Jeremy

As much as I love him, I do not believe that Shohei Ohtani is the greatest person to have ever been a person.

Burrowing owlets in costumes-- the one on the left has a pirate hat and the one on the right has a Harley Quinn wig.

Happy Owloween! 🪶

jewels stolen from the Louvre

if you’re still looking for a Halloween costume, someone made a ready-to-print version of the heisted Louvre jewels

💍💎👑

www.etsy.com/listing/4392...

Metformin has been shown to reduce the risk of Long COVID. Why isn’t it more widely used? - The Sick Times Recent studies add evidence to a prior phase 3 clinical trial, suggesting that taking the diabetes drug during acute COVID-19 reduces the risk of long-term symptoms.

Happy to be featured on my thoughts on metformin for (long) covid in this great new piece by @sweetsciencewriter.bsky.social

Colour image of Haida artist Yagulanaas’s ‘Bone Box,’ also associated with his Haida Manga work.

‘Bone Box’ by Haida artist Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas at the Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, BC. “Fabricated out of discarded trays that once stored archeological collections, this interactive work calls for us to engage with one another.”

NDAs seem to be presented here as magical incantations. We can break the spell by treating them as the hot air that they are in this context. They don't even tell us the contents of these NDAs, they just breeze past people holding their wands and making incantations telling us: WITCHES, BEWARE!

The 2025 Black Harvest Film Fest spotlights a pair of hard-to-find restorations The lineup of films from Black filmmakers also includes a documentary about Black farmers in the U.S.

The 2025 Black Harvest Film Fest spotlights a pair of hard-to-find restorations

Gift 🔗

Why Wikipedia editors have deleted entries from the “List of unusual deaths”: “hippos are extremely dangerous and very aggressive and there is nothing unusual about hippos killing people” “the man was working on the toilet, making his death inherently less strange than if he had been using it” “no longer an unusual or unique occurrence” regarding impalement by beach umbrella “being hit by multiple motorcycles in a race is not an unusual death” “fatalities involving objects or animals being launched into oncoming traffic are considered commonplace” regarding a Canadian couple’s fatal collision with a “flying bear”

recently discovered that wikipedia volunteers have a hilariously high bar for what constitutes "unusual death"

📜🏺 With the real ones right now and look at them! They’re so great. I love archaeology and I love being an archaeologist!

LUCASARTS PRESENTS
Columbo in:
SCUMM of the Earth
#pixelart

Don't give up. You can cuss the whole time. But don't give up. Says Skeletor to his literally the worst henchmen.

an animated image with the words did you say free stuff ALT: an animated image with the words did you say free stuff

Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over.

Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.

I have the links

And baptized her painting in a large amount of blank white negative space a little bat done in soft Shades of Gray

Bat and Moon — Yamada Hōgyoku, c. 1830

The miracle of Effin' Birds is that I had to submit all the comics for the 2025 calendar by June 2023, so I wrote this joke somewhere between late 2022 and early 2023.

I remain a shitty Nostradamus.

(Get your 2026 calendars right now at eatf.art)

The Blurring What I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.

Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family.

What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory.

On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers.
www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have developed a cancer vaccine that has shown STUNNING results, PREVENTING up to 88% of MULTIPLE aggressive cancers by harnessing dual-pathway nanoparticles that train the immune system to recognize and destroy tumor cells. In some cases, it COMPLETELY prevented metastasis.

Sad Kermit at window with text "Wishing I had diagonalized inside the degenerate subspace before second order went crazy"

A little treat going into the weekend: the midterm for my quantum mechanics class was a couple weeks ago, and again the students made memes for extra credit.

Let's start out strong with a PSA about the dangers of nondegenerate perturbation theory. Do you know where your good states are?

3 photos 1. joe wright reading review by kylie (5 stars) "why does it zoom on on the pig like that" 2. a frame from the movie of a giant pig. joe wright voiceover:"because this pig turned up on the day" 3. joe wright looking down the barrel of the camera, saying "and it had the biggest balls i'd ever seen in my life"

joe wright, director of pride & prejudice (2005) reading letterboxd reviews

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault

Omg, the solution to CIA's Kryptos being discovered by someone becoming a subject matter expert, going on location, and finding the plaintext sitting in a vault several miles away is the absolute *perfect* ending to Kryptos. You couldn't write it. Just absolutely A+ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...

Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, activist since Stonewall, has died The LGBTQ+ community — and particularly the transgender community — has lost an iconic activist.

Rest in power, Miss Major.

www.advocate.com/news/miss-ma...

A vibrant collage by Tony Fitzpatrick features a peregrine falcon with architectural elements and bold text related to Chicago.

RIP Tony Fitzpatrick. Taught me so much about what it means to love a place so much that you become one with it. A truly singular Chicago artist.

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: 'She is surrounded by love' Trans campaigner and author Miss Major Griffin-Gracy has been moved to hospice care following her hospitalisation earlier this month.

Stonewall veteran Miss Major Griffin-Gracy moved to hospice care: ‘She is surrounded by love’

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

“A whole festival of movies in one movie” is how @thenyff described today’s screening of the 4K restoration of “SHOLAY” the three and a half hour classic Hindi musical western extravaganza from 1975.

It absolutely *is* polite! Cooperative overlap is a supportive and loving way of talking. There are only, like.. one or two cultures where it's _not_ considered polite, and they can go fuck themselves if they think the rest of us have to conform lol www.anildash.com/2021/09/26/c...

[English] Senator Gigantès: Are you into rock? Is there not a singer—Aretha Franklin, yes. Senator Stewart: What is rock? Senator Gigantès: Rock is that music that is so different from Mozart. You hear it generally through your buttocks, because it is played at such a high volume. The ears are emulsified and then it is your buttocks that vibrate to the music of rock. It is very good for losing weight there, especially if you dance to it. (Names of signatories read.)

On this day in Canadian parliamentary history takes us to Senate Hansard from October 9, 1990 (34th Parliament, 2nd Session, Vol. 3, page 2867). A classic of the genre...