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Thomas Pynchon Has Been Warning Us About American Fascism the Whole Time Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptations of Thomas Pynchon’s novels—first Inherent Vice in 2014, and now One Battle After Another in 2025—may be tipping the scales, with more first-time Pynchon readers f…

Shadow Ticket is in my queue.

Bird Photographer of the Year for 2025 The organizers of the Bird Photographer of the Year competition received more than 33,000 images for 2025’s contest; here are the winners and runners-up. Photos above by Franco Banfi, Francesco Guffanti, Tibor Li

Winners of the Bird Photographer of the Year for 2025, including photos of a huge golden eagle feasting on a deer carcass and a nearly inscrutable drone photo of geese flying over some lakes. [kottke.org]

Another horrible date picker submitted to the Bad UX World Cup! 😁

Join the fun, submit your worst date picker here: badux.lol

The best/worst date pickers will to through to the final in late October!

#baduxworldcup

a tweet from years ago that I think about often was about some guy who went out of his way to get $10 worth of quarters so he could do laundry after work, then he trips on a sidewalk and crashes down to the pavement and someone sitting at a bus stop says to him "you good, Sonic?"

Laws, Theories, Principles, and Patterns that developers (and others) will find useful

A wide shot of a movie set with a miniaturized practical set from THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU in the background. In the foreground, slightly off centred Wed Anderson sits behind a camera on a crane lift. He's slightly turned and looking over his shoulder, offset and out of the photo. He's dressed in muted browns with a light coloured scarf wrapped around his neck.

Absolutely wonderful article: Wes Anderson's Impossible Dreams.

And a true example of the utter irreplaceable value of film criticism. Gorgeous read over at Criterion by Bilge Ebiri on Anderson's film catalog from the first 25 years of his career. www.criterion.com/current/post...

This morning I turned on my phone only to find that it had changed my user name to Shirley, and when I tried to enter a simple Google query it came out as "Do you like gladiator movies?"

Then I realised it was in Airplane! mode.

#TravelGoals

Ambigram Hall of Fame

ambigr.am/hall-of-fame

www.thisiscolossal.com/2025/09/2025...

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Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Anne of Green Gables

Justin and Kaylee at La Ronde

Just A Peck 0013 // Sleepy Hollow, God of Carnage, Merit Badges: https://justapeck.net/2025/10/05/just-a-peck-sleepy-hollow.html

Wherein I briefly mention ambigrams, discontinued merit badges, the Faroes, possibly the best poem ever written, and lots of other things I’m excited about.

An Art Nouveau staircase decorated with curved patterns and soft colors, with a nature-themed background and rounded windows on the walls.

Art Deco staircase. An angular, grand design in dark colors.

Art Nouveau is when stuff looks like it was made by Elves.

Art Deco is when stuff looks like it was made by Dwarves.

"discontinued merit badges (boy scouts of America)" wikipedia page shows "nut culture", 1928-1954

stalker merit badge 1910-1922, stalking merit badge 1911-1952

invention merit badge 1911-1917. only 10 scouts achieved it, required that they obtained a federal patent

List of discontinued merit badges (Boy Scouts of America)

the very hungry caterpillar superimposed on an illustration of gregor samsa from the metamorphosis as a beetle

one morning, when gregor samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a very hungry caterpillar

A printed poem which reads: I hav for breakfast Weetabix I hav for lunch some meat I have for tea 2 sosajis and thats enuf to eat Peter Hazel, 5

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Three awesome things:
1. Dance TV (and everyone involved)
2. Oral Histories
3. Jay Gabler

Acclaimed Indigenous restaurant Owamni to relocate to Guthrie Theater in 2026 Sean Sherman’s James Beard Award-winning Minneapolis restaurant is leaving Water Works Pavilion, making a dramatic move into the landmark arts venue.

#BREAKING Sean Sherman’s James Beard Award-winning Minneapolis restaurant is leaving Water Works Pavilion, making a dramatic move into the landmark arts venue.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Jane Goodall's work insisting, with evidence from her brilliant and tenacious fieldwork, that we were not so separate from animals, and they were much more like us than the Eurocentric theorists asserted, was so important.

If I'm not gonna post a bunch like a good content creator, I should at least make sure relevant information is up top!

21 Facts About Throwing Good Parties Parties are a public service; here's how to throw them.

#1 - Prioritize your ease of being over any other consideration: parties are like babies, if you’re stressed while holding them they’ll get stressed too. Every other decision is downstream of your serenity.

The first in a two-part series covering the origin and early history of computing, starting in prehistoric Africa and ending in Victorian-era England.

From the BeAmazed community on Reddit: Japanese girl learning English gets the giggles Explore this post and more from the BeAmazed community

Do you like cake?

National Geographic Picture Atlas of Our Universe by Roy A. Gallant, 1980. Front cover art by John Berkey

large group of people a sign cast and crew the thing

The Thing
Cast & Crew

Pictures of the Lancia Orca and its dashboard instrument panel.

The instrument panel for the Lancia Orca (1982) is how I imagined cars of the future would look.

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Based on a *True* True Story? — Information is Beautiful Visually browse the best of Hollywood "true" stories, scene by scene, to see how true or false they really are.

Scene-by-scene breakdowns of how factual these "based on a true story" films are

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Shark is Broken promotional photo

Shark is Broken tickets almost gone

One Battle After Another poster

Just A Peck 0012 // A Birthday, Promo Pics, PTA

https://justapeck.net/2025/09/28/just-a-peck-a-birthday.html

Issue 12 of "Just A Peck" wherein I briefly mention the Criterion Channel, giant squids, picture books, charcoal cats, poker, The Simpsons, and lots of other things I'm excited about.

2025 Small World in Motion Competition View the winning entries from the 2025 Small World in Motion Competition

This year's winners of the Nikon Small World In Motion competition