“Reading Is Fun!” The great Maurice Sendak’s poster for 1979’s International Year Of The Child.

I imagine Zeno would be very relaxed about the Trolley Problem.

This is incredibly interesting — archaeologists have been able to reconstruct the diets of different prehistoric Europeans from 5,000-8,000 years ago by analyzing the charred remains of food in clay pots. Extremely cool!

Can’t remember who posted it but the political gotcha question has now gone from asking left wingers “what is a woman? (gender) to asking right wingers “what is a woman“ (age).

@yungdreyfusard.bsky.social @dov.bsky.social @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social @rimidar.bsky.social @marbleliberal.bsky.social

Sadly, we're going to be out of town for the election so I won't get to vote at the fire station, but I do get to do my first ever proxy vote.

Everything sucks. Here's a bird with a peanut.

It's rather charming that these still exist, and the form factor hasn't changed. (I don't think I'll recreate this one as a pepakura though. There's a Scotsman in the gaming group who might be a little miffed.)

Possibly the best @ianbetteridge.com Law of Headlines yet

BBC Question Time host Fiona Bruce was left stunned due to the live audience's reaction after being asked if they believed the UK should be involved in the war in the Middle East

AND INTRODUCING JOHN HURT AS THE WAR QUEER

"I have usernames older than you" is the new "I've eaten more salt than you've eaten rice"

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

Oh bloody hell the writers have really overdone the cocaine this time

Things that are good (just generally, not specific to now) and thus might cheer you up if you need cheering up: Anthony Buckeridge's Jennings and Derbyshire books. Sort of Wodehouse for 9 year olds, very funny about the adults as well as the children, and just very silly.

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

Amazing piece of opalised wood from the Eromanga opal fields. Check the growth rings, there have obviously been good years and bad years. 📷 Boulder Opal #minerals #geology

This brilliance must be shared

I will watch any video about cookery that is on such a scale that the cook is using a full size Cooking Shovel to stir things about.

😻😻😻CLEANSING THERMONUCLEAR FIRE IS CANCELED FOR THE MID-MORNING! TINY ADORABLE SQUEAKING KITTENS ARE LOVED AND WARM AND SAFE AND GOODNESS REMAINS IN THE WORLD!😻😻😻

Flying home from Costa Rica tomorrow. In the meantime here are some Honduran White Bats sleeping under a leaf. #wildlife

Dreamed I got blocked by the Pope

Hoping for the Mothership to come and take me home to my real planet, the one where everything makes sense and shit like this only happens in the grimdark game that my best friend runs every lunar cycle

- Can name all justices of a foreign court. - Counts on their fingers. Always nice to meet a fellow member of the bar.

Joani Reid: I had no reason to suspect my husband was spying for China. Her husband:

I am shocked, shocked that a MAGA man doesn't seem to understand the concept of sexual consent.

I absolutely love this, such a great job Clara 👏🏻

I will have to listen to this, because the only thing I know about looksmaxxing is that appealing to women really isn't the point. And I know this because there are large numbers of heterosexual women for whom Brominated Chesterfield is a sex symbol.

Trust me, you don't want to miss the incredible photos of these goobers: 🧪 🪶 www.scientificamerican.com/article/kaka...

If anyone does this challenge, make sure you *really* trust your depression meds before tackling any Newbery-winning book that has an animal on the cover.

This is one of my favorite comics we've made.

Blossom at St Botolph’s, Cambridge. 📷 #photography

Can I dress as Minnie the Minx for World Book Day? asks my daughter, little suspecting that her father won the Horbury Summer Street Fayre Fancy-dress Competition as Dennis the Menace in 1985.

well Boston has never taken a stand over government regulation of caffeinated beverages before, so I imagine this will go down easy

It somehow never occurs to these lunatics that I have just as much investment in the town where I rent. I’d love to own a home in my town! I like my town a lot! People like these keep prices artificially high so I can’t!

A Kuwaiti F-18 could do the funniest thing right now

Thailand mapped only by 7-Elevens

This thread gets at a very important distinction that is critical to make. (Content note for subsequent posts: discussion of child sex abuse.)

“Ok so the basic premise of this one is that there’s a coyote and a roadrunner and the coyote’s efforts to catch the roadrunner become ever more elaborate and comical but – and this is the crucial bit – he never catches the roadrunner. Here are some of the common tropes used…”

I once asked a Scottish friend if Scottish Sikhs get to dual-wield. (He said yes, but they have to take a feat for it.)

Exciting times on Anchor Island as we check #kakapo nests for hatching. We’re letting eggs hatch in nests to reduce management intensity. Last night I found these two newly-hatched chicks in Konini’s nest, along with a fertile egg I carried back under a lunar eclipse. #kakapo2026 #conservation

Technocapitalists’ great trick is to make people who hate all this bullshit feel like they’re suffering from the same fogeys-not-coping-with-a-changing-world syndrome every generation succumbs to, rather than, say, just rejecting a rampant evil that seeks to rob us of our individuality & and soul.

Douglas Adams saw it coming. "Share and Enjoy!"

You know, I *had* thought that the reason frozen pizza gives me the shits is something to do with the anti-caking powder on industrial grated cheese. But apparently the body keeps the score.

Don’t talk to me unless you’re a real gamer

Me, not trusting my GM: nope, I am packing one instance of the spell that duplicates any lower spell, and one instance of the spell that nullifies any lower spell, because NEITHER of them have the words "GM's discretion" anywhere in the rubric

PLEASE can someone do an ayatollah mnemonic? I'm really bad with these things.