Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ubi #smbc #comics

A news story to make your day. (Well, it made mine!) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Of course, like druids everywhere they believed in the essential unity of all life, the healing power of plants, the natural rhythm of the seasons and the burning alive of anyone who didn't approach all this in the right frame of mind" - The Light Fantastic

I approve this message. (both messages. mostly) But part of it is that the research community is left mostly blind w.r.t. X after Twitter was the main source of data for almost 20 years.

I started reading #Discworld books in my mid teens, and I've generally tried reading them in order of publications, though I've made mistakes over the years and skipped here and there. Anyway, I have half a mind to start a Great Reread.

I love this.

FPTP as explained by one of my profs in year 1 of my bachelors: the menu says a steak is $20, and chicken wings is $15, so you order the chicking wings; but the waiter tells you they have a special: lobster for $18. So you take the steak instead.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

The garbage panda came to take a nap on our patio furniture. Also the back pillows got in their way, it would seem.

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

עכשיו הזמן להעלות באוב את הפוסט הזה על איחודים פוליטיים בישראל. הנקודה שלי, ששכחתי ממנה מאז, לגבי הסכנה של ספספלים אחוריים גדולים במפלגה גדולה יותר, נכונה שבעתיים במקרה של בנט/לפיד וההיסטוריה הבעייתית שלהם בתחום. https://dubi.blogdebate.org/archives/2555

The would be assassin from yesterday's WHCD has a game for sale on steam called Bohrdom. The reviews are currently probably the best thing about it.

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli

I often get the sense that American leftists write off joint Israeli-Palestinian activism as naive kumbaya shit but whenever I read something like this I am blown away by the strength of people who have endured the worst losses possible and yet still show up with compassion for the “enemy”

Proud to be a Canadian

מושלם

Now that’s what they call a deus ex machina.

The former Chairman of Denmark’s Defence Committee Rasmus Jarlov makes a good point: “United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea prohibits coastal states from charging tolls for passing through straits. If the USA and Iran now believe they should charge a toll in Hormuz, others might follow.”

So everybody in the world will pay for Trump and Bibi's war.

An interesting little game - more of an interactive story, really, one of those gems that show how games can be used to tell unique stories. It's on sale now, so I recommend getting it beside it ends, because it's really short - played through thrice in an hour […]

אני צריך בבקשה רואה חשבון בישראל, שיטפל לי השנה בדו"ח השנתי ואז יסגור את תיק העצמאי שלי. לא היו לי הרבה הכנסות שנה שעברה, אבל כל פעם שאני מנסה לטפל בזה לבד יש בעיות וכיוון שאני לא בישראל אני צריך איש מקצוע שיתקתק את זה עם כמה שפחות חיכוכים.

I'm coining the "hookless run-on" video. These are the tiktoks that start with "did you know that if you" and then just have a run-on sentence with instructions or a recipe, where you only get the thing you're being taught to make at the end of the video.

בואי מיגונית'לה, הולכים הביתה

Oh god it’s so so so so so much worse than I feared

I’m not sure if it’s healthy to hate someone this much or if it’s, yknow, “inherently discriminatory.” Nevertheless,

מוקדש ל- @gilibug.bsky.social וכל מי שתלוי בדואר לפרנסתו www.futilitycloset.com/2026/03/10/a...

Werewolf? There wolf! In his lair wolf! Come and see him if you dare wolf… Here wolf, Near wolf, Not a mere wolf. Hunter of not only deer wolf… Hairy, Scary, Best be wary, Lest he serve you medium-rarey. (The last line isn’t quite there yet)

I know it is popular to be all “this is the country of the bad people who elected the bad man and love the bad war” but I think people are complex everywhere and that dehumanizing “the enemy” is generally not helpful at all

חברים, הרגע עלתה בי מחשבה! Saying the quiet part out loud בעברית צריך להיות אומר את הדרש בפשט!

I'm looking at today's @smbccomics.bsky.social and I just don't understand what the image has to do with the caption What does a flip book about a moose have to so with 3d printes organs? Am I missing something? Help please! @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.

Long Day. www.patreon.com/posts/long-d...

@samkean.bsky.social hi Sam. Reading King Tut right now, and got to the bit on Janet Stephens. It says there she "spent years typing passages into Google Translate" between 2001 ans 2005, but GT only launched in 2006. Is this a case of poetic license? What DID she do?

I never give star reviews on classic books I read. I feel like, if I liked it, it would just feel just pompous and self congratulatory, and if I didn't, I would feel it says more about me that I failed to enjoy the classic. So I just don't say anything.

Full comic here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/waste #smbc

Comic from 2013

Discworld QOTD, from The Last Continent ‘“We put all our politicians in prison as soon as they’re elected. Don’t you?” “Why?” “It saves time.”’

פינוי ראשון. מעריך שיהיו לפחות עוד שניים עד מחר בבוקר. @sixteensheep.bsky.social

A magistrate judge found no probable cause to support arrest warrants for 5 people involved in the St. Paul church protest. DOJ appealed to the 8th Cir. That appeal led to this remarkable letter from the Chief Judge of the Minnesota district court… storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reading today's @smbccomics.bsky.social, I wonder if the "sapiens" in "homo sapiens" is like the "delicious" in "red delicious" @zachweinersmith.bsky.social

לידיעת הקהל: פה אני רק כדי לעקוב אחרי כל מיני אנשים שמשום מה מסרבים להיות במסטודון. אם אתם אשכרה רוצים לקרוא מה שיש לי להגיד, אני ב- @dubikan.tooot.im.ap.brid.gy, אבל מי שעוקב רק אחרי הגרסא שפה בבלוסקיי לא יראה את התגובות שלי, כולל ציוצי המשך לציוצים שלי. בקיצור, בואו למסטודון.

Appeasement doesn't work. Put up a "no ICE and fascists allowed" and enforce it - they'll be coming for your staff anyway, so at least leave them hungry.

Elizabeth Tsurkov, on her three years imprisonement and torture at the hands of an Iran-backed Iraqi militia. The obvious content warnings apply, though sexual violence is only briefly mentioned, with no descriptions. I Was Kidnapped by Idiots - The Atlantic www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

And now a Palestinian politician, Nasry Asfura of the National Party, has been elected president of Honduras, beating another Palestinian candidate, Salvador Nasralla, of the Liberal Party. The parliamentary leader of the Liberal Party is a Honduran Jew, Yani Rosenthal. Samson would be so proud.

I always preferred the old Scottish joke: A man on his deathbed is asked by the Minister, “noo Tam, dae ye renounce the Deil and ae his works?” To which auld Tam replies, “ach Minister, this is nae time tae be making enemies!"

they're little bundles of joy that you can't talk to but need to somehow teach complicated concepts to, and they have knives for teeth but don't know it yet. what could go wrong www.qwantz.com/index.php?co...

Has there ever been a more appropriate time to exclaim that depression and anxiety are common among political scientists?