Charles Addams’ quite brilliant cover for July 17th 1954’s The New Yorker.

Coworker: "Have you ever eaten gunpowder?" Me: "Yup." Coworker: "...really? To be clear, the Indian spice blend and condiment we use." Me: "Oh, in that case, no." Coworker:

Heads up, fellow Proton users

Jack Horner, a paleontologist employed as a consultant on the 'Jurassic Park' film franchise, is 'no longer with' Chapman University as a lecturer after his name appeared in the Epstein files.

I'm sort of caught in the horns of a dilemma: I try not to use any products that are produced with LLMs, which it turns out includes this here site. But also Mastodon is either broken or everyone hates me because my mutuals no longer respond to my comments and questions lol

AHHHHHHHHHHHH 🌿🪶 (This is telephoto lens + harsh crop to maintain a respectful distance!)

Hi hello just QRPing some info abt this coming in from the other site. This news is fake, it was a hallucination.

remembering old dumb art i did. SMT: sam & max tensei.

Elric of Melnibone (reward for @mephicchi.bsky.social 🖤)

Nancy 3/4/26 💅

in case you ever wondered why bsky breaks all the fuckin time and is increasingly a pile of jank bsky.app/profile/why....

a new drawing of edelgard!? in 2026!! more likely than you think! (i love she)

I hate how ”which books” debates can distract from the accretive nature of literary study. Reading *in quantity* is part of learning to close read individual texts well—you need the comparative tensions that emerge through engagement with lots of literature to hone in on nuance etc in a single work

when i started taking pics of birds, i would do a lot of stuff like this below, but felt pressured to get the Better Lenses, Get Closer, More Detail, "Bird on Branch" pics, etc. anyway, 2 years into the hobby now and i'm happy that my brain has returned to "what feels cool to me??" i love this pic.

I AM THE MIRACLE GIRL

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:

Via a friend in the know: gpsjam.org A free site with data from airline pilots showing where GPS jamming (a good sign of other types of electronic warfare as well) is occurring in semi-real time.

Blacklist Sentona Games from any future work or from buying any of their products, this is a scam company actively exploiting international workers. Make sure to boost this information every. Sentona Games is a Scam company.

Let's cheese it.

Lmfao this is so fucking sad 😂😂😂

the natural enemy of the spy: Heavy from Team Fortress 2

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

Having grown up a white kid in the Jim Crow south, I’d now say that pretty much was slavery, though I didn’t start to understand that until my early teens.

One of the greatest, Bruce Campbell, announcing he has cancer. Our hearts are with you Bruce, Hail to the King.

#StevenUniverse #Pearl #Amethyst

This is good. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

kill all fake lovers

A curiosity I stumbled on today: a 1908 translation of the Middle English Pearl, attempting to match the original's form. Very conditioned by the tail-end of what I think of as polite English verse's common practice period, but full respect to the attempt. www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1...

All my condolences about the passing of KyoAni founder & president Hideaki Hatta. No exaggeration to say that he's been one of the most important individuals in the history of this industry, especially if you consider that he also had a hand in IG's inception www.kyotoanimation.co.jp/information/...

let your friends help

"At one end, the glasses are marketed as an everyday assistant – a voice in the frame that tells you what you are seeing. At the other end, people in Nairobi sit annotating the most intimate moments the camera captures: open-plan offices, living rooms, bedrooms, bathrooms."

i can’t play re9 for a few more days, so here’s a thread of some re2 and re4 Leon comics

The Tamashii Nations Instagram reposted this and I felt you all needed to see it

Made it to 108 rose.systems/animalist/

on this day 99 years ago, harry belafonte was born, then he gave us this (among several other accomplishments in the arts and civil rights movement) silly 1988 music video for Beetlejuice which includes takes which are not in the final film 🪲

Happy birthday Chun-li 🎉🎉🎉

Cursed thought I'm surprised I don't already see out there: Influencers marketing supplements and study programs and a wide variety of self improvement stuff, legit and not, under the marketing banner "NI: Natural Intelligence"

I'm a game design genius

<"Owner of a Lonely Heart" voice> Creature from the Black Lagoon

It felt safer among items from the before times.

From a 1967 magazine feature on Japan’s society-wide “Kaiju boom”: footprints of Varan, Ebira, King Ghidra, Angilas, King Kong, Rodan, Godzilla, Mothra (larva), Mothra (adult)

One of the things I was most glad to talk with Rian Johnson about was working with his cinematographer Steve Yedlin (he also shouted out his production designer Rick Heinrichs) on these remarkable sequences 📽️ Read the full @ebertvoices.bsky.social interview here: www.rogerebert.com/interviews/c...

NOW is the time to make calls to your reps about KOSA, SCREEN act, section 230 and more Call your legislators. Speak to office aides. Leave messages. Do so every day. Be loud and annoying. Get family and friends to join in. www.congress.gov/members/find...

Sharing this notice from GameTechWiki in case anyone wants to help, alt text includes all the links but here's the most important ones Myrient donation: myrient.erista.me/donate/ Backup project: discord.gg/fQ8bQZQxr Signal group: signal.group#CjQKIDWfNSPW...

The secret hero of Moore's Swamp Thing run.

H.R. 7661 is a national book banning bill which seeks to remove any book that "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" from all public schools in the US. This would ban all my books, & any other book with trans themes, from public schools. PLEASE call your House Reps & say: NO ON H.R. 7661!