In Quentin Tarantino's version of "The Odyssey", Helen of Troy (obviously to be played by 1980s Grace Jones) sets fire to the wooden horse before the Greeks can climb out. You KNOW that's how he would have it. You KNOW it.

So, does a subsequent administration have leeway to reverse any of this?

The next time I have to bring a dish to a dinner.

without question

"The longer I live on this planet the more I understand why roosters start their day screaming"

At this point, it's just cruel to argue with Joran Peterson. He's just an unhinged old man who needs comfortable slippers and warm soup. youtube.com/shorts/qxrfk...

So, this is real.

Trump says his life was better before he became president. Dude, everybody's life was better before you became president.

Because of course it does.

I'm old enough to remember when you bought a thing, you owned that thing. These days, every purchase has a built-in subscription and upgrade requirement.

Society should be set up so that the elderly do not HAVE to live in poverty. Why is everything so damned expensive? Well, I think we all have some ideas.

Bollywood movies are similar, minus the blonde hair.

Believe it or not, I've never actually heard a Drake song. But this makes sense.

If city officials haven't already twinned Dildo, Newfoundland, with Butte, Montana, what exactly are they waiting for?

Being an older father weighs on me. It's not lost on me that when my life is over, I will have spent most of my life without my son, and when his is over, he will have spent most of his without me. This is the opposite of my relationship with my own beloved parents. But at least we get some overlap!

Tried something new last night. Made channa masala in the instant-pot using the slow cooker setting. Took 6 hours. Woke up to the whole house smelling like spices.

Attempting to make Guyanese oil paratha roti this morning, something I have always failed in the past. Dough has been made. Now it rests. And we wait. Pray for my roti.

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It's late at night. I haven't thought about dinner. So I'm doing one of my favourite fast, easy, delicious, cheap, and nutritious meals: dal and rice, made simultaneously in the instant-pot in under 20 minutes.

Omg Threads sucks as hard as Facebook.

Very interesting. As much as I detest Melon Musk, I've admired the iconoclastic vision of SpaceX, but have always wondered about its finances. This makes sense.

I make painstaking videos on science education, carefully edited for content and accuracy, and yet my most watched video ever is an 8-year-old tour of the EasyHotel near the hotel in London: youtu.be/4zqB0av1UMs?...

Hey, peeps, I made one final hantavirus video in which I answer all the lingering questions I got from media and the general public: youtu.be/xNxQ2d6SMQw

Some rheumatologists will be quite busy with this guy in a couple of decades. youtube.com/shorts/Et1RT...

If anyone is surprised that Ronda Rousey beat Gina Carano in 17 seconds, then you have not been following the evolution of women's MMA. It was always going to go that way.

He's the picture of health

Immigration make Britain brilliant

Some years ago, a graduate student who was struggling with mental illness shared with me his essay, which had been given a failing grade by another professor. 1/3

Here's the video of my audio interview by @andypinsent.bsky.social of CFRA radio this weekend. Yep, topic is hantavirus, of course: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufkm...

Back in the 90s, I went "undercover" online for a major newspaper to investigate hate groups organizing using this new thing called "the Internet." Their methods have not changed much. Same words, same targets. They hide in fight clubs and seek solace amongst the obvious political parties.

I watched this movie on a laptop, lying on the floor in a house in Kampala, Uganda. At the time, I thought it was weird and stupid. But I couldn't stop thinking about it. Soon after, I had to conclude that it was truly brilliant, the kind of genius that is not immediately obvious to idiots like me.

Buttigieg on Duffy: "I love roadtrips. I love America. I actually took a taxpayer-funded roadtrip lasted about 7 months. It was in Afghanistan. This is something very different. To make roadtrips unaffordable & then go around celebrating your own roadtrip is actually why people are frustrated about"

Cat's reactions with funny paper masks. Original post

I've written one true novel in my life. It was critically well received even though no one bought it. I wrote the first half in a year, took a year off to think about it, then wrote the second half in another year. Longest decade of my life.

"For too long, the university has ignored the wisdom of the donor class and hired based on academic excellence. Regrettably, this has led to the underrepresentation of discredited viewpoints in elite higher education." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...

I went down a rabbit hole learning about rice, does anyone want a big rambling thread about rice?

More evidence that in our society, the dumb tend to rise to positions of influence, like as the WSJ opinions editor. But let's answer his question anyway: 1) the means of production 2) see #1, especially as it pertains to NBA merch, Apple products, and whatever Ms Sweeney is selling these days.

My 6-year-old was pleased with the response to his first story, so he has written a second. I think this one could have used some more workshopping. 1/6

Who's in Ottawa on June 10? Event is in both English and French. Tout le monde est bienvenu!

My 6-year-old saw this map and commented, "This is bad because Canada and the USA are the same colour, and Russia and China are the same colour."

My 6-year-old wrote the best story last night. I'm sharing it with the world. 1/7

I believe the technique is called "sword swallowing."

"Roots" transformed American society (for the better). It educated a generation, and gave the world LeVar Burton.

This is perhaps the most corrupt thing he has done in a long line of unbelievably corrupt things. And yet most Americans don't know he is doing it. By representing both sides in a legal challenge, he has award himself and his friends nearly $2 billion of taxpayer money. But the voters do not clue in

Fun fact. This episode was originally written for the cancelled "Star Trek: Phase Two" series, which featured the TOS crew. It had to be taken out of mothballs when the Hollywood writers' strike prevented any new scripts from being written for show like TNG at the time.