Chad Orzel

I'm in the lobby bar of a Boston area hotel and they're playing dance covers of 70s and 80s songs, and it's making me want to murder somebody.

new version of the leo pointing meme just dropped for when you recognize a thing but you hate it

We've noticed a significant uptick in corpse outlines at places believed to haunted. It's hard to tell if these ghost-markers are warning or warding. They often seem to memorialise the dead as appeasement. – Sophie Morley of Woden College's Graffiti Research and Formalisation Team (GRAFT), 1981

This is the hardest "fuck, marry, kill" I've seen in a while.

The good news: We've found a data-storage medium that can outlast clay tablets!
The bad news: Future humans will need a microscope and a good working knowledge of optical physics to read whatever we write there.

I suppose it's not *that* much more difficult than deciphering cuneiform... 🧪⚛️

a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i think i misspoke when i said " no problem " ALT: a man wearing glasses and a white shirt says " i think i misspoke when i said " no problem "

Sadly limited selection of .gifs from the film, so we'll go with this one:

A van has pulled up next to my parked car. It has a large "Quantum Plumbing" logo on the side, with the slogan "phenomenal service!" below, and a cartoon of a strange gnomish bearded man with white pair and pointed ears holding a wrench in one hand and a glowing atom in the other.

I don't want to know what calls for quantum plumbing, but I guess I'm glad it's available if someone needs it.

Hail Hydra.

Why did they train a man who was deaf in one ear to be a radio operator, you ask? Well, Joseph Heller would like a word...

Should also note that my paternal grandfather was in the Army in WWII as well, trained as a radio operator, but when it became clear he was never going to be sent to Europe (as he was deaf in one ear), he asked to be discharged to care for his family.

According to my grandmother, my grandfather was on a transport ship headed from Europe to the Pacific theater when Japan surrendered and they were redirected to New York. They got married in September of 1945.

Paternal: Foreman in a shoe factory.
Maternal: WWII vet (something involving photo processing for the Army in Italy), worked for a printer in NYC after the war.

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

Any time you see someone argue that their opponents are wrong, instead of arguing that they are right, the conclusion should be a negative update about *both sides*.

(And before you try to interpret this as a subtweet, it is about at least three different things I've been annoyed about recently.)

I hereby posit Manheim's Law of Positive-Sum Badness:

In polarized disputes, evidence that one side is stupid, malicious, or evil increases the probability that the opposing side is too.

Yep. Ford represented a very specific kind of Being Cool By Being A Dipshit that used to be right at the heart of American pop-culture depictions of masculinity.

Cary Grant and Jimmy Stewart both excelled at it.

Never underestimate Dave

Yeah, I mean, this application doesn't need a bazillion GPUs, you can do it with Eliza.

I’m in the US military and I’m about to make a fortune betting against me surviving a drone strike. The other gamblers don’t know how slow I run

all-timer sports graphic dropped

There is literally no profession that could team up with Kalshi where my reaction wouldn't be "Wow, this is beneath them."

I have discovered a planet. A wombat-like creature lives there and nibbles infinity. We could travel there through the void. Would you like to teach love there?

The 1800s: When Americans Drank Whiskey Like it was Water Alcohol history is sobering: The sheer amount that the average American drank per year in 1830 is mind-boggling.

Consumption levels in the 1820s and 1830s were just unbelievably high, especially when you consider that the averages imply that a lot of people were drinking quite a bit more than those numbers.

www.pastemagazine.com/drink/alcoho...

National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications The National Academies are accepting submissions to an annual award program that aims to recognize and develop excellence in science communication by research scientists, science journalists, and scie...

The National Academies are now accepting award nominations for Science Communication: www.nationalacademies.org/programs/NAE...

Unfortunately, we don't have any fresh snow, just icy crap from a couple of weeks ago, so it's not even all that good for skiing.

I had hoped we might be done with dog walks in single-digit Fahrenheit temperatures, but no...

Congratulations to the nominees to be the next supreme leader of Iran: Jonathan Isaac, Michael Porter Jr. and Kyle Kuzma

Fellas you gotta dress like Rihanna and get your own rain machine for the musical number, it works

i am 100% not cool enough to be in situations where the coke gets busted out but i'm going to posit that its resurgence in popularity from the '10s on explains more about how politics works across the left-right and insider-outsider spectrum more than most ppl would suspect

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.