Left-spiralling snail Ned dies before finding a mate

Kash Patel has filed against The Atlantic. Discovery is going to be epic. He's f*cked.

Arriving shortly

When the media starts doing "being poor is good for you" stories, you know the economy is about to tank.

The galling thing about the Breakthrough Prize ceremony in LA right now is all the attention is on the Hollywood celebrities and no one even cares about the actual scientists. The Nobel is a much better gig.

i once threw up at a smashing pumpkins concert and billy corgan has yet to ask me if i’m feeling any better.

Plato's Cave 2026 edition.

I reserve the right to call Sharon Osborne "a vile Nazi b*tch who along with her parasitical entitled brood grifted off the residual fame of her shambling half-braindead husk of her husband with no real talent of their own" without it being misogynistic, because it's true and she is.

Every aspect of US foreign and domestic policy now has this inherently fascistic Schopenhauer meets New Thought to it where they just ignore reality and assume they can just will things into being.

I'm loving all the 100 years of Edward Gorey content.

I’m hardly the first to comment on this, but I can’t be the only one who finds the overuse of this trope a bit ick?

No New Zealander would have called her "Aunt Lena" - "Auntie Lena," yes.

Given the media orgs literally nominate the writers themselves, this amuses me no end.

I know some of you have great Substack content, but this is why I won't subscribe.

Even if there were a legitimate case to attack Iran, the Trump government isn't able to articulate it coherently. Dubbyah's government was at least able to put together a partially convincing lie about WMD in Iraq.

Hot off the press and #OpenAccess, see 'The 1898 Dog Tax War as an Incursion on Māori De Recto Sovereignty' by Paul Moon: doi.org/10.1080/0308...

Why does Trump look like he's resurrecting Epstein?

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It's the handwringing I find objectionable. There was an unfortunate cock-up. There was no ill intent. No one died. Apologies suffice. Reflexively promising to reassess processes as if there is some systematic institutional racism involved just highlights what superficial PR lipservice it is.

Can people stop comparing the US to the decline of the Rome. The Western Empire took centuries to become irrelevant, not four years under one idiot.

After the sloppy and inept execution of Trump’s failure in Iran last week, I hope the precise and letter-perfect execution by NASA this week reminds the world that the United States is still capable of high levels of competence, in spite of its ridiculously incompetent and stupid president.

This man is clearly a moron. Also his book on Bonhoeffer is a steaming turd.

Let they who have not want to publicly yell at Winston Peters, cast the first stone...

Hell, I knew they were smart but damn! 😄 you go lady octopus! 🐙

We should call it the Department of WAAAAAGHHH because Kegsbreath is distinctly Ork-like.

So here's a quandary for the book reviewers. If a fiction author includes barely disguised versions of actual people, and some of it is quite cruel, does one identify the real people? Especially if it's not exactly subtle.

2014 me vs me now

I'm inclined to think that the story about the Under Secretary of Defence threatening the Papal Nuncio at the Pentagon is probably true. The Avignon Papacy mention is too weirdly specific to be made up.

This actually shittier and sillier than you might think, because in constitutional terms indigenous Fijians are already identified as iTaukei. Fijian is a nationality. It's basically an invitation to civil war.

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Blueskyers who try to shame people who retain, for whatever reason, a twitter presence, are presumptive wokescolds who need to mind their own knitting.

I'm off to Venice in three weeks and I'm freaking out.

The main problem with Thiel's antichrist thesis is that his antichrist is basically telling people to do things Christ said in the Bible, like be kind and pay your taxes.

Regna petens homines sese ad fastigia divum tollere; sed superat numen, homo factus, eos.

Astronauts are automatically hot. I don't make the rules.

Or, it's not a strategy and he's just mad.

This is one of the damned stupidest things I've ever read from a mainstream newspaper www.msn.com/en-nz/news/o...

Holy fuck

#AncientBlueSky #Antiquities #EarlyChristianity #Classics #Rome “R. J. Kurtz, A Bibliography and Critical Evaluation of the Last Twenty Years of Research on the Via Latina Catacomb (Dino Compagni), Rome 1977” appears only in the bib. the English trans of Ferrua’s The Unknown Catacomb (1978).

Trying to accommodate my excitement at Artemis getting to the moon and everything turning to shit back on Earth is putting a lot of emotional strain on me.

It's hard to tell from the trailers, but Michelle Pfeiffer's character in The Madison is supposed to be annoying as f, yeah?

Was this tree under water at the time?