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When I was in grad school the academic job market was already awful and we'd discuss survival strategies. One such strategy was "Have a position so thoroughly refuted in the discipline that you're the only person who still espouses it - that way you're the [thing] guy and will always be notable."

Stanley Spencer, Turkeys, 1925 #artbots #tate https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1113733

"This art project is a single grafted tree that produces 40 varieties of apricots, cherries, peaches, plums, and other stone fruits." what! www.popsci.com/environment/...

if i eat the balls of the tiger it will make me strong like the tiger

JUDGE COLLEEN KOLLAR-KOTELLY: Is there a text in this class?

I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

I used to think it was like a funny joke in The Sims that in their fictional world you improve your "Charisma" score by going up to a mirror and practicing Hitler gestures but people apparently are trying to apply this technique IRL.

Legalize it.

Tea Party organizers wrote guides distributed through Google Groups on how exactly to interrupt town halls and get irate. It only took a few people acting inappropriately to get the crowd moving. They moved clips quickly to outlets. These people were coached and encouraged and eventually funded!

I sort of wish this thing was called something else.

Not really convinced this will hold but one thing's for sure: it would be very, very funny.

Someone IRL with Fox Mulder's views and habits and professional situation today IRL would be such a complete intolerable asshole that you have to conclude that he as a character basically has the disposition of a saint.

It's seems insane that you can run out of matches. Once you buy one of those huge boxes of matches you should have infinite matches, or at least a non-zero chance of finding a match lying around if you look hard enough.

Commuting about an hour earlier than I normally do and it's really really alarming how reflexive and mentally absent people are while driving.

I don't know how accurate this is but it does make me want to revisit some Weber.

Before we do anything rash like decide between charging 40$ or 50$ in shipping fees on a 10,000$ order, let's make sure we all say every possible permutation of every possible grammatical sentence of English about this topic.

Something interesting to ponder is whether the interior of this building smelled more like cigarettes when it was the French pavilion in at Expo 67 or after it was turned into a casino.

CHIP insures nearly 39% of children under 18. www.kff.org/medicaid/sta...

No shade on Rick P. but I think having Nixon as the initial lens through which I encountered the set of mental reflexes driving American conservatism mislead me into thinking there was a lot more interesting neurotic complexity going on at the top than there usually is.

There is real power in typing out the meanest post you can conceive of and then deleting it. The leaves avoid me, I don't have to cut them.

When people tell me my posture is weird I've been saying "That's what they told Glenn Gould and look what he accomplished." But I've noticed that lately I've been getting a lot of shooting pains in my back so I looked it up and apparently he wound up with debilitating spinal issues. So what the fuck

More than one person has mentioned Koko the sign language gorilla

Is there any good reason not to just allow/encourage the global moose population to get completely out of control so that these guys are just everywhere.

It's so weird that writing was invented so much earlier in history than reading. For like 1500 years people were just going around marking stuff down but nobody ever knew what any of it meant until much later. It just goes to show how mysterious the mind really is...

Glad moderation stepped in, lady55.gif was already really pushing the limits of acceptability.

It's miserable out. Please enjoy some of the summer hog pics that I stored up to get us through the winter.

HPN people, is this the guy that someone on the board realized was their roommate. And if so what happened with that.

I miss working nights.

It never occurred to me how indebted the visual rhetoric of The Social Network is to Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

Nice stack.

Hmm apparently my health card expired in August.

Balthus, André Derain, 1936 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134731

I'm starting to suspect that SAD lamps do not actually do anything.

They should 100% have aired this.

I keep remembering all these critically important tasks I need to do. Like I just remembered that I need to take so much colloidal silver that I turn into one of those blue guys.

Gotta be Taft. People could call it "the Bathtub" colloquially.

Unfortunately I didn't get the whole thing (shooting from a moving bus in traffic is difficult) but "THIRSTI" with the "Brazzers" plate frame is probably the most notable one I've seen in person.

Spotted on the post-truth Facebook today by someone in the middle of insisting that vaccines are great except when they're made by pharma companies: "Could you imagine how safe cigarettes would be if it wasn't ran by big tobacco?" 7 am and I already think that's quite enough internet for one day.

It should be illegal to announce you're showing Draughtsman's Contract two months in advance. This should be something I find out about that week, not something I have to wait until March for.

This is cool: A version of the first Zork adventure game that lets you play the game and watch what the source code does under the hood at the same time. eblong.com/infocom/visi...

I slept for 12 hours yesterday and have been staring into an SAD therapy lamp all day. I should not feel this drowsy.

The goddamn wind just literally blew my cigar apart.

don juan, screenshot, oric (1984) www.mobygames.com/game/57767/d...

This is messed up.