this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

If you use Victorian newspapers for research, you will always be down a rabbit hole. Today we have Slater's Lady Cyclist Detectives (London Evening Standard, 28 October 1896).

Well, if it’s the 122nd anniversary of the birth of Cary Grant, it must be time to tell the story of the time he went to an Alice Cooper concert and likened the experience to shitting himself

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

You have to block them immediately. The full nuclear. They are only here to make folks angry, and that can’t happen if we lock them out.

So I think the current Miss America should visit the White House and give Trump her sash and tiara, deliberately copying Machado beat-for-beat. And then she should be like, "Go ahead, put it on." And social-pressure him into wearing the tiara, while we all call him Miss America.

I've heard that at the very end of your life, as the light fades for the last time, someone will come into your room and show you a pair of perfectly fitting trousers you could have been wearing this whole time had you only known where to look for them

STOP MAKING SENSE remains the best live album. Maybe there are better, but I doubt I'll be convinced

This is a remarkable story. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/w...

The Boston Globe Test: This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time. Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint? If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.

One of those two belonged to Nils Bohr, whose escape from Denmark probably helped prevent the Third Reich from acquiring atomic bombs.

hesitant to step in on this but I think people pushing for armed resistance really need to think about the goals of armed resistance and the mechanisms by which it could possibly achieve those goals.

Imagine if there was a controversy involving Cards Against Humanity and a journalist interviewed a deck of Cards Against Humanity cards.

I decided some years ago that there are 4 websites critical to access to information that need to be protected: Wikipedia, The Internet Archive, Openstreetmap and ... Because I didn't write down the list back then, I blanked on no. 4, and am still blanking on it. Anyway, congrats to Wikipedia!

I have never needed to know what size tyres are on my car. I just tell the guy at the garage what car I have and they fit the right ones because that's their job.

Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"

wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

Mike Johnson compellingly making the case for abolishing ICE ...

Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

Checks out. books.google.com/ngrams/graph...

What if we ask China to join NATO?

the daily beast has some kind of persistent glitch with showing the wrong headline/image combo on google news and the unintended comedy is adamantium-tier

"It wasn't murder, and if you say it was murder we will kill you, which again will not be murder."

This is a cartoon about housing.

I assume that someone has already done k-pop cake pops

The president of the United States was a former celebrity with obvious dementia. We were terrified that he’d blow up the whole planet.

Blessed are those who mourn. They will be comforted

Jan. 6, 2021:

reading moby-dick and getting brainwashed by Big Spermaceti

"World Wide Studios Announces open Auditions for Frogs wishing to become Rich and Famous"

Call yourself a "Thomist" again motherfucker. Tell me more about how "natural law" means international lawlessness. Say that "nations have a right to secure their borders" again. Imply that Carl Schmitt is a faithful Catholic philosopher. Make my day.

As all these Spotify Wrapped posts pop up I'd like to add that in the last calendar year their CEO invested $600 mil-plus in military AI drone technology, they ran ICE recruitment ads and refused to stop, and they've also done nothing to combat a huge influx of AI-generated music on the platform.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

It's Hayao Miyazaki's birthday! Celebrate by running very fast in the countryside after learning something weird has happened to your parents.

✔️Only the biggest cities, representing a real set of ideas, values, or modes of living, produce iconic flags.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

This article is about whether five-year-olds should be allowed to walk home by themselves from childcare. (The danger being cars, not strangers.) Imagine this in the US, these days.

A great thing about very popular lift-the-flap books is that when your family receives its third copy of the same text, it's fine, because the other two are already partially destroyed

If Republicans were sincere in their criticisms of Obama, they'd agree!

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.

Time to revisit the best thing @theonion.com ever published

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

Having Grok issue an “apology” is not just insulting and stupid (obviously Grok cannot actually “regret” anything, deeply or otherwise) but cowardly: It asks us to assign responsibility to an unconscious piece of software rather than the humans and institutions who should actually be blamed.

After receiving a commendation for exceptional services to the Russian state from President Putin, Biden accuser Tara Reade—seen here in her luxury Moscow condo—has now become a citizen of the Russian Federation... молодец!