Mike Wood

Hooboy!
If you read it and then feel the tingle...

I love/hate this so much.
So, I guess... thank/fuck you.

Hard to believe the people who told me “have fun being poor” would make such bad risk management decisions.

"He held his breath for just a moment, as he buttoned the collar around his delicate, welcoming ham wallet."

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

without the possibility of meaningful consequences journalism is robbed of any meaning, and descends into an exchange of empty, outdated signifiers

But what if the "something beautiful trying to reach me" is actually the "black vacuum of future heartbreak, presently disguised in a cashmere sweater" ?

THIS IS A VALID FEAR

Conan is always a fun pull.

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

Bring back shame.

I have busted
the ghost
that was in
your hood

and which
you were probably
scared of
and screaming

Forgive me
busting
makes me
feel good

PERIODIC REMINDER:
our enemy is the billionaires

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Yeah, but think how strong our bargaining position is now that they know we'll fold at the last second under virtually identical circumstances.

A stack of posters in green ink on off white paper. In the center is a woodcut style illustration of a protester wearing an inflatable frog costume standing up against two ICE agents. The text above and below reads: VIVE LA RIBBITSTANCE

Yes these are good gonna print a batch

From tiny tool to tusk: How pre-Romans mastered elephant butchery and bone crafting - Türkiye Today In Rome, at Casal Lumbroso, humans butchered a straight-tusked elephant with stone tools, shaped its bones into larger tools around 404,000 years ago

Innovation-thru-destruction:
it's the Human way!

"Our study shows how, 400,000 years ago in the area of Rome, human groups were able to exploit an extraordinary resource like the elephant -- not only for food, but also by transforming its bones into tools."
h/t: @rogueclassicist.bsky.social

"He has the heart of a humanitarian -- in a jar on his desk."

How perfect is it, that LLMs have no capacity for curiosity? Like a bad date.

"Bluetooth or Lunatic?" was a fun game in public, back when everyone had telephone earpieces.

A.I. now provides the same deductive challenge, but with video and text.

The full circular circle, from "jerk" to "firing"

A Star Wars Sister Act crossover film called Force of Habit

In a woodcut released today the Guild of Thieves and Cutpurses declared that enforcement of regulations against Thieving and Pursecutting would ‘devastate a growth industry’ and damage the economy.

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson teases release date for Christmas album

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

"Canada saw the most dramatic fall, with U.S. spirits exports plummeting 85% ..."

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

That's antifa for you. {eyeroll}

* was

Nowadays we can skip right to the second half, to start learning what we have to do now.

"The political ineptitude of the magnates of industry and finance was no less than that of the generals and led to the mistaken belief that if they coughed up large enough sums for Hitler he would be beholden to them."

Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)