In honour of Jane Austen's upcoming birthday, I made one of her favourite dishes: cheese toast. My version: egg, dijon mustard, cheddar, Stilton, homemade bread

Then as now ...

this is mesmerizing

you fire right back at them and you FIRE RIGHT AWAY.

I don't know what the Senate is going to do. But if they do in fact fold in exchange for nothing, they will be living up to past performance. To expect the Senate to carry out the will of the American people is to misunderstand why it was created in the first place.

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Wow, roadrunners DO run that way.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

[Exit Clown.]

I found this and this has been the energy I think has described everything and have shared with all my friends.

The CEO of Bluesky is craven and evil. The only people that build these platforms are infected with the self-reproducing moral rot of capitalism. They have no sense of duty or stewardship. They see their monetary reward as a cleansing justification for their actions.

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

BREAKING: Dr. Jane Goodall, an animal rights advocate, has died of natural causes at age 91, the Jane Goodall Institute says in a statement.

Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74

The ELI5 of groypers (Writers of future history books -- my condolences. We think it's nuts, too.)

The 1969 Easter Mass Incident www.tumblr.com/gallusrostro...

Today is one of my favorite days! 12 years ago Bernalillo County was going to issue marriage licenses to Queer couples. The night before, we bought out Trader Joe's Calla Lillys. First thing that morning. Java Joes, grabbed 3 handles of coffee + all the fixing and headed to the court house.

This is pure joy.

I have long said that the Democrats do best when they field a Southerner who’s comfortable with the language of faith. This guy has it.

Kamchatka, 8.8 magnitude earthquake

Due to mass confusion, clarifying again: Tsunami Watch: Tsunami of indeterminate magnitude is possible; stand by. Tsunami Advisory: Tsunami is likely *but will probably be small.* Evacuations unlikely. Tsunami Warning: Tsunami is likely *and may be large.* Evacuations needed.

The cited plots of "unapologetically" male novels were one of a character with intellectual pretensions with a thing for prostitutes and the other an old geezer fond of drugs and porn. So dudes who have crappy sex is the unashamedly "male" novel. Blah blah male loneliness epidemic blah blah.

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I changed the way I work a couple of months ago to follow this advice, it made a big difference and my productivity went up by miles. (I don't know who made this image, if you do, let me know so they can be credited)

In areas hit by Texas floods, officials were sent over $5 million in federal ARPA funds in 2021. They didn't want to spend it on flood warning systems due to their disdain for Biden - and didn't send it BACK because it might go to a blue state, and "values that we in Kerr county don't agree with."

I would like to commend the designer’s commitment to both the grim reality of human effects on wildlife and…poop. No, really. There are museum displays that leave out the constant shitting of birdkind, and this designer was Not Having It. “Sven! More shit under the ravens! Fetch the cream paint!”

Both violent and property crime has fallen off a cliff in the last 30 years. From its peak in the early 90s, violent crime has dropped more than 60%. All data via FBI.

I've been trying to dig into the glow-in-the-dark nature of *Canadian* Froot Loops (but not American), but there's not a lot of data available, so I'm going to have to extrapolate & speculate. I've pulled ingredients lists for American & Canadian Froot Loops & here's what I found:

Listen, folks, we can usually give advice to prepare you ahead of time for emergencies. But no one could have predicted 250 MILLION BEES would be loose on a road. So, stay away. Just…. Don’t go anywhere near them.

Did you know someone reverse-engineered the Weather Channel computer system from the 80s/90s and now you can generate your own private weather channel for your location? weatherstar.netbymatt.com

Because sometimes, what you really need to see in this life is Vincent Price with an armload of extremely floofy cats. Well, I do. Love that man.

Has this summer been determined yet? I nominate Lazy Bougie Bitch summer.

For the record: "Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum; habemus papam: Eminentissimum ac reverendissimum Dominum, Dominum Robertum Franciscum Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae Cardinalem Prevost, qui sibi nomen imposuit Leonem Decimum Quartum" -- ie, the accusative. Heh.

TIL about Faustino Bocchi, a 17th/18 century Italian artist who specialized in whimsical paintings of extremely tiny people. Example: "The Arrival of the Wife," wherein a tiny woman disembarks from a grasshopper-piloted gondola to join a wedding party of more tiny people/insects.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

Everything from the 16th Century onwards is basically this meme

Ok, this is the kind of April Fools joke I love. Read the extracts below!

Polar plunge Polar bear Nora loves to dive, so care staff came up with a way to safely place a camera at the bottom of her pool to watch her underwater. Beary cool!

Pepe back after running a 400 mile race. The rest of them were in the snowmobile but Pepe insisted on RUNNING.

My preferences are to argue Byzantine empire options cos I'm a medievalist but also people's faces when I'm like 'the Roman empire didn't fall in the 5th Century, it just moved east cos Europe was poor and cold' is always worth irritating the right kind of people.

Huh indeed.

Some alternates, if you don't want the black background!

If you could use a little brightness in your day, I recommend spending some time with sled dog MUPPY. I’m genuinely obsessed with her. She is an icon. She is a legend. Her legs are 4 inches long.

Contributed! #uglydogs #Igivearod

Because you TOTALLY asked for this… and MapQuest has NOTHING better to do… We’ve granted you exclusive access to a place very dear to our heart: gulfof.mapquest.com Think of it as the Upside Down but more... minimalist. Pls share so we can behold your genius (or judge you, lovingly) 😘

My mom just had a .... "conversation" ... with my dad about a shower chair. It wasn't this funny, but it did involve a trip to the emergency room when he insisted on doing it HIS way. Everything's fine except his dignity.