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Bob Cratchet's household - an adult male, an adult female, four children of varying ages - probably needs on the order of 11,000 calories per day, which is about 3.3kg of wheat; 23kg per week, 85% of a bushel. So a third of Crachet's 15 shillings go to food at the cheapest option for food.

in 2007, steve jobs promised an all-in-one device that would serve as a cell phone, an ipod, and an internet device. what he introduced next was the Mac Pack: a 135-pound backpack with a pull-over steel dome housing a computer monitor, a 14-foot aerial antenna, and a 900-foot retractable power cable

Herbivores are like "Unlike a carnivore who has to do a risk/reward calculation in spending energy, I am always surrounded by food. I can smash intruders because I want to, not because I have to, and can easily recoup the lost energy afterward."

This story is divine genius and everyone should read it. @champwongs.bsky.social is one to watch!

Ancient Roman trying a banh mi: "ah yes, this is tasty and recognizable" Ancient Roman trying eggplant parmesan: "what the fuck"

guy who thinks George Lucas calling the hellish lava planet at the end of Episode 3 "Mustafar" was a roundabout reference to show his support for the founder of turkey, Mustafa Kemal

good night and have a pleasant tomorrow

Extremely normal feelings my OCs sometimes have

I know there’s creative folks here. Join the Brooklyn art build Thurs-Saturday

Sophie’s Choice sorting scenes, brought to America by Brett Kavanaugh

honky tonk gedankadank

here is my first rendering of the bread scale of triviality (any suggestions welcome; I love thinking about bread)

There's a lot of stupid shit happening in the world but we still decided to start a small press. www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom...

always repost “The Eighth-Grade History Class Visits the Hebrew Home for the Aging”

She is guarded jealously by writers.

also I realize this isn't the main point but the actual degree I have is a master's degree in history focused on post-reconstruction race relations, which has, in the nazi mind, become a "black studies degree." it's a very distinctly different thing and they will never ever understand the difference

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Heat 2: Cold

Holy shit

lunch finds a way

Guys, every person you see on Fox News in a mask is just Robert O'Neill, retired Navy Seal and occasional Fox News contributor. He's the former Antifa, former Gazan, former gang member. His eyes are very unique.

tired: die on this hill wired: die on every hill

200 years ago, Clausewitz wrote the theory on the back-and-forth nature of war and the dynamic of move-countermove in his seminal work "On War." Charli xcx is realizing his vision. Clausewitz wrote the theory, Charlsewitz xcx will do the praxis.

I’ll melt cheese straight on the plate

i really don't see how it might NOT constitute a conflict of interest.

hahaha oh man

so excited for my bluesky milestone of "first reply that's just in Portuguese", shoutout to brasil, número um campeão do mundo 🇧🇷🇧🇷

man I hate having to do this kind of Kremlinology but that assignment is practically a confession.

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

was listening to "When Doves Cry" last night and it hit me that "dig if you will" and Rod Sterling's "consider if you will" are the ~same phrase, and now I want a TWILIGHT ZONE hosted by Prince so bad.

got a nice email from someone in austria asking me to rotate a Leberkässemmel, an austere meatloaf and mustard sandwich on kaiser roll i was previously unfamiliar with. i figured what the hell, let's rotate it and rotate it fast

everything is farmable content, including the revelation that you have previously been telling crazy lies. this is your brain on pink slime.

haha what the fuck. that's not a thing.

listen i was gonna dunk on Urban too, but this is a salutary moment for self-reflection. go, find a mirror. stare into your own soul. ask yourself: do i truly believe that i, myself, could satisfy Nicole Kidman's sexual appetites? i'm not prejudging any of your answers. but i beg you: know thyself.

Why do authoritarian states charge political opponents with non-political crimes? In our @thejop.bsky.social paper with Jennifer Pan & @yiqingxu.bsky.social, we examine how *Disguised Repression* undermines opponents’ moral authority and mobilization capacity. doi.org/10.1086/7342...

new Meg Elison about to drop!

Peacehammer 40K: Paintinge litel miniatures of gardeneres, sculptors, academics. Trimminge hedges. Makinge friendes.

The old world is dying, the new world struggles to be born, and mods are asleep: now is the time of monsters.

Okay this may come across as flippant but I’m dead serious: the Deportation Atrocity is a rare and precious opportunity to save a stranger’s life solely through the magic of telling a bully to go fuck himself.

pikasploot

I’m Fuckin Walking Over Here

Wait I had no idea that Peg’s columns are styled “DECLARATIONS”, that’s incredible

really should get around to writing my take that "AI uprising/robot uprising" fiction is just barely sublimated fear of domestic slave revolt

I hate thinking about politics this way, but it's really hard to escape the hypothesis that a lot of well-connected people being vastly more racist than they'd publicly admit is why we are where we are.

They’re doing fascism for the social media content. They’re doing fascism for the social media content. They’re doing fascism for the social media content.

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

One of the most melodramatically malevolent federal officials ever to do it. If we live through this he should maybe become a stock villain of Italian theater.