David Byron

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

Commuters on the Omnibus, 1864. Demonstrating that manspreading is a problem as old as public transportation! By Honoré Daumier, born OTD 1808.

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Fun fact. Ancient Egypt lasted so long that Ancient Egyptian archaeology was a career in Ancient Egypt.

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“Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken 🐓 🚗 it is bigger than the car”

Bluesky, or Tuesday randomness, juxtaposed that image with this one in my feed:

It ought to be noted that the Epstein scandal revealed not just a bunch of people wiling to rape children and suck up to people who did so, but also that a lot of elite people are just loathsome bigoted human beings.

Painted snowy urban street scene with figures walking about, including a boy with a shovel

"Winter Scene from My Window," 1933, by Allan Rohan Crite, influential Boston-based African American artist & illustrator whose work is now on view in a show at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibiti...

Good was a height so lofty the weather decided not to climate

The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao

BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

The only sure way to vet that email is to check with the upstream provider

Switch backside 1260 sounds like a southern parent’s disciplinary threat

Bad Beany

Just unspeakably cruel

Prepare for rampant gilding of the interior

A Letter On Justice And Open Debate About Raping Children Does Anyone Have Harper's Email?

www.popehat.com/p/a-letter-o...

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society.

How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

If the world starts melting, do not be alarmed. They say the aquatic solids go first, so there should still be time to find our way back to the flash freeze.

Civil litigator here with years of experience of business people’s emails to each other in disclosed evidence for disputes.

As a general rule: the senior the business person, the less effort they put into emails, and the more effort expected from those reading them.

Effectively a mark of rank.

Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme

IF YOU ARE A LAWYER AND ARE INTERESTED IN BEING AN AUSA DM ME!

Nevermind the jobs you had. Tell me five classes you took in college!

- Prosody in Milton (OB Hardison)
- Castellology (Philippe Durand)
- Literature and Debates in the Art of Revolutionary France (Thomas Crow)
- Transcendental Arguments (Carol Rovane)
- Post War Avant Garde (Johanna Drucker)

A targeted combination therapy achieves effective pancreatic cancer regression and prevents tumor resistance | PNAS Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has one of the lowest cancer survival rates. Recent studies using RAS inhibitors have opened the door to mo...

The paper: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Prey 2017, which has nothing substantive to do with the earlier game of that title.

Prey is the most polished, tuned, and interesting example of the immersive sim. Nothing else in the genre can touch it… so far!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for crediting the source here. Her cartoons have been used so widely for so long, seldom with attribution. Again you show that you’re a force for good in this world!

∴ Sox = -hat

Shovel, hanging in space

Marcel Duchamp, "In Advance of the Broken Arm," 1915 www.moma.org/collection/w...

I wish we had a tradition of PMQ in the United States. Drag the president down to the House and have an adversarial setting for weekly examinations.