Tony in ‘t Veld-Brown

The soft opening for this was telling teachers to necromance chatbots out of Anne Frank. There’s a historical parallel to this I’ve been chewing on, a bit of gristle stuck in my teeth since I wrote this footnote about a public debate in Weimar Germany on the educative potential of replicas. 🧵

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Number 598: a baseball cap that informs people whether or not you’re circumcised

I can think of another word beginning with ‘s’ that it is trying to do!

I’d love to say a successful training day at Border Security, but Ahmed works in catering and now I have so many questions…

I’ve seen this reposted many times now, and each time the photo reminds me of this:

Is he cleverly avoiding being eaten by a graboid?

[Doctor looking at chart]

It may be —for now— a mild form of fatal hemorrhagic fever.

Dammit… I now have ‘The Frog Chorus’ as an earworm!

Maybe he had a secret heart transplant a few weeks ago, and ‘his’ heart being 14 years younger is the only truthful part of that statement?

Love that video and the intermittent fireballs… not hard to see where the myth of fire-breathing dragons came from!

One day in the summer of 1942, after the onset of the deportations of the Jews from Holland to “the East”, a student, who was a courier for the ASG student underground group in Amsterdam, approached the de Vries family, asking them to hide a Jewish child. The de Vrieses, who had two children of their own, decided to accept the offer despite the risk that was involved in hiding Jews, and soon four year-old Louise Pinto was brought to their home.

Amid the smoke bombs and screams that ricocheted throughout a South Shore building last month during a massive military-style immigration raid, one man heard a knock on his door. On the other side was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for his help. “I wasn’t planning on letting her stay, but I didn’t know what the hell was going on,” the man said of his Venezuelan migrant neighbors. But he quickly relented. The little girl was inconsolable and hid under his bed. “I didn’t want them to take her,” said the man, who didn’t want to be named because he fears he’ll be targeted by federal authorities for his actions. “I gave her my bedroom, and I just told her, ‘Just stay there. Don’t open, don’t, shh, just stay quiet,’” he recalled telling the mom and daughter as he choked back tears.

Remember that there are righteous people among us, always.

Left: Netherlands, 1942

Right: Illinois, 2025

stop thinking right now

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

Two kittens asleep in a fluffy basket on top of a kitchen table. The tabby is nuzzled up to the tuxedo’s neck

A few moments later…

Fell asleep while grooming each other!
#Caturday

Born on this day 1937: World Cup winner and Manchester United legend, Bobby Charlton.

It’s extraordinary that Biden’s main weaknesses were inflation and cognitive decline and now America has inflation and cognitive decline as well as tariffs, authoritarianism, blatant corruption, etc

The 126,000-Year-Old Butt-Drag That Rewrote What Counts as a Fossil - Climate Ages Image Created with CANVA and Adobe Express Image Created with CANVA and Adobe Express How a small animal’s odd habit turned into one of the...

Roses are red
The wind makes the trees jostle
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Screenshot from the Troostwijk auction site showing a white bread slicing machine… the description says “Spronk and his bread slicer”

The automatic translation on this Dutch auction site occasionally throws up something quite poetic!
#LostInTranslation

My photo shows a pile of shiny Roman gold coins below five fragments from a grey pot

Pot of gold!

Rare Roman gold coin hoard uncovered near Didcot, Oxfordshire, by a metal detectorist in 1995. The pot contained 126 gold aurei, struck between AD 54-160. It would have taken a legionary soldier over ten years to earn this large sum!

Ashmolean Museum 📷 by me

#FindsFriday
#Archaeology

Farage is being interviewed. He says “I WAS ABOUT 14 AND IT WAS OVER THE PHOTO OF EVA BRAUN”. The interviewer says “ERM... I ASKED YOU ABOUT THE WEST BANK”

this high quality gag came from someone who is also here but as he hasn’t posted it himself I assume he doesn’t want to be tagged to share in the glory

The 6 panel Bronze Medal meme. The top left panel shows an athlete bowing his head to receive his medal, but the athlete is now Freddy Krueger. The top right panel shows him biting down on the medal. The middle left panel shows him kissing the woman who placed the medal around his neck. The middle right panel shows him shouting with joy as he sticks up two middle fingers. The bottom left panel has him opening a lively bottle of Champagne. The bottom right panel shows him spraying his face with Champagne as he chugs from the bottle. He's standing on the 3rd place podium, which features the number 45+ (his rough killcount). Michael Myers is standing on the 2nd place podium with a killcount of 150+. On the 1st place podium is Jason Voorhees, with an approximate killcount of 160+. Before anyone dives in to tell me that, actually, I'm wrong because so-and-so has killed more people than such-and-such, I don't care. I looked at numerous sites that claim to have answered this exact question, and Michael and Jason often swap places, so I just went with the character I like more.

The Slasher Olympics heralds the start of this year's Hallowmeme Countdown.
🎃

A black and white version of the "Screaming Woman and Cat" meme, but the screaming woman and her friend have been replaced by the aliens from 'They Live'. The cat is now Nada (Roddy Piper) who is wearing his sunglasses and looking like he's all out of bubblegum.

The 4 panel Drake meme. The top left panel shows the usual smiling Drake pointing at the object in the top right panel, which is an unopened xenomorph egg from 'Alien'. The bottom left panel shows the usual image of Drake turning away, except he's now wearing a facehugger. The bottom right panel shows a fully opened xenomorph egg.

The "Disaster Girl" meme, showing a girl turning to face us with a sly smile on her face, but the scene behind her is the prom-from-hell scene in "Carrie" (1976) with everything on fire and no hope of escape.

The "Defending Against A Knife Attack" WikiHow meme, but the gentleman with the knife in his hand now bears a passing resemblance to Peter Cushing's Van Helsing, and instead of a blade, he's wielding a wooden crucifix. The person trying to ward him off is clearly a vampire, but he doesn't look anything like Christopher Lee because I couldn't be arsed to draw him.

Previously:

All my comics have happy endings!

Nachdem er bei Friedensnobelpreis leer ausging: Trump lässt Oslo bombardieren Oslo, Washington (dpo) - Nachdem der diesjährige Friedensnobelpreis nicht an Donald Trump vergeben wurde, hat der US-Präsident heute der Luftwaffe bef

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It was two OUP books.

Great 🧵

I wonder if Trump will also be angry at not being included in Wisden's top five cricketers of the year, without understanding the criteria involved.

The government shutdown only exposes how broken our two-party system is, especially when one party has bowed to a wannabe dictator. #Trump #GovernmentShutdown #Democrats #Republicans #partisan #extinction #dinosaurs #GOP #Dictatorship