Isaac Cates

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In Richardson’s illustration from the Volland “Great Children’s Stories” an old woman asks an anthropomorphic stick to beat an unseen dog, while her pig looks on.

Richardson’s illustration of when she asks the stick to beat the dog has stuck with me a long time.

Watch party when

this RAM crisis feels like it’s going to ruin consumer electronics over the next decade. Bloomberg reports that Sony is considering pushing the PS6 release to 2028 or even 2029 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It’s “Little Tuppens”! I was able to find an archived copy of the book I remember:

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/co...

I had just found it myself! Thanks! What a relief to be able to scratch that mental itch!

Contents: The Three Bears .... The Travels of a Fox .. The Little Red Hen ... The Lambikin The House on the Hill. The Straw Ox .. The Three Little Pigs.. The Three Billy-Goats Gruff Chicken Licken . . . . . The Cock, the Mouse and the Little Red Hen The Old Woman and Her Pig The Cat and the Mouse . Little Tuppens . . . . . Johnny and the Three Goats. The Gingerbread Boy. . The Wolf and the Fox.. Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse The Bremen Town Musicians.

I’m growing convinced that it was in the Volland “Great Children’s Stories” illustrated by Frederick Richardson.

This is the Table of Contents. I’ll let you know what I find out.

My gosh, it was LIKE that, but I’ve certainly never read that one before! I’m quite sure the one I’m thinking of wound up with a happy ending.

I’m starting to be able to see the illustrations in my memory, though. That’s surely a good sign.

iconic shot of Lucas Pinheiro Braathen on the podium

My condolences! That looks like a good lizard

The one I’m thinking of is older than that for sure, since I’m remembering it from childhood. I want to say it’s in a Mother Goose book I had … maybe I can scare up that book and check

Yes, and many children’s books too

I remember it had this sort of potentially interminable plot — like The House that Jack Built, or A Little Bug Went Kerchoo

The first words out of my mouth were the Little Red Hen. Also thought of Henny Penny (aka Chicken Little) … I don’t think those are it though

More white nationalism from the guy we’re letting poison Memphis and drill a hole in Nashville

I’m trying to remember a folk tale where to get one thing done, the animal protagonist has to go ask another character for help, who only agrees to do it if another favor is complete, which requires moving on to ask for help from someone else, one after another.

Maybe it has a chicken? Help!

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”

You can’t trust chatbots.

YouTube video by SWFT Andor: The Great Dictator Speech

Had to watch this again.

If you haven't . . . fix that:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwJ8...

Roses are red
Violets are blue
When he is dead
We’ll drink the night through.

Brooklyn Park, MN, yesterday

On X, I'm seeing claims that, in Brooklyn Park, a blonde woman posed as a stranded motorist. She was purportedly actually ICE and arrested at least one (brown) person who stopped to help her. There are photos of the woman.

Can anyone verify this story?

SoTL is 35.
Loved how Clarice was visibly scared as she decided to stay with Catherine Martin & take Buffalo Bill on. She would rather be anywhere else but that would be leaving a fellow woman to die. She’s still one of the most complex, vulnerable, smart & brave female protagonists in genre cinema.

A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. A man shivers in bed while a smiling lady in a red mask shows off her bandage on her arm. Text: Noses are red Ice packs are blue I'm vaxed so miss me with severe symptoms of flu.

A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. Two lady scientists shrug lackadaisically. Text reads: My love for you can't be explained by science. Just like the new federal vaccine guidelines.

A valentine from Public Health of Seattle and King County. Protesters in Minneapolis wear thick clothes and hold signs of support for immigrant neighbors. Text reads: To the health departments in the Twin Cities: Love unites us. Our hearts are with you.

Oh my GOD King County Public Health is just wilding out for Valentines Day (and a lovely one).

Photograph of P. G. Wodehouse. He standing by a railing wearing a coat and a hat.

#OTD in 1975, humorist P. G. Wodehouse died.

Wodehouse "was an English writer and one of the most widely read humorists of the 20th century."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._W...

Books by Wodehouse at PG:

www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/autho...

#books #literature

A plump and cheerful snow T. rex sitting in a garden. It has little twig arms and pebble eyes.

The snow rex with a small, fluffy, grey yutyrannus plushie sitting between its feet.

Snow rex giving the camera a friendly smile

It snowed enough to sculpt a fat little tyrannosaurus today!

I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.

A glossy black Raven stands on a stump, heavy bill and shaggy throat feathers visible against a muted background. Text reads: “Emotionally devastating. You’re not ready to talk about it.”

A Hoopoe perches on a branch in warm golden light, orange crest fanned dramatically with black tips and bold striped wings visible. Text reads: “Time of break-up: 18:04 New hair: 18:07”

Coral background with faint heart illustrations. A glossy male Blackbird with a bright yellow bill faces left. Large title reads: “Birds as bad exes*” Smaller text reads: “*Yes, you read that right.”

Happy Valentine’s Day, from us to you. Tag your exes. Xoxox

We could literally have, like, healthcare instead of this. And roads and education and strong infrastructure. And commerce, actual jobs doing stuff and making things because people would be able to afford to buy them. And maybe putting cute little hearts on lattes for happy tourists who feel safe.

we were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the catnip began to take hold