Nothing has changed here. So you might ask - how will we know when things have changed? For me it’s all the kids back in school.

Being sad is so tedious and slow, especially compared to righteous anger. I can see why so many people chase that high of fury when they feel overwhelmed and inadequate in the face of the world's horrors.

A helpful thread on net vs gross, for those not yet aware of the very important differences.

Since Valentine's Day is approaching, I'm reposting some of my past Valentine's comics.

3yo: The little orgy was making a noise. ME: the what now 3: Yes, the little orgy! ME: 3: Come on, I will show you the little orgy in my book! ME: yes, please show me which of your books has the little orgy 3yo takes out a book and turns to this page, at which point I am crying with laughter:

I had this whole multi-skeet thought about the convincing personhood of Muppets as a route to understanding how effective masked theater (with all male casts) could be in ancient Greece & Rome, but I'm still exhausted this morning so please just imagine for yourself the explanation I would've made.

lap dog

not for nothin but the fascinus is a winged phallus charm from roman times meant to ward off evil and specifically the evil eye. when invoked, the fascinus should fly around and spit in the eye of your enemy

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Nahanyan, a railway worker black cat, is the mascot for the Kamakura Rolling Stock Center (Nakahara Branch), who fix and maintain trains.

WARHAMMER SHOP GUY: Interesting set of colours! Whats the current project? ME: Oh it's spectacularly cursed WSG: Spectacularly?! Can't be that bad ME: Anime Horse Girl Space Marine WSG: ME: WSG: Okay yeah that's spectacularly cursed ME: Warned you WSG: Will annoy all the right people though ME: Yup

I am suddenly wondering if any of the kids I dismiss from class at the end of the day are quoting my "Go forth unto victory!" or "Now I must cast you into the outer darkness" farewell lines. I mean probably not, but if they are, I hope it's amusing their parents.

Happy Superb Owl Sunday!

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

My favorite thing about this is how beautifully sketched the pod is compared to the facehugger

Gonna need y’all to keep it down

Every soteriology is wrong, but some are much, much wronger than others. publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/at-nationa...

“yes, I’m still playing with it; no you can’t have it”

Publishers Weekly calls The Subtle Art of Folding Space a "smart, funny, and intricate debut" and says "It’s as rollicking as it is thought-provoking." Release date is 4/7. Available to pre-order now! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

This is amazing but missing alt text, so I'll do a thread with detailed alt text for each of the three pictures.

It has to be "The Muppets Take Medieval Studies," because Kalamzoo is objectively the funniest place name for anywhere an academic conference takes place.

Yes, ‘tis a grim and damp #Caturday - but at least this little man has his favorite toy to keep him occupied.

Happy caturday from the light of everybody's life.

Experimenting with stranded knitting using two shades of red yarn to make a Norwegian Resistance (now "Melt the Ice") hat.

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Moby Dick has some of the best sentences in the English language, fight me

Napoleon's two white toes. Happy #caturday

me: asks himself to get up and get the crockpot down for me Tâf, immediately: “no”

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

Sam Reich Look, he's already prepared for the muppet energy. It's a natural fit.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

Where is the Dark Academia novel in which Dark Academics spend 80% of their time writing grant applications to the Dark Funding Council and most of the rest being harrassed by Dark ResearchFish (RIP)?

Forcing myself to finish off a “dark academia” novel and begging authors (& editors! &worst of all reviewers!) to stop assuming their 3 years of undergrad at Oxbridge c2010 is sufficient background research to write a novel about a) any normal university & b) actually working at a uni. It’s cringe.

“Women are inherently bourgeois” is EXACTLY it.

i think there is a shared, cross generational belief that there is a “They” sitting in the background that will step in and prevent things from getting intolerably bad

There should be no American history book that makes it pass the censors either.

There's a makerspace happening today, and a pancake breakfast with drag show tomorrow,* and I'd really like to go to both but dear god I barely have the energy to drag myself into the shower by Saturday morning. My beloved job is hard. (* Both events at churches, because that's Minnesota for you.)

Reminder that the 5th Circuit is so wildly unhinged that SCOTUS has more than once had to tell them to calm the hell down because they’re making everyone look bad

Dear Italians: could you tell me about the sheep section of your National Anthem at the Olympics? Since AI translation tells me there is one.

Q: What time is kickoff? A: The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. from one group called the “New England Patriots” and another called the “Seattle Seahawks.”

Just spent five minutes looking up what fandom "windfall shippers" are in before realising that the incomprehensible post i saw it in was from an econ prof talking about an actual industry

LawHelpMN is building out a clearinghouse of resources for people who are detained or at risk of detention by ICE. It'll be continually updated as new resources come online. Available in English, Spanish, Hmong, and Somali www.lawhelpmn.org/detained

girl, what

Dessa! Mother Jones! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

What I like to call the "ontogeny recaputulates phylogeny" fallacy of book recommending

You know, one of my profs in grad school marked every single time I chose period vs. comma wrong in the very finicky citation style I was using in the final paper for the class. At the time, I thought it was overkill. Now I'm grateful that he held us to high standards so we'd never do... this.

Yeah I feel it's probably a bad sign when the published response from a judge includes critique of your capitalization.

This entire thread is genuinely fucking incredible and the whole time I could hear the Disco Elysium dice roll sound effect while Electrochemistry told me that surely I should let the cocaine explain