Meme. Black and white engraving entitled ""Mr. Yates of the Adelphi Theatre." (1826). It shows a man seated at a table for his portrait, leaning casually on one arm. He has a high collar, a cravat, and a heavy dark coat. He has wondrously curly hair, and immaculate sideburns that come 1/2 way down his jowls. His face is rounded, and his lips are pursed. He does not have strong features, but his eye hold you like a hawk holds a mouse. His raised eyebrow says that he knows something secret and prurient about you and your dark desires, but he's not telling. Oh no. He's going to use it for motivation later on. Actors, man. This stately fellow is not actually Richard Yates, but rather Fredrick Yates, a slightly earlier London actor and theater manager. He was a much more controlled man than Richard, and did not rage himself to death over eels. Even so, I am using his portrait because it's classy, and I am making the case that any dead Yates is interchangeable with another. Meme text reads: "Rage agains the machine? Only if it's out of eels"

It's Friday...so let me share one of the more ridiculous bits of eel history I have.

In 1796, the famous comedic actor Richard Yates wanted eels for dinner. When his housekeeper was unable to get him any, Yates threw a huge fit & promptly died of "rage and disappointment." 1/2
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Gym classes should be 70% breakdancing.

For every inning after 9 they should introduce a new ball on the field. Start tossing to the next batter while the first one’s still rounding the bases.

“I don’t lose them, I just forget where I put them” is not the rebuttal Maggie seems to think it is.

I love how this could be equally true about all four of the Union Squares I’m familiar with.

$30 is honestly $25 less than I was expecting.

Dressage! Let them stack people on top of the horse like those human towers in Spanish festivals.

I heard “Shortenin Bread’ randomly while I was at a coffeeshop last week and thanks to your podcast it stopped me dead in my tracks.

This judge does the thing quoting the Declaration of Independence at the Trump regime then adds for good measure: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds & are bereft of human decency."

Is the Scarlet Pimpernel public domain yet? He’d be such a fun foil/ally/rival, sort of the Namor to Tomahawk’s Reed.

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

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If I was writing a story with vampires this would be one of the petty things people would do to spot them. (That and trolling history forums with rage-inducing fake facts, like “In 1150 Amsterdam, the jewel of the French crown, was considered by all to be the greatest city in the world.”)

I was in a medical study where they tried to see if they could hypnotize people deeply enough that they wouldn’t feel electric shocks.

It turned out, at least in my case, they could NOT.

“Just Paint ‘Dragon Kissing Booth ten pence’ and then in teeny tiny fine print the usual malarkey about not holding us liable for damages when they’re eaten—wait you idiot stop painting everything I’m saying, yes including that, why are you STILL PAI—“ (message ends due to lack of wall space)

The list-making side of me really liked Four Weddings and a Funeral for being so accurate and concise. I’d like to see it catch on—I’d totally go see Five Fistfights and a Car Chase.

I had a whole ‘This can’t be legit, can it?’ moment when I had to download an app to get my travel visa.

When a player says “I need more dice to calculate this damage.”

I don’t remember any with mosquitos either. Which makes sense, they’re both parasites.

Right? Even the ring is like “melt me down, please make it end”

Bay…..bee……..SHARKdoodoodoodehdoo, baby shark! Doodoodoo…..

It’d be like owning an incontinent wolfhound. You can’t avoid going around in public with it but you know you’re a public spectacle, and people see you with your massive poo bags and think “at least I didn’t make THAT mistake.”

THREAD: In 2023, I received an envelope with no return address. Inside was a flash drive containing tens of 1000s of secret files.

It came from a vigilante with a tumultuous past, who'd conducted a years-long undercover operation. He didn’t tell the FBI or his family. He only told me.

100%, but the plan is just “leave 3 orders of chicken nugs out in plain sight and quietly slip away.”

Post a pic you took to add some calm to the timeline #SomethingBeautiful

It’s not your usual time period, but Warren Ellis’s graphic novel Crecy is a lot of fun.

TTRPGs should be as much like a video game as possible. And this is why my homebrewed 1st level spell “Save Point” is essential and I should be allowed to cast it after any time I roll a 1.

boom comics wanted to re-issue the puppycat comics and have me make more. my condition was for them to go back and retroactively pay the previous artists fair rates as their original rates were very low and shitty. they agreed to something and eventually i found out it was gonna be low residuals.

Or retractable ones! He and Cable have long, manly conversations about their weird foot issues.

Every time Wolverine’s feet regenerate the soles get a tiny bit thicker, and that’s how he’s grown over the years from his original 5’3” to the height he is now.

Aww, I’ve written five messages to you in my head this week but it’s hard to know exactly how to say “remember that conversation we had on the beach in 2019? Well you were right and I was soooooo wrong and dumb.”