They turn the gravity up as we get older.

Idk who did this comic but it's hilarious

Aylesbury Duck - The Livestock Conservancy In England, Aylesburys are considered the duck of choice for meat thanks to its flavorful flesh, a contrast to the U.S.' love for the Pekin.

livestockconservancy.org/aylesbury

The Shart of the Deal

Please check the time - BST doesn't start till March 29th.

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

It seems all Kansas-issued trans drivers' licenses are invalid, effective tomorrow

It is now illegal for trans people to drive a car until they surrender their license at a DMV (that most will need to drive to) and have it reissued with the wrong gender marker

This was never about woman's sports

Going through DuckDuckGo might give you an added layer of protection from data leakage

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

Team USA snow sculpture in Stillwater removed over ICE out' messaging Event organizers received phone calls and complaints about the sculpture Team USA's snow sculpture "Call to Arms" was removed from Lowell Park on Monday, Jan. 26, 2026. (Courtesy of Makwa Studio) By MARY DIVINE | mdivine@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press PUBLISHED: January 28, 2026 at 2:34 PM CST | UPDATED: January 28, 2026 at 2:59 PM CST Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sculpture designed by Team USA for the World Snow Sculpting Championship in downtown Stillwater has been removed by officials citing changes made by the sculptors in response to recent federal immigrant enforcement. The original design, as submitted to competition officials, featured a sphere of outstretched hands. It was called "A Call to Arms." But the team of sculptors, which includes St. Paul artist Dusty Thune and teammates Dan Belcher and Josh Jakubowski, decided during the festival in Lowell Park to add peace signs and hand gestures using American Sign Language. Among the messages spelled out in ASL: "ICE out," "love," "unity" and "resist."

Anthony-Evenson, who knows ASL, said the hands spelled out "ICE out" by using the sign for "ice" and the "resistance fist." "It was very creatively done, and it was not very easy to read," she said. "You had to look at it very carefully to notice it, but clearly it was noticed. We appreciated the positive messaging that we did see like 'love' and 'peace,' but at the end of the day, the sculpture was modified from the submitted design. The submitted design had open fingers."

Unnecessary and divisive' In a letter to Thune dated Jan. 20, Anthony-Evenson, Stillwater Mayor Ted Kozlowski and World Snow Celebration Co-Chair Sara Jespersen expressed their "deep disappointment" regarding the team's actions. "As you were made aware, the rules governing this international competition are explicit: political symbols, statements, or messaging of any kind are strictly prohibited," they wrote. "Despite this clear policy, inappropriate content was incorporated into your sculpture. This was not an oversight. It was a conscious decision, and it was a selfish one." The letter went on to say Team USA's actions negatively impacted event organizers, required financial resources to address and damaged the partnership with a nonprofit sponsor. "At a time when unity and mutual respect are more important than ever, introducing this type of messaging into this forum was unnecessary and divisive," the letter said.

ILLEGAL SNOW ART

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video

A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

And that one? And that one? And...

Have you considered embracing your inner hedgehog and simply curling up to sleep in the leaves?

Ooh! Do me! @profanity.accountant

Marillion
The Georgia Satellites
Pink Floyd
Steve Earle
The Rainmakers

23.00 FILM: RAMBO NUMBER FIVE The war veteran returns to face early 2000's chart act Lou Bega who is threatening to detonate a series of bombs leaving a little bit of Monica, Erica, Rita, Tina, Sandra and Jessica scattered over a wide area.

See you in Whamhalla. #Whamageddon2025

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

The Empire Strikes Back
(1980)
Dir. Irvin Kershner

Spectacularly good.

Roses YouTube video by Nik Kershaw - Topic

#ALL50RTS

Day 38

Nik Kershaw - Roses (The Riddle, 1984)

You can't say we weren't warned. Nik warned us back in '84.

youtu.be/Qgz1V4PDDM0?...

Inside FIFA The official site of the international governing body of football with news, national associations, competitions, results, fixtures, development, organisation, world rankings, statistics, the Internat...

FIFA is asking for volunteers for the 2026 World Cup.

VOLUNTEERS!

FIFA is a $6 billion USDollar company.

It can and should pay wages for the labour to put on its biggest revenue-generating event.

People of Vancouver, don’t fall for this nonsense.

If they make another Star Trek movie, can we have James Gunn direct it? Not because of his directorial skills; I just think it’s about time a narrative included Gunn’s Chekov.

I'm a righty

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Bread and circuses. Hold the bread.

Better than the alternative. Happy birthday!

Worth a watch:

Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Team Barb all the way on this one.