Can they even understand the concept of a woman being a plumber?

A very dangerous world, in which the FIFA Peace Prize no longer carries the weight of integrity it once did.

Reminds me of the bank that looked at its own employees accounts during salary negotiations (and told the union rep).

William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night

What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!

who’s the necromancer and who’s the cavalier

Asian rhino *playing*. Delightful.

(FTAOD not "the big house".)

We need to find the "certain threshold" and a binary search over house size is the most efficient way to do it. Since you've selfessly volunteered you should be moved into the biggest house that exists forthwith.

Some people demean ‘to ax’ as a variant of ‘to ask’, but it’s at least 1200 years old.

It stems from Old English ‘ācsian’ with /ks/, a variant of ‘āscian’ with /sk/. Later, Chaucer used both ‘axen’ and ‘asken’.

Swapping two sounds is called metathesis.

More examples from English and its sisters:

Bill Watterson could do Sin City but Frank Miller could not do Calvin and Hobbes

Librarian. (The disobedient time-travelling alien-romancing universe-saving kind.)

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.

A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

John Cage × Roedelius

Site won't let me read all of it but it reminded me a bit of Teilhard de Chardin's ideas.

It sounds like they are in fact too incompetent too actually ask you a question!

Post the wrong answer on social media.

My colleagues exist in multiple timezones and working cultures (not to mention holiday/sick leave/preferring odd working hours). Basically I have no idea when is convenient for them to read email.

Thankfully none of them have decided to make this anyone's problem but their own.

Microsoft pop-up inviting me to click a box to "stay signed in". I always tick the box. Microsoft never keeps me signed in.

I call this "The Lying Screen"

Turns out it didn't have legs

A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that. @yaboyni Take a moment And and realize the moment You took has already passed Thank you See you next time

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

10:26 < Chicken Ragù Bianco | 19 350-degree oven.) Step 5 Once the chicken has cooked, let it cool for a few minutes, then take it out of the liquid (but keep the cooking liquid in the pot) and let it cool until you can comfortably handle it. Pull off the skin and feed it to your dog, then pull off the meat in large shreds (chop the larger ones) and return the chicken to the cooking liquid.

did… did the dog write this recipe

The AI bubble in canned form!

Glad to see you've got it sorted, I've been rewatching The X-Files and reading Monster Of The Week as I go.

who called them "the Huns" and not "H from Steppes"

ME: hey so what's this process consuming all my CPU
WINDOWS: oh that's our Microsoft Search Indexer, it's building a search index of your files
ME: neat, so if I do a search on my files, will I get prompt, useful resul—
WINDOWS: [punches me in the face]

Me (being caught in bed with an optical illusion): it’s not what it looks like.

If schools were actually preparing kids for white-collar work they wouldn't be phone-free, you'd have to have your phone on your desk all day for the authenticator apps

I mean, sure, "Elephants never forget" is cute and all, but "corvids carry generational grudges" is both factually correct and _sick as hell_

I have a cool project going with GPT. It's giving me specifications for affixing feathers on my arms with wax so I can fly! This is going to be awesome!

A map showing South West England and Wales, labelled "Graph of British Rivers". Two river courses are shown, labelled 'Wye axis' and 'Exe axis'. Does anyone read these descriptions, or am I wasting my time?

Graph of British Rivers