Image from Flight of the Conchord’s video for Inner City Pressure. Subtitles read “You just stay home and play synthesizers.”

This, but in the imperative and as life advice:

I’m envisioning a sort of space Lt Al Giardello - I could’ve seen it working, but yes, very different.

It’s important to talk to your kids early about synthesis.

Extract from Guardian blog, stating: Iran had threatened to attack energy infrastructure across the Gulf region in retaliation for Israeli strikes on its largest gasfield. The South Pars field - shared by Iran and Qatar - is the biggest in the world and Iran's main source of domestic energy.

Given that the South Pars oilfield is shared between Qatar and Iran, isn’t Trump saying that if Iran bombs Qatar, the US will blow up Qatar’s oil field to punish Iran?

This is not a particularly sophisticated observation but this (bribing people not to build clean energy in a fossil fuel crisis) is the most expensive dumb thing I have heard in a long time.

A mockup of the JANUARY postcard book, although the actual print copies are upgraded to be even fancier than this.

It is unorthodox, but I've released the digital files for JANUARY for free on itch.io before our Kickstarter has even ended! That's for two reasons - the game is done, AND I think you'll see the value of this as a beautiful, tactile and physical object.

itch link here:
sawdustbear.itch.io/january

10 denarii?! Do I look like an equites?

They’re calling him mid balls now.

Are markets being too complacent about the Iran war? Sometimes crises do not blow over as investors might hope

Une vraiment bangeur from @katie0martin.ft.com: www.ft.com/content/3647...

*nodding sagely* Midichlorians.

We have an ex stray who has chronic cat flu, and wheezes like a Dickensian orphan all the time. Love her to bits, but her vibe is melancholy as. Like having a memento mori pottering around the house.

Tasters are non-negotiable. Traded my car for a sedan chair a while ago and haven’t looked back. Sure, you need to change footmen every few hours, but that’s tax deductible now.

The theme is bad, but the sound design within the episodes is really well executed. I watched the first three eps again the other day and the decisions about when to use music (and what music to use) vs using silence or sound effects was really striking (although probably also influence by budget).

It Might Work For Us meme adapted using lines from Act 1, Scene 7 of Macbeth (specifically, ln 1 - 10; 39 - 52; and 92 - 96)

Absolutely devastating. Jon was a wonderful guy and the best political cartoonist Australia ever produced

Strictly speaking, this is Pascal’s Phrenology where you don’t believe in phrenology, but act as if it is real.

Thrice, arguably, in that the failure of the West to respond proportionately to climate change also has the effect of creating additional refugees who are then affected by both of the factors you mention.

Surely at some point other countries which don’t want to be part of this experiment are going to have to start bringing back quarantine? Or refusing visas in the absence of proof of vaccination?

Whatever Jeffrey Toobin’s other demerits, his book “Homegrown” is a pretty thorough analysis of the circumstances of the Oklahoma bombing and how it sits in relation to Jan 6 and the emergence of the current (American) far right.

Existing in hyper-position where his implied position is wrong, but his stated position is absolutely correct.

“Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zheng” rips, but is very difficult to describe - it’s mainly a ghost story, but it’s also about racism during COVID but it’s also very funny in places?

Good to hear. Otherwise, it would’ve been an insult to you if you had borne it.

God’s greatest miracle is that the Little Drummer Boy survived unscathed.

Hate when my audience of gullible rubes are distracted by the wrong keys jangling.

TFW you have an oeuvre.

Going full Il Duce.

Saw them live when they toured the album. They played the whole thing, and then had to apologise for not having any more songs to an encore. Amazing vibes too!

Thanks! I had actually assumed it was AI slop from the tone.

I did not know the Council of Nicaea went down like that (although I can believe, given people used to riot of monophysitism).

Potted description of Arianism taken from Wikipedia, however above the description, is an image of a man with a white beard in vaguely Byzantine robes and mitre shoving another man, with a black beard and blue robes and mitre in the face. The description reads “Arianism is a Christological doctrine that rejects the traditional notion of the Trinity, teaching that Jesus was created by God and is therefore distinct from God. It is named after its proponent Arius and is regarded as heretical by most modern mainstream branches of Christianity.”

Not directly related, but why is this the first image that comes up when you google Arianism? Why is the Patriarch throwing hands?