Off the scale cowardice from Tapp here. These are people who grovel at Caligula's feet. And please don't tell me this is skilful pursuit of the national interest. It's in no country's national interest to abuse yourself before a predatory gangster state.

Anselm Kiefer, Operation Sea Lion (1976) maybe relevant today, who knows

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

Oh my god www.flickr.com/photos/sdasm...

Okay if you are a Donna Tartt fan, you simply must listen to this. Not only does he nail it, he ALSO DOES HER VOICE. If you are a Heated Rivalry fan but not a Donna Tartt fan this will make absolutely no sense

The Hague, all of them

Lovely piece on the hatefulness of all this. Worth it for many little highlights, but I enjoyed the riff on a calculator that aggressively suggests sums you might want to do today.

Obsessed with the single Reeves’ pheasant that lives in the copse at the bottom of the hill in my village

Finally bought the fluffy sweater I wanted only to realise it might be too fluffy will I never learn

Dreamed that I spent hours cycling around street markets searching for the right foodstuffs for my housemate’s pet Hispanolian solenodon. It ended up accepting a diet of pate and plumeria flowers, after which I had a heated argument with my housemate who insisted it was “just a fancy rat”

The Ozymandias-level hubris of a family member knocking the no-record tab off a VHS, as if sellotape didn’t exist. Look upon my Poirot Christmas Special and despair!

Y’all ever walk into a public restroom and immediately whisper “Jesus Christ”

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

A bunch of NZ MPs were asked about their holiday reading recs by the Herald today. Turns out it's the Greens who are the nerds with good taste.

Kaiju Bertie: a brief moment of calm before resuming his campaign to destroy every paper lampshade in existence

I once had the honour of being on a judging panel for a hugely esteemed literary prize. We read without knowing ANY biographical details of the authors, including their names. Afterwards it turned out that many many white men were in the running. None of them were winners.

Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

i got it!

Christ on a bike, this is brilliant. And disgustingly historically accurate. 10/10

In the midst of utter festive chaos am singing DRIVING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS in tribute to Mr Rea AND Rao and Adam from Prophet. It's Rao's go-to Christmas song (in matters of celebration and opportunities for a good time, he's resolutely multi-faith) and Adam has Very Complicated Feelings about it.

And Tiny Tim, who did not die. Yet did not live. Trapped forever in his tiny body, never growing older, cursed to survive only on the blood of the living, never to see sunlight again

YouTube AI: awful, but occasionally hilarious

Gonna need someone to show me a request by anyone, anywhere for white men to apologise for being white men. I'll wait.

Very proud my new passport photos feature me with Nigel Tufnel's hair.

& contrast of late blue sky gave out to allow the new moon to cut through - that which will swell solstice to next year's 1st full - setting into late afternoon, slipping under the wire & behind the ridge

Oof

FINALLY I stopped to identify the catch crop in the field by the road into town (Phacelia) (yes, am neurodivergent)

i've done it by accident twice and both times i discovered that time tastes like steel, electricity, and the colour octarine

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That’s a falcon egg dude

This is absolutely a “desperately taking an extremely expired sumatriptan tablet I found at the back of a drawer” migraine ugh

apologies for everyone waiting for emails and other things. I'm mired in a drift of monumental inability right now.

Oh my god…

Caption competition (no, don't)

Just picked this up — horribly belatedly — because, it turns out, I was sorely in need of a book that would give me screaming existential & ontological terrors and was also a VERY FUN READ

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

NSF is about to dismantle NCAR at Russell Vought's direction to protect the fossil fuel industry. It's hard to communicate just how much NCAR does, so let's take a look: I've never worked at NCAR, and I've worked with NCAR researchers once ever. What scientific discoveries has NCAR made possible? 👇

Glenn Gould provoking a surprisingly intense reaction here 🦜 (the radio’s playing Debussy now and he’s very calm and sleepy)

perfection #drag #bowie #trentreznor

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

when we talk about Overton window moving to the right, this is what we mean

every post is like i bet you didn’t know this absolutely wonderful thing about rob reiner and each one is different

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous this is worth sharing and educating people about

Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave Gently they go, the beautiful, the tender, the kind; Quietly they go, the intelligent, the witty, the brave. I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

How did I not know of the word FANTODS before now?

Send help have become trapped by this AI animal alphabet source: www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfu...

I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.

Other work of the Ladybird artists Redwings in Winter Artist: CF Tunnicliffe