the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

This object is a legitimate masterpiece of design

I never noticed this either.

This really is a very clear and effective illustration.

My spouse, trying to refer to Father Brown, but realizing halfway through the first word she is accidentally saying "Farmer Brown" instead, somehow, "There is another season of Farber Brown."

Twitteric and Tumblrian were always closely related, but it's no surprise that Blueskyese has adopted more from that family.

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Correction: I am just apparently the only person on Al Gore's Internet who found it completely forgettable.

Fire up The Mummy (1999), which neither of us ever saw. "The following is for Mature audiences". It's PG-13!

I feel like sticking his name on National next to the other guy's name we already don't pronounce would be pretty funny.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

Me, even though Mari’Lyn is clearly the correct ship name: “T’ner”

it's BANDCAMP FRIDAY, and the ONE WEEK ANNIVERSARY of Ipso Facto Meeny-Moe MAGICO, the Chrono Trigger punk rock concept album by Clock Elixir (aka yours truly)! clockelixir.bandcamp.com/album/ipso-f... That means Bandcamp is waiving their fees so more of your purchase goes directly to the artist!

My image is up for a Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award! Vote on the 25 nominated images from the >61,000 submitted. www.nhm.ac.uk/wpy/peoples-... A sargassum swimming crab on an unidentified species jelly in Indonesia that I shot in Nov2024

Aside from the message, which I support, his control of his instrument is impressive

BISEXUALS! I need your help for a project on The Mummy (1999). I want to know what appealed to you about the film APART from the fact that everyone was hot. What is it about the Mummy that appeals to you more than, for example, Gone With The Wind or The Avengers?

Windows 11 might be the most significant cause of ewaste in the past 20 years

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Scotland has passed a law that all new buildings must install ‘swift bricks’ which are hollowed out bricks to help nesting swifts and other endangered birds! Swifts are especially endangered because so many chimneys now have chimney caps. Swifts return to the same nesting spot year after year.

Oh! This is one of those times I get to remind everyone who knows what this is, *especially* those of us who can quote the bit, to schedule your colonoscopy and get your shingles shot, if you haven't already.

Fraggle Rock implies the existence of Muppet Dwayne Johnson.

who the hell called them "podcast hosts with whom I've developed an unhealthy parasocial relationship" and not . . . earbuds.

Coire is now instead hiding in the place I expected (and wanted) her to be today.

Coire has been located! As predicted, she was hiding. In a place I checked at least twice.

Have workers in the house to seal our vents. They accidentally left a door open. Finlay got out, but didn't go far. Bhrecain decided to hide from noise in the basement. I can't find Coire. I am exhausted after walking around looking for about an hour.

A store specializing in honey wines, called Maslow's Hierarchy of Meads.

"actually his stuff was very Derivative and not Original" like, you don't have to do this. it is good for us all to sit with the cognitive dissonance that a very bad person can make very good art. it is good for us to work through the moral ramifications of that.

what’s your favorite song that has a long title, say at least 6 words long? "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long"

I think it’s weird we’ve never seen Jason Mantzoukas and Animal from the Muppets together. And I don’t mean in TV shows or movies, necessarily. I just mean, like, hanging out, having lunch, in paparazzi photos and such.

My ancestors are Jews from Eastern Europe. They came before things got *really* bad, but they came because things were bad. Kind of like a lot of people have been experiencing in the US recently.

Contrast with Tumblr's "pay so someone else's (or your own, I guess, if you really want) post is boosted" being used in funny ways.

Finally, some wonderful AI news

Very cool effect. Makes me wonder how people who have never seen stop-motion video using miniatures perceive this. Does it still look tiny or is that because we subconsciously know what the artifacts of that process look like?

Some of us grew up listening to TMBG's "Your Racist Friend" and some didn't and that's really showing today. "This is where the party ends I'll just sit here wondering how you Can stand by your racist friend I know politics bore you But I feel like a hypocrite talking to you & your racist friend."

Still playing Blue Prince if you need to chill and take a break from All That. twitch.tv/marcmagus

Guys it's not "Epstein was the mastermind behind all bad things" it's "turns out all these shitty assholes know each other."

Bedtime

Samuel Johnson once wrote "that man is little to be envied whose patriotism would not gain force upon the plain of Marathon" and I think the same can be said of any American whose heart does not swell at least a little at the words of the New Colossus inscribed on the Statue of Liberty.

CHICAGOANS!!!! Voting is open for the annual snowplow naming contest. And “Abolish Ice” is one of the options. You know what to do (vote): chicagoshovels.org

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

A weasel walks into a bar, and the bartender says, “Wow, I’ve never seen a weasel before. What can I get you?” “Pop,” goes the weasel.

How did I not know that the taxonomic name of the corpse flower is "huge misshapen penis"?

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

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Normal people find the best way to carry meds into another room while also carrying dinner is to finger palm them, right?

It's crazy that if you have the first principle "human ethnic groups, physical differences aside, are not different in terms of mental capacity or 'inherent' personality traits" you are woker than 90% of the people who work for supposedly liberal media organizations.

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Which has a higher temperature: luke-warm or luke-cool?