did Gary Larson draw this

The Atlantic is Atlanticking extremely hard this morning

Revisiting old Stop Podcasting Yourself episodes in the interval between new ones, 934 (Emily Woods) -> 483 (Christine Bortholin) has a 100% hit rate for Canadian Improv Games Life Scene Coverage.

More broadly, who the fuck do these people think the Byzantines were

The bloodiest fiercest battles in modern Danish orthography outside The Mayonnaise Wars have been over commas: On average we use a sensible amount, but it's all outliers.

Game board with 20 numbered compartments arranged around a central panel, each square containing a forfeit to be enacted by the players, comprising gestures, grimaces &c. 1697. Hours of fun here. (British Museum)

this song was on a compilation called "Habibi Funk" by a man called Bob Destiny who lived a incredible life it was recorded live at a nightclub in (i think) Algeria and the record label opened up one of like 7 existing pressings of the recording to make a new master for us (thanks to...

lol this is so good www.actioncookbook.com/welcome-to-t...

Among other delights, I appreciate the auto-captioning turning Johannes Klæbo into Claudio for the Milano Games. 🤏

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

wrote about Michael J. Fox's appearance on Shrinking, which was cool for a lot of reasons, some of them pretty important to me type-click-type.ghost.io/tell-em-mich...

Post a banger that isn't in English (I discovered this one while hanging out in the pub in Jena that's run by the German Green Party and started googling the lyrics of the song they were playing. Great album overall 10/10)

Muskegon Chronicle January 25,1918

And with that I am in on the Michael Dickson MVP case.

Birnam forest come to Dunsinane

Run The Damn Ball

I am not familiar with mister Bunny's oeuvre, but appreciate the Gasolina drop for the Olds.

Pats' first drive: 8 plays, 28 yards, punt. Pats' next four drives: 16 plays, 24 yards, another four punts. Neat.

Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

Crank convergence is such a waste of the infinite potential of the human spirit; Naomi Wolf shouldn't be running third-tier Stop the Steal derivatives, she should be chronicling how the Catholic Church suppressed the memory of the Primordial Feminine Goddess and trying to translate Linear A.

Not exactly shocking news but it's worth noting that Hubbard seems to have requested money from Epstein to fund an anti-Title IX conference (something in line with, say, his class & multiple conference talks about how women are regularly making false rape claims) thetexasorator.com/2026/02/03/d...

we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes

Little cosmic tech Rogue Trader Space Marine, ya know, just for fun.

maniculā derisionis monstrandus

I regret to announce that Sweden's hockey uniforms go kind of hard. The dark blue with yellow bands and the chunky three crowns on the jersey is a solid look.

Interessant artikkel. Og bra alliterasjon i tittelen. www.forskning.no/arkeologi-hi...

CfP on a marvelous topic, imho, especially because I organise the conference myself (with Sébastien Moureau): "Verbositas Arabica, implicatio Graeca, paucitas Latina. Multilingual Text Traditions in the Middle Ages (8th–14th Century)" (20–22 Jan 2027). #medievalsky hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/researc...

Earliest evidence of horseback riding pre-dates chariots by, what, a millennium? One and a half? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sonny Jurgensen has one of my favorite highlights. Rest in Peace to a legend.

Incredibly relatable content.

having identical reactions to people when they say they use chatgpt for something as when they say that they ate at jersey mike's or a subway... i'm not religious but you're aware you only have the one human soul, right. why are you feeding it into a paper shredder

tvwnews : 16s

when a commercial magazine/ website emails you asking you to write a piece for them for free

I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

Inside you there is an empanada bar.

Katherine McDonald’s truly marvelous “Four footprints, two languages, one tile”deserves your time: “Two slaves, working in conditions that were no doubt very difficult, taking a little time to mess about as friends and enjoy each other’s company.” katherinemcdonald.net/2016/01/14/f...

Curling is on.

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Oceans are now battlefields.

I know there is much out there right now to be much angrier at. But GoogleBooks losing search functionality is super duper bad news bears for researchers in book fields. Like, it’s hard to even express how very very bad. www.reddit.com/r/google/s/O...

So, another cool thing that we make and maintain, here at @kcommons.bsky.social, is the open-source, open-collaborative review platform, Pilcrow. I have been using it, with others, to comment on a document we are working on. It's working really smoothly!

sorry everyone we at pencil company know you liked pencils, but we can't think of any new ideas for them, so we're discontinuing pencils tomorrow. also, you won't be able to access all your pencil drawings, please burn them, cool

i know i've been pretty quiet but here's the result of my January: a totally handmade, fully-functional marionette created for a local winter-themed puppet show. she's called the Winter Maw & she'll eat you alive, just like real winter

Looks like Thetis missed another spot.

Good luck to all those of you doing No Solero February this year. I have managed 9 hours so far. Not sure I can take it all the way this time. If you manage it please donate the £23.33 you've saved here www.justgiving.com/page/nolero

Jeffy Epstein taught me it's okay to be weird.

I need all of my British friends to see this.