John Baughman

George Lucas

I like it! Creature Codex from Kobold Press has something analogous. The Crypt Spider can create a zombie from someone it has killed with its poison. That zombie is essentially a nest for its baby spiders, and when the zombie is killed, a swarm of spiders bursts out. Fun!

Cocteau Twins | Lullabies — Post-Punk.com On October 1st, 1982, Scottish post-punk act Cocteau Twins released their first EP Lullabies. The record was issued only a month after their debut LP Garlands, but had a deeper…

Used for one side of the cover for the Cocteau Twins' first EP. This site credits it to "Dr. Krohn from Praha" while the juxtaposition of it and another of a lily by a different photographer (and the flipside of the EP cover) were collected in a book by Stefan Lorant. post-punk.com/cocteau-twin...

A still from A Clockwork Orange when Alex is held captive and subjected to the Ludovico Technique. His eyes are forced open and he is being shown horrifying images, with a look of fear and disgust on his face.

a man is being tortured by a group of police officers while wearing a gas mask . ALT: a man is being tortured by a group of police officers while wearing a gas mask .

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

Introducing myself with 5 animals I've seen in the wild:

Alaska Peninsula brown bear
Central American eyelash pit viper
Java water monitor lizard
Blacktip reef shark
Little blue penguin

Pretty sure I'm forgetting one or two, but I think it's:

Vieux Farka Touré
Kamasi Washington
Wilco
Elvis Costello & the Imposters
McCoy Tyner

Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task

Not my field, but I did come across this research www.brainonllm.com

In the process right now of trying to get from 12k to 10k. We're about 60% of the way there, I think...

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Who did this?

A sign next to a coastal walking trail shows a stylized figure of a person walking with a rectangle on their back and one arm reaching for a vertical pole. The figure is inside a circle with a diagonal line through it from NW to SE.

No pole vaulting while wearing a jetpack

Borowitz, sadly

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NBC News headline: "Matt Gaetz ethics report released and whooping cough cases rise: Morning Rundown"

Correlation or causation?

This Sept. 15 to Oct. 15, NPR Music celebrates artists from all corners of Latinidad with an ‘El Tiny’ takeover. Anamaria Sayre | October 4, 2024 The Argentine power duo Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso breathe authenticity. They each came up in their own right in an urban scene buzzing with energy, ideas an Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso: Tiny Desk Concert

Speaking of Tiny Desk Concerts, the most popular set of 2024 (18M views) is by “Argentine power duo” Ca7riel & Paco Amoroso. Their music is “heavily dependent on electronic sounds” but for Tiny Desk they went traditional and it sounds great. [youtube.com]

YouTube video by Zona Retro Nelly vs Bee Gees Stayin Hot lobste

Nelly "Hot in Here" x Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive" youtu.be/s8Kzqzd5IT4?...

When I lived on Java, a large tokay lived on the door to the mandi (bathroom) of my house. I loved hearing the loud "to-kaaaayyyy" at night, but I sure was careful opening and closing the door. Needless to say, I moved out before he did.

Pier 1 Issues Formal Apology For Rattan Death March

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@catworkers.bsky.social

2024-07-30_13-25-09_ This is "2024-07-30_13-25-09_" by Timothy Burke on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

OH MY GOD. OH MY GOD!!! vimeo.com/992234287

amplify this not unverified reports until we know more

I can’t believe the Supreme Court just ruled that the president can sleep outdoors in a public space.

OK Brains

fahrvergnügen

Jolene by Dolly Parton, parsed as a csv file by Numbers.app

any file can be a csv file if it has a comma in it

for example:

Photo of the front of The Tasty as seen from the street at night

Using only a restaurant, tell us where you went to college.

I did meet him along with Isaac Stern and had a nice conversation with them

Tony Blair
Geena Davis
Yo-Yo Ma
Chris Hayes
William Rehnquist

The cover of the debut album by the Violent Femmes, showing a barefoot girl in a white dress peering over the edge of the window sill of an abandoned house

I Study Mass Shootings, Now My Town Is Reeling From One As a professor at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, I’ve spent a decade immersed in data on mass shootings. Last week’s horror is still impossible to fathom.

Reflections by my colleague, sociologist Michael Rocque, about last week's mass shooting close to our campus www.thedailybeast.com/i-study-mass...