On the weekend I found a second-hand DVD of Life with Lucy, a 1986 Lucille Ball sitcom that I did not previously know existed. It lasted eight episodes before ABC pulled it. It is, based on episode one, egregiously awful. It was the last thing she ever made, and I imagine she regretted every second.
Screenshot of a table. There is too much information in the table to fit within the character limit for this alt text. You can find the table in this reddit post where your screen reader will work nicely with it: https://www.reddit.com/r/murderbot/comments/1sp5s88/a_straightforward_guide_to_all_the_murderbot/
My friend is reading The Murderbot Diaries by @marthawells.com, which inspired me to finally make this guide to the series.
I'm pretty proud of this table. I tried really hard to make it easy to understand, since most sources for this information are pretty confusing.
NHS claims 'it's raining cats and dogs'is culturally insensitive Doctors and nurses in Lancashire told some idioms risk offending 'international colleagues or patients' Doctors and nurses have been ordered not to say "it's raining cats and dogs" and "the early bird catches the worm" to avoid offending foreign patients. Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust instructed staff against using the phrases in its diversity and inclusion training, claiming that the terms were not culturally sensitive. It warned that the terms "may not translate well across other cultures" and may need to be explained to international colleagues or patients.
No, the NHS didn’t do anything of the sort.
The evidence the NHS didn’t do that is the third paragraph in the hit piece.
Any decent paper would have trashed the piece during the pitch phase, but the Telegraph runs dozens of these articles every single day. The Telegraph must be destroyed
Despite our best efforts, multiple crises in the arts and charitable sector, and the ongoing patriarchal stance on inclusiveness mean that the Vagina Museum continues to struggle. We are having to have serious conversations about our long-term future. And now, more than ever, we need your help...
An imaginary view of a harbor with vintage sailing craft and a massive stone arch
Safe Harbor
Watercolor - 22x15 inches.
#art @bsky.art
Business as usual...
Seen several people say "success" in comics requires "connections." And yeah... a bit. But how do you think connections are made?
Here is a story of how my connections led to me working on the X-Men for Marvel
In 2016, I am tabling at a comic convention in Portland, OR. I meet Peach Momoko
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Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!
I think that as economists we should be a lot more concerned that everyone feels like they've got poorer when the data show they haven't. We certainly shouldn't just be assuming that the customers are wrong, rather than that we're no longer measuring things that are most relevant to wellbeing
Let me take you back to the early 1990s when the Console Wars reigned supreme. This was before the original Playstation was released. Nintendo and SEGA battled it out. Source: buff.ly/xRO1QVR
"Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is blocking access to a medication that will prevent your son's dick from falling off" seems like an easy message for Democrats to deploy.
The existence of "pornography addiction" exists because some Christian men need excuses for their lack of self-control more than they need forgiveness.
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I’ve just heard that one of the true greats of SF writing, Ian Watson, has passed away. A huge figure of the genre and an enormously entertaining character. A real loss.
Cover of Generation Nemesis by Sean McMullen. Art by Ben Baldwin. Image is of an old man draped in a blanket. In the background are soldiers with guns, and the sun beats mercilessly down on a desert landscape.
In near-future Australia, climate change has left much of the country way too hot for humans. The younger generation are furious. Why did older folks not do anything when they had the chance? Clearly the guilty should be punished. Generation Nemesis by Sean McMullen:
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We will read histories of today’s US in a few decades and wonder how something like this could happen. Slowly allowing Polio and Measles to celebrate comebacks is pure stupidity.
I genuinely believe that people don't appreciate just how much of all the bad vibes right now are still largely a COVID hangover. It was a profoundly traumatizing event for American society, on the order of the civil war or the great depression and we've largely decided to just pretend
I'm trying to work out if Beat magazine in Melbourne is still a thing.
But also, where do people go and get analogue things? Like i know Sticky Institute exists but like... if I wanted to go advertise to the reading punks where are they?
I used to know but that was 10 years ago. A lot has changed🤣
My oncologist broke up with me. She said my cancer is gone so we really don’t have anything in common any more.
I beat inoperable, incurable cancer. I kicked it down the stairs, took its lunch money, & threw rocks at it as it ran away crying.
Yeah, cancer, you *better* run.
Chart showing share price change since the start of Iran War: ASX200: -2.6% Santos: +20.0% Woodside: +23.2%
Just checking in to see how Santos and Woodside are doing. They must be gutted that JD Vance couldn't get a deal done. Gutted.
I have just learned that although Finnish and Icelandic have almost nothing in common as languages, these four words mean and sound exactly the same in both:
-Meistari (master)
-Keisari (emperor)
-Runkari (masturbator)
-Súkkulaðirúsína (chocolate raisin)
Listen up: I am one of those rare sex assault victims who actually took the guy who did it to court. It was a local scandal that put my initials on the front page of the local paper (not my whole name because I was a minor).
You have no idea what happens to women on the stand or in the press.
These handsome devils with their fancy crowns appear to be Charaxes sempronius, the Tailed Emperor butterfly.
They're native to Australia where they feed on kurrajong or bottletree shrub leaves.
They're also famous for getting drunk & fighting on hilltops.
Let's talk about these tiny dragons.
Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ever seen a cultural venue post
time-travel setting where this is when travellers from different factions go to relax under an unofficial ceasefire, since nothing they do matters that day
From global warming to homeland security, the domino effect UK Intelligence fears but doesn't dare to reveal: Series: I read it so you don't have to
On the set of A Matter of Life and Death.
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger.
1946.
To my friends from LiveJournal I still think about you Wonder if you finally quit, Do you still speak to your mom? I remember when you went to Japan How you swore you'd never forgive him. I can't remember to take my meds but I remember you wanted to live on a houseboat. It's a strange intimacy, all of us unspooling across decades of internet space Like balls of yarn leaving a trail behind us of everywhere and everyone we've ever been I hope you got your houseboat. I hope you got everything. -Hayley DeRoche
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Ketan Joshi @KetanJ0 Dear website, - I don't want you to post notifications to my desktop - I don't want to subscribe to your thing via a popup -I don't want you to know my location -Please stop autoplaying that video -I am angry and sad now 2:47 p.m. 13 May 18 3,167 Retweets 11.8K Likes ProgrammerHumor.io
this 8 year old tweet of mine emerged recently and just, man, what I would give to return to a time when these were the main issues with The Internet
an illustration by Spindle of the character Asimov, a half-elf woman with short white hair. Sitting on a small boat, as the boat moves through a water canal. Next to her is an old lady handing out apples to people on the boat as well, while behind her is the boat steerer. The view is of above as it suddenly starts to rain
sudden rain
I know this and you know this and we all know this but sometimes you gotta say the obvious thing out loud (so to speak) just so you don’t feel alone or crazy: our president is a deeply unwell and utterly vile man who shouldn’t be in charge of driving a golf cart much less the free world.
