Wait, hold on, did this paper about the bombardment of Copenhagen inspire the famous "mask of humanity" speech about the bombardment of Revachol in Disco Elysium?

Maybe a bit of both. Security forces hacking the Spicy Mode Grok to suggest that users get it on with an electric mains socket would deal with quite a few of the worst people on X at a stroke

The Minions movie shows that the Minions are immune to execution by hanging, thus implying the Nuremberg Trials had to play out slightly differently in the Despicable Me universe

Headline: "The power of verbs (and why you should never use an adverb)", but I've crossed out the adverb "never"

Well OK, if you insist

One very helpful thing about working with @pollysmythe.bsky.social, an ex-industrial reporter who actually understands union politics and union rivalries, is you can get a clear-eyed understanding of what the tube strike is actually about. www.londoncentric.media/p/london-loc...

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Honestly I'm very glad that it literally gave "Central Java" as the location of the last one or I wouldn't have had a clue

"Are Iranians white?", the greatest thread in the history of 19th century racist pseudoscience

Camille Paglia on Susan Sontag 1993 YouTube video by GBH Archives

You've seen her and Susan Sontag being cross-interviewed about each other, right? Truly extraordinary video - Paglia seems to be on truly superhuman quantities of cocaine youtu.be/kFgYcVbAaNs

The guy behind the tills at HMV when I bought a copy of "Do You Like Rock Music?":

Wow, that's surprising. Just feeding them to other animals, or culling them at all?

At Long Last, InfoWars Is Ours By Bryce P. Tetraeder, CEO, Global Tetrahedron

We have a deal. theonion.com/at-long-last...

You never know when you might need one (1) transport plane and one (1) light helicopter

If I was PM of a G7 country, I think the part of the job I'd enjoy most would be pretending that the bilateral partnership with Luxembourg is very important

a stuffed animal with a bottle and a star on its neck ALT: a stuffed animal with a bottle and a star on its neck

Live footage of the Labour party preparing to break Starmer

And Netflix Games! I thought that was just a tab people open by mistake when trying to find Search!

It certainly puts modern debates about whether Deliveroo is too decadent into perspective, is all I'm saying

Reading Three Men In A Boat, and there's a section that takes for granted that every shop - the greengrocer, the butcher, the cheesemonger, the baker, the confectioner - each has a boy or two whose job is to carry your purchases back to your house. One shopping trip creates a train of 6 or 7 boys.

"You want to replace Starmer. We've heard you, and we're making changes. Say hello to your new prime minister, Peter Mandelson."

black and white photo of geronimo the alpaca with the quote "if you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by"

(squinting at the data points, maybe it's more late 90s? But certainly the largest inflection among men was over before this century began)

Also the big movement in Germany is the early 90s, after which it's basically flat for men. Which does suggest this is more of a reunification effect (a sudden influx of young people disillusioned with a socialist gov) than anything else

I wonder how "Feed newborn chicks to birds of prey"* would poll. What birds do we love more - chickens or peregrines?

* This is real, although the chicks are already dead. If you see a jet of yellow from a falconer's hand, that's the yolk sac being popped.

Press releases | Riese & Müller

Riese and Muller leaving the US market.
This is a big loss for the cargo bike community in the US.
Why?
Trump's tariffs.
www.r-m.de/en-us/press/...

130 years ago, the German Empire projected power by sending the Kaiser on a Thomas Cook holiday (yes, the actual Thomas Cook) to the Middle East. History really is repeating itself. www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/die-r...

Scattering several pieces of Lego in front of the government benches, pointy bits up

A Forbes article about a father who killed eight children, with an embedded prediction widget inviting people to speculate on whether "Congress will pass new gun safety legislation before 31st December 2026"

ghoulish

Europe in particular has pretty much no city pairs where flights are that frequent (high speed rail killed Madrid-Barcelona, which was Europe's only high volume domestic route), so there's nowhere that missing a flight doesn't mean 3 hours of pain

This just popped into my head, but could this be a US coast elite thing? Like, if you miss the NYC-DC or LA-SF flight, it's really not a big deal because there's another one in 30 minutes. Those just aren't the types of flights most people are regularly taking!

Blick auf die Frankfurter Skyline vom südlichen Mainufer aus vor den weißen Blüten eines Baumes. Foto: Jan Hassenpflug

Wer würde bei dieser Kulisse nicht motiviert in die Woche starten? 🫠 🏙️

I don't even think the GLC is wrong here, but wow, they are incapable of writing in a style that's not "most annoying student newspaper you've ever read"