Worse-ula Owen

It should be illegal for paper to cut under fingernails. It's just incredibly rude. How dare.

This is extremely true and I continue to think that some part of it is deep, semi-conscious shame & embarrassment. If he's an absolute moron, what does it say about us that we let him get this far? They're stuck in the bluff with him.

Ig Nobels to move awards to Switzerland due to concern over US travel visas The annual ceremony of the Ig Nobels, a satirical award for scientific achievement, is normally held in the United States. This September it will take place in Zurich after organisers deemed the US “u...

It's come to this: The Ig Nobel Awards, presented at Harvard or MIT since the 1990s, is moving to Zurich because the US is not safe for foreign visitors
www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research...

The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣

I went to the freshly baked artisan B factory and nobody knew you 👀

Picture of a broken sign reading 'freshly baked artisan B' lying on the ground in a parking lot

New gender identity just dropped

Operation Epic Fury [I slide one foot out from under me and fall on my ass. It's not clear what kind of move I was trying to do]

Assuming $10/tail, this is 740,000 lobster tails in a month... are they just being served to service members? Or are we working on a Strategic Lobster Tail Reserve??

A picture of Marco Rubio shoes that are too large for him

I’m a grown man who works for the president of the United States who is afraid to not wear the shoes he bought me that do not fit

Idiot plot

So, uh. In disability studies we call this a "disability dongle" or a techno-utopian solution to a problem that appeals to the able-bodied imagination rather than the actuality of disabled life itself.

Deploying a LLM to translate a legal notice for an asylum seeker functions similarly.

A thread that will remain in my memory forever

The phrase is “do you really mean that?”

A simple “are you fucking for real?” or “bitch, be for fucking real,” would work just fine IMO.

The Unmaking of the American University For decades, research universities have relied on federal funding, with no guarantee that it will last. Now their survival may depend on compliance with the government.

“How did universities not see the assault coming?” Nicholas Lemann on the precarious position of higher education in Trump’s America

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

A headline reading “Camel pageant thrown into chaos after 20 competitors disqualified for using hump-plumping injectables”

Yes everything is terrible but let’s not lose sight of the fact that someone has written the Headline to End All Headlines.

the history will continue until morale improves

in case you've never seen it, this is Roger Ebert on The Mummy

Okay…let’s do this another way

Raise your hand if you WERE NOT on the pervert’s sex island

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

Sitting in the aisle between Mamdani and Khalil and making myself everyone's problem

I have not seen it! My husband is watching The Last of Us and it shows up there

I'm sorry I just get tired of post-apocalyptic fiction where the author(s) takes all the worst inferences about humanity all the time

Cannibalism is not 👏 a sustainable 👏 food 👏 strategy 👏 for the post-apocalypse 👏 unless you have a lot of people in your community dying on a regular basis in ways that do not make them unsafe to consume!

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

Octavia E. Butler said, “These novels are not prophetic. These novels are cautionary tales… The problems that I write about are problems that we can do something about. That's why I write about them.”

And “I hope they're not prophecy because I don't want to live in that world.”

Writing is intention, choice, communication. AI doesn't do that. So human writers are always better because they are writing rather than algorithmically generating a statistically likely sequence of words.

Who's the better writer? An original human author or the bot that stole writings from a near infinite pool of authors and paraphrased it in a way that seems human?

It really is striking the difference in immediacy in the arguments for and against the #WALeg Millionaires Tax.

Against, we have a bunch of slippery slope nonsense and crocodile tears about GOP's wealthy donors.

For, we have special ed teachers like Stephanie dealing with reality:

Coin used as Leeds bus fare was 2,000‑year‑old currency The coin was handed down to Peter Edwards from his grandfather in the 1950s.

This is the sort of thing a cashless society robs us of, the opportunity to try to get away with paying the bus fare in Carthaginian currency www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What’s your late winter look?

1. haunted cottage witch
2. cozy tea goblin
3. bleary eyed night owl
4. shambling darkness