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Congratulations to my Congressperson, Mikie Sherrill, Governor-elect of New Jersey! @mikiesherrill.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Congratulations to my Congressperson, Mikie Sherrill, Governor-elect of New Jersey! @mikiesherrill.bsky.social
The drones are back in New Jersey. This is the second night this week that I've observed large, silent fixed wing drones are flying over northern New Jersey.
November 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
The drones are back in New Jersey. This is the second night this week that I've observed large, silent fixed wing drones are flying over northern New Jersey.
Fawlty Towers was essentially an ensemble show, and Prunella Scales' Sybil was a key part. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
Prunella Scales, Sybil on ‘Fawlty Towers,’ Dies at 93
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Fawlty Towers was essentially an ensemble show, and Prunella Scales' Sybil was a key part. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/o...
Every Autumn, I keep thinking the Spice Girls should make a comeback, with a new member named "Pumpkin".
October 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Every Autumn, I keep thinking the Spice Girls should make a comeback, with a new member named "Pumpkin".
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October 4, 1950: Snoopy makes his first appearance!
October 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
October 4, 1950: Snoopy makes his first appearance!
If the Rapture is indeed tomorrow, this is a good time to binge the first season of The Leftovers, a fantastic show with a devastatingly amazing performance by Carrie Coon @carriecoon.bsky.social
September 23, 2025 at 5:02 PM
If the Rapture is indeed tomorrow, this is a good time to binge the first season of The Leftovers, a fantastic show with a devastatingly amazing performance by Carrie Coon @carriecoon.bsky.social
If the Rapture is indeed tomorrow, this is a good evening to binge the first season of The Leftovers, a fantastic show with a devastatingly amazing performance by Carrie Coon.
September 23, 2025 at 12:30 AM
If the Rapture is indeed tomorrow, this is a good evening to binge the first season of The Leftovers, a fantastic show with a devastatingly amazing performance by Carrie Coon.
Happy 50th birthday to Fawlty Towers! The greatest comedy in the history of televison. Review from The Guardian from 1975. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Fawlty Towers review: ‘John Cleese is like an octopus with its elastic wound to bursting’ – archive, 1975
The first episode of Fawlty Towers aired on 19 September 1975 and a month later the Guardian’s TV critic declared it the undoubted comedy of the season
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Happy 50th birthday to Fawlty Towers! The greatest comedy in the history of televison. Review from The Guardian from 1975. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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There is increasing interest in using AI tools not only to listen in on animal speech, but also to potentially talk back
go.nature.com/4pqGYCP
go.nature.com/4pqGYCP
AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them?
The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.
go.nature.com
September 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
There is increasing interest in using AI tools not only to listen in on animal speech, but also to potentially talk back
go.nature.com/4pqGYCP
go.nature.com/4pqGYCP
This is a glorious piece of writing.
This article, its structure, and especially its hall-of-fame kicker should all be taught in writing classes:
The Greatest Fight of All Time
Fifty years ago, Muhammad Ali met Joe Frazier in Manila.
www.theatlantic.com
September 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is a glorious piece of writing.
This will put a smile on your face!
Peter Mutabazi has fostered 47 children and adopted three more. He can trace it all back to a day from his rough childhood, when he met a man who challenged everything he believed: https://cnn.it/4gnYt2H
September 15, 2025 at 12:11 AM
This will put a smile on your face!
Ezra Klein: "But we’re already treating it as borderline banal — and so GPT-5 is just another update... from barely speaking English to being able to intelligibly converse... about virtually anything a human being might want to talk about at a level that already exceeds that of most human beings. "
September 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Ezra Klein: "But we’re already treating it as borderline banal — and so GPT-5 is just another update... from barely speaking English to being able to intelligibly converse... about virtually anything a human being might want to talk about at a level that already exceeds that of most human beings. "
The poor kids who saw this might be a little traumatized, but the video is simply a masterpiece of absurdist expressionism.
Recently released bodycam footage from Tallahassee police shows two officers arriving at the Chuck E. Cheese on July 23 to take Jones into custody. #crime
Video shows Chuck E. Cheese mascot arrested in front of kids
Recently released bodycam footage from Tallahassee police shows two officers arriving at the Chuck E. Cheese on July 23 to take Jones into custody.
www.newsnationnow.com
September 3, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The poor kids who saw this might be a little traumatized, but the video is simply a masterpiece of absurdist expressionism.
If Monet had painted an alien-cheetah hybrid eating a live chicken...
August 30, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If Monet had painted an alien-cheetah hybrid eating a live chicken...
Watching ChatGPT talk to itself is reminiscent of the theory of the bicameral mind in both Westworld (HBO version) and Julian Jaynes' original conceptualization.
August 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Watching ChatGPT talk to itself is reminiscent of the theory of the bicameral mind in both Westworld (HBO version) and Julian Jaynes' original conceptualization.
Heidi was the best. Sigh.
Gardner, who joined SNL in 2017, was the longest-serving female cast member among the show's current cast. www.avclub.com/heidi-gardne...
Heidi Gardner leaving Saturday Night Live after eight seasons
Heidi Gardner leaving Saturday Night Live after eight seasons
www.avclub.com
August 29, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Heidi was the best. Sigh.
Cornish Kern cheese is one of the best things in the entire world.
August 23, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Cornish Kern cheese is one of the best things in the entire world.
Orioles announcer Kevin Brown dropping all sorts of Seinfeld references... master of his domain, pretzels are making me thirsty, import-export... And Ben McDonald is beautifully clueless about it all.
August 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Orioles announcer Kevin Brown dropping all sorts of Seinfeld references... master of his domain, pretzels are making me thirsty, import-export... And Ben McDonald is beautifully clueless about it all.
Orioles announcer, Kevin Brown, just compared Astros' pitcher's minor league journey to George Costanza (the pitcher is Jason Alexander). KB is the best! Last week, when Wilson struck out, he said he was "cast away". Obscure, but awesome references!
August 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Orioles announcer, Kevin Brown, just compared Astros' pitcher's minor league journey to George Costanza (the pitcher is Jason Alexander). KB is the best! Last week, when Wilson struck out, he said he was "cast away". Obscure, but awesome references!
It's great to see this particular Bluesky account promoting Arnold Bax, the most underappreciated, underrated, and unknown composer of all time. Bax rules!
#NowSpinning Bax Nympholept - ‘Stolen by the Nymphs’ - with Bryden Thomson and the London Philharmonic recorded with massive weight in the enormous acoustic of All Saints Tooting. It’s good to get back to Bax after something of an hiatus.
August 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
It's great to see this particular Bluesky account promoting Arnold Bax, the most underappreciated, underrated, and unknown composer of all time. Bax rules!
Sixty years ago this week nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan irrevocably changing the course of humanity. Today, as GPT-5 is introduced, it will also change humanity's course (if you believe the hype).
August 7, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Sixty years ago this week nuclear bombs were dropped on Japan irrevocably changing the course of humanity. Today, as GPT-5 is introduced, it will also change humanity's course (if you believe the hype).
Another earthquake in northern New Jersey!
August 5, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Another earthquake in northern New Jersey!
Earthquake in northern New Jersey!
August 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Earthquake in northern New Jersey!
Beautiful!
Spectacular timelapse capturing an entire night from sunset to sunrise over the ALMA Observatory on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
Video Credit: ESO/C. Malin (christophmalin.com)
Video Credit: ESO/C. Malin (christophmalin.com)
August 1, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Beautiful!
Jaw drop emoji. www.linkedin.com/posts/minuso...
I wish there was a "jaw drop" emoji. | Robert N. Bernard
I wish there was a "jaw drop" emoji.
www.linkedin.com
July 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Jaw drop emoji. www.linkedin.com/posts/minuso...