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Birth of a legend.

dippy digits, comic, creative computing, magazine (1978) archive.org/details/crea...

It's kind of strange that we have as a matter of social convenience stopped _calling_ Andrew a prince, but he is still incontrovertibly eight in line to the throne.

Happy 40th anniversary to "The Legend of Zelda" (released on February 21, 1986).

Very amused that someone I follow has a "rude" tag, and you have to click to read their content, presumably in case it has swears.

I don't think I ever saw Jesse Jackson as a young (I mean, relatively) man. I guess he was maybe in his 40s here?

Amazing.

Me: LOL, the local gift and card shop is doing a roaring Trade of Shame. My partner, Isaac Chotiner: So, I guess the question I am asking is... How do you know that?

Don't claim you've planned a good Valentine's Day unless it has a romantic duck ride.

Relatable!

I have never read a sentence that leaves me so confident that the text that follows it will be utterly unscientific.

Heated Rivalry (2026)

Melville: I hope you enjoyed that bloody action-packed chapter! But now, a moment to consider obscure technicalities about where everyone sits in the boat, how the boat is constructed, and my personal critique of current assigned seating practices.

So... people who place huge importance on physical capability and lung capacity, and have teams of fitness and medical experts dedicated to maintaining and optimising them, still wear masks and treat Covid as a threat? Huh.

Park walk #hourlycomicsday

To be fair, given the general state of the EHRC at that point, it might well be that nobody had remembered to bring a pen, and Baroness Falkner couldn't remember her Windows password. www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/03/e...

Peter Mandelson as the Alcibiades of the Labour Party is a pretty good historical analogy except, remarkably, Alcibiades exercised more judgement when choosing his patrons.

Yeah but he would say that wouldn't he

Oh my God they are doing the Great Lakes Avengers.

Helen of Troy in the Iliad has pale arms, but there's actually not a lot of descriptive text about her, because it's kind of a waste of time. She's the most attractive woman in the world according to whatever beauty standards the listener's society is organised around.

Ben Kingsley is having so much fun in Wonder Man!

This is in my bag, which is _almost_ the same as reading it - can't wait to get started!

Relatable.

Bonus photo of the most optimistic dog in Reykjavík (it’s still closed)

Fassbinder first time question mark dot gif.

Woah.

Very much respecting the side-eye given by the child when the soundtrack tries to apply its "shout the name twice to demonstrate how scary these new action figures are" to a character called "leech" whose gimmick is having a sucker for a head.

I think we can agree that "Sinners" is the second most important piece of vampire media, after the official video for "Vampires are Alive" by DJ BoBo, the unsuccessful 2007 Eurovision entry for Switzerland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ydR...

To be fair, this an amazing brand synergy.

Delightful.

I realise that the Home Secretary did Law rather than PPE, but if you're going to talk about "what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his panopticon", you should probably know that he designed it for a _prison_, to coerce the behaviour of _prisoners_.

This is very nice, creative marketing.

Traditional broadcasting has a lot to learn from podcasting. For example, the Today programme would generally be better if everyone was stoned.

Worth keeping in mind that there was a de facto Blake's 7 reboot - Gene Rodenberry's Andromeda - and it was, in the main, mince.

I realise it is not the point, but seeing people talking like William Shakespeare and Ann Boleyn were contemporaries is chipping away at my equilibrium.

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

From a world where you could not delete that comment you made on Google Docs before hitting post.

I'm inferring from this that Stephen Miller is a ride-or-die Tek War superfan.

Claymation?

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

This is even better if Jack Daniels has not in fact signed up to sponsor this, and this is a worked-up pitch.

To be fair, as the son of a wine mom, that sounds absolutely terrifying.

Life is suite?

There's no place like dome?

Humanity is good, actually.

Sitting with the fact that this casino hotel has an area called the North District.

All in on goose horse.