Sometimes you get a bad batch, maybe? (I'm not a professor, but definitely a former member of the occasional bad batch.)

I like how he's also sideways looking at the camera, as if to say "did you get the shot, or should we go again?"

This is like the Obama "HOPE" poster, except it says "TUNA".

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"Matutinal" was nine kinds of bullshit yesterday.

I keep waiting for "...and the Pendulum", that's how old I am.

So good!

Legal jargon in closing credits of TV show Jeopardy! ending with "No part of this work may be used or reproduced for the purpose of training any artificial intelligence technologies or systems."

You tell 'em, #Jeopardy !
#aisucks

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We all should!

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Photo of a stainless steel dishwasher with a small purple Post-it® on it that reads "DIRTY".

The struggle is real.

When we start installing micro wind turbines all over the city, you can thank me. 😁

I made this suggestion (among four others) to the Mayor's transition team in November! (Though I suggested it be levied for all residences valued over $5M, not just 2nd homes.)

They used to at least talk a good game with noblesse oblige. Now it's more noblesse allforme.

And now I'm yawning too (but I look far less terrifying).

New York Times Spelling Bee puzzle showing the word HENCH as "not in word list".

It's totally a word, #nytspellingbee . Just ask @nataliezed.bsky.social !

1000% yes, and the members of the crew hell bent on sinking the ship need to be sent to the brig.

Orange and white spotted shorthaired cat sitting up on the hood of a relatively small fire truck, facing away from the camera.

Orange and white spotted shorthaired cat lying down on the hood of a relatively small fire truck, looking at the camera.

Firecat #Caturday

I vaguely remember a commercial from the 70s showing a car driving in an urban area (the Bronx?), with the v/o saying "you don't want to run out of gas here, because here it'll cost you", and the camera shows a gas pump sign reading 70.9 cents.

Wait 'til you watch _The Gorge_.

And you can't spell "ferocious rebuke" without FUCK U (Elon, Jeff,...).

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They're bringing us back to Rome, all right. Circa 475 AD.

Then it's infrastructure week.

I look forward to (still being alive to be able to) read it!

I'm going to Disney World! - Wikipedia

I thought so too, but apparently that's just us showing our East Coast parochialism.

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Garfield the cartoon cat looking bedraggled, holding a green coffee cup and thinking "I *HATE* Mondays."

Same vibe.

"Unusually vivid".
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"Americans are too committed to their own individualism to ever fully embrace fascism" is a gorgeous sentence, thank you for that (and everything else)!

G.I. Joke?