Pi(e) day pi(e) facts: The guy introduced the Greek letter for pi was the father of the guy who discovered proto-Indo-European (PIE)

One was an FBI agent. The other was a Navy captain in the only happy part of his life, and other than that — as far as I can tell — mostly mooched off his father-in-law by working sinecures at his company.

Muppet a rated R (or worse) movie: My Dinner With Kermit (credit to @meravhoffman.bsky.social)

The only king I recognize

Takes five seconds, and might mean you can still get COVID boosters.

#teslatakedown is gathering steam. At least 10x the turnout from two weeks ago in NYC

Looking at the first week of the new administration, it certainly seems like the theme of this new administration is going to be "there is a reason you don't do that." There's a reason you don't appoint violent alcoholics to run the department of defense...

/5 Openly caring about and adhering to values infuriates Trumpists. It spoils their joy. They will never be happy because of it. Keep doing it. Decency is a thumb in their eye.

The Skylab crash, if that counts as a major news story; otherwise the Iran hostage crisis.

Always 💖 Don't make me tap the sign

Who's gonna be the next mayor of NYC...? Wrong answers only.

Later in life, Hellboy decided that his name just wasn't plausible at the age of 57, had it legally changed, and a few years later got into the condiment business. The rest... is sandwich history.

But that's worse. You do get how that's worse, right, Charlie Brown?

I think you would enjoy spending five minutes trying to make a cup of tea in this charming browser game downpour.games/~terry/a-pro...

This is not made up, these are the actual locations of the earthquakes' epicenters as shown on usgs.gov.

According to the auction house that sold it, this movie poster is from 1928. Mickey has red pants, gloves, shoes, and pupils. Which would imply that those features are out of copyright, even if they didn't appear in the cartoons until 1929 or later.

Furthest I've been, by lat/long: N: Juneau S: Buenos Aires E: Tokyo W: Honolulu (If you do E/W by distance from home you get Singapore for E and Hong Kong for W, and that's just silly.)

Ah yes, that well known ska shanty, I Shot The Wellerman, by Bob Marley and the Whalers

Elvis Presley: [wildly shooting at his tv] The girl from The Ring: [falls to the shag carpet, dies] Me: Thank you for saving my life, Elvis Presley Elvis Presley: [putting gun away] History will misinterpret this event. But you and I know what happened here. And baby, that's enough