Mr. Magnifico

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Screenshot of a 17th century record. Mac Preview has highlighted some it and offer options: “Add To Contacts... Call ٥٣٠٢٥٢١- Using iPhone FaceTime FaceTime Audio Message ٥٣٠٢٥٢١٠ Large Type Look Up "٥٣٠٢٥٢١٠٠ Writing Tools”

my mac doing its best to telephone a seventeenth century ecclesiastical record 🗃️

It’s basically the baptism scene from “The Godfather”

U2, Brute?

Hostage Ford a Day

#TurnJohnCandyIntoACarByInsertingOneLetter

Insignia of the 721st Bombardment Squadron, showing Disney character Jose Carioca riding a bomb

One of my relatives dropped bombs on fascists while serving in the 721st Bombardment Squadron. Their emblem was Jose Carioca, a Disney character.

You deploy vast legal resources to defend your intellectual property, but when your fundamental right to free speech, and of all Americans, is attacked, you fold without a fight.

Bye, Disney+

"Peter! Susan! Edmund! Lucy! Where have you children been?"
"Narnia?"
"What's Narnia?"
"Narnia business."

I once made a table-based WWI game that was too bloody and depressing to play.

If he takes questions after his announcement scheduled for today, any member of the White House press corps worth their salt would ask one along these lines:

"Sir, can you count backwards from 100 by 7s?"

"Sir, can you tell us today's day, month, and year?"

A spider just crawled onto my whiteboard to-do list so now I have to spider.

Slightly diminish a band:

Neutral Skim Milk Hotel

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

YouTube video by Big Maceo - Topic Kidman Blues

youtu.be/8IETLP_t2ls?...

Sir Humphry Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
- Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Pity the poor conservative intellectuals who will constantly fight against the stigma that they are "viewpoint diversity hires"

BREAKING: In a newly-signed executive order, Trump imposes 100% tariffs on Japan "unless and until The Pokémon Company removes the pokémon DEIno from all products across all platforms."

Get Back is, among other things, about a man who left his home in Tucson, Arizona

YouTube video by Quinns Quest Quinns Quest Reviews: Delta Green & Impossible Landscapes

I’m very unlikely to play or run it ever but I enjoyed every minute of this video breaking it down: m.youtube.com/watch?v=mx_y...

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?

guard: [looking away] fine

wife: did something happen?

guard: [tearing up] no

wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

When that D-Day documentary talked about the German counterattack near Mortain shortly after the Normandy landings and said it was to be "the last counteroffensive in the West" well, I had some thoughts

Did Inadequate Women’s Healthcare Destroy Star Wars’ Old Republic? Why didn’t they just go to a goddamned obstetrician-gynecologist?

Scarily even more relevant now than when it was written: www.vice.com/en/article/w...

The educational version of Word Realms we made 11 years ago was no longer available anywhere, so we made it available somewhere:

horrible.farm/index.php?id...

In-game text that reads "You have won."

I had the insight.

Aha!

Aw, man, giving the left-handed tool to the left zombie arm didn't do anything special.

This is hard! Figured out some stuff that made me feel very clever but I've still only found 4 zones.

Catacombo by ZapJackson Delve dungeons by combining cards

I just published my entry in the 2025 7-Day Roguelike Challenge. It's called Catacombo and I think it's pretty cool.
zapjackson.itch.io/catacombo

Caligula was twenty-five years old when he became Emperor. Seldom, if ever, in the history of the world has a prince been more enthusiastically acclaimed on his accession or had an easier task offered him of gratifying the modest wishes of his people, where were only for peace and security. With a bulging treasury, well-trained armies, an excellent administrative systems that needed only a little care to get it into perfect order again . . . with all these advantages . . . what a splendid chance he had of being remembered in history as "Caligula the Good", or "Caligula the WIse", or "Caligula the Saviour"! But it is idle to write in this way. For if he had been the sort of man that the people took him for, he would never have survived his brothers or been chosen by Tiberius as his successor.

I keep thinking about this passage from Robert Graves' "I, Claudius" lately.

There is a fairly large swath of 70s movies that to this day I have never seen whose plots I know thanks to MAD Magazine parodies.