Good morning happy Sunday, here, start your day off with a fun little story about cards, luck and how to prove a negative by yours truly www.frivolouscomma.com/three-card-c...

there's a priest who's job, twice a day, is to lift a floor stone in the nave and check the water level with a Holy Dipstick and communicate if the sluice needs adjusting again, i am not exaggerating

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I had to check to see if this was real. It’s only the start of a tweet, but it’s real. And the rest of the tweet isn’t better because they’re lying about there being any threat. This is about the viral video you’ve probably seen with the drive-by pepper spray.

In response to bigots claiming Mamdani is going to implement Sharia Law over all of New York City, someone tried to clarify that Mamdani is actually planning to implement Shawarma Law, but it turns out even that was a misunderstanding: Mamdani is determined to implement Harissa Law.

These drain clogs get worse and worse

Today’s ’Reddit sleuths unmask wrongdoing’ story is a little bit less spectacular than we are used to.

Hear me out: delis should offer an amuse-bouche called an antehero.

It's a small graphic design detail, but the loitering guy on TTC signage is actually in front of the red slash, casually leaning against it, making him look *unbelievably* cool.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

what about bringing it around town

I have nothing particularly special to say about today's passing, other than to note that there's a reason I started using this pseudonym to make political comments on social media roughly 24 years ago.

People are dunking on the typo and pointing out it's bullshit (essentially none of these people will leave in protest of Mamdani's election) but it's also just tremendously ignorant (and American-exceptionalist) to say a million displaced people could be even close to the largest exodus in history.

This is an incredible thread, featuring threats that the US government will seek personal revenge on family members of EU negotiators for holding to their government's position during talks.

I gather from people's reactions on here that the dream lives!

Please check your kid's Halloween candy. I just found a Bluesky skeet in this Snickers bar.

I was walking in the desert late one night When my eyes beheld a ruined site Two vast and trunkless legs of stone And half buried an eyeless frown Ozymandius (Mandius) On its base a statement was (Ozymandius) Oh ye mighty pause (Ozymandius) On my works you gaze

Ooohhh wooohh blimey

My favourite of the Cow Tools edits

On the subject of writer's block, are you aware of the seminal work published by Dennis Upper in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Analysis in 1974?

As I understand it in Cricket, the British version of Baseball, play is periodically stopped so everyone can participate in a garden party involving cakes and, I assume, tea. Since the Toronto Blue Jays are part of His Majesty's Commonwealth, have they considered doing that after the next inning?

Recently came across Lisa Taylor's amazing work on coloration in jumping spiders, including using eyeliner to give them teenytiny makeovers to see whether these colors helped them attract mates/avoid sexual cannibalism. Sometimes in science, there aren't standard tools for the thing you want to do🧪

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

Donald Trump is expressing his opinions on the No Kings protestors the right way, by Ezra Klein.

People are being kicked out of the US for speech about Charlie Kirk; at least one didn't even say anything supporting or excusing his murder, merely openly refused to celebrate his life. They posted that Kirk "won't be remembered as a hero" and that was apparently enough to upend their entire life.

The top row of the Peanuts Sunday strip was called the 'throw-away panel'. If there wasn't enough space in the comic section that syndicated it, the top row could be removed and the rest of the comic would still make sense without it. Schulz often used the throw-away panel for private/obscure jokes.

sherman, for the love of god!

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

Protesting for a just Kase.

The sort of cartoon you'd expect to see from me www.worldofmoose.com/products/con...

The Army has to step in so they can prevent these musical protests from escalating to violins in the streets.

Couple moved in next door. Old bloke lived there before had a beautiful garden. He spent every day in it. New guy ripped out everything & put fake grass in. So I've planted trees next to the boundary that will fill his lawn with dead leaves in the autumn. This one's for you Alf

When I drive on the highway, Google's own Maps app tells me, by default, about crowdsourced reports of cops enforcing the speed limit ahead. I would bet Apple Maps does exactly the same, in an app Apple made and then preloaded onto every iPhone. It's hard to see how that's different from IceBlock.

It's worth reading this article for the details of the violent raid, the cruelties and illegalities (detainees taken away in U-Hauls!), the property destruction and burglaries, for signs of collusion between the authorities and what are implied to be the predatory owners of the apartment building.

Maybe Schumer should reconsider the way he gave Trump a complete pass at the last budget impasse.

I remember, when I was a small boy in the 1960s, saying "Dad, what's an anachronism?", and he simply replied "Google it".

I can't wait to see their research.

We must maintain our credenzability as a soup pourer.

RIP to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. www.bulwer-lytton.com #ScholComm #AcademicPublishing #FridayFun #Writing #Editing

So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

The Diorama Museum down the street keeps adding dioramas.

I had to look.

Dreaming of a world where people are judged not by the content of the character but by the tone of their content.

Menachem Begin once said "the goyim kill the goyim and then run to hang the Jews." I've been thinking about that today.

I first met Ezra Klein when he was a 19 year old UCSC student. I’ve seen him high in an Adams Morgan rowhouse backyard. I’ve watched him defend Megan McArdle’s honor. I remember JournoList. That op-ed is the most embarrassing thing I have ever seen Ezra Klein say in his entire adult life

When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.