Who can forget the Swiss-Austrian Union, or its famous capital - Istanbul.

Sachma Frankfurt geht noch?

A Nina, as I only just learned, is a hidden message concealed within a crossword grid that's not mentioned in any of the clues. For example, read the squares on the top and bottom row of this grid

Gestern musste ich erfahren, dass der Ausdruck „müde wie eine matte Klosettfliege“ im deutschen Sprachgebrauch nicht geläufig ist, sondern offenbar ausschließlich in meiner Familie kursiert. (Die Verwendung durch meine Oma mütterlicherseits ist verbürgt.)

Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

Voller Erfolg, dieser Brexit 🤡🇬🇧 www.hessenschau.de/wirtschaft/d...

In Berlin ist derzeit der Görlitzer Bahndamm von der Schließung bedroht. Er ist nicht nur ein stark genutztes Verbindungsstück zwischen Kreuzberg und Treptow, sondern auch in vielerlei Hinsicht historisch bedeutsam. »In der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus war die Bahn und der Görlitzer Bahnhof

📢WORK WITH US📢 The KHI is seeking a Head of Research Coordination and Public Relations for a three-year position starting September 1st, 2026. ⏰ Deadline: 31 May 2026, 23:59 (CEST) ➡️ t1p.de/igavx

Wenn Situation und Witterung es zulassen, wird der Ball mit einer Barge ins gegnerische Tor transportiert.

Wild stat: only 7% of time on Instagram and 17% on Facebook now involves content from friends or followed accounts. Meta itself argues in court that it no longer runs a social network. The user of the 2010s is now a viewer. Participation replaced by recommendation. osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/6nu..

Kicker-Sonderheft ist raus. Die WM kann kommen.

Sometimes as an NYT books columnist you find yourself quoted in the Atlantic by Helen Lewis, who believes two odd things: 1. That nobody is reading Pratchett anymore (instead of all the time, as they should), and 2. That Pratchett’s politics are hard to pin down, and Reg Shoe is not a fucking hero.

“Oh so some fella with an Irish-sounding name has gone and desecrated The Odyssey, is that it? Homer’s own Odyssey? The absolute cheek. And tis the talk of the town, is that what I understand you to be saying to me? And people very upset altogether? Sure I never heard the like in all my born days.”

Current status: singing “moose diorama” to the tune of “Smooth Operator” in my mind

Wie oft muss ich euch das denn noch sagen?! #Maybachmarkt

Timmy, the humpback whale stranded in Germany for 6 weeks, was released on Saturday after a chaotic rescue operation that shocked marine biologists. It's unclear where Timmy is now; he may already be dead. Here's my story about the case: www.science.org/content/arti...

Whoa

I spotted these "3D pie charts" yesterday at Futurium in Berlin. While it is a great interactive museum, these charts are pretty misleading. #dataviz

See, this is why I pay for this internet thing. https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=73434

'splain to me why someone would "improve" an existing photo by running it through a.i. so the text is garbled and shatner no longer looks like shatner

Das FAQ zum Urteil des Europäischen Gerichtshof ist nun aktualisiert und enthält eine erste Einschätzung von Luke Dimitrios Spieker @dimitrispieker.bsky.social vom MPI für Völkerrecht in Heidelberg ➡️ www.mpg.de/26406160/eug... @mpil.de #LGBTQ #EuGH

wann timmy hope dschungelcamp?

What makes a design a classic? At our Library Talks with Viktoria Heinrich, we explored how objects like the Ulm Stool or Mayday lamp carry stories and become icons over time. A big thank you to everyone who contributed to such a great evening!

Unfortunately, not enough people remember Fechner's Final Law. 𝔇𝔲 𝔰𝔬𝔩𝔩𝔰𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔇𝔢𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔫 𝔊𝔯𝔞𝔭𝔥𝔦𝔨𝔢𝔫 𝔫𝔦𝔠𝔥𝔱 ℭ𝔬𝔪𝔦𝔠 𝔖𝔞𝔫𝔰 𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔴𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔫,𝔰𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔱 𝔤𝔦𝔟𝔱'𝔰 𝔴𝔞𝔰 𝔞𝔲𝔣 𝔡𝔦𝔢 𝔒𝔥𝔯𝔢𝔫!¹ ¹ Thou shalt not use Comic Sans in your plots, or you'll get a slap on the head! (The faux-italic characters are just icing on the cake)

“I could see the ‘art-wonk’ having developed over time because ‘ever-so-slightly-wonk’ looks worse than ‘intentional-wonk’” 🏅 https://www.reddit.com/r/BrandNewSentence/comments/1so9wf1/why_do_the_japanese_like_their_buns_askew/

🎵The neeeeveeeer eeeending stooohoryyy🎶 #frankfurt #kuturcampus https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/frankfurt/kulturcampus-buergerinitiative-will-plaene-fuer-hfmdk-stoppen-accg-200736871.html

y'all are pressing the wrong button

None of these words are in the Bible.

I am pleased to announce that TODAY my Administration officially filed the presentation and plans to for what will be the GREATEST and MOST BEAUTIFUL Triumphal Arch, anywhere in the World.

The first talk of our #ThinkingDesign series is approaching: On April 23, Anke Haarmann from Leiden University (NL) will discuss “Epistemological #Aesthetics: How Practices of Design Lead to Insights.” Join us on at 6:30 p.m. in our ArtLab Foyer. More info: s.gwdg.de/gKAjol

Quite.

‘Tis the other season

Happy Ēostre! Prints of this comic (and others) available in my shop - link in bio

Post something random or you will have an awful April.

The world just got a little smaller and sadder :( www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈 #1197 🌟 Length Score: 100% 💫 Rare long word found! 🚀 Letter Score: 89 🔗 Play Wordiply: www.wordiply.com 🎬 Today's starter: 🄼🄴🅁🄲

🐴 Things I have learnt from playing chess, ✨a thread✨

hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action

Weihnachten *und* Ostern im März 🤩 @sciencenotes.bsky.social @leibniz-gemeinschaft.de

We’re excited to launch our discussion series Thinking Design! As part of the World Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026, we explore how design shapes perception, generates knowledge and influences social processes. More info: ae.mpg.de/ThinkingDesign-en

With apologies to Alexander Rodchenko and Lilya Brik.

Wenn du den Zahnbürsten einen wirklich guten Witz erzählt hast.

Happy shortest day of the year

🤓👖👖👖👖👖 (it’s been a while) 🅦🅞🅡🅓🄸🄿🄻🅈 #1194 🌟 Length Score: 100% 💫 Rare long word found! 🚀 Letter Score: 73 🔗 Play #Wordiply: www.wordiply.com 🎬 Today's starter: 🅅🄾🅁

I reach a point in every book where I dearly love hanging out with the little people in my head, but I wish they'd solve their own fucking problems for once, the pieces of shit.

2006 kottke.org: RSS feed, member supported, free to read for everyone, lengthy blogroll to other great blogs 2026 kottke.org: RSS feed, member supported, free to read for everyone, lengthy blogroll to other great blogs

try it for yourself: the experiment is live and still collecting data at themusiclab.org/quizzes/havoc you'll find that for quite a few of the animal sounds, you have a clear-ish intuition as to which is nicer

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