one for sorrow two for joy three for a girl four for a boy five for silver six for actually that's a lot of magpies seven for oh no they are massing eight for oh my god they're going to attack nine for run, run away now ten for magpies Magpies MAGPIES

“Peanuts make me swell up like a beach ball” “Is that an allergy?” “No, simile”

I remember, when I was a small boy in the 1960s, saying "Dad, what's an anachronism?", and he simply replied "Google it".

Stephenson’s “Locomotion No. 1” (a precursor of the “Rocket”, four years later) made its first journey two hundred years ago today. It was the first steam locomotive to haul a passenger-carrying train on a public railway, the Stockton & Darlington.

My wife just texted me “Lasagne at 6 o’clock” so I immediately looked behind me.

Oh come on, man. www.cnn.com/2025/09/26/h...

Given the current focus on escalators, I think it is time to recommend @colsonwhitehead.com's 1999 novel The Intuitionist. A terrific novel.

Under the 1947 UN Headquarters Agreement, the US is obligated to grant visas to any officials or staff going to the UN. The US has broken the agreement a number of times though - most famously with Yasser Arafat in 1988, when the UN responded by moving the entire General Assembly session to Geneva.

For educational purposes, I built an influence campaign simulator game. Check it out via the link below! It’s free and you can play in the browser.

“Cracker Barrell Outrage Almost Certainly Driven By Bots.” “…the boycott was unlikely to be an organic grassroots response but a bot-assisted amplification seeded by meme/activist accounts.” Via @gizmodo.com In other words, we’re being manipulated. Aggressively, constantly manipulated.

Having been through the process at many different companies now: Agile doesn’t exist. Scrum doesn’t exist. What exists is hiring smart, highly skilled people who you can trust to do the right thing.

Look, the CIA got the Office Work memo and released the Simple Sabotage Field Manual. It’s only fair that the NSA did the same for Information Technology and retaliated by releasing the Simply Agile Manifesto

The media could have told the boring truth that there aren’t any drones Instead they fed the ‘controversy,’ causing violence

A philosophical puzzle.

You could absolutely replace this with tech gizmo of the week

“Given elevator inspection’s undeniable macho cachet and preferential treatment within the Guild, it takes a unique personality to specialize in escalators, the lowliest conveyance on the totem pole.”

Without looking it up: what was the name of the volcano? And can you pronounce it correctly? (-:

Those are not their real names Their real names are Index, Pinkie, Irene, Halberfloss Dinkleflage III, I Blame My Mother, Augustus, and Circle

The billionaires are certainly treating AI as a precipitating event to consolidate power and shut down democracy That will have happened even if AI itself turns out to be useless

China sending a warship to the United States to forcibly open the country to artificial flooring products, beginning a series of conflicts known to history as The Linoleum Wars

The expert is a 5th grade teacher

Probably the most significant thing in the indictment is that Lindsay Halligan, the lawyer with no court experience who Trump assigned as acting US attorney last week, is the only signature. She couldn’t get a single other prosecutor to participate.

Trump won’t win. His tweets make it clear this is a bogus prosecution, and the defense attorneys merely have to point to those tweets. But that’s not the point anyway. Now anyone who opposes Trump knows they can be hauled into court and have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney fees.

They are going to make it illegal to fund Democratic organizations. Will they lose in court? Eventually. Will that still stop rich people from donating? Definitely.

A Minnesota-themed erotic novel called Fifty Shades of Gray Duck

Whomst among us

bringing all the generals from around the world into a surprise urgent secret meeting seems like the kind of thing that would happen in the first chapter of a dystopian novel

approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up

In the 80s, pilots learned the hard way that volcanic ash will destroy jet engines (it melts and gums up the insides) Oh and it doesn’t show up on weather radar at all An Iceland volcano caused a massive shutdown of flights in Europe in 2010 for over a week

Fuck your character limit

It’s good to be Mr. R.

CIDS is the central computer that controls, among other things, all the toilets. And apparently sometimes crashes.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

The people around him obviously know this, but they think they can manipulate him to get what they want. Except because he has the memory of a particularly dumb goldfish, they usually cannot.

Sorry, you’re married to a plane now. I don’t make the rules.

Someone forgot they weren’t on a cell phone

Green Jelly Beans Linked to Acne

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

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Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

I'll be honest, a rapture this close to q4 kickoff is a huge failure from leadership.

Dire straits

If you’re in a business class seat with motorized reclining, and you drop your phone in the gap in the seat and then try to sit up, the motor can crush your phone and start a fire. This has actually happened several times.

Don’t unplug the computer without shutting down

Ouch

Someone needs to put together a conspiracy theory that CO2 causes autism and must be outlawed immediately Do it, for the good of the world