Absolutely. Although you can also cancel out a three cover bad luck by walking over a single next.

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two:

#war #climate

Text "United States Department of Agriculture. Transporting Watermelons in Bulk and Bin by Truck." Illustration of a semi truck with a watermelon as its trailer.

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Manchester renaissance 2016

Tomorrow marks 10 years since the greatest piece of art of our generation

Woah. This is an incredible treasure trove of amazing alternative Christmas tunes!

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Time spent on social media peaked in 2022 and has since gone into steady decline since. And this is not just the unwinding of a bump in screen time during pandemic lockdowns – what’s going on?

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British Politics' Midlife Crisis Why British Parties Can't Make Peace with Their Actual Voters

On the morning of Keir Starmer's conference speech here's a new post on an odd psychopathology in British politics - our main parties don't like the people who vote for them - the dreaded Professional Managerial Class. And so they are acting out like a divorced dad seeking cooler voters. 1/n

Comic. [block quote] “Far better an approximate answer to the *right* question, which is often vague, than an *exact* answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.” -John W. Tukey, The Future of Data Analysis (1962) [caption] Happy Approximate Birthday to John Tukey, author of my favorite statistics quote, who was born 110.000 years ago sometime this week.

Tukey

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Shit, did you see that? He must have a foot like a traction engine (Alan Partridge) YouTube video by footballisthewinner

Someone needs to dub the classic Alan Partridge football commentary on this ASAP. youtu.be/mGLSeWYCggw?...

This case study will surely be winging it's way into data analysis and data cleaning 101 courses very shortly. 🤦