Penelope

Plain, a goodly amount of cream cheese. Not toasted. Lox if I’m feeling fancy.

The Hugo Blackstreet Boys

The dramatis personae of the 19th century play Too Much Johnson which concludes with the lines ACT I—JOHNSON! ACT II—JOHNSON!! ACT III—JOHNSON!!!

Found this, while attempting to answer the inevitable questions.

JOHNSON!
JOHNSON!!
JOHNSON!!!

Honky Tonk Blues? In this economy? Shan't. I can maybe, *maybe* give you the beat, boys, if your soul needs to be freed.

Have you seen the rent these days? Surely you cannot expect that I will give you shelter simply because you demanded it.

When people were having loud sex in the college dorms, a friend liked to turn speakers to the walls and play "C Is For Cookie" at full blast. It worked *almost* every time.

Maybe a finer sized decomposed granite?

I know exactly the part you mean, and I literally thought "I bet Kathryn's watch threw an alert tonight"

I really like Ellipsus, even though not having pages (yet) is taking some real getting used to. Not having AI anywhere near it is enough to make me put up with the lack of pages.

And a publication covering immersive theatre, too! 😆

🧵 I’m in my sickbed, looking tragic yet beautiful [think Lord Byron], & considering the world.

There is no doubt about it, that everyone feels at least a little anxious & some of us, afraid.

So let me share 10 small things to help you feel less on edge & more mellow?

Canadian Comedy ‘North Of North’ Renewed For Season 2 At Netflix On the heels of a successful Season 1, Canadian Arctic comedy North of North will be back for a second season at Netflix, the streamer announced today.

Great news for fellow #NorthOfNorth fans!

This is SO highly state dependent that you really can’t make generalized advice like this without knowing the specific states and details. someone who lives in NJ and works in NY would be screwed by following this advice. Unless it was an aspirational “should” like “this ideally should be the law”

“You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.”

“It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a Grue.” is also a strong contender tbh

Mr. Miyazaki sir, I love your movies about how capitalism and the destruction of nature are evil, I made a shitty facsimile of them in a computer that drains reservoirs, do you like it

As promised, purchased! 🙌

Can these be stickers, please? We would buy them immediately.

Absolutely fantastic—and fascinating—interview. Thank you for this.

Katie Dowd's travel articles are universally worth reading.

I cannot emphasize enough that the New York City subway is not scary. It’s one of my favorite parts of living here. I grew up in the suburbs having to drive on highways everywhere and that’s way scarier

Is this an action the law allows him to take?

I appreciate how open you are, generally. I met you at Worldcon many a year ago in San Antonio and I appreciated then how open to meeting new people you were too!

This is a civil lawsuit and not criminal charges, despite what the AG said. You’d think the USAG would know the difference, but that’s where we are right now.

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books? Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

"...the imagination is not an optional extra, which we can humour in our children but safely discard in adulthood. It is at the very heart of everything. It is deadly serious, the necessary condition of political change, of love. It is the sharpest tool of ethics." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It makes me very happy that this character shows Jersey City some love ❤️

Cardinals can be members of religious orders that have special customary dress! Cardinal Seán O'Malley is a member of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin, a Franciscan order. So you see photos of him wearing his Franciscan habit/tunic along with his red zucchetto (the little hat they wear).

every example of how AI could be useful is like “if you were eating cereal, AI could tell you what cereal you were eating”

At a time where it feels like we're losing, we need to remember our victories that not only have happened in the past, but continue to exist today.

Thus I give you, California Condor 926 of the SoCal flock.

Great grandchild of Condor # 1.

We as humanity can still do good things.

#birds

A caption from an exhibition in the Science Museum in London about a model of an Apollo 11 lunar module built by a 12 year old boy, which reveals at the very end that the creator of the model now works as Curator of the Museum’s Space Technology Collection.

I went to the Science Museum yesterday and as well as having a ball with my nearly four year old in their amazing child spaces (god love free London museums) I was utterly charmed by this caption.

They Debated Hawaiian Beliefs, But Didn't Listen to Native Hawaiians Welcome, new subscribers! If you just subscribed to this newsletter as a result of my livestreamed conversation with Rebecca Solnit et al., then you can read...

Historians have long believed that native Hawaiians greeted Captain James Cook as a god... until a spicy debate broke out 30 years ago.

In my newsletter, I look into why neither side of this infamous debate included any Hawaiian perspectives. And why it matters.

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