oh wow they got maduro? thats all over then. everyone knows the iraq war ended soon as they got saddam

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Trump's hand is fake. His real hand was removed. The insiders all know it. Signatures with a fake hand aren't constitutional.

Big day for both of us South Asian New Yorkers with hot cartoonist wives

They gentrified the tinfoil hat

Nine Delights 2026

A remarkable trend that will come as a shock to you if your only info about NYC is from this Fox News. Homicides in NYC... 1990: 2,262 1993: 1,927 1998: 629 2001: 649 2013: 335 2019: 320 2021: 488 2024: 382 2025 (as of 12/28): 302

remember to add 1 year to the mental math you do to check if something's ai or not

shit, zohran's been mayor for 2 hours and I already forgot if I was supposed to be converting taxis to camels or on goat meat hot dog duty

BREAKING: Newly-installed Sultan of York al-Jadid Zohran Mamdani has decreed a socialist zakat be imposed on all billionaires

remember to add 1 year to the mental math you do to check if something's ai or not

Your daily calm.

technobro communism where you trickle down the means of production

i too have begun watching the straight man hockey podcasts discuss heated rivalry. this is the forum of athens to me

21 followers away from a Satisfyingly Round Number of followers for @lingthusiasm.bsky.social on here! We're over halfway there from this morning when I noticed it, thanks everyone who's indulged my Number Go Up energy so far

you can't even respect the grift because it's the most mad libs ass grift

Single episode bob’s burgers ass villains

gonna manifest a hero by standing outside cycling through "wind's a real howler today, traveler" "heard the new mayor's looking for help" "haven't heard of the assassin's guild in years"

That’s exactly why I quit. Ain’t flown since.

gonna manifest a hero by standing outside cycling through "wind's a real howler today, traveler" "heard the new mayor's looking for help" "haven't heard of the assassin's guild in years"

The kick in the swingers is good, but the topper gag of a robot collapsing in encroaching pain is perfection.

Snailish buddy for #InverteFest! Your day has been blessed with snaily goodness 🐌

It's way too early for me to be laughing this hard. 🤣

sometimes you get a gift so good it's unlikely that it'll ever be topped

LCRW No. 51 has officially been published! For just $7, you can purchase my story “A Grumble of Goddesses” plus 11 other pieces of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. “A Grumble of Goddesses” is a fantasy tale about fraudulent Minoan snake goddesses and how Edwardian scholars mangled history.

"the lobsters, who were not alive" lobster christmas carol didn't go well i guess

Sauropods xkcd.com/3185/

A ctenophore of some sort... maybe a sea gooseberry? Pic from a blackwater dive in Balayan Bay, Anilao #Invertefest #MarineLife 🌿

with sports betting and other gambling being everywhere now, keep an eye on your math major friends. They'll do two days of basic probability and think they found an infinite money trick. Make sure they don't lose more than a few hundred

with sports betting and other gambling being everywhere now, keep an eye on your math major friends. They'll do two days of basic probability and think they found an infinite money trick. Make sure they don't lose more than a few hundred

Life is messy, and we understand so little. "Biological systems are more ambiguous than we give them credit to be and that ambiguity is actually a feature — it’s not a bug.” scitechdaily.com/scientists-h...

If you’re waking up today and making the choice to memorialize Brigitte Bardot — I’d read this first. www.vanityfair.com/style/2021/1...

today marks 25 years since I moved to the US. Complicated feelings about that. Anyway here's some cool trees I saw this morning 📷

I remain convinced most of my problems can be fixed by the right notebook

crop circles come from all the circlings back that were never circled back

sorry but nobody should know what a file system is unless they want to the fact that it's harder to get what you want from a computer than a refrigerator is a problem for ux designers, not educators

speaking as someone who left academia to work in a non-academic research context, there is a particular brand of misogyny in these spaces that comes from men who started but did not for whatever reason finish a phd program, and who have a massive chip on their shoulder about it

I like to imagine that there is a rivalry between two top ham-sniffers: one, a meticulous keeper of precise traditions, the other a brash bad-boy with a colossal nose.

Die Hard was actually appropriated from pagans

sorry but you can't make me have an opinion one way or another on pickleball. Y'all need fewer opinions

biblically accurate chicken

to all the tiny tims in the world who did not die, and the ones less lucky

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

MERRY/MARRY/MARY Christmas to everyone who gets this joke

Merychippus to all who celebrate!

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

everyone knows troops just spontaneously appeared as neat little rectangles on the battlefield

Jesus, can you hear me? Good, the comms are working. Now, you're gonna need to run if you want to evade those Roman soldiers. Hold down A to sprint. Go ahead and try it. ... Good work! You just might be the savior yet. Now pick up that AR-15 and let's do some target practice.

Our penultimate Lonely Fish for #25DaysOfFishmas is another quite cute one. This is Triodon macropterus, the threetooth puffer. The only member of the family Triodontidae, this species is found around the Indo-Pacific at depths between ~30 and 300m.