Coming May 19th from 99% Invisible and BBC Studios, a new original series: A History of the United States in 100 Objects.
Each episode examines an ordinary object from America – sometimes overlooked, sometimes discarded – to uncover the human stories, contradictions, and cultural forces it reflects
Today a person can work two jobs for fifty hours a week and struggle to make ends meet, while in the stone age, a weird bird could be a hairdryer for a caveman for like five minutes every morning and it was a living.
I usually try to explain it like this: picture Curtis Yarvin as Phoebe Bridgers. Now imagine they're Hungarian. Doesn't look so much like the Challenger disaster was caused by adult Bluey fans virtue signaling now, does it?
The our blessed homeland meme except it’s about saviours of rock vs industry plants Our blessed saviours of rock Out glorious breakthrough Our great acclaim Our noble promoters Our heroic fanbase Their barbarous industry plant Their wicked algorithm Their primitive hype Their backward psyop Their brutish bots
The worst one in that picture is 'The Gregg Of Hurwitz'. "Gregg" isn't a profession!
Physicist has written a fascinating big beautiful paper.Let’s not be afraid to call it what it is - groundbreaking.
arxiv.org/abs/2603.21852
That's Unforgivenable!
Saw the previous iteration of this last summer — complete with the most genuinely-insane thing I've ever seen a stand-up do.
DNA has a helix. Exile has a hand.
#palindrome
Yes, until they learn to share the hedge.
(© D Antopolski, 2009)
Quicksand seemed in childhood like it was going to be much more of a common danger in adult life than it ended up being. After I lost my father to quicksand as a child, I rarely went near it again.
Contents of the new Boards of Canada promo VHS tape youtu.be/BQk6k6V_5aA
CELTIC PARK, 1951
GIL HERON: I can't pay my rent, but they're sending dogs into orbit. They'll put us in the space ghetto
JOCK STEIN: What's a spice girl
moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!
No Great Deed Is Commemorated Here.
Click on the link to begin your seance
I don't think Sicilians should accept a YouTube sponsorship from BetterHelp. I think when they do it they're reinforcing spilling jice.
Two Ben Liebrand remixes in one night!
Sorry — can't resist some low-hanging fruit.
Why not? They can only say no.
Screenshot from the game TROMBONE CHAMP, where you (badly) play a trombone along to various pieces of music, in this case The Caretaker's Everywhere at the End of Time, which simulates the progressive stages of Alzheimer's dementia
Ruining my family's life by loudly playing The Caretaker's 'Everywhere at the End of Time' on TROMBONE CHAMP
This is you
DO ENJOY A TIMBER SOFFIT. KR, HARRY.
Even the Arial signage looks classy. No idea how!
The ITV Retro YouTube channel just uploaded one of the greatest movies ever made. It's sumptuous and sensual in a way that still amazes for a film that's almost 80 years old. Don't watch it on your phone though - this deserves the big telly.
"But, professor — what if it should fall into the hands of bad actors?"
*Harry_Hill_glance.gif*
The B in Michael B Jordan stands for Benoit B Mandelbrot
Hey everyone, a collective I'm part of is starting a radical bookshop and community space in Newcastle, a city where the last radical bookshop closed around 40 years ago. We've just launched our crowdfunder. Please take a look a share widely!
www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...
