Wasn’t it only recently that he was gloating about being “a very happy couple”?

Marcel’s camping skills have not improved. 😔

I need to introduce you to someone. This is my new friend Marcel who has moved in with us. He has one eye and FIV and he is perfect!

high-level drug dealers: "we never mention anything illegal over text. basic details of transit and logistics are discussed only via encrypted comms." child sex traffickers: "lmao the future president hurt himself in my pedophile mansion bc he was too busy oogling naked children"

I find this hilarious because Noah Smith has managed to negatively polarize people into defending Heathrow.

“That means courts will treat these children like adults” is a sentence the premier actually used. Proposing life sentences for 14-16 year olds is evil. Meanwhile the federal government is banning kids the same age from social media. Too young to post online but not to serve life in prison.

The Flyertalk line on Frankfurt transfers remains incredible advice. 'Just follow the signs, do not think, do not apply logic, just keep following the signs and even if you pass the same spot three times or pass through security twice, you will get there'

Between asbestos in colourful sand toys for children and the Wiggles swallowing hazard button battery headband, it has been a big week for the ACCC. www.accc.gov.au/media-releas...

None of my cis male contacts have put it this bluntly but I know _many_ cis men* who clearly had Girl ADHD or Girl Autism. Often “making it through to PhD before things got weird” is indicative, and what really struck me is that I - ostensibly Late Diagnosed Girl - was prompted,

featherless biped

Things that surprise me endlessly; differences between verbal queries & instructions. If I can get to someone at work verbally first for either, all's well and clear. If they've read emails first (mine or others'), clear as they may be - all bets are off - the meaning conveyed seems almost random.

Maximus Decimus Meridius Snuggles was never quite the same after he had past life regression therapy.

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Interviews with two of the handful of people to have seen the Edmund Fitzgerald on the lake bottom. Eerie stuff: www.freep.com/story/news/l...

Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald. Credit: @xkcd.com

In the last known image of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, you can see the structural fatigue where she had started sagging in the middle. Freaky!

We need more old-fashioned songs about recent events I the Ever Given being stuck in the Suez could make for a great vaudeville-style comedy song a la Casey Jones

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

The whole piece is excellent but these paragraphs here are absolute bangers. And boy but it’s refreshing to see the New Yorker critique centrist views (here’s the archived version if you haven’t got a subscription: archive.ph/UNdFj).

Passengers on a high-speed train between Poland's two largest cities were taken by surprise when a sheep wearing a nappy began wandering through the carriages.

TOES!

jbroxic.com Pen & ink; all based on cats I have rescued.

why are so many PhDs desperate to stay in academia despite an objectively terrible job market, and often ludicoursly low pay given the skillsets? well, no one answer, but mainly: the worm starts acting up without a steady supply of the good adrenochrome, which is sorta difficult to get commercially

women can do anything

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

I’ve just seen a narrowboat that looks like it’s entirely crewed by cats, and it’s not even 10am

Enjoyed the Today reporter on words of the year pronouncing Broligarchy as though it meant government by men with umbrellas. Very 1920s.

i needed cheering up so i drew a potato

“Porn not ‘inherently harmful’, says first inquiry of its kind in Australia” theconversation.com/porn-not-inh...

Observation of the evening: “Spiky Profile” I do not know exactly when I first heard this term, but it was well into my university instructing experience, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t from an exclusively tertiary instruction viewpoint.

We're not saying Mr. Toast rules Dyrham Park as Lord of the Manor, but we're also not NOT saying that. Photo: Molly Hammatt

Ophelia! So photogenic and then suddenly JAZZ PAWS.

This very excellent tiny kitten required me to hold her entire head while she napped. I don't know why, but she was very snuggly so I didn't complain.

Underground, Overground My hunt to find locations where you can see Underground trains traveling over Overground trains (or vice versa) continues. This vantage point near East Putney station has views of tube trains traveling over the railway. I waited 30 mins to get this shot.

This is art

Furry seal skin AND tiny Icelandic manuscripts! www.sciencenorway.no/cultural-his... www.icelandreview.com/news/rare-15...

CAMPUS VISIT WITH THE VAMPIRE TEACHING DEMO WITH THE VAMPIRE SIT-DOWN WITH THE DEAN WITH THE VAMPIRE APOLOGETIC EMAIL THAT THE SEARCH WAS CANCELED WITH THE VAMPIRE

I've experienced more pressure about Jeremy Corbyn in trans spaces than HRT one way or the other.

Interesting factlets about Digital ID... Government is proposing a massive extension of right to work checks, to sweep up not just employees but all individuals providing services otherwise than to consumers. So the whole gig economy and even including eg barristers (shock!)... /1

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

The fountain was designed by Claude Cormier. All the dogs at the fountain are looking up at a large bone perched on the fountain. The cat is named Pam McCat in honour of former city councilor Pam McConnell. There is a second cat statue on an electrical box looking west. 🧵 4/6

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; my Works are locked for editing by another user (ye Mighty), notify me when it is available

"It may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. It may be true that the law can't make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me" - Martin Luther King Jr, 1963

This is neat, and it will apply regardless of whether you have solar (you do need a smart meter… and to be actually home in the middle of the day)

Reminded of the finding that online political polarization arose less from "echo chambers" and "filter bubbles" and more from the opposite, being exposed to opposing views. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...