That's a new one to me. Do you know why Cincinnati has developed into as much of a food outlier as it is?

I appreciate that you're offering him choices here.

My ancestors mostly come from climates featuring long winters with limited sources of protein. There are too many crimes merely against fish to choose from.

"...on they came at a precipitous rate, stunted jaundiced horrors cyclopean and half-clothed, dull mouths agape, crying "pip, pip" and "hello buddies" in their grotesque subhuman voices. I crouched in my hiding place. "Poopay," they gibbered. "POOPAY!" - H.P. Lovecraft, "The Banana on the Threshold"

You can't shock me this way. I've been watching Sorted Food. They're sweet and silly, but occasionally I do have to remind myself that they react to Jello salad the way we react to this.

I've done some of this with Winnipeg, but not enough to see much difference in travel convenience, even for much shorter trips.

in this alternative timeline, the lake bacon eats you

I don't want to live in Brutalist spaces personally, but an awful lot of them affect me as monuments, both from the outside and inside.

Capricorn: Today you should have with you a fire extinguisher, a five foot length of surgical tubing, three monkeys, a condom, and Mel Tormé's 1955 jazz album IT'S A BLUE WORLD. Trust me on this.

Thank you for the reminder. I've had breakfast just sitting next to me for over an hour. Oops.

And a good Monday morning to you.

Becoming increasingly radicalized against qualified immunity every time one of these decisions comes down

How Did Black Music Take Over the World? Ask Melvin Gibbs. - Racket The avant-garde jazz bassist, now a part-time Minneapolis resident, combines memoir, history, and musicology in his first book.

"How Black Music Took Over the World" connects an enormous number of dots—sometimes literally, as when Gibbs utilizes clocklike circular figures to denote the many rhythmic workings under discussion.

Dudes who actually buy into manosphere bullshit love to go on about biological/gender essentialism and The Natural Order, but when you tell 'em "So where's the problem, most males in the animal kingdom never get a chance to procreate, I guess your genes must be inferior" suddenly there's an issue :V

Van Gogh's The Starry Night

So yes, there's a little bit of Baltimore and a little bit of half-billion-year old hydrothermal vent in The Starry Night.

There are many reasons I believe in the separation of Church and State and "you can't disagree with the head of state, that's against theology" is probably the most prominent "absolutely not" scenario.

Important thread about protecting elected representatives from threats and stalkers.

I think many of us are familiar with the dismissive “Well, *I* haven’t been threatened” / “he was always nice to ME” response from those who aren’t typically on the receiving end of it

deep-dive research is such a beautiful thing

Simmons: i also have an Everest story
Simmons: it's called 'the abominable'
Keene: well, that's got to have a yeti in it, right?
Simmons: wrong!
Simmons: instead of a yeti, my mountaineers are pursued by nazis!
Keene: sounds exciting!
Simmons: also wrong!

Yoko Kanno & SEATBELTS - TANK! Extended [Official Music Video] YouTube video by 菅野よう子 / Yoko Kanno

If you haven't already, I strongly advise watching this new Extended version of Tank! the theme song from #CowboyBebop, with Yoko Kanno strutting her stuff with the original Seatbelts.

It's also on streaming audio, but it's just really fabulous to watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=d75o...

answer is obviously earth. rock's just crawling with self-replicating organics, weird as fuck

With this news? You're doing amazingly well.

They are very good potatoes.

Like some perpetual motion machine driving the downfall of civil society.

This is one of those rare occasions when I think each is worse than the other.

TY!

Yeah, you don't work with John Rogers without explicitly knowing that you're making competence porn.

Yes, thank you, I'm aware of tornadoes now.

Ex-Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax and wife found dead in murder-suicide, police say Fairfax was a favorite for Virginia governor in 2021 before his campaign imploded over sexual abuse allegations. The couple’s teenage son called 911, officials said.

I just cannot emphasize enough and it's frustrating how people don't get it: sexual violence is a strong predictor of other kinds of violence and abuse, especially against women and children.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Oooh. Recommendations?