A Legend

Making a motivational poster inspired by the handyman who installed this toilet lock

Reading a lot into the fact the hanzi actually says Peiping, the Nanjing decade's name for the city

For some reason there's always multiple copies of 永遠の0 at the Lifeline Bookfair and abstracting from the more obviously problematic aspects, it is rather thematically incongruous in that context

Imagining some sort of Willy Wonka-style tour through an incredible sardine factory.

If you wanted crude semiotics of my family you could do worse than this onsen towel we dyed with wattle

Is this the China section? I wish there was some colour code...

Well don't I feel stupid

I was in an Indian grocery yesterday to buy some cheap gum arabic and alum, and it's mildly interesting that the brand name "aji no moto" is apparently entirely genericised as a term for MSG on the subcontinent

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was claiming he had tried to deliver my package

If I get disappeared by the government for my political activities or just bc they're jealous of my vibe please throw a fit until they let me out ok

Summertime meals from Chun King (1973)

Yet another European club has Japanese owners: Belgium's Beerschot has been acquired in full by Kinpoudou Holdings, one of Japan's largest (if not *the* largest?) Buddhist funeral service companies.

This game was a great inspiration to me; 85 per cent of the footprint of my property is now a puzzle for opening the front door

More on the decline and fall of Steven Levitt statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/09/24/m...

Proud Victorian mathematician who constantly tries make "Hoddle Distance" an accepted name for "Manhattan Distance" and being booed at the symposium by rowdy geometrists

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I, for one, forwent a career as music teacher because I could not countenance Jack Black's buffoonery

The other day I saw a numberplate reading AOZHOU, presumably from 澳洲, and it's funny how different my reaction to this is from a southern cross sticker

tfw i come on here to tell everyone i have a new, obscure soccer history deep dive coming soon

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

"Bring back the Perth Kangaroos" is the incredibly niche Australian soccer opinion the times call for

This just assumes I'm non binary

A problem film has as an artform is it will necessarily attract people who really like sitting in dark rooms for hours not talking to others, and thus will be made by those with a deep aversion to engaging with the society they purport to explore and represent

I think Cleary just did a Avatar: The Last Airbender reference in a try celebration

‘We need to abandon all the practices that hinder lethality. We need to take on warrior virtues. A single minded focus on war fighting’ [the rest of the Optus executive team look around nervously]

another great file on wikimedia commons

It is the same social phenomenon as "people who write for the Express read the Guardian". Everyone wants cachet from the liberal intelligentsia. It's specifically bluesky users they want to be read by. Talking to the audience they get on Twitter is killing them.

On the topic of go and AO, google still translates weiqi to iku (to go), and igo to qu (also to go). Two languages that share a significant corpus of text but instead channelled through Englishby an amnesiac

Running a literary TTRPG. Every player plays a sensitive but emotionally restrained young author passively reacting to NPCs. There are no quests.

The most lasting legacy of Donnie Darko is all the people who have no idea "Mad World" was originally a ska song

this is the funniest one of these photos i have ever seen. they have recovered the meat.

It's a computer pretending to be a man who pretended to be a comic book writer

how rude

Learning about flippin' arkansas! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flippin...

I'd joke about how he thought you could do make_more_viral(grok) but his idea of what is cool and cutting edge is in a perpetual 90s, so grok.make_more_viral()

making a principled, non ideological, stance in favour of free speech in comedy by calling the president a racial slur

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

Sickos.gif www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Why use a LLM when a madlibs bot can summarise contemporary conservative thought in a sentence

Going to remake a 1980s sci fi film but replace all the powerful Japanese business leaders in the future with Irish people

Entirely trivial point but they used a photo of Cantona from the same night he made the greatest speech in sporting history

This may not be Bugs Bunny’s all-time greatest drag look, but it’s easily his sluttiest. And on the newest @gayestepisodeever.bsky.social, we’re joined by @tonyrodriguez.bsky.social to discuss it and other queer-leaning Looney Tunes shorts. www.gayestepisodeever.com/episodes/loo...

Providing an example of the distinct and brilliant mugshot styles of NSW policing in the era

Incredible visuals of Oceanian sports-diplomacy

The girl, apropos of nothing, decided to show me the "aura farming boat dance" so, um, Indonesia is the next soft power superpower I guess

It's here!!!

On the foreshore of Papua New Guinea's capital city, Ela Beach is where locals come to exercise, mingle and unwind at the end of a long day. But it wasn't always this way.