A black and white comic, three panels stacked one on top of the other with white gutters. In the top panel, a toad looks questioning as a balloon from off panel exclaims, "You poor creature!" In the middle panel, the toad looks quite literally the most crestfallen I've ever seen a face as the balloon from off panel says, "It must be so hard..." And in the last and bottom panel, the toad lights up, stars appearing around their head, warmed by the words in the balloon from off panel that continues, "...being the most beautiful toad in the world!"

was recently reminded of one of my all-time favorite bits of sequential acting, drawn by Natalya Lobanova

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

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It's in the dictionary next to Upton Sinclair's famous line that "it is hard to get a man to understand something when he is a massive dumbass"

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

Dude, this comes from a theatre program. It isn't a composite.

Just because you couldn't find the ad doesn't mean that I must have fabricated it.

zombie hello kitty piñata, as requested (in great detail) by my then-4yo daughter for her birthday party: pink dress, pink mardi gras pearls, yellowing white fur, missing half of the right arm, blood spilling down in red streamers from arm-stump (including exposed bone), mouth caked with blood of varying shades of red & brown (old brown blood on the top & getting brighter red toward the bottom of the mouth/face where bright red streamers hang in front of the dress), wood door knobs painted black—one with a bright blue x in the middle and the other with the same blue iris w red bloody veins throughout, & a bashed in skull w exposed brains spilling out in red & pink streamers

this is the zombie hello kitty piñata custom ordered by my sweet sweet 4yo daughter 🤩😅

Google AI overview reports that "A 12 to 15-page document typically contains between 3,000 and 3,750 words when single-spaced (approx. 250 words per page), or 6,000 to 7,500 words when double-spaced (approx. 500 words per page)." For good measure, it provides a bullet-point summary as well: "12 Pages: ~3,000 words (single-spaced) to ~6,000 words (double-spaced)."

My dad gave me one dollar bill
'Cause I'm his smartest son,
And I swapped it for two shiny quarters
'Cause two is more than one!
And then I took the quarters
And traded them to Lou
For three dimes -- I guess he don't know
That three is more than two!

ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere | Stuart Heritage Once you start noticing “it’s not X, it’s Y” as you scroll online, you can’t fail to register it. I’ve become so hypervigilant that it has seeped into my subconscious thoughts

In 2019, I defended my PhD on 'It's not X, it's Y' and similar constructions, which I call contrastive negation constructions. Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought that 'It's not X, it's Y' would become the topic of comment pieces in newspapers.
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people just don't like to be reminded that much of what makes up the internet is funny black teenagers, and that a lot of the language they use comes directly from them (it's giving, that part, clocked it, the tea, etc etc)

Pinchy!

Sentence of the day (typo in a 2019 retelling of a famous Reddit thread edition): "Roach himself had once inadvertently killed himself, his wife and their dog after leaving the stove on in their live-aboard boat, causing deadly carbon monoxide to flood the cabin."

A good excuse to remind people this book is available (although it doesn't contain this specific story) locusmag.com/review/moon-...

screenshot of a search for Argo with photos of a car and text reading: The Argo was the legendary ship in Greek mythology that carried Jason and the Argonauts on their quest to retrieve the Golden Fleece from Colchis. Built with the help of the goddess Athena, the ship was a unique and magical vessel that could speak and offer prophecies to its crew. The tale of the Argo and its journey is a significant epic in Greek literature, most notably detailed in the poem Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes. After successfully returning to lolcos, the ship was dedicated to Poseidon and later transformed into the constellation Argo Navis.

Odysseus: we now set out in our Odyssey

Sailor: what's an odyssey?

Odysseus: a family-focused minivan known for its versatile interior

it's so fun how they keep inventing more kinds of full of shit for things to be! and even more fun how much time one can devote just to trying to keep track of them! i love it here on planet earth

This legislation would make kids less safe, not more safe, while forcing everyone to upload their government ID or submit to a facial recognition scan in order to post online. The definition of “social media” in the bill is so wildly broad it would sweep in almost the entire Internet...

Realizing that some of my inexplicable sadness about the Artemis II stuff is that it feels like a trans-dimensional communication from an America that took a different path and chose joy instead of fear and hate.

TIL: American Science and Surplus shut down their mailorder business. (Brick-and-mortar still alive!)

Heartfelt thanks to all their catalog illustrators and copyeditors over the decades; as a wannabe-tinkerer kid stuck at home in the 90s your work was a joy to read and a spark to the imagination.

rimonoroni Follow christians: what could possibly be in that evil book.... what horrible spells does it hold within its pages... what black magic does it propagate.... the talmud: so if you send your kid off to Torah school but he has a really hard time with it, send him back home and go to school yourself instead so that once you've learned Torah you can go and teach your entire family. in fact, once some rabbi went out to go to Torah school and do just this, and on his way he came through this town and he asked if he could stay in the synagogue for the night. and of course the rabbi said yes but weird enough no one was in the streets and something was kind of off about the whole place. so our hero went into the synagogue only to find a seven headed demon just hanging out in the library!! our hero is terrified and prays super hard and because of this the demon is vanquished. he goes back to the rabbi and is like "dude wtf" and the rabbi was like "listen i know this is unorthodox but you're well known for how good at praying you are and this demon has been terrorizing us for well over a month and we were desperate. we knew you wouldn't die" and the guy was like "i didn't know that!" who do you think is in the right? hm. tough question. anyway. what were we talking about again? oh right. what if you make your sukkah doorway 1/7 of a cubit too short. would that be fucked up or what rimonoroni Follow #what? look up Bavli Kiddushin 29b <3

I love the Talmud

Of course he did, there's that old song "The Holes of Jesus" to help remember them all.

How many holes did Jesus have?
How many holes had He?
One for the Heav'nly Father,
From which our Lord did pee.

etc. for the rest of the holes

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THE DEATH OF STALIN (2017)

Repost by @nasa

"...copy, Moon joy."

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Listening in to the live Artemis II feed. I love the way they talk about everything (jargon, acronyms, plaing English) . Like a bit ago, an astronaut was talking emotionally about how beautiful the views were of the approaching moon, and Houston's CapCom person responded plainly “Copy. Moon joy.”

yes to everything in this thread. and man, I had real mixed feelings on Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (it was not the book for an era of no media literacy) but Sunrise on the Reaping was so exquisitely brutal in the context of this thread.

(The excerpted text turns out to be part of an explanation of how to keep the spider's habitat suitably humid by putting some damp sphagnum moss inside.)

Preview of thread from r/tarantulas "Just ordered a goliath bird eater, any tips, advice?" with response text "You should not be able to to squeeze it like a sponge and get substantial water out of it, but it should always always be moist. This, plus a... [Read more]"

What Google has pulled out as the preview of this Reddit thread (for my search on whether anyone keeps this particular enormous spider as a pet) suggests something that starts at "misleading" and ends at "a historically bad idea".