t.co/BXI967q4vL

[Falconian Productions @FalconianP]

New #EnemyArtillery video!

More #Helldivers2 shenanigans!

https://t.co/BXI967q4vL

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@ScottFalco How can you possibly forget that?

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New #EnemyArtillery Short
#Helldivers2

https://t.co/agmV8zb8f9

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 17-year-old in Iowa boiled beets in her chemistry class and turned them into stitches that change color when your wound gets infected. Her name is Dasia Taylor. It started as a science fair project.

She wanted a low-tech version of the "smart stitches" Tufts researchers built in 2016. Those used thread wired up with sensors and a tiny chip that pinged your phone if something went wrong. Cool, but useless without a phone or a hospital that can afford it.

Her version doesn't need any of that. Healthy skin is slightly acidic, like lemon juice but much milder. When bacteria grow in a wound, the chemistry flips and turns more like soap or baking soda.

Beet juice has a quirk. The same red pigment that stains your fingers when you cook it shifts color based on what it touches. Bright red on healthy skin. Dark purple on infected skin. The switch lines up with infection almost exactly.

She tested ten threads before finding a cotton-polyester blend that soaked up the dye and changed color within five minutes. That was the prototype.

Around 1 in 40 American surgeries end in an infection at the cut, costing hospitals more than $3 billion a year. In poorer countries the rate is closer to 1 in 9. In parts of Africa it's 1 in 6. In some Ethiopian hospitals, up to a quarter of surgery patients leave with an infection.

The whole game is catching it early. Spot it in time and antibiotics handle it. Miss the window and the patient is back on the operating table.

Dasia filed a patent in 2021 and started a medical device company called VariegateHealth in 2022. The stitches haven't been tested on real patients yet. New medical device patents can take a decade. She's also looking into a side benefit: the beet pigment kills bugs like E. coli and Klebsiella in lab tests.

Smart stitches need a phone to read them. Hers just need eyes.

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Every time I see someone stupider than me on the internet, I take a drink.

Somehow I still haven't had enough to stop having reasons to drink.

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New short over on #EnemyArtillery! Can the dark gods help us save our channel?!

https://t.co/NIeKSU1OHm

[Falconian Productions @FalconianP]

New short over on #EnemyArtillery! Can the dark gods help us save our channel?!

https://t.co/NIeKSU1OHm

[Falconian Productions @FalconianP]

Today we learned the abyss has crept into the hedge in the form of anti-wolves.

But we made friends with changelings! #TTRPG

[Falconian Productions @FalconianP]

Today we learned the abyss has crept into the hedge in the form of anti-wolves.

But we made friends with changelings! #TTRPG

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Been getting to play some #MageTheAwakening over #VTT, been a while since I've gotten to.

Today's session involved wandering the Hedge trying to find clues for city Mysteries, because Obsessions. Arcane Beats all around.

Nothing bad will come of taunting the Wyrd...

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"As Freud said, sometimes a tentacle monster is just a tentacle monster" - No-context conversation quotes.

[Falconian Productions @FalconianP]

"As Freud said, sometimes a tentacle monster is just a tentacle monster" - No-context conversation quotes.

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@ScottFalco Hey that's my policy too, it's like we're brothers or something.