Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

the quality of each star trek show is directly proportional to how often you see the characters engaging in hobbies

do you want to see the whole crew rushing from one high-stakes phaser fight to another? no. nobody wants to see that. we want to see bashir and o'brien playing darts

In my little neighborhood there’s a friendly Shih Tzu named Tavi & a mean Shih Tzu named Noodle & they are physically identical & live in different houses with different & delightful lesbian owners & without getting into it: it’s tearing us apart.

The Angle Computer is a complicated electromechanical system with gears, motors, and bundles of wires. It has a grey metal shell that includes a half sphere. Inside this sphere, arms move a star pointer to indicate the position of a star. Other gears and mechanisms read out the position.

In the 1960s, the B-52 bomber could navigate by the stars. Celestial navigation requires spherical trigonometry, so an analog Angle Computer solved these equations electromechanically. Let's look inside...

the words that make up the title THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU are unpleasant and the order in which those words appear is upsetting

When I was in Sweden last summer a man asked me how Americans decide what is and isn’t good use of our taxes. What is our cultural mechanism? I answered truthfully (laugh that transitioned to a weird sad sound)

watching The Wire for the first time. it's so funny how much McNulty hates his kids. like he doesn't even make the token prestige tv protagonist "i'm doing this for my FAMILY" gestures.

canonically loves his kids but he's repressed: Don Draper, Seth Bullock

resents his kids but uses them as an excuse for his behavior: Walter White, Tony Soprano

his kids could genuinely float away in a hot air balloon for all he cares: Jimmy McNulty

A month ago I had conversation with a friend who said, after I told him I love giraffes, “Do you love giraffes or the idea of giraffes?,” & I answered that, you know, I love giraffes qua giraffes or whatevs but now, eating this store-bought sushi alone, I added, “& f*** you for asking.”

OH NO, TOILET

the essence of frigidity

“Every day, over two billion cubic feet of CO2 are forced into the ground, pushing back up 245,000 barrels of oil. Mathematically, the use of CO2 to produce oil leads to a net reduction in released CO2. Philosophically, though, it is deeply unsatisfying.”

Myst (1993)

Say Goodbye to the Undersea Cable That Made the Global Internet Possible History was unmade last year, as engineers began the massive project of ripping the first-ever transoceanic fiber-optic cable from the ocean floor. Just don’t mention sharks.

“Captain Alex has been working with Subsea since its early days. They’re still figuring it all out. As Subsea cofounder John Theodoracopulos puts it: ‘I liken a lot of what we do to cleaning up space junk or all the oxygen bottles that are left at base camp at Everest.’”

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The Mad Perfumer of Parma (Published 2024)

“At first spray, it smells like a stick of Land O’ Lakes marooned on a beach at low tide. Over 10 minutes it mellows into a mesmerizing cloak of spicy vanilla with just a hint of sex-under-a-pier. I’ve received zero compliments on it and two pieces of forceful negative feedback.”

we can't have ticker tape parades because nobody has ticker tape. :( business guys don't have brass steampunk things in a glass dome in their office printing data on long strands of paper. there are no more rack-focus reactions to good numbers. the soundtrack never plays "we're in the money" anymore

"eating around the table" scene from Alien. you know what happens next.

all the crew members have exited the vehicle, feeling well, and are even eating a little food.

Mr. Trump described the metal as "great steel as opposed to garbage steel, because they dump a lot of garbage around. You know, steel is like everything else, including human beings. Steel could be high quality, and it can be low quality. He wants to make sure it's high quality."

Showing Trump a brainrot split screen clip with steel rolling and a busty woman reading the Steel Construction Manual.

“Ash, oak, pine, eucalyptus, ramin. Finger-jointed wood, wood made of milled scraps. Narrow, wide, flat, scooped, beveled, painted, stained. My boss knows them all. He knows what each wood will do, and what it won’t. Whenever maple is mentioned, he starts giving everyone dark and desperate looks.”

Cover of "Containerisation International Yearbook 1979" with an illustration of two children walking on a path beneath a rainbow.

Which one is more scary: a Mac keyboard pretending to be a Space Cadet, or a Kaypro keyboard with an extremely intense overlay?

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

Dictator Book Club: Orban ...

“Throughout his life, people would keep underestimating how long, how dirty, and how intensely he was willing to fight for something he wanted. In the proverb ‘never mud-wrestle a pig, you'll both get dirty but the pig will like it’, the pig is Viktor Orban.”

“He was able to beat everyone else by taking advantage of loopholes everyone else left open because they didn’t think anyone would be crazy enough to use them. I imagine that being Orban feels puzzling, like everyone else is leaving low-hanging fruit on the ground constantly.”

the photos NASA is releasing of the moon mission are really incredible

The 30 Rockification of real life is nearing completion

No, no. It’s fine to give me a salad fork to eat my non-salad lunch. BTW, do garbage slatterns eat at the table or should I sit on the floor?