Just horrifying to watch once excellent universities voluntarily destroying themselves.

A black-and-white photo of an Oblique Strategy card. The card reads: 'Use an unacceptable color'.

Use an unacceptable color

#ObliqueStrategies

They were taken into custardy.

Noen dager i Østerrike:

- Heilige Drei Könige: Dienstag, 6. Jänner 2026
- Fronleichnam: Donnerstag, 4. Juni 2026
- Mariä Himmelfahrt: Samstag, 15. August 2026
- Allerheiligen: Sonntag, 1. November 2026
- Mariä Empfängnis: Dienstag, 8. Dezember 2026

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

Extremely clear Trump is on Putin's team. Not that I needed any more evidence.

Quite telling

viable competing Theories of Everything in 2026:
- everything is gender
- everything is race
- everyone is a 12-year-old
- everything is housing

Theories of Everything now believed to be unviable:
- string theory
- loop quantum gravity
- tankie Marxism
- everything is gonna be alright

Trump-tweeted picture of himself as Jesus healing the sick. In the background is an American flag, gratuitous bald eagles, fighter jets dropping fireworks on the white house, the statue of liberty, and, above Trump's head, five shadowy figures, the lead of which has the silhouette of the witch-king of Angmar from Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy.

It's been a long time since I took art history in college, but I don't recall fighter jets, bald eagles, storm troopers, and the Witch-king of Angmar making frequent appearances in Christian iconography.

France is switching from Microsoft to Linux

"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."

analogy for the America brained is like if the Dems lost to Trump four times in a row and then ran Mitt Romney to save the country and won crazy supermajorities and also Mitt Romney was named Johnny America

i saw The Sentinel on Amiga. Never got the hang of it, but always remembered it.

J.D. Vance as Death going down a series of doors marked Pope Francis, Iran negotiations, Viktor Orban’s re-election and U.S. midterms.

"Older men concerned about falling birthrates among teenage women"

🎶Reach out and touch faith
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal Jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who's there
Feeling unknown and you're all alone
Flesh and bone by the telephone
Lift up the receiver, I'll make you a believer🎶

It’s still so strange to me that both russia and the USA are openly campaigning for Orbán 🤯

Not too far off, I'd say!

Ok, #popsky or #demosky! What are the top 10 demographic megatrends today? Global aging, lower fertility, demographic weight of world regions? Any ideas?

Per, this is the terrible fate of an academic (except some of us never had an industrious period).

Just to confirm there are no upcoming due dates for proposals for SBE programs.

Always exciting to see the Avignon Papacy in the news

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

Old workflow: procrastinating at work.

New, AI-based workflow: watching Claude procrastinating for me at work.

Found among the historic images release by NASA of the dark side of the moon.

National Geographic Research shows 8 hours in bed no longer guarantees a restful sleep.

I can guess.

ok is "getting oil from russia = energy independence for europe" a new thing or is this just the first time i've noticed it

Important reminder!

In Korea, when the president declared martial law after midnight and erected barricades in Seoul, congressional reps from all parties ran into the streets, yanked ak47s from the army at the barricades, broke down the locked door to Congress, repealed the martial law order, and arrested the president

The media HATES that explanation, but changes in counting rules and recording practices matter:

Uncanny parallel between Nixons' christmas bombings of north vietnam with Apollo 17 astronauts in space sharing messages of peace for all mankind in 1972 and Trump's potentental bombing of Iran juxaposed agianst Artemis II in 2026...