I had to go back and listen to this again today because honestly it slaps

Breaking news: JD Vance has to negotiate specific rules for all the different extreme scenarios his wife might use to avoid him

Tarmac, aka tarmacadam, is named after engineer John Loudon McAdam (1756-1836) of Ayr, Scotland. Macadamia nuts are named after chemist, doctor and politician John Macadam (1827–1865) of Glasgow, Scotland. It is important not to confuse the two. Dry roasted, salted tarmac makes a poor snack.

"Sightings of a barefoot, straightjacket-clad individual who matched Rowling’s description were reported just hours after her escape. Terrified witnesses said this person sprinted into open traffic and jumped onto the hoods of vehicles, screaming, 'This highway is for biological females only!'" 🤣

This story started as a question: what crime superheroes battle if they started in 2026? Bank robberies are less common than banks defrauding their own customers. That led to a second question: who would get to define heroism? Enter… The Dare.

Worth reading. And why not, while it's free anyway?

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only

"Is there a way to make smoking even unhealthier?" The 1950s: "I'm sure we can think of something!" pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7757969/ www.asbestos.com/products/cig...

“I walked in the meadow. Soon I came to another corner. I went around the corner to see if spring was there. “

So, ya ever just sittin' there with your playlist on shuffle and suddenly you're like, huh I'd forgotten Miss Piggy did a cover of the Macarena

William Shatner invents breakdancing, 1966.

Update, since I know some of you have been paying attention to the recent saga of my prescription med woes... For a week and a half I've been out of a med that does a lot of heavy lifting for me. It's mainly for depression/anxiety, including helping quiet my brain so I can sleep regularly... (1/?)

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

Today is going to be a day of pins and needles for the world. The stress is tangible.

I feel sick to my stomach waiting around to see what atrocity Trump has in mind for the people of Iran this evening. It's hard to fathom our other elected leaders aren't able to check him in any meaningful way. It's an indictment not just of voters but of our whole system. We're ruled by a mad king.

Why did I think for a second he was holding a long-stemmed pipe?

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

"An actual uniformed member of the United States Army briefed me on that." I like aliens but hate Matt Gaetz, and I like a good conspiracy theory but hate when it's taken seriously, so I'm not quite sure how to feel about this. I think I'll just assume that Gaetz is either lying or was pranked.

In a few hours, four people will be farther away from Earth than anyone has ever been. It's not often that something truly new happens. Celebrate it.

In October 1921, this guy and a couple of partners ripped off a mail truck carrying contents valued at $2.4 million. That'd be around $44-45 million today! Quite a haul.

Add a food to a movie title. The Dark Chocolate Knight Rises

Add a food to a movie title. The Rocky Mountain Oysters Horror Picture Show

Share a gif from a horror movie you love.

If you see your depression, tell it I said to go to heck.

Add a food to a movie title. The French Fries Connection

Comics Twitter in one panel.

April 5, 1926: The journalist H.L. Mencken gets himself arrested in Boston for the crime of selling his magazine, the American Mercury, which has been officially deemed obscene. The episode is elaborately staged for publicity although Mencken is dead serious about opposing censorship. 1/6

April 4, 1958: Cheryl Crane (14), daughter of actress Lana Turner, stabs to death organized crime figure Johnny Stompanato, her mother's boyfriend, in self-defense; crime later ruled a "justifiable homicide."

Easter cat bunny

Good luck to the Artemis II crew.

Frog put the cookies in a box. “There,” he said. “Now we will not eat any more cookies.” “But we can open the box,” said Toad. “That is true,” said Frog.

Neither of those things is true.

This looks like something you'd use to duck into an alley, pull out of your pocket, and open an interdimensional portal

Brain: "I'm so ready to draw / write. So many things I want to do." Arms, hands, shoulders, neck, eyes: "lol. lmao."

Every so often @writingpis.bsky.social and @authoredrobins.bsky.social show up side by side in my notifications and my brain glitches for a moment while sorting out which profile pic is which.

My Easter books cartoon for @theguardian.com

There are zero celestial objects named for me. What a pathetic slacker I am.

If your tastes straddle sci-fi and mystery/suspense - or in another corner of the author's overall continuity, sci-fi and Westerns - Ed Robins' work is totally worth checking out.

You ever run out of one of your meds for reasons beyond your control, and it starts affecting your mood, then your sleep, then your pain tolerance, then your feet, then your fingers, then one day you notice you're eating cheesecake for brekky because nothing matters anymore? Good times

oh noes

“thank you for your patience“ is that what you thought was happening Why stop there why not just wave a Jedi hand at me and say “you are not mad at me”

I'm not going to form an opinion as to whether I personally like the character until I actually read a relevant story or two. But I am willing to say early that I like Sightseer's costume. I can easily imagine cosplayers nailing the look.