Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.

@flophousepodcast.com don't know if you're aware, but maybe retweet or signal boost in an episode?

"You can, but you shouldn't," might be exactly the kind of dad energy that's needed for this everyone-is-12 moment in time.

An NYT headline that doesn't use passive voice? Someone really has the knives out for this guy.

This despite it being aggressively shoehorned into every productivity application available - maybe investors are stupid???????

What a great headline

What time do you get in?

Netsuke of a Rat Grasping a Soybean Pod, 19th century Japan

He's a *really* good writer and the Twenty Palaces stories have the one of the best takes on magic I've ever read.

This is true, and it's also in a weird tension with the notion of manhood that's supposed to be like tough, individualistic, and if-you-don't-like-it-go-to-hell that these same dudes also almost certainly embrace.

And presumably "taking care of yourself" will also include things like avoiding vaccinations, and consuming seed oils (or not consuming them, I forget which they're fixated on).

This is called “chain refoulment” and it’s illegal under both U.S. and international law. And the State Department and ICE know very well what Ghana is doing and simply don’t care.

Well, there was that time I tried brining the turkey in the bathtub...

A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.

I like gyoza

I am a river You are my canyon, Charlie Brown.

@flophousepodcast.com Can you give us any hints about what was in Episode 466 that made it too scandalous to release? Or is it just destined to go down in Flophouse lore as a lost episode?

As Aaron Rodgers knows, broken wrists are a scam foisted on us by the medical "Establishment." Just rub some homeopathy on it and get back on the field.

Canada is releasing a set of stamps celebrating the nation's graphic novelists. These stamps feature Kate Beaton, Jimmy Beaulieu, Guy Delisle, Julie Doucet, Bryan Lee O’Malley and Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas, alongside some of their famous works.

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

I don't think it's right to call her "divisive." Everyone agrees on what she is, the difference of opinion is on whether or not that's a good thing.

Reuters ‘Exclusive: DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter’ DOGE is dead. So is my career with the federal government so…🙃 It certainly ‘existed’ for me and thousands of others. Thanks for absolutely nothing, Elon. Freakin’ tool.

Happy Doctor Who day!

Per Alan Moore, once again:

"The students dropped out because the conditions were so atrocious, and the growers weren't able to mask that up."

Literally EVERY parent should ban Roblox

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

This is a story about how America’s world-leading cancer and dementia research system was destroyed by frauds and naifs who broke the law. There must be consequences.

I got the impressions that it was Russians who leaked the plan, and I guess this is why.

evergreen

Good old Woz. Good for him.

When you go to your tailor and ask for the "I'm about to fight The Flash" look.

Via @michaeldweiss.bsky.social Doc circulating in Ukrainian media is said to be the 28-point plan. It's not as absurd and dire as has been reported -- it's even more so. Eng. translation follows. N.B. I absolutely love point 3: "it is expected" Russia won't invade anyone else. Long 🧵 because 🤡🎪

Reality show personality won't even dress up to go on TV.

Somebody's gonna melt down Grok by asking it a Captain Kirk question like: "Could Elon Musk use his innovative genius to create an AI that can masturbate even harder than he can?"

imagine being so disconnected from reality that you're propping up the entire economy on a piece of technology so loathed you have to blackmail people into using it

The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants

Wait holy shit, a nice correction on this story - THESE CELEBS DIDNT KNOW ABOUT THIS PROJECT. They recorded voices 15 years ago for an audio bible project and Fox is repurposing it bsky.app/profile/falc...

This is interesting, and I'm sure will generate a lot of discussion, but I see a few red flags 1: Bald assertion that "'something new' is not a policy platform". Of course it is. Blank slate candidates are very successful 2: reliance on GPT 3: grouping responses that say they want gov to work for...

We all know where this is headed, right? 🧠🐛🪚