Ben Hammersley

TEACHER: do you know what estimate means

STUDENT: not exactly

TEACHER: yes you are right

STUDENT: about what

TEACHER: also correct

STUDENT: …i guess

TEACHER: wow you really know your stuff

I look in the mirror. It's October 1947. I'm test pilot Chuck Yeager, and in a few hours I'll become the first human to exceed the speed of sound.

"Oh boy," I exclaim, before heading to the bank to deposit all of my liquid assets into a high interest savings account in the name of Dr. Sam Beckett.

I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.

Photo of a sketch of a Neanderthal. The headline reads: Scientists Growing Neanderthal 'Minibrains', Will Connect Them to Crab Robots

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

measure once, cut a bitch

blond blinking meme man eyes open for january, closes eyes, then eyes open again for august

pretty much

An orange tabby and a calico cat stand on their hind legs embracing, probably fighting. But they could be dancing...

Her: Not here. We can't risk exposing catkind's biggest secret
Him: But you dance so divinely. No one will see...

IT Professional here: this isn’t cute. Computer Touchers only do this when they’re extremely upset.

idk if it actually works but the video really sells it lol

Please don't plug keyboards or other devices into random USB ports, ok?

Quinn! Well, you know, living in NYC and…/me gestures to the wider context... It’s about to be quite the vibe…

Wirestrike Incident Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser N3586M, Saturday 23 November 2019 The aircraft, a Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser, hit high-voltage power lines during an approach to Shakopee, Minnesota, and was suspended from them until rescue personnel arrived. The airplane...

And the pilot and the plane were both fine! asn.flightsafety.org/wikibase/230...

100% Agree. I did actually use them once. They did a good job taking in the waist on some formal trousers, but it was $$$ and they clearly shipped them off somewhere. Also there was a slight vibe of a third tier city’s not quite luxe hair salon about it. Makes no sense as a business either, yes

Alts? No, upsettingly that’s a chain. There are loads around NYC suddenly. Though it might be worse: a VC-funded veneer for sweatshop seamstresses. The real laundry, I think, was that florist with the marine corps flag in the window, that was never really open and disappeared recently.

(Forgive me: I’ve recognised our mutual neighborhood from your previous posts. It is a silly place.)

I am so glad someone else noticed this. I figured it was a new thing to do to launder money, now nail salons and laundrettes are saturated and someone already did Pickleball on Van Brunt. But that one by 4th and 9th looks super nice.

In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”

As someone actually trained in behavioural psychology—unlike most MPs—I can tell you: financial precarity doesn’t “incentivise” sick people to work. It breaks them. Stress worsens health. Fear doesn’t create productivity. It creates collapse. #TakingThePIP

The more you look at it, the stupider you get. It’s art.

guy who sells those roller hot dog machines to 7-11 announces that the top skill our students must be mastering is "eating hot dogs"

Regarding the Maga/Q base: Trump thinks they follow him. But they’re now realising they actually prefer to follow the story. They want The Storm, not the man. Someone is going to grab that opportunity.

Yes! That’s a legitimate signal of authenticity - m283arabia.com/en/travel-ex...

Right? I mean, the first models of Tesla were the models S, 3, X, and Y. But this one feels like just the right form of cringey nerd non-joke to be exactly him too

That is an incredible Nerd Trap though. If you make it “city with the most changes of country name”, you could drive a history department to blows pretty quickly, I think

There’s a moment, when you’re studying any hidden group, that you feel like you must be losing it a little and overfitting, because you start to see signifiers everywhere and it can’t be so blatant.

Well, you know X, The Everything App?

The ascii decimal for X is 88.

TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle

For sale: magician’s assistant, half off.

What we need is one of those close-protection guys you see in Harrods who follows their principal around and discreetly pays for everything they shop-lift.

People who hate New York every time they see Mamdani get even cooler:

His mom directed it