Lucas: Alright producer Turnbull's! Here's the million dollar idea that I'll never do anything with Turtle timeout onesie: Onesie designed like a turtle shell so when you need to make sure the baby doesn't scoot away you flip it onto the shell and it stays put Added bonus of being round so you can rock the baby in the onesie to put it to sleep Maybe stash bonus diapers in it to boot And makes your baby sooooooo strong! Dad: When they're young, they can't flip over Lucas: Especially not if they're in their shell

My brother, preparing to be a new dad in a few months;

if you should ever want a well-reported story that ought to cause complete outrage to disappear, put it behind a paywall in The Times. The overlap between "social media activist-influencers who send this stuff viral" and "people with a Times subscription" is apparently remarkably small.

Makes me think about how visibility into what Nepalese 'nepo baby' elites got up to on Instagram was a major driving factor behind why Nepal had a revolution in 2025 (when GDP growth was up) rather than 2015 (when their economy was noticeably worse + affordability hampered by a massive earthquake)

And again, again: the man saying this was Barry f**king Goldwater

why is Elgin Charles' German lovechild clapping two Roombas together

Single-panel cartoon by Will Santino. A rabbit and a duck are looking over a crib, with a moon and stars mobile above. Inside the crib there is a baby creature, wrapped in a blanket and sleeping soundly on a pillow: its head looks like the rabbit-duck illusion, an ambiguous figure that is famous in philosophy for highlighting distinctions between perception and interpretation. The rabbit is saying "Really? I think he looks more like my side of the family."

The rabbit-duck illusion explained at last.

lol what

this is so mental

like, above and beyond his baseline

does he have one of the DOGE kids tweeting for him?

no

Also, I hasten to point out that if you do feel the latter way, there's a solution to that - it's called a ghostwriter

why does this make the building look like a giant stack of printer paper

I'm really split on this personally because I agree the museums need the money but having worked front desk at a museum the delight on a tourists face when you tell them it's fee is a universal language I wish we all saw more of

... because wholesale prices are very low for some 1/2 hours, thanks to being 100% renewable-supplied then... but still not quite sure if I have that exactly right. UK energy supply pricing is 🤯

Tbqh, I'm never sure if I understand this type of marginal pricing myself! I guess if it's based on the real wholesale price every 30 minutes; there *are* some 30 minute slots in a day where there is so much wind supply, gas plants truly are 0% of the mix? So th average unit rate over 24h is lowered

I would guess a smart energy tariff like Octopus Agile or Tracker - unit rate varies based on the wholesale cost of energy - wholesale cost is lower when there are lots of renewables in the mix

Yep. That stuff is big-screen work

I have a bad feeling we're getting dragged into this war, lads.

Toddlers do this too. 👁 👁

Britain - "Or, if you're over 60, your free bus pass. We don't want to make life too strenuous for our special favourite citizens!"

Idly contemplating what the reaction from my impoverished sheep-farming 1750s rural Welsh ancestors would be like if I were to teleport them forwards in time; show them my washing machine, vaccines, library cards and reliable birth control; and tell them yes, but! they're "queens of their household"

It's not the biggest thing, but it is genuinely deeply aggravating that everything will get worse for no real gains, just because Americans were stupid enough to elect him again.

There was actual pain in her eyes, Jesus

sounds like someone needs to buy a motorcycle 🏍💨

Well, I wouldn't necessarily say "lost a war" (mostly because they haven't yet defined what "winning" this war looks like), but: massively dented almost every geopolitical relationship the US has to no tangible strategic gain? Yes.

I mean

if you have all your teeth replaced with gold jaw implants, Bond-villain style, just before you die

then task your descendants to quietly dig up your casket and retrieve the lucrative dentures postmortem

that does seem like a pretty effective way to avoid inheritance tax, honestly

A unifying feature of all great "dominant military victories" throughout history is the winning leader having to beg on social media for China to come rescue him from the consequences of his triumph.

There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down

Inside the Department of War are two wolves:

"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."

"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"

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