Alex

My favorite doctor and companion

James A. Lovell Jr., Commander of Apollo 13, Is Dead at 97 He led the three-man crew that survived a near catastrophic explosion in space in 1970, and was later immortalized by Tom Hanks in the movie “Apollo 13.”

Breaking News: James Lovell Jr., commander of Apollo 13, the spacecraft that survived a near catastrophic explosion as it approached the moon, has died at 97.

As Hiroshima marks the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing, many aging survivors express frustration about the growing support of global leaders for nuclear weapons as a deterrence. wapo.st/4owgrUn

Rick Blaine ran guns to Ethiopia. That line repeated in Casablanca only hits now after a million watches. He fought Mussolini’s fascists after the invasion of Abyssinia. Stand up guy that Rick.

Imaging reveals 2,000-year-old ice mummy's 'incredibly impressive' tattoos | CBC Radio Researchers have used high-resolution, near-infrared photography to bring a 2,000-year-old ice mummy's elaborate tattoos back to life and worked with modern tattoo artists to shed light on the tools a...

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Foggy Mountain Breakdown incoming!

One of the things I like about The Gilded Age is that everyone looks like they've been drawn by Kate Beaton.

Ooooooohhhh

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YouTube video by Tom Lehrer - Topic We Will All Go Together When We Go

RIP

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YouTube video by Geoffrey Hettel The Electric Company silent E

RIP the great Tom Lehrer and a reminder to all of his excellent songs on the original Electric Company. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kftn...

Bill Camp is the platonic ideal of a ‘That Guy’ In the past year alone, character actor Bill Camp appeared in Netflix’s “Sirens,” and “Zero Day,” HBO’s “The Gilded Age” and AppleTV+’s “Presumed Innocent.”

Bill Camp is the ultimately That Guy. One of Hollywood’s — and Broadway’s — hardest working actors. Also one of the world’s best. I’ve been fascinated by him for years so I went to New York to find out what makes him tick. My latest:

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Hard agree

“did u finish the work on the terrifying dread kraken to strike fear in the hearts of men”

“sure did boss just like u asked made him goofy as hell all googley eyed and waving his lil tentacles up in the air’

“wait wat”

Moonstruck Nicholas Cage is still my favorite Nicholas Cage.

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Opinion | I Teach Creative Writing. This Is What A.I. Is Doing to Students.

Intellectual Soylent Green. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

SNL’s Mr. Bill showing a doll with yellow hair, blue button eyes with sparkly dots, a red dot nose, a red O face, and a red outfit surrounded by yellow, blue, and red lines

the only big beautiful bill there is

Photo of a bulk bin at a supermarket, the label on which reads "Once Again Tamari Almonds"

/host introducing the musical guest for their second song on SNL voice

Stephen Colbert at the 2006 White House Correspondents' Dinner - Wikipedia

It may not seem so amazing now, but in the context of 2006, Colbert's absolutely searing routine at the White House Correspondents Association dinner was a bright spot and a brave moment during the Bush years. He's gonna blow the doors off on his way out en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen...

THE CAPTION ON THE THIRD PHOTO

I love how small town the Seattle of The Fabulous Baker Boys was. Just like home.

“IT’S THE TITULAR ROLE”

This is like those treeless house developments where they clearcut all the trees and then name the roads after them.

ChatGPT spits out these words because the stolen labor products it was trained on consisted in large part of academics’ writing.

Canada’s Archives Are in Trouble—and So Is Its History | The Walrus Years-long delays, archaic privacy laws, and chronic underfunding are threatening our national memory

As any historian who tries to do research with Library and Archives Canada will tell you, he's not wrong.

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Dr Dunelittle!

The end of an era: Last feline from Parliament Hill cat colony dies | CBC News After putting his name furrward for prime minister and bringing joy to millions of people, the last feline from the beloved former cat colony on Parliament Hill has died.

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I have reached the raspberries/blueberries all the time part of summer break.