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Dolly and Jane were writing obscenities. Gertrude was laughing in the cloakroom. All got slapped. Honestly, the girls were just beta-testing group chat.
#SlateScandals #CloakroomCrew #BuckinghamshireArchives
#SlateScandals #CloakroomCrew #BuckinghamshireArchives
We recently received this punishment book from Dorney School from 1901 and it's an amazing little window into school life in the early 20th century! Here's one page with several students, including Jane Hubbard and Dolly Tullman who were writing obscenities on their slates.
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Dolly and Jane were writing obscenities. Gertrude was laughing in the cloakroom. All got slapped. Honestly, the girls were just beta-testing group chat.
#SlateScandals #CloakroomCrew #BuckinghamshireArchives
#SlateScandals #CloakroomCrew #BuckinghamshireArchives
Though physics claims that time does not advance,
My deadlines laugh and lead a cruel dance.
My deadlines laugh and lead a cruel dance.
What is time? Rather than something that ‘flows,’ a philosopher suggests time is a psychological projection
Is time real, or an illusion? The best answer may be neither: Both physics and philosophy suggest that time is a projection of the mind onto a timeless reality.
theconversation.com
November 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Though physics claims that time does not advance,
My deadlines laugh and lead a cruel dance.
My deadlines laugh and lead a cruel dance.
Bottom line: Once Vermont’s legislation passes, there will be existing manufacturers ready to sell into the state immediately, along with new entrants waiting for additional UL clarity, who are also preparing to launch,
New Hampshire and Vermont could be next to introduce "balcony solar"
Cheap, plug-in systems that reduce people's bills without red tape are piquing bipartisan interest.
www.motherjones.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Bottom line: Once Vermont’s legislation passes, there will be existing manufacturers ready to sell into the state immediately, along with new entrants waiting for additional UL clarity, who are also preparing to launch,
It’s like we built the scaffolding for transcendence and then installed a trampoline at the bottom for maximum bounce-back into chaos.
Instead of a sleek AI takeover, we’re stuck in a feedback loop of tech-enabled dysfunction—the SoS you nailed.
Instead of a sleek AI takeover, we’re stuck in a feedback loop of tech-enabled dysfunction—the SoS you nailed.
We’re quite deep within the Singularity right now, though it’s turned out be the Singularity of Stupid (SoS), which effectively prevents the original concept of the Singularity from happening.
September 8, 2025 at 11:57 AM
It’s like we built the scaffolding for transcendence and then installed a trampoline at the bottom for maximum bounce-back into chaos.
Instead of a sleek AI takeover, we’re stuck in a feedback loop of tech-enabled dysfunction—the SoS you nailed.
Instead of a sleek AI takeover, we’re stuck in a feedback loop of tech-enabled dysfunction—the SoS you nailed.
Carnivorous Vulgaris: hopeful, clueless, armed with dynamite and a slingshot built by a physics dropout.
Acceleratti Incredibilis: untouchable, illogical, faster than posted limits.
Final score? Gravity: undefeated.
Acceleratti Incredibilis: untouchable, illogical, faster than posted limits.
Final score? Gravity: undefeated.
“Going! Going! Gosh!” was released on this day on 1952. Another great Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote short directed by Chuck Jones.
#LooneyTunes
#LooneyTunes
August 24, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Carnivorous Vulgaris: hopeful, clueless, armed with dynamite and a slingshot built by a physics dropout.
Acceleratti Incredibilis: untouchable, illogical, faster than posted limits.
Final score? Gravity: undefeated.
Acceleratti Incredibilis: untouchable, illogical, faster than posted limits.
Final score? Gravity: undefeated.
“All you can do is notice the bird and feel for the bird…” Craig Arnold, Bird-Understander
Roman notices the stars-10,000 brilliant endings across 11 billion years. Even when words falter, light speaks remembering.
www.stsci.edu/contents/new...
Roman notices the stars-10,000 brilliant endings across 11 billion years. Even when words falter, light speaks remembering.
www.stsci.edu/contents/new...
NASA Roman Core Survey Will Trace Cosmic Expansion Over Time
www.stsci.edu
August 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
“All you can do is notice the bird and feel for the bird…” Craig Arnold, Bird-Understander
Roman notices the stars-10,000 brilliant endings across 11 billion years. Even when words falter, light speaks remembering.
www.stsci.edu/contents/new...
Roman notices the stars-10,000 brilliant endings across 11 billion years. Even when words falter, light speaks remembering.
www.stsci.edu/contents/new...
“You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.” — Moominpappa’s Memoirs
Illustrations by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson, created for a 1959 release of Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' #womensart
August 12, 2025 at 6:03 AM
“You must go on a long journey before you can really find out how wonderful home is.” — Moominpappa’s Memoirs
Huck Yeah! Watch party scheduled “I hate these meeses to pieces!”
July 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Huck Yeah! Watch party scheduled “I hate these meeses to pieces!”
Congress set the table for this mess when it gave Trump the chef’s hat and wandered off. Now DeSantis is plating up constitutional violations like they’re canapés at a donor gala
“Neither Trump nor DeSantis can create an entirely new system of #immigration judges outside of the one already established by Congress.”
Florida’s plan to use National Guard JAG officers as judges at Alligator Alcatraz raises serious constitutional red flags. theconversation.com/florida-plan...
Florida’s plan to use National Guard JAG officers as judges at Alligator Alcatraz raises serious constitutional red flags. theconversation.com/florida-plan...
Florida plan to deputize National Guard officers as immigration judges at Alligator Alcatraz would likely violate constitutional rights
Neither President Donald Trump nor Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis can legally create a new system of immigration judges outside of the one established by Congress.
theconversation.com
July 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Congress set the table for this mess when it gave Trump the chef’s hat and wandered off. Now DeSantis is plating up constitutional violations like they’re canapés at a donor gala
1 of those rare pieces that echoes—like a jazz riff that never quite fades.
• 📺 South Park’s Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
• 🧠 Looney Tunes Show Gossamer in the episode “Gribbler’s Quest”
• 🎮 Looney Tunes: Back in Action (video game) Owl Jolson via archive audio, with Bugs &Daffy comments
• 📺 South Park’s Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
• 🧠 Looney Tunes Show Gossamer in the episode “Gribbler’s Quest”
• 🎮 Looney Tunes: Back in Action (video game) Owl Jolson via archive audio, with Bugs &Daffy comments
This short turns 89 today and is Tex Avery's oldest classic and a well-loved WB short.
You have Owl Johnson singing the title song that easily sticks in your head, along with a sweet ending where his whole family dances along with him.
Cartoon: "I Love To Singa" (1936, Tex Avery)
You have Owl Johnson singing the title song that easily sticks in your head, along with a sweet ending where his whole family dances along with him.
Cartoon: "I Love To Singa" (1936, Tex Avery)
July 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
1 of those rare pieces that echoes—like a jazz riff that never quite fades.
• 📺 South Park’s Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
• 🧠 Looney Tunes Show Gossamer in the episode “Gribbler’s Quest”
• 🎮 Looney Tunes: Back in Action (video game) Owl Jolson via archive audio, with Bugs &Daffy comments
• 📺 South Park’s Cartman Gets an Anal Probe
• 🧠 Looney Tunes Show Gossamer in the episode “Gribbler’s Quest”
• 🎮 Looney Tunes: Back in Action (video game) Owl Jolson via archive audio, with Bugs &Daffy comments
The power of voodoo.
“You remind me of the babe.”
'Labyrinth' was released on this day 39 years ago! (June 27, 1986)
Directed by Jim Henson.
Starring David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Frank Oz, Brian Henson, Ron Mueck, David Shaughnessy, Timothy Bateson, & more.
[📽 via TriStar Pictures] #OTD #OnThisDay
'Labyrinth' was released on this day 39 years ago! (June 27, 1986)
Directed by Jim Henson.
Starring David Bowie, Jennifer Connelly, Toby Froud, Frank Oz, Brian Henson, Ron Mueck, David Shaughnessy, Timothy Bateson, & more.
[📽 via TriStar Pictures] #OTD #OnThisDay
June 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The power of voodoo.
Spurrier’s swagger came from 11-0 record against UK.
Gators did give their punter a break as OBC’s fellas liked to start SEC play with a light cardio session. Made for a get off the mat start for CATS.
Gators did give their punter a break as OBC’s fellas liked to start SEC play with a light cardio session. Made for a get off the mat start for CATS.
The abuse this man used to throw on Kentucky and all of it was so perfectly placed you couldn’t even get mad about it
June 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Spurrier’s swagger came from 11-0 record against UK.
Gators did give their punter a break as OBC’s fellas liked to start SEC play with a light cardio session. Made for a get off the mat start for CATS.
Gators did give their punter a break as OBC’s fellas liked to start SEC play with a light cardio session. Made for a get off the mat start for CATS.
If Calvin’s disobedience shakes your worldview, maybe the tiger isn’t the only one made of fluff. Honestly, the hose he used to clean the dog doo might be the last functioning tool for decency in this whole storybook purge?
June 24, 2025 at 1:06 PM
If Calvin’s disobedience shakes your worldview, maybe the tiger isn’t the only one made of fluff. Honestly, the hose he used to clean the dog doo might be the last functioning tool for decency in this whole storybook purge?
Right on
In general, I think people raised on movies/shows of more recent years are more literal-minded and try to apply some sort of explainable logic when watching these old cartoons, when the goal was always absurdist nonsense for its own sake.
June 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Right on
Pooled in emotion a canvas waits, catching shadows where water whispers. Each stroke a moment, each shade a fleeting thought. even passing tides leave something behind-a shimmer, a breath, a quiet proof that the feeling existed at all.
Swimming alone - An unfinished piece, there's a lot of these. Usually based on a fleeting emotion and then the emotion passes and the motivation fades.
June 1, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Pooled in emotion a canvas waits, catching shadows where water whispers. Each stroke a moment, each shade a fleeting thought. even passing tides leave something behind-a shimmer, a breath, a quiet proof that the feeling existed at all.
we all can be complicit in our own downfall by ignoring obvious threats
The losses aren’t limited to climate change, they would also undermine U.S. capacity to scout for critical minerals and forecast the weather.
The losses aren’t limited to climate change, they would also undermine U.S. capacity to scout for critical minerals and forecast the weather.
Dozens of active and planned NASA spacecraft killed in Trump budget request
Proposal would end nearly all new major science missions
www.science.org
May 31, 2025 at 11:25 AM
we all can be complicit in our own downfall by ignoring obvious threats
The losses aren’t limited to climate change, they would also undermine U.S. capacity to scout for critical minerals and forecast the weather.
The losses aren’t limited to climate change, they would also undermine U.S. capacity to scout for critical minerals and forecast the weather.
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Here’s what I told CJR in February:
May 29, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Here’s what I told CJR in February:
The cancer drug Revlimid price has gone up 26 TIMES since 2006.
Read here an exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 👀
Read here an exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 👀
I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked ...
www.propublica.org
May 12, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The cancer drug Revlimid price has gone up 26 TIMES since 2006.
Read here an exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 👀
Read here an exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 👀
My 2:
Clive Barker trilogy “Great and Secret Show” & “Everville”.where Art isn’t about bending reality to one’s will, instead revealing the threads of destiny that were always there. Maybe the most powerful don’t “change” the universe—they just “see” its true shape before the rest of us catch up
Clive Barker trilogy “Great and Secret Show” & “Everville”.where Art isn’t about bending reality to one’s will, instead revealing the threads of destiny that were always there. Maybe the most powerful don’t “change” the universe—they just “see” its true shape before the rest of us catch up
If you were somehow granted the power to request one sequel by a living author, what would it be and by who?
May 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My 2:
Clive Barker trilogy “Great and Secret Show” & “Everville”.where Art isn’t about bending reality to one’s will, instead revealing the threads of destiny that were always there. Maybe the most powerful don’t “change” the universe—they just “see” its true shape before the rest of us catch up
Clive Barker trilogy “Great and Secret Show” & “Everville”.where Art isn’t about bending reality to one’s will, instead revealing the threads of destiny that were always there. Maybe the most powerful don’t “change” the universe—they just “see” its true shape before the rest of us catch up
Gaming on
April 28, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Gaming on
Bravo 👏truly mesmerizing #maplestory
If you like slow & pretty cello, you'll enjoy this cover! I poured my emotions into this one.
🎵 Esfera: A Place Where Life Begins from MapleStory, composed by 김달우
#videogamemusic #vgm #maplestory #soundtrack #cello #cover
🎵 Esfera: A Place Where Life Begins from MapleStory, composed by 김달우
#videogamemusic #vgm #maplestory #soundtrack #cello #cover
April 27, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Bravo 👏truly mesmerizing #maplestory
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And lo, in the Citadel of Milwaukee stood Judge Dugan,
who said unto the agents of cruelty, “Ye shall not turn my court into a kennel.”
But the Faux Emperor, loving chains more than justice, did seize her in the public square.
Blessed are the judges who defy tyrants.
who said unto the agents of cruelty, “Ye shall not turn my court into a kennel.”
But the Faux Emperor, loving chains more than justice, did seize her in the public square.
Blessed are the judges who defy tyrants.
April 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
And lo, in the Citadel of Milwaukee stood Judge Dugan,
who said unto the agents of cruelty, “Ye shall not turn my court into a kennel.”
But the Faux Emperor, loving chains more than justice, did seize her in the public square.
Blessed are the judges who defy tyrants.
who said unto the agents of cruelty, “Ye shall not turn my court into a kennel.”
But the Faux Emperor, loving chains more than justice, did seize her in the public square.
Blessed are the judges who defy tyrants.
Ah yes, the bogsucker—proof that nature sometimes gives animals names that sound like questionable life choices
These are your words of the week
conclave
camerlengo
humility
stymie
exoplanet
bogsucker
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
conclave
camerlengo
humility
stymie
exoplanet
bogsucker
www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...
The Words of the Week - Apr. 25
Dictionary lookups from social media, deep space, and the Vatican
www.merriam-webster.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Ah yes, the bogsucker—proof that nature sometimes gives animals names that sound like questionable life choices
Legend cellist Sungha Hong
Korok: Yahaha! You found a cello cover of my forest theme. Bu-bye!
🎵 Korok Forest (Day) from Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, composed by Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata
#videogamemusic #vgm #zelda #tearsofthekingdom #korok #soundtrack #cello #cover
🎵 Korok Forest (Day) from Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, composed by Manaka Kataoka, Yasuaki Iwata
#videogamemusic #vgm #zelda #tearsofthekingdom #korok #soundtrack #cello #cover
April 20, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Legend cellist Sungha Hong
