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The Biting Pear of Salamanca, a large pear bisected with a mouth, sporting an impressive set of chompers. The pear is on a grassy hill, with a river winding its way through the background. A tiny critter sits a few feet away with a camera on a tripod, preparing to take a picture.

@tkingfisher.com Happy 20th Anniversary to the Biting Pear!

Something you can say to anyone thinking they're hot shit and could do this, just get them to admit the beer they were thinking of was mich ultra.

Leftover rhymes include "fork (two-tined)" and "dork, d'you mind?", if anyone requires them. ---- Description: A Far Side cartoon depicting 4 people in surgical scrubs surrounding a patient from whom one surgeon is removing what appears to be a live porcupine. The caption reads "Well, I guess that explains the abdominal pains." Above the comic, two rhyming lines have been added, with another rhyming line added below, so that all the text adds up to the following limerick: In acute pain was Benjamin Horkubind. A treatment, he went to New York to find. "Well, I guess that explains the abdominal pains," Said the surgeon, as Ben was de-porcupined.

Yesterday my crack team of undergraduate limerickologists and I discovered the remains of a lost limerick within a Far Side cartoon, so we've reconstructed the full poem. Peer review is hereby invited, as we plan to formally publish our findings on a prestigious bathroom stall door later this year.

the-unflappablewolf Who would you trust more? total stranger in a star trek shirt? 94.5% total stranger in a star wars shirt? 5.5% 99.421 Stimmen • Verbleibende Zeit: 2 Tage 23 Stunden thebaconsandwichofregret No exaggeration, the vote split on this poll is hysterical.

No but this is entirely correct

I don’t know a single mans guy who plays that game

The Scotts

The UTU2TM logo

EMERGENCY EP OF U TALKIN U2 2 ME!!

The Scotts mobilize forces as U2 break a 3 year rut with a brand new EP full of protest music - DAYS OF ASH. They listen to the tunes, share their impressions, but not before some necessary sub-podcasts about film, thread, and even the Boss!

a man with a beard says " now that 's a name i 've not heard in a long time . Alt: "now that 's a name i've not heard in a long time ."

> Jack Thompson

unrelated but I am reminded of Armond White giving an interview to a movie podcast where he threatened to lead a discussion by going frame-by-frame through Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen and explaining how it was better than Citizen Kane

As I've grown I found I've become a little more squeamish about violence, stylized or otherwise. And many shootings later, I think most of us have identified a different--parallel, certainly--mechanism that radicalizes young people toward violence.

Why does the Jack Thompson shit hit so good. Reminds me of a simpler time. And he would give interviews to gaming outlets.

Smaller specialized models that could conceivably be run on a home server represent a huge potential threat especially to OpenAI, who have a clear self interest in ChatGPT requiring hundreds of gb of ram just to load it once.

Still think Succession is one of the best shows I’ve ever seen, if not the best, but I still fear it won’t hit the same in ten years time because it relies so much on the specificity of its language, and what American corporate enterprise cared about at the time. Things are already so different irl.

I was going to write something about the State of the Union address today, but Jonathan Bernstein did a way better job of nailing it:

SpongeBob and Leisure Suit Larry

This is why Kamala lost

I am not gonna entertain it but I am having a “Never thought I’d die fighting side by side with an elf” moment

I clicked on this and watched about 45 seconds before snapping out of its boilerplate attention grabbing “they don’t want you to hear this” spiel before looking into who made it and discovering it’s an argument being put forth by apologetics christians

If you’re like me and you’ve picked up many coping mechanisms for inattentive adhd, every February without fail you’ll check the calendar to see if it’s a leap year

A niffen in Zaralek Cavern wearing a cowboy hat

After Joe Wilson shouted “you lie” at Barack Obama, the Republicans went on to win the midterms the next year.

It can’t hurt to look around just a little can it

did will navidson teach you people nothing

Not every new datacenter has to be an AI datacenter. Some of them can host TF2 community servers.

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

love my little shithead

well shit, would you look at that!

YouTube video by The Elephant Graveyard A Guy By Any Other Name (Elephant Graveyard Radio Hour Ep. 13)

oh my god let's goooooooo www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7AR...

Text message that reads “It’s JD Vance. I wish I could call you…”

This is the kind of thing a rich CEO says at the beginning of a science fiction movie to establish for the audience that he is a sociopath and the villain.