Best ONN in months at least.

The Anomaly (novel) - Wikipedia

If I had a penny for every book titled "The Anomaly" that I've added to my TBR this week I'd have 2 pence, which is not much but still more than I'd have expected.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ano...

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Mr. Cardamom - Nani (starring Madhur Jaffrey) YouTube video by Mr. Cardamom

Dude has range! They're all bangers
youtu.be/iQVsVNPkPmE?...

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

GB News headline: GP who asked Muslim woman to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her' is struck off.

Was this GP struck off just because he asked a Muslim woman to remove her veil?

How likely does that sound? 🤷‍♀️

Did he actually ask her to remove her veil 'because he was struggling to understand her?'

Let's take a look at what really happened based on the tribunal reports...

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The bosses are pissed, about charging 100k for this and demand an itemized bill. So she sends it:

Toggling a switch: $2
Adjusting the dial: $3
Knowing which switch and dial to adjust: $99,995

Reminds me of the old engineering joke about the recently fired engineer called back to the powerplant to fix an impending disaster. She asks for a $100,000 to fix it and they agree because no one knows what to do.

She walks in and flips a switch and turns a dial and everything's back to normal.

C'mon I'm sure they'll fix the disruptino in no time and don't blame AI. We all know correlatino isn't causatino

Duck typing. Programming languages have "types" for variables such as string (text), integer etc, but some modern languages allow you to assign any value to a variable and the compiler decides what type it is based on ... "if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it is a duck"

The Pope is weak on crime.

The Dalai Lama is soft on budget deficits.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe doesn’t have a comprehensive plan for highway maintenance.

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The Zoroastrian mobad is failing to crack down on inferior-grade copper

It needs someone smarter than me to put a finger on exactly what that is and not another OpEd pundit but whatever it is is heartbreaking that so many people think like the student you encountered. And in that sense the "privillege" is real if only in their minds.

I hate this, but the fact that there's so many young people with these views I feel like two things can be true. Something has gone wrong at a societal level, whether it is the hustle culture, affordability crisis, agorithmized social media, that in a sense there *is* a problem.

I clicked through expecting not to be surprised because it was an internet weirdo reacting to a mundane picture of kids on an Easter egg hunt or something. I did not expect that.

Are you for real? The graph you're posting quite clearly shows the top 1% share at around ~22-23% are you really going to nitpick on 23% is not exactly 25% and pretend it's anything more than a rounding error?

"I assume that's what the author is doing" ... whaaat? This really did me in. The words are literally there in the book you're reading. Why do you have to assume what it says?

This sounds like what I'd say about assigned reading I was forced to do against my will, not books I read for pleasure

thread of perfect suggestions for a new constitution, no notes

Americans are no longer capable of existing outside a meme world. Nothing is a distraction. Nothing is a cover up. He doesn’t gaf about Epstein or anything else. He is fully sure that America will permit him anything. And he wants a lot of anythings.

Sometimes it's easy to miss jokes in a textual medium, glad he had that locked and loaded to so it didn't have to get awkward.

I will always bring up Hokusai who said he'd only just started to scratch the surface of his artistic journey in his 80s.
"If heaven gives me ten more years, or an extension of even five years, I shall surely become a true artist."

Two users discussing a dictionary definition (image is reverse chronological, I will present chronologically): 1. robyn (@apocryphaI) 22h came across the word 'stot' in a book and didn't know what it meant so i looked it up and the definition said 'another word for pronk.' am i having a stroke? 2. Reply: cinder kirisaki (@ShidousCage) quote from dictionary: stot verb another term for pronk. oh my god, they weren't kidding.

this is very @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social coded

Two Calvin and Hobbes strips: First one Panel 1: Calvin, a six year old boy, peeks around a doorframe with a wide, mischievous grin. Panel 2: Hobbes, a stuffed tiger, is lying on his back, fast asleep and snoring. Calvin is tiptoeing toward his exposed, fluffy white belly. Panel 3: A chaotic action scene with "BRBBBRBBBB" sound effects as Calvin pets and nuzzle Hobbes's tummy Panel 4: Calvin is walking away, covered in scratches and tufts of fur, looking dazed. He says: "Their tummies shouldn't be so soft and fuzzy if you're not allowed to do that." Second strip Panel 1: Hobbes is sleeping on his back. Panel 2: Calvin approaches him from the left rushing towards Hobbes with a stealthy swiftness. Panel 2: Calvin lunges face-first into Hobbes’ belly. Another explosion of violence with "BPBPBPBPB" sound effects as Hobbes is rudely awoken from slumber. Panel 4: A battered Calvin walks away, intact but injured, his hair messy and clothes torn. He remarks: "It's a high price to pay, but nuzzling tiger tummies is one of the great pleasures of life."

Nuzzling tiger tummies is one of the great pleasures of life!

This is a wonderful list of comfort read recommendations!

I pulled together all the ones I could into a list here to add to TBRs if you want: gist.github.com/sh4nth/b1a31...

Antifascists are a relatively sturdy quarter horse who are ready for things not to work and turn on a dime around a different barrel, the median voter is a thoroughbred who would love nothing more than to break their own legs and hurt everyone around them.

Love, love, love Goblin Emperor, so the rest are immediately getting fast-tracked to the front of my TBR!

Really enjoyed Travis Baldtee's Legends & Lattes series recently. And on my 4th reread of Becky Chambers's Monk and Robot.

Oh! Also, Connie Willis's To Say Nothing of the Dog recently and it's perfect Austen meets Wodehouse with a dash of time travel thrown in.

How far back in time can you understand English? An experiment in language change

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle.

It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get.

www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | https://www.instagram.com/neyestanimana

Art by Iranian cartoonist Mana Neyestami | www.instagram.com/neyestanimana

ICYMI, Gai*man is slinking out of the shadows and posting again, trying to scuttle his way back into the public's good graces.

Please take care of yourselves, believe women, believe survivors, and fuck that guy.