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“Cognitive dissonance” seems close but not quite right

when the truth is already horrible, why do we need to turn it into misinformation? it’s an own goal, handing assholes an easy reason to dismiss the problem entirely

sticking to truth is so much easier to defend

today would be a good day to amend the constitution to abolish the presidency

i would LOVE to see someone on social media posting “i shared this thing and it turned out to be false, sorry about that”

this is why i struggle to have much faith in “humanity,” on the whole

we can do some pretty cool things (like going to the moon and fighting disease) and some humans are trying to be more than animals, but at the end of the day we all are just social primates

myself included

there’s a distortion of a news story i keep seeing on IG, being shared by lefties who would normally be mocking the right for lies and misinformation

and i know that if i tried to share the Snopes write up, they would have an excuse why *their* meme being false doesn’t matter

Breaking the Grid: The Five Women Who Entered Formula 1 YouTube video by Elizabeth Blackstock

Over 1,000 drivers have entered a #Formula1 Grand Prix. Only five have been women.

But who were they? How did they get to F1? And what barriers stood in their way?

That's exactly what I discussed last month in a presentation at the San Antonio Public Library:

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TitleAnatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of a WerewolfDescriptionA silver colored wolf-man stands on his back wolf legs, human-oid arms with talons stretched out in agony. His bare human-oid chest has white hair stretching down from his neck. His wolf head roars, mouth open and eyes wide. Dark grey coloring stretches from his nose, down his back and on to his tail, that’s finished in white. His legs and hands are white fur. He stands on a rocky ground.JokesThe Origin: You become a werewolf when ANOTHER werewolf bites you. Then YOU bite and make ANOTHER werewolf… it’s like multi-level marketing, but less skeevy.Aesthetic: His overall aesthetic is “Muppet that has SEEN some things.”Movement: He moves like an unbalanced washing machine.Scent: And smells like bowling alley carpeting.Identification: (points at neck) “Collar I.D.”Snout Utility: (points to head) The perfect snout to get that last Pringle.Dental Work: (points to head) His teeth are arranged with all the precision of a medieval village built without permits.Schedule: He only shows up once a month. …but that’s still better than Congress. ZING!Fashion: Thank God he got the Levis with the lycra.Aging: (points at tail) He still “Marks his Territory,” but ever since he turned fifty, it just takes longer and longer.

The alt text for the "Anatomy of a Dragon" comic by Dave Kellett is broken down into a title, a visual description, and a list of the jokes included in the illustration:TitleAnatomy of Monsters; Anatomy of a DragonDescriptionA green, scaly, four-legged creature with giant bat-like wings sits on a glistening gold dirt. His head is covered in dark spines, heavy eyebrows cover his eyes. He has a heavy chin and smoke protrudes from one of his nostrils.Jokes & AnnotationsClassification: Remember, Kids! - A dragon has 4 legs/2 wings. - A wyvern has 2 legs/2 wings. - A wyrm has 0 legs/0 wings. - And a WORM is the same as a wyrm, but without the hardcore name.The Vaping Dragon: Smoke constantly drifts from his nostrils like a teenager trying to hide a vape pen.Nature's Balance: Every dragon is born with one armor scale missing, for the benefit of talented archers. (It’s nature’s balance.)Dietary Habits: Practices the “Five-second Rule” for dropped sheep.The Landlord Look: The eyebrows of a grumpy landlord (…who also happens to be a nuclear weapon.)Culinarily Correct: Is convinced that shiny armor is just “Stay-fresh” Packaging.The Proverb: Believes “revenge is a dish best served at 3,000 degrees.”Social Media: Spends his weekends swiping right on pictures of unprotected royal treasuries.

The alt text for the "Anatomy of a Sasquatch" comic by Dave Kellett is structured as follows:TitleAnatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of a SasquatchDescriptionAn ape-like man stands in the classic Big-Foot stance, mid-walk. His arms and legs and shoulders are covered in fur, his hands, feet, biceps and chest are flesh. Behind him is a forest of trees.JokesThe Ultimate Cryptid: He’s the ultimate American cryptid!Posture: (pointing to the previous joke) …with the posture of a middle-aged dad trying to find his glasses.Strength: He’s super strong! He can bench 150! (An F-150)Fur Texture: Fur has the texture of shag carpeting that’s been left in a damp basement since 1974.Hands: Knuckles for DAYYYYYS.Build: His build is the perfect blend of “powerlifter” and “dude powering through a few sleeves of oreos.”Shoulders: Don’t think of it as “Hairy Shoulders,” think of it as “Natural Rain Poncho”Origin: He was made famous by a 1967 filmstrip of what is clearly a dude-in-a-Gorilla-Suit.Stabilization: (pointing to previous joke) (Someone ran the film through modern film stabilization software. It is HILARIOUS how much it's a dude in a suit.)Legs: His calf muscles look like four angry raccoons fighting over a corndog.

TitleAnatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of Baba YagaDescriptionAn old lady with a long crooked nose, white scraggly hair held down by a red head scarf, wide eyes, mouth open in a witchy cackle, walks along a path. She has a brown leather bag across her shoulder decorated with bones. Her dress and cloak are brown and tattered. Behind her is a cottage held up by chicken legs.JokesRole: Part forest-guardian and part local terror, she’s a Slavic witch who rewards the polite and (accidentally!) eats the rude.The "Accident": (pointing to the previous joke) “Accidentally” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, there.Reasonableness: As far as witches go, she’s reasonable! Provided you can survive her easy-to-remember 608-step chores.The Name: If you pretend you’ve never heard it before, doesn’t the name BABA YAGA sound like a Swedish band that won Eurovision in 2009?Real Estate: (pointing to the cottage) Her house walks around on giant chicken legs. Which, Honestly? In this housing market? I’d make an offer.Transportation: She doesn’t ride a broomstick! She rides a mortar-and-pestle.Tech Gap: (pointing to previous joke) Which is fun for her, because everyone born after 1810 has to Google what a “Mortar-and-pestle” is.The Fence: Famously, her house is surrounded by a fence of human bones. Which is an aggressive way of saying “kick that ball into my yard, you AIN’T GETTIN’ IT BACK.”

Gang, making these ANATOMY OF MONSTERS has been so dang fun. If you want to read a whole bunch of 'em in a row, they're at sheldoncomics.com

Abolish the presidency

Darkwing Duck Intro YouTube video by Disney TVA News

thinking of him

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead casting ideas:

Lucy Liu & Kathryn Hahn
Dulé Hill & James Roday Rodriguez
Quinta Brunson & Awkwafina
Ryan Reynolds & George Clooney

I feel like I saw that the elk was played by a horse named Moose, but I also feel like I saw that on tumblr

Virginia joins a national effort to ensure only popular vote winners become president With Virginia on board, the National Popular Vote Compact is now enacted in states worth 222 electoral votes. Here's what that means.

Virginia ups the National Popular Vote Compact to 222 votes

www.npr.org/2026/04/14/n...

this was already on my 2026 reread list, but note i want to put it on there again

@zackracing.bsky.social rode solo this week to recap NASCAR at Bristol!

He also discussed the latest update on this year’s Indy 500 entry list 🏁

Watch or listen now 🎧

The 49MB Web Page A look at modern news websites. How programmatic ad-tech, huge payloads and hostile architecture destroyed the reading experience.

I kept thinking about my local newspaper’s app while reading this: I’m a paying subscriber - signed in to the app - and every time I open a notification for a story, I have to close two ads asking me to subscribe.

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TITLE: Anatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of a Sasquatch DESCRIPTION: An ape-like man stands in the classic Big-Foot stance, mid-walk. His arms and legs and shoulders are covered in fur, his hands, feet, biceps and chest are flesh. Behind him is a forest of trees. JOKES: - He’s the ultimate American cryptid! - (pointing to the previous joke) …with the posture of a middle-aged dad trying to find his glasses. - He’s super strong! He can bench 150! (An F-150) - Fur has the texture of shag carpeting that’s been left in a damp basement since 1974. - Knuckles for DAYYYYYS. - His build is the perfect blend of “powerlifter” and “dude powering through a few sleeves of oreos.” - Don’t think of it as “Hairy Shoulders,” think of it as “Natural Rain Poncho” - He was made. famous by a 1967 filmstrip of what is clearly a dude-in-a-Gorilla-Suit. - (pointing to previous joke) (Someone ran the film through modern film stabilization software. It is HILARIOUS how much its a dude in a suit.) - His calf muscles look like four angry raccoons fighting over a corndog. Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller

TODAY'S COMIC: Anatomy of a Sasquatch

Amend the constitution to abolish the presidency

they made A LOT of characters in the 60s and 70s

That’s awesome!

The Artemis II crew took this photo of the Milky Way. Just look at the breathtaking universe we live in.

We can do such amazing things; they make us so much better. And we are doing so few of them compared to what we could choose to do.

TITLE: Anatomy of Monsters: Anatomy of a Lou Carcolh DESCRIPTION: A monstrous snail-like creature sits roaring in a muddle of green ooze. His shell fades from orange to yellow to green with dark spikes protruding. His head is more dragon-like, with horns sticking out the side, tentacles poking up and coming down from the side of his mouth, and spines going down his head. His snail-body is a fleshy pink, with spots and bumps. the whole thing is very gross. JOKES: - He’s a legendary snail-serpent from French folklore. - (pointing to previous line) But doesn’t LOU CARCOLH sound like a guy who sells you quality deli meats at quality deli prices? - He’s got the skin of a wet portabello mushroom left in a sauna. - When your body is basically a musular sleeping bag that never stops leaking. - In Pokémon, you encounter this guy and go “You knwo what? I don’t GOTTA catch ‘em all.” - He once entered a French cooking contest as both the chef — and the entree — by mistake. - He’s on a strict no-salt diet. - Imagine going through life just SOAKED in aloe vera gel. —— Want 5,000 more comics like this? Join us at Patreon.com/sheldoncomics for the *FULL* Sheldon archives, art giveaways, fun community, and more! Sheldon Comics copyright Dave Kellett. Colors by Beth Reidmiller

TODAY'S COMIC: Anatomy of a Lou Carcolh

MARTHA WELLS' The Murderbot Diaries (Subterranean): Limited Edition to be personalized TO YOU | Locus Fundraiser Auction 2026 | Locus Science Fiction Foundation Help Locus Science Fiction Foundation meet their fundraising goal by sharing this campaign.

Two days left on the Locus fundraiser auction for a copy of the illustrated Subterranean edition of The Murderbot Diaries: locus.betterworld.org/auctions/loc...

As a country we’ve spent the last few decades reducing the taxes paid by the entities with the most money and then being shocked - shocked! - that this doesn’t make society better

NASA’s Artemis II Crew Flies Around the Moon (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

Reminder: the specific lunar flyby livestream coverage is here, and starts at 1 pm ET: www.youtube.com/live/z-j1uxB...

Abolish the presidency

Race for a Cause 24 is fundraising for Belong To LGBTQ+ Youth Ireland this year

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Race for a Cause 24 | Circuit De La Sarthe | Part 1 YouTube video by RaceSpotTV

i have Race for a Cause 24 on and a cat napping snuggled with my ankles while drinking coffee and catching up on inboxes - not a bad Saturday morning

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