Yes I think so. You get an unnatractive bag of donut rather than, like, another torus but the inside surface is now the outside

Topologically I think... Yes? Cut a slit anywhere on a tyre. Slide it to the top of the tyre. Open the slit up big and wide so the tyre is hanging from the opening like a stocking. Push everything through the opening. Shrink the hole back down to a slit and move it back to where you found it.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

american indie developer deciding on a setting: in a cozy mountain town surrounded by wholesome yokai, ghibli inspired cooperative sustainable cherry blossoms and you can pet the dog french indie developer deciding on a setting: in a world where the gestalt misery of colonisation's victims has manifested into a sort of misery elemental, three church-like religious organisations hav[nine more paragraphs that leave you feeling like you know less than you knew before you started reading] polish indie developer deciding on a setting: warsaw👍🇵🇱 it is very bad

Japan has a wrestling camp for kids where at the end they have a show match in front of their parents to show off what they learned.

Thought you'd enjoy this.

How to call your bank by dialling just 3 numbers… simply dial 1-5-9! Then you know it’s legit, watch the video for more info.

Please share, the more people know, the fewer will be scammed.

Strong move. This should be filed with The Goons and Round The Horne and The Burkiss Way and On The Hour in the 'All Time Greats' column. John Finnemore is one of the best writers of comedy of our time.

Collaboration of my dreeeeams 🤩

Timeline cleanse!

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

It looks great! So good to see it in the world

Oh hey, my follower total just doubled overnight. Hi new friends! I'm Michael, I'm an RPG producer, I'm posting Kickstarter rewards for "Me, the Singularity" this morning, and at Dragonmeet it'll get its public debut on the @uktin.bsky.social stall.

See you there on Saturday?

A cover of Herr Dumpidump by Roger Hargreaves that says "Herr Dumpidump by Roger Hargreaves" and with an illustration of Herr Dumpidump looking especially dumpidumpish (forgive me but I can't stop repeating the word dumpidump... DUMPIDUMP!)

My six favourite European Mr Men character names...

6. Mr Muddle in Spain = Don Confuso
5. Mr Topsy-Turvy in Germany = Herr Kuddelmuddel
4. Mr Bounce in France = Monsieur Bing
3. Mr Dizzy in Portugal = Senhor Bobo
2. Mr Greedy in Sweden = Gubben Glufs Glufs
1. Mr Bump in Norway = Herr Dumpidump

Old Movie Stars Dance to Uptown Funk YouTube video by Nerd Fest UK

If you have never seen this, you need it in your life.

If you have seen it, you need it again.

Especially now. You must have something, however small, that gives you joy. Every day.

This will do that. I guarantee.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1F0...

"Mundane Halloween" returns!

It's that time of year again, when Japanese website
@dailyportalz holds its annual contest to dress up as something super ordinary.

Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2024 contest!

HAN SOLO: Chewie's bandolier smells like a pickled womprat

R2D2: *beep boop*

HAN SOLO: how is that racist

(Following a mention in an opinion piece in the Economist)

Rent Control: Does it work? New IEA research demonstrates the economic consensus that rent controls have negative impacts on the housing market and wider economy.

New report by IEA reviews the literature to ask whether rent controls work, and concludes that they do more harm than good. So why aren't they the answer everyone's looking for for cheaper rents? 🧵 iea.org.uk/publications...

Thanks for the good piece, but you definitely need to edit to make clear that Starmer's chief of staff is Sue Gray, not Sue Hall the badly-defeated London mayoral candidate!

Make a movie milder:

Vote of No Confidence on the Bounty

The best part of voting in person is getting the obligatory 'democracy dog' photo.

quote from an nineteenth cencury Icelandic lullaby reading Sleep, you black-eyed pig Fall into a deep pit full of ghosts

Iceland keeping it real

Somehow, Jesus returned.

"This section may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience."

"Hey, we want a few board games for when we have folks over. Do you have any recommendations?"

NORMAL PEOPLE: Target has a bunch of games that look fun!

BOARD GAMERS:

...running out of places to promote my Kickstarter... Wait! I have a BlueSky account! 😱

Err... back my Kickstarter please? It's a haunted house in space TTRPG about extradimensional ghosts, and it only has a few hours left. You could be my 100th backer!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mic...

An Elon tweet with an absurdly racist meme

"It's still better for my work over there" I dunno man, that may be true but at a certain point there's a pretty ugly word for making money off this sort of shit

The Threatened Swan, depicting an aggressive swan, by Jan Asseljn.

It’s 1650, and you are a horrible goose.

It uses a deck of cards as a core mechanic, and the ghost player can only communicate with the others in limited ways starting with charades, and moving on to pictionary and whispering words. Full disclosure, it's written by a friend of mine and based on another friend's excellent visual novel.

Me, the Singularity - a #Zinequest TTRPG A haunted-house-in-space game about knowing yourself and others

If you're into tabletop RPGs, you should check out Me, the Singularity on Kickstarter. It's a TTRPG about being a crew on a doomed starbase being haunted by the ghost of one of them from an alternate reality, and it's really fun! www.kickstarter.com/projects/mic...