From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

I like them. If you put them in hell fires you can make unholy calcium oxide

Grass clippings from the fields of Elysium?

Your best bet is to hide it behind an event horizon, didn't feed it, and wait for it to evaporate. But don't be there when it does!

We had to blow in the cartridge to get the game to work!

Undead beavers who committed unspeakable acts when they were alive and are now cursed with Sisyphean dam building tasks for eternity?

But it's a river of the damned right?

Are you lathering with the souls of the cursed or something else?

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

We better warn NASA not to delve to greedily or too deeply then

Matt, you still don't get this. Ape holders can use multiple slurm juices on a single ape.

Does the existence of dwarf planets imply the existence of Balrogs in their cores?

You should stop writing for the NYTimes. They've been terrible at covering Trump, you shouldn't associate with anyone who is complicit in any way with what Trump has done and is doing.

Your regular reminder that armed paramilitaries operating otherwise normal government functions bodes poorly for things to come #normalizingfascism

When the US admits that they killed any “military-aged men” who walked within 3km of a downed pilot they mean any boy lanky enough to be a teenager and any middle-aged man able to walk unaided with a cane got shot in the head for the crime of walking.

Analysts Say Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Offers Best Shot At ‘Sex And The City’ Reboot Starring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Analysts Say Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Offers Best Shot At ‘Sex And The City’ Reboot Starring Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theonion.com/analysts-say-paramount-w...

I do think that those lawyers and law professors who tried to fabricate a historical or legal case against birthright citizenship should be socially and professionally ostracized for their shocking cynicism and intellectual dishonesty as well as for their bald hostility to pluralist American values.

was the Wand of Orcus involved?

Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack Morgan Stanley wealth manager approached BlackRock about multimillion-dollar investment for US defence secretary

Trying to profit off sending U.S. service members to fight and die in Trump's war with Iran is a new low even for Pete Hegseth.

We need an investigation — and it’s long past time to ban stock trading by top government officials.

BREAKING: After ProPublica published letters written by children at the Dilley concentration camp, ICE officers raided the dormitories and confiscated the children's letters. I'm suing ICE to get them back. I'll explain it all in 45 minutes on @meidastouch.com here: www.youtube.com/live/H-D8SzR...

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

RFK Jr.: ‘I Am 6 Animal Penises Away From Curing Cancer’ WASHINGTON—To announce that his decades-long project to revolutionize modern oncology was nearing fruition, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. held a press conference Friday in ...

“After major breakthroughs in obtaining the penises of a manatee, an armadillo, and a pygmy jerboa, I’m pleased to announce that my experimental anticancer elixir is mere weeks away from completion,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

There must have better at the Campus Times back in the day?

We've never been at war with Eurasia

was talking to a friend who is pretty scared to join up, partially because of where she works, but also because of the current administration & overall political de-clawing of unionizing here in the US

my response to this is: this chapter is not forever, &in the meantime, the work NEEDS to be done

As a Marine platoon leader in Vietnam, Mueller was shot and later returned to lead his platoon after his recovery. He received a Bronze Star for valor, a Purple Heart, 2 Navy/Marine Commendation medals, Republican of Vietnam Cross of Valor, and numerous other medals.

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Treasury Secretary Scot Bessent said that to calm the markets, the United States was thinking about releasing more from the Strategic Oil Reserve, which the administration had failed to refill to capacity in the run-up to the war. But more strikingly, he has discussed suspending sanctions on Iranian oil already at sea — in an effort to free up roughly 140 million barrels — as another way to tamp down prices.

What a paragraph.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/u...

Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle Collider The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland is offline, following a run-in with a small mammal that munched on a power cord.

This is about when everything went wrong on and we ended up on this timeline:
www.npr.org/sections/the...

Black-and-white studio portrait photograph of Xie Xide (谢希德, 1921–2000), the pioneering Chinese physicist, educator, and former president of Fudan University. Captured in her younger years (likely 1940s–1950s, during or shortly after her time in the U.S. for graduate studies). She has a gentle, warm smile and bright, engaging eyes conveying intelligence, warmth, and quiet determination. Her dark hair is pulled back and neatly styled. She is wearing a dark top without discernible detail. The studio lighting highlights the delicate features of her face against a neutral gray background. This early portrait captures Xie during the formative phase of her career as a trailblazing woman in physics—earning her PhD at MIT (1951), returning to China in 1952, and later becoming a foundational figure in semiconductor and solid-state physics research, co-authoring China's first textbook on semiconductors, and leading Fudan University as its first female president (1983–1989).

A warm, intimate black-and-white photograph of Xie Xide (谢希德, 1921–2000), the pioneering Chinese physicist, educator, and former president of Fudan University, captured in her later years (likely 1980s or early 1990s). She sits at a wooden desk or table in what appears to be an academic office or study, smiling with a kind, wise, and approachable expression—eyes bright conveying warmth, intellectual depth, and quiet pride. Her short, neatly styled dark/graying hair frames her face, and she wears a dark turtleneck sweater or blouse under a structured jacket, with a small brooch or pin at the collar. In front of her, there is a ball-and-stick lattice structure. Xie during her distinguished career—after earning her PhD at MIT (1951), returning to China, co-authoring the nation's first semiconductor physics textbook, overcoming immense challenges during the Cultural Revolution, and becoming the first woman to serve as president of a major Chinese university (Fudan, 1983–1989)—highlighting her as a foundational figure in Chinese physics and a trailblazer for women in STEM.

China's "Mother of Semiconductors" physicist Dr. Xie Xide is a founder of semiconductor physics & surface physics research in China.

As a teen she battled bone TB & went on to earn her PhD in theoretical #physics at MIT in 1951. She was born #OTD in 1921.

#WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth (1/2)