Viz via Mark Granier

Google, reddit, am I experiencing functional freeze, burnout, exhaustion, depression, or is just how things are for everyone these days? thx

Something that has always struck me about the fossil fuel industry is that they basically don't EVER have to put any real effort into doing clever, effective PR and marketing. They just exist in a society that automatically gives them a free pass on everything, so it's always easy for them. Anyway:

The emotional ambush of discovering you’ve parked in a village that still has sodium orange atreetlamps

This is real

Dear UK Government: I’m not 100% sure that the King visiting the United States is the best idea right now.

Re-found this on my shelves and it makes me so happy

Watching an episode of the Six Million Dollar Man in which William Shatner is using the power of his "supercharged by space" mind to communicate with four dolphins at Marineland of the Pacific. He wants to take them into space

Classic "I've become an adult" indicator. See also the original Man from U.N.C.L.E: Ilya Kuryakin exists for teens to crush on. Later in life one develops a surprising appreciation for Napoleon Solo. And now? Boy, I really feel for Mr Waverly.

this feels like time for one of my periodic rants about how Judaism gets some stuff wrong - like all religions - but one of the things we are REALLY GOOD ON is the nature of forgiveness. which is to say: first, unless they have come to you with sincere repentance, you don't have to forgive anyone!

“Actor-Network Theory”

I went to a philosophy of maths departmental seminar once and halfway through the speaker used a pasta metaphor to describe an aspect of higher dimensional algebra and it was literally the only thing I understood. Felt vaguely peckish for the rest of the seminary.

Brasilia Marcel Gautherot

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

I’m not sure whether it’s the current moment or the general fact of an empty, uncaring universe, but the so much of the latest issue of @theonion.com is hitting me right. You deserve more subscribers than the Washington Post, @bencollins.bsky.social.

Absolute banger. Favourite comment: “Up your game, PETA” www.instagram.com/reel/DWfc7jO...?

Reeling with second-hand embarrassment

this waiter is definitely on blue sky lol

While you slept last night: ~100 million birds took to the skies 🐦 The Mid-Atlantic saw heavy traffic moving north/northeast, with migration hotspots from the Southeast to Ohio Valley and Southern Plains. The overnight rush continues this weekend. Details at cwg.live

I still remember this one and giggle occasionally

This one is a no brainer for me

classic

The geopolitical landscape is incredibly grim but the proximate issue of my green-cheeked conures, out of their minds on spring testosterone, spending ALL DAY YELLING CEASELESSLY WHILE I AM TRYING TO WORK is making everything so much worse here.

Princess Anne continues to merge with the Christopher Walken meme

Me reading this :

Today’s charity shop find: JU-JITSU SELF DEFENCE: A SELECTION OF JU-JITSU AND OTHER SECRET HOLDS, LOCKS AND THROWS by W. Bruce Sutherland

Oh man I read the article and now I am making the face I'd have made if an undergraduate gave me this as an essay and it's one third pity one third genuine embarrassment one third total agony

ontology, a term popularized by Palantir—

CHRISTOPHER WALKEN — 83 Candles 🎂 today — (Macbeth) & CHRISTOPHER LLOYD (Banquo) in the stage production of “Macbeth” at the Lincoln Center - New York in 1974.

You spelled straight line wrong.

I'm looking at you, Roald Dahl's short stories.

It's Trans Day of Visibility, but a shout out to the invisible trans people - the ones who haven't realised, the ones who haven't shared it, and, sadly, the ones for whom it's just too dangerous to be yourself in public. I might not see you, but I know you're out there.

it's the carrot popping off i swear to god

When I was small and the the wind was in the wrong direction, Boeing 707s flew pretty low over the house. Quite a few times my dad pretended to phone Heathrow Airport and told them to stop flying the "loud ones that wake Helen up" for the rest of the evening.

Really worth reading: Valdez as a model for where we are

Mackenzie Crook’s magical suburban folk tale, #SmallProphets published by #PenguinBooks and #PuffinBooks down the years. A 🧵 1/

Yakoke, Choctaw Nation.

this is not relevant to... anything, but i'm trying to find out if Wikipedia's claim that German (and, uh, Nazi) light jazz composer Georg Haentzschel was killed in the 1992 Roermond Earthquake (Northwestern Europe's largest earthquake!) and something about this question is hysterically funny to me

IF YOU ARE KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT MID-CENTURY NAZI-APPROVED LIGHT JAZZ AND/OR LATE 20TH CENTURY EUROPEAN PLATE TECTONICS THEN PLEASE WRITE TO ME

Oh my GOD @rizahmed.bsky.social this is the best thing I've ever seen

This lil rosette of grass growing its way through an astroturf lawn is my hero

yes please

This, by @pbenanti.bsky.social, is a hugely worthwhile read as well as having a truly incredible headline. I was honoured to meet Father Paolo Benanti last year: he is a very excellent person.

brown's room 533, fallsburg, new york, 1977

My brother just sent me this

This is the best thing I have read in a while. Emily Tucker is brave to write this

Uhhhhhh

Related: bsky.app/profile/soap... (i should point out it was not me kicking the children in Helen's post)

“What was life like in the 1970s, Helen?”