Jonathan "Doktor Archeville" Howell

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

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I do love haiku. Because I can count to five. And then to seven.

In 99% of cases the death of a person is a tragedy. People are generally more complicated than we give them credit and most people are a mix of good and bad.

But not Dick Cheney. Rest in piss you evil bag of shit.

A drawing of colorful bats hanging in a glowing cave. The caption reads, "Today's a good day to really look after yourself."

They literally ruin everything they touch

Incredibly detailed article that brilliantly expands what’s going on and why it’s bad for audiences and the industry.

Illustration of some spooky sea animals featured are goblin shark, vampire squid, ghost shark, and ghost octopus

spooky sea creatures 🌊👻
#art

The same universe that crafted koalas and quasars and crocus petals authored the mind reading these words.
Don't let intimate knowledge of your own life rob you of the dignity and wonder you are owed.

GenAI truly was the worst technology to come along at this moment.

An energy and water guzzler when we most urgently need to take climate action.

A disinformation machine as our journalism fails.

A bias machine as fascism takes root.

A job killer in a cost of living crisis.

Think of what we lost

As an English Professor, I feel this post in my soul.

You get cool stuff, people in crisis get food… sounds pretty magic to me 🤷🏻‍♀️ Join me in casting POWER WORD MEAL!

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Imagine it's 2002 and you're sitting around watching the Man Show and a time traveler appears in the room and tells you about the past 48 hours

Rosh Hashanah starts tonight

May this year be better than last, end war, and bring a long overdue peace

Maybe that’s not reasonable to expect, but prayer has never been about reasonable expectations

Shana Tovah

I will remind folks those images of Nazi book burnings aren't burning just any books. They're burning the library of Magnus Hirschfeld; a gay, Jewish doctor who created an institute dedicated to LGBTQ sex education and healthcare. And a man who pioneered gender affirming care surgeries.

Does painting cows with stripes prevent fly bites? Researchers who studied this win Ig Nobel prize A researcher who studied fingernail growth and a group that explored whether painting zebralike stripes on cows reduced fly bites are among the winners of this year's Ig Nobels.

The 2025 IgNobles are out!!!

Need a bit of joy in your life? A bit of hope in humanity? Try the IgNobles!

(The IgNobles are a series of humorous prizes awarded each year to real research that sounds silly but actually brodens our understanding of the world.)

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The New Official QUEENS OF THE DEAD Trailer Slays (Literally) Death drop takes on a whole new meaning in the official trailer for Tina Romero’s queer zombie horror QUEENS OF THE DEAD, slaying into theaters this October.

Death drop takes on a whole new meaning in the official trailer for Tina Romero’s queer zombie horror QUEENS OF THE DEAD, slaying into theaters this October.

‘Queens of the Dead’ Trailer – It’s Drag Queens vs. Zombies in Tina Romero’s Horror-Comedy George A. Romero’s daughter Tina Romero puts her own unique spin on the zombie apocalyse in Queens of the Dead, and the trailer for the horror-comedy has been unleashed. Watch the official trailer for...

George A. Romero’s daughter Tina Romero puts her own unique spin on the zombie apocalyse in QUEENS OF THE DEAD, and the trailer for the horror-comedy has been unleashed.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth

You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder.

Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow.

Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

Hell yeah Tim Russ! Standing for Treks values ❤️❤️ makes me even more excited to hear him in the next Star Trek Khan episode.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Master Shake telling Meatwad that "I am 30 or 40 years old and I do not need this."

Me, learning what a "groyper" is:

its wild how slippery objective consensus reality is right now

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Sometimes you get high and start waxing idiotic about how The Simpsons is about the journey from Judaism ("Abraham" Simpson) to Hellenism ("Homer" Simpson) and then finally to Christianity ("Bartholomew" Simpson) and then someone tells you to shut the fuck up, and they’re right to do so.

Seriously, humans: learn to tell the difference between “that’s weird and definitely not for me, but it’s not hurting anybody and actually making some people happy” and “that’s going to hurt people and needs to stop.”