Start your week with Prince smoking the While My Guitar Gently Weeps solo

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

>>SATIRE HR Department Asks if You Plan on Being Chronically Ill Next Quarter, Too MyBodyIsTryingTokillMe.com [pic of paperwork being handed over table]

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

imagine being this big of a fuckin loser

(alternate french history) damn these tree potatoes are amazing sweet

8675309 is prime, and so is 8675311, so if you ever need a middlin'-large pair of adjacent primes to test your cryptographic suite, all you need is a 1980s earworm and a +2 and you're all set.

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

I have been thinking about this line today, on the value of editors, from the late great John Bennet, for no reason in particular.

Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free”

the library bought it.

which in turn means that the community bought it.

In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.

HOLY BIBLE Holy Bible © @Holy_Bible1 Follow Matthew 18:19 MATTHEW 18:19 "He prayed for her, she prayed for him and God smiled knowing that their names are already written next to each other."

AI slop now making up saccharine Bible verses that do not exist

Describing something as being on its last legs implies that legs are expendable and they are lost with age. I can only assume, therefore, that the phrase was coined by millipedes. Millipedes do not shed legs with age, but they could afford to lose a few. Imagine a 3 legged millipede...

a murderer pushes me from a moving train but i just happen to land on a horse being ridden by train robbers and they make me get back on the train and rob it with them but when i see the murderer, i treat him with respect and kindness while i rob him, showing him that i am the better person

We lost something as a culture when kids stopped doing weird as fuck Universal Monsters puzzles. #FilmSky #Halloween

If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years

I’ve shoplifted food (from a large multinational) when my EBT card was at $0, I _know_ that SNAP isn’t enough. And I’ve been horrified at those telling folks why not to help if everyone’s EBT cards are empty instead of focusing on how to help.

I will never not repost this

(Sound on for maximum effect)

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

Prime Day what? Bookshop.org is offering FREE SHIPPING for October 7-8! Buy books, get free shipping, support local bookstores! Easy!

#primeday #antiprime #freeshipping #supportlocal #supportindie

Friend: I found your doppelganger

*shows you picture of the worst looking person you've ever seen in your life*

NYC subway train car with ad wrap on the outside. Gross

I would honestly rather see graffiti on NYC subway cars.

Picture of a bunch of crab signs next to a gas station on rt 1 in Lewes, the best one is the one that just has CRAB spray painted on a piece of plywood

CRAB

Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days

Newborn Loses Faith In Humanity After Record 6 Days https://theonion.com/newborn-loses-faith-in-humanity-after-record-6-days-1819573929/

True story - the two main ingredients in Mercolized wax were petroleum and ammoniated mercury.

Honestly, we’re lucky any of our grandmothers had faces.

Daniel Day-Lewis shooting the iconic motorcycle chase after Magua at the end of The Last Of The Mohicans.

Battle axe. Stuffed bear. Mace. Pillow. Cactus. Blanket. These are just a few of the things you should not have in a baby's sleep space.

Oh Moby Dick, I clutch thy heart at last!

I know that a lot of people are sad about the Robert Redford news, but for me it's a little more complicated considering he once offered me $100 to sleep with my wife

We all know ‘tragedy’ comes from Greek.

‘tragos’ = goat

‘aeidein’ = to sing

So ‘tragedy’ originally meant “goat song.”

Not to be confused with the GOAT song, which is probably “Fast Car” by Tracy Chapman.

My floaters are syncing up nicely with my tinnitus so there’s my afternoon entertainment