A mural of bald-headed Japanese mercenaries (possibly ronin out of work after the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1603) on a 17th century temple mural in Ayutthaya

hazard pay for our beaver comrades or we're striking

what are we fucking doing here

For as long as using "&udm=14" as my default Google shortcut works? No, the fuck I will not. 💖

i heard the market *loves* sending billionaires on loosely regulated and untested rockets to space i sure hope elon's paying attention

humbled to realize i like games where i get excited when it adds a new spreadsheet

not for nothing but i'm very glad i will not die in an underwater cave. i feel absolutely certain that won't ever happen to me 👍

faramir: tell my father, faramir sends a great gift [minas tirith, later] denethor: it's literally just two more tiny people god my son's fucking useless

they're gonna do a draft but to force guys into buying tickets

love that on top of all the good sailing stuff, master and commander throws in some bonus darwin fanfiction as a treat

y'all need less opinions

finding it hard to put into words just quite upsetting I find the idea of Google getting rid of the "ten blue links" format of search entirely, genuinely feels like your landlord announcing he's removing your kitchen and replacing it with a bouncy castle, I need my kitchen, let me keep my kitchen

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

Lee Child has a way with words

wanneer hitler is dood

prospect park on a late afternoon

if tom holland can be spiderman it's only fair that zendaya plays the next james bond

"Let me be clear" 🦑📷MBARI

if tom holland can be spiderman it's only fair that zendaya plays the next james bond

I got a pair of those hip new baggy cargo pants so skinny jeans are probs coming back any day now

ngl I really wanna see a guy in one of these suits rolling down a hill

samwise and smeagol fighting is a perfect example of the powerful pitting the working class against each other

Lee Child has a way with words

It is ENTIRELY in the spirit of the Homeric tradition, I think, for people to put their own distinctive spin on an adaptation. The more, the better.

I would like a personal apology from every man who called the station or emailed me personally to gripe about my voice during my time on public radio but never did the same to Ira Glass.

my new headcanon is that they used claude to write all the holodeck safety protocol code

there's decent odds that within a year we'll see a startup building tools to union-bust ai agents. The bubble's getting that ridiculous

Update: I got a new job! And it's exactly the stuff I want to be doing so I'm pretty grateful. Was a long journey Gonna take a few weeks before I start to catch up with people, and generally feel like a person again (interviewing is A Lot)

One thing I’ve confirmed after multiple visits to Japan is that its reputation for having cleaner public spaces is not entirely because people are just littering less in public spaces. They litter less. But they still litter plenty. It’s primarily because someone is paying people to clean up.

In the parasocial world, the actor or singer or writer isn't the object of the fixation so much as the ball on the playing field, and the *other people in the fandom* are the opponents or teammates. The humanity of people creating the work is secondary (or... nonexistent) to the community's urges.

every time I order a Lyft, @furioursus.dev asks what the make and model is, as if that's not literally homophobic???

this timeline's writing isn't just on the nose, it blazed ahead through the skull. Bypassing the strongholds, you might say. Like some sort of lightning war, even

> a division of the physical and moral universe into two halves, the evil sensual, material side and the good spiritual, formless side > upon death we, for LUMINOUS BEINGS ARE WE, rejoin the cosmic Light, as long as we worked hard enough to detach ourselves from the works of the Dark

it's sorta fun how george lucas basically reinvented manichaeanism from first principles

"hey its me ur vice president. please send pin# for $100 applebees gift card and u can cross strait thx"

i think people who make jokes about Taco Bell giving you diarrhea are suffering from chronically low fiber diets and scared of the fast food place that sells beans

NYC study shows men are 2.6x more likely than women to bike to work. When protected bike lane coverage is high, women’s cycling rates rise significantly faster than men’s. When protected lanes are limited or fragmented, women’s participation drops sharply. Good bike investments give women choices.

kash has the chance to make the funniest arrest right now

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

regret to inform that the Dutch for Cinderella is 'Assepoester'

telling a bunch of Americans about how all the schools you went to had corporal punishment and noting the increasing looks of horror on their faces with satisfaction before realising you have been calling it capital punishment from the start

British history 1500-1900 is just

apparently 'strait' and 'straight' aren't related etymologically at all, not even the same PIE root. However, 'strait' is a Latin-derived couplet of the Germanic origin 'strength'

like watching a tumor start to eat itself

if nickelback music was people