Veni Vidi Vixi

I would like to think that it was her card, with contact information that will be useful for following up on what you talked about with her, but she wrote something on the card that now very much makes it *your* card

Casually mentioning that she gave you *your* card is a rather persuasive illustration… probably of what kind of week this is the Friday of for you, or possibly of how valuable being a squid-themed nutjob is.
Either way, I love what you do and I think you deserve a relaxing weekend.

Yikes, that is all too familiar.

This was lovely. Thank you.

It is difficult to blame them, for doing this so well —hate the game, not the player— but it is annoying.

I wish we lived in a world where hype around vapourware made the top ten of what I am annoyed about this year. As it is, I am not sure it makes the top 100 this week alone.

a middle of the night train of thought arrived at this station: the thing that would actually cut average housing costs most would be a New Deal style investment by way of creating federal jobs and building infrastructure in places where housing supply exceeds demand & the climate is livable

Coffee bags, one is Tom of Finland with a Tom of Finland image on it. The other is Moomin with a Moomin leaning on a blueberry. More details: in the photograph of two "Art Roast" coffee bags on the shelf of a store with prices in euros. One of the bags is large and black and says HEAVY DUTY dark roast coffee beans, exclusive blend by Robert [I can't read it, it's in script]. The other is blue and says Blueberry coffee.

ah yes, the two genders

Depending on consistency and what you have it with it can be either, or both at the same time… or if it's been forgotten for too long there is a period of time where —at least to my mind— it is still yoghurt but neither food nor drink anymore.

I don't have data to prove it, but I strongly suspect we're looking at a repeatable recipe for activating an audience to defend their own values, without the side effect of promoting doomscrolling and shitposting over real-world action.

Grain of Hope + Mortality Reminder + Score A Point on Bad Guy

a show poster for Biodiversitease earth day cabaret at starbolt 1936 front st doors 7 show 8, burlesque and drag performances and local vendors and educators performances by Jaeda, mx mossteria, victoria reno, and honeytree evileye. DJ hannibal lickher, Kitten: Pony Corbeau Benefitting: Skype a Scientist, with a bunch of hot babes among the flowers with a QR code to the event

This April we're doing environmental ed a little differently.

Join us for Biodiversitease: an Earth Day Cabaret!

We just don't see any reason why a bodacious bumblebee can't teach you about the critical role of pollinators, ya know?

This *will* sell out. Get tix now
Biodiversitease.eventbrite.com

it is one of those Belgian beers that packs a punch

but I am also curious what you mean by rat processing plant

Delirium Tremens | Delirium IBU: 24,5 Feels like the sound shot of alcohol is igniting the mouth. In reality the tongue and palate are warmed. The taste is characterized by its roundness. The aftertaste is strong, long-lasting a...

the pink elephants

especially with the colour scheme of your picture, pink elephants bring to mind a Belgian beer, called delirium tremens

www.delirium.be/en/beers/del...

say what now?!

The 6 Trillion Dollar Discovery Made in Outback Australia YouTube video by OzGeology

[breathes heavily] Oz Rocks

It's not just the humanities they fail to value. Science for the sake of science is passé too, in their world. It's not even really about _applied_ science… it's the technology of applied science without giving a second thought to how it will in fact be applied.

I love and hate about the English language, how the ambiguity —or outright misdirection— that its grammar allows is sometimes deviously useful and sometimes leads to unfortunate misunderstandings.

I would have thought it would be obvious that that's what you meant.

In my experience, DeepL fares much better than Google or Bing, especially with Finnish grammar. But I would never trust machine translation for any content where accuracy and reliability really matter.

not to be confused with amuse-girl (gueule)

As an end of year gift, I give you a story of leather pants and some Italian travel protips.

Next stop is Las Vegas for CES. Once again, I will be bartending for @edzitron.com. Who knows, you might even hear me on the podcast.

May 2026 treat us well.

A glass of Norman pommeau to celebrate the season. In the background a Christmas tree, an antique mirror, a proper pendulum clock that needs winding up every seven and a half days and is accurate to within two or three calendar months, and a load of tentacles. This house is ridiculously on brand.

A glass to you, sirs, madams, and those uncertain or inbetween.

reindeer filet with a mash of potatoes and sweet potatoes, and lingonberries

thank you for sharing this

Exactly. I love the kind of studies where looking at a painting with other methods than visible light reveals what is on the canvas under the paint, so you can (faintly) see earlier versions of the painting, and it turns out that something about it was very different at first.

I am too old to know what to do with #67.

I love when our youngest visits, because this is something they and I both agree I can do for them. I have not always lived up to my own expectations of good parenting, or theirs. But having food that they like ready for them when they want it, I can do well (within limits we both find reasonable).

Sometimes fucking around with ideas is aiming higher than striving for conventional excellence.
Then again, there is something to be said for aiming to to both, by demonstrating conventional excellence before you fuck around with ideas.

And if the church did not ALWAYS have that imperative, I imagine they learned the lesson after one or more instances of powerful people pissed off with the Church, because some peons chose to go right to heaven instead of doing the work their rulers expected of them.

I am not sure whether it is Batman that caused the lack of critical thinking, but for such a short video, that contains a lot of examples of reaching conclusions not quite supported by the data.