The more I learn about the hantavirus, the less I like it

Odysseus: Kermit Penelope: Piggy Telemachus: Scooter Athena: Prairie Dawn Poseidon: Gonzo Circe: Abby Cadabby Calypso: Janice Polyphemus: Animal Hermes: Beaker Eumeaus: Beauregard Antinous: Timothée Chalamet Eurymachus: Pepe the King Prawn Eurycleia: Fozzie Argos: Rowlf

you kid but a version of the odyssey where someone gets lost as shit trying to drive back home through boston while having various adventures could be great

I'm ten books into a re-read of The Iliad and we've already had three rounds of the thing where Agamemnon spends 50 verses negging all his generals ("You're such losers, we should just sail home...") who respond with promises of extravagant violence, which they deliver.

btw having been a classics major at cornell i can tell you that the number of cutesy odyssey quotes involving ithaca you encounter is off the charts

flat earth is one of those things where if the conspiracy is true you should just let them win. *every* government with a space programs is in on it as well as *all* astronomers ? what do you think could prompt that level of cooperation? they've got reasons. leave 'em alone.

Dirac.

this is a small enshittification complaint, but i feel like there's been an uptick in apps not distinguishing between "push updates that deliver information" and "push updates that deliver marketing pitches"

Ha, it could be a bit! That’s great Carol!

least evil unhinged billionaire on record

One of the most irritating things about my recent issues is that the sense of "everything is out of whack" created by the vertigo I'm being treated for is not all that distinct from the side effects of the steroids being used to treat it...

Was there a specific lawsuit that led to medicine commercials having to say “Don’t take Truventa if you’re allergic to Truventa” where somebody successfully argued they weren’t told not to take a medicine they’re allergic to, or are they just getting out in front of that

Things that used to be true but have not been for so long you probably forgot: An electronic device that plays music and/or provisions telephony came with earbuds Selecting text from computer interfaces selected the text you intended to select instead of arbitrary other elements near the interface

Thanks to the funds raised by this year’s Met Gala, we are closer than ever to finding a way to return Mr Met to his human form 💪 ⚾️

I wonder if anyone has been bored enough to compile a directory of all the 555 numbers (and a few non-555 exchanges) and the people they’re associated with

I think there's a certain amount of is/ought going on here. Is this what the purpose of university *should* be? No. Is it what it is in practice? Yes, mostly! To some degree we should be grateful that the liberal benefits of university *are still packaged* with that certification process.

Photon-bombed

every mushroom foraging guidebook: This is Woodland Pot Roast, a tasty little mushroom that adds a delightful flavour to soups and stews. Note that it is often mistaken for Satan’s Fistula, a mushroom that erases the last 9 generations of your family from God’s ledgers.

You just can't be making this argument when you spent most of the year leaving visual evidence of all the times you put your head into people to try to get fouls

I've made some semi-cryptic references to medical stuff recently, so here's a blog post wibbling about the last few weeks of being vertiginous: open.substack.com/pub/chadorze...

you have to understand that when Richard Dawkins says really dumb things it's because Oxford dons have no natural predators.

Once every 10 years the Kentucky Derby and Indianapolis 500 need to swap venues.

the 1970s paranormal culture wave continues to be really understudied, I think, as I remarked before we need a big cultural history of the era that focuses on it, like David Palmer's excellent QIGONG FEVER for the Chinese 1980s

Jeremy Strong as The Riddler in Wes Anderson’s Batman

Alea iacta est.

Cond-mat, hep-th, hep-ex

Department of Political Science, Department of Economics, Department of Sociology

those hoping to watch celtics-sixers can do so by visiting a participating bank of america atm machine. the resolution is pretty bad and it sucks that you have to stand there the whole time but it is a game 6

Drunk God Makes A Few Dozen Roosters Materialize Over Pacific Ocean https://theonion.com/drunk-god-makes-a-few-dozen-roosters-materialize-over-pacific-ocean/

The teacher for Honors English in my rural public high school thought it was a good idea to assign Herman Hesse's BENEATH THE WHEEL, about a bright young man from a small town who works hard to go off to a university and gets absolutely destroyed by the workload and comes home in disgrace.

Flyers Fans Not Sure  Whether Gritty  Supposed To Be Eating Live Bird https://theonion.com/flyers-fans-not-sure-whether-gritty-supposed-to-be-eating-live-bird/

Sure, these gambling companies may be destroying the integrity of professional sports, but at least sports leagues are completely beholden to them.

DON'T START SMOKING BECAUSE THE WORLD IS ENDING THE WORLD WON'T END AND THEN YOU'LL HAVE EMPHYSEMA

Which Pokémon encounter is more likely: Bellsprout (a 20% encounter rate) in 5 encounters or Clefairy (a 1% encounter rate) in 100 encounters?

The day when AI can do quantum computing better than you will arrive sooner than you think! The best way to prepare for this is to start taking art classes already now so that when your salary is replaced by UBI you can easily switch to producing bad art full time.

I MEAN, IF YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT ALL BOATS ARE MINESWEEPERS

I went for an experimental bike ride after a few weeks of no exercise, but Strava was all glitched up so I couldn't record it, and I don't know, man, did it even really happen?

OMNI (1978): "The world's first major magazine of science fact, fiction, and fantasy" captivated me when I was 8. I didn't understand 90% of it, but I loved its silver pages, the UFO Update column, and most of all, the eye-melting artwork. Bring back magazines that look like this!

I'm very concerned for President Trump's safety and that's why I believe he should resign from office and live in total seclusion effective immediately

Just a reminder that past motives for assassination attempts have included: "because the ghost of William McKinley told me to," "to save the trees" and "to impress Jodie Foster."

"Pardon me, would you by any chance be interested in the knowledge of good and evil?"

🎶 And if I only could I'd make a deal with God And I'd get Him to swap our faces Be tracking down that bomb Tracking down my wife Trading places

Note for folks in the Great White North: I will be doing a live bit on CBC Manitoba in a couple of minutes to talk Daylight Saving Time.

Another funny thing about the beer mile is that the beer mile world record and the stroller mile world record are basically identical. Having a child officially has the same effect on athletic performance as consuming 4 beers. Stroller mile record video is amazing: www.youtube.com/shorts/1i75Y...

My college alumni association is now sending me emails about planning bequests to them, and I am Not Ready For This.

They Might Be Giants are high on the list of bands that demographic factors would lead you to believe I like considerably more than I actually do.

This piece by @pschofie79.bsky.social about the problems of generalized pedagogy advice is good, and also ties to one of my pet peeves about the #discourse about academia, which is that "administrative bloat" is largely self-inflicted. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

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