James Swift

Still from the 1941 film "Love on the Dole", with the unfortunate subtitle "She's a strange lassie's arsehole".

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole".

(It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Its!

For shame 😳

I was born in Ireland in 1976 and witnessed it’s transformation from a fairly conservative country to a very liberal and modern one.

What happened after? This much I know:

1993 - Homosexuality Decriminalised
1996 - Divorce Allowed and signed into law

2017 - first openly gay premier (Taoiseach)

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

From the Zhuangzi,ch.24:

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

What a fantastic accomplishment -- and what a fantastic story! www.quantamagazine.org/at-17-hannah...

Squarepusher - Tundra 4

Also my funeral music.

Beginning bedtime story tonight: Once there was a police detective named Vic Mackey..

Hank Bluesky

have the brexit ever fought the borg

Cassette tape edition of ‘Ectopic Beats’ by Dr Rubberfunk sitting on top of the cassette case. The tape is dark blue and features a white label with dark blue text. #BandcampFriday #BeatTape #MixTape #InstrumentalHipHop #CassetteCulture #VinylVulture

*Today is Bandcamp Friday klaxon*
A good day to pick up a copy of my 2024 sample-heavy album slash beat tape - digital & limited cassette.
drrubberfunk.bandcamp.com/album/ectopi...

@bandcamp.com

The wings of an Owl Butterfly showing its pattern remarkably similar to the head of a snake

The “snake head” pattern is a marvel of evolution and also very beautiful

Seems like an appropriate place to post this Owl Butterfly I saw

Going to have to do an end of year bracket of the best of these.

Let me try to explain why it's important to study the foundations of quantum mechanics. (1/n)

(Have to do some breathing exercises, b/c to me it's blindingly obvious that "understanding the most important theory in physics" is something physicists should care about, but apparently opinions differ.)

Making a beat using toddler‘s toys.
#beatmaking #vstplugins #sampling #toddlerstories

Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 11, Episode 10

I wonder if social-media use will decline as more people use LLMs, since the latter are so much better at positive feedback. There is nothing so smart you can put on social media that someone won't call idiotic, and nothing so banal you can ask GPT that it won't call a brilliantly insightful query.

YouTube video by Benn Jordan I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

omg

A bottle of hot sauce called End of Sanity

Extremely hot but also maintaining a fruity flavour

I’ve wondered if it was inspiration for the kids book Dog on a Frog.

America as Prussia in 1806 Decaying Institutions, Social Nihilism, Elite Complicity, and a Slow March Toward Disaster

The disaster at Jena-Austerlaut was the formative experience for Clausewitz. How the armies and state built by Frederick the Great crumpled like a house of cards bothered him for many years. When he wrote about years later, many of the problems he diagnosed eerily parallel 2025 America. My latest ⬇️

lol

“Find a bathroom… quickly”

Duncan Jones' Mute from 2018.
Absolute turd of a film.

bsky.app/profile/carl...

@carlbergstrom.com will surely agree it’s a great sign

Not only is Foundation absolutely excellent but it is in that rare class of shows which rewards repeat viewings.

1996 peak Microsoft chillwave: if you heard it at all, you only heard it once - CDM Create Digital Music Move over, Brian Eno. "Velkommen" by Stan LePard is 90s Microsoft chillwave at its best. But like catching a fleeting glimpse of Brigadoon, for many years this song was heard over Microsoft installati...

The most chilled-out track of the 90s was almost lost to some Microsoft installers--until fans intervened.

The wonderful musical worlds of the late Stan LePard.