This is an extremely funny way to describe the awkwardness of carrying bags without handles My arms!

Here’s a subtle one: Jake Thackray does indeed have a song called “The Gravedigger” but it is not in fact a translation of Brassens’ “Le Fossoyeur”

Sadly, I do believe “people also ask” this

Add one letter to make a movie body horror How Stella Got Her Grooved Back

Huh. Interesting AI contextual bias in Google Translate here (ChatGPT does the same thing, Bing gives “wise” in both cases)

In college we once joked about a plan to occupy an administration building with only one demand: amnesty for having occupied the building. Thinking about this today for no reason

So glad they rescued Solomon Grundy

The middle review here could use a bit more context

What does this mean? I’m using the printer, I swear! I just printed something!

You know the famous saying: “There are no second acts in this economy”

“An airplane ran into a fire truck.” Our nation is now a preschool. Tomorrow a dinosaur will arrest an astronaut

The Rooftop Pickleball League will never be the same sports.yahoo.com/articles/cha...

The rise in Alpine Divorces is being offset by Quicksand Honeymoons

Shopping at Costco really skews your sense of when to restock things. “Almost out of cinnamon!” In fact there’s as much cinnamon left in there as you’d have if you just got a brand-new normal jar of cinnamon from a normal store “We need sponges” actually we have a month of sponges

What’s your favorite digital service you pay for and use daily but have no idea how to pronounce? Mine might be Qobuz

Thought this was about ordering ecstasy online

Exclusive footage of Trump encouraging oil company CEOs to use the Strait of Hormuz

Men at Work. Their first two albums arguably belong in the top 200 of the 80s. Their third album is unlistenable

Nostradamus

Well... she’s a professional actor

Just realized that Gmail is not offering to translate my emails into Polish but rather to “polish” my emails

Here’s some text from a YouTube cover of a Georges Brassens song. Plugging it into Google Translate, I was surprised to find that “the Women’s Liberation Movement” had apparently performed the song somehow? In fact, they did not. Maxime Le Forestier (MLF) did.

It was probably adapted too recently for another version but Chalamet was born to play Steerpike in GORMENGHAST

We’ve always had belligerent dudes hanging around docks but it’s only recently that “wharfighter” came into common use

LinkedIn will email you anything. “Your profile is popular.” No it isn’t. That isn’t true.

I wish more contemporary essayists would consider using one simple device. The paragraph. A paragraph is a good way to merge related thoughts into a coherent whole. It’s been used to great effect by thousands of brilliant writers. For centuries. And I don’t think we should abandon it just yet.

You know the mayor they hate must have handled the historic blizzard well when the NY Post keeps it off the front page altogether

Not so new anymore tbh

Just think how many LLMs we could have trained instead

This movie looks great and I’m sure he did an amazing job but... he literally was not behind the camera? www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/epi...

This is unfortunately not a great English title and it’s too bad they didn’t just go back to the source novel’s title, “The Ax”

Do you have Former Prince Andrew in the can?

Marketing tautology of the day: “New Arrivals Are Here!”

Agreed but with the caveat that not every nonfiction book is best read by its author. Memoir, absolutely. Reportage where the writer was personally involved, sure. But otherwise... hire a professional, they’re very good at it

Who is a pirate’s favorite fantasy author?

I knew all along by virtue of growing up in Boston, the one radio market that only played the English version

The credits for SUPERMAN (1978) are interesting. Not only is Christopher Reeve famously billed third, after Brando and Hackman, but Margot Kidder (Lois Lane) comes after Otis, Perry White, Pa Kent, and Krypton Honcho

[opening lines of “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”] This post is related to the Epstein Files And why my name is in them

But they’re still allowing the dinosaurs named in the files??

Don’t talk to me or my super-son ever again

I remember when this happened with Peter Frampton

This is my favorite Robin Cook novel

Starting to get a “nobody’s seeing any money in 2026” vibe. Also now in the odd position of hoping Anthropic does NOT go bankrupt soon

Wait, wouldn’t these be newly printed pamphlets at the time? Why are they worn and filthy?

Yeah, I don’t think there’s a lot of “powder” involved at this point gothamist.com/news/melting...

Did Lionel Hutz write this

Sorry for any confusion, this is Whiskey-Free Day With Tony Dokoupil

This is the GroupMe chat for my kid’s school bus. 95% of the messages there are about the bus, a great many include the word “bus,” quite a few use the exact phrase “[name] will not be on the bus” After 5 months of this, the autocomplete still wants to go with “will not be on the ballot”