You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory - Johnny Thunders. Such a great song from someone who left us way too soon.

35 years ago today
Remembering John Anthony Genzale aka Johnny Thunders, American rock and roll / punk rock guitarist, member of the New York Dolls and member of The Heartbreakers, died on this day in 1991

📸 Maria Resnick

#punk #punks #punkrock #johnnythunders #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Jeez, who the fuck asked for a carousel?

Why isn't it optional?

This is daft.

Excellent, thanks!

gosh. 😬

Cool. I think I leaned more Proudhon-ish in my youth.

Are there any good books/biographies you'd recommend on him?

Star Trek Celebs Join Opposition To Paramount/Warner Bros. Merger, Ask Fans To Protest On Thursday Wilson Cruz hopes fans will join him in NYC.

Good to see them speaking out.

*gasps and clamours for Caidid's Illustrated Kropotkin Colouring Book*

GEORGE LUCAS: great work on all of these stirring themes. I just need one more piece: a boisterous instrumental number for an alien bar.

JOHN WILLIAMS: sure, I ca-

GEORGE LUCAS: in this universe this style of music is called "jizz"

JOHN WILLIAMS: uh su-

GEORGE LUCAS: musicians are "jizz wailers"

What an absolute classic (and a delight to accidentally stumble upon during a bike ride).

The East 4th Viaduct where the gang members hung out in Colors (1988) and where the dance-off takes place in Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo (1984).

Normal people: the courts are very serious interpreters of the law

The courts: go ahead, impersonate the feds

Hence why cranks who claimed "defense contractors want this war" were always stupid*. As far as they are concerned, this war is a disaster as who will spend billions on defence procurements that can be destroyed by drones that cost 1% the price?

Hence by Rhinemittal CEO dumps on drones.

Do Large Language Models know Which Published Articles have been Retracted? Large Language Models (LLMs) can be helpful for literature search and summarisation, but retracted articles can confuse them. This article asks three open weights (offline) LLMs whether 161 high profi...

"Based on titles and abstracts, in over 80% of cases the LLMs claimed that a retracted article had not been retracted (GPT OSS 120B: 82%; Gemma 3 27B: 84%; DeepSeek R1 72B: 88%)."

I've learned to dress appropriately. 😒

Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

A four panel fun strip featuring Myron the Living Voodoo Doll. It's the same joke over and over again, Myron the Living Voodoo Doll stumbles into a situation where he gets mangled bya human, an animal or by fate. The last panel shows the victim of the voodoo doll suffering the consequences. In this one Myron wanders ontp a golf course and has his head taken off by a golfer hitting him instead of the ball. Myron's head is send flying. Elsewhere, on a city block, the victim's head goes flying in bloody fashion. The victim's head speaks, saying "Must find that doll". The victim always says that, in some iteration or another. That's that.

Cover of Nerd Infenro, which will be out April 28th. It collects Milk and Cheese, Dork and The Eltingville Club in one big omnibus edition.

NERD INFERNO is out on April 28th from @darkhorse.com.

Every day until then I'm posting something from the 648-pg Mecha Kong. Today: Another one-joke wonder, Myron The Living Voodoo Doll. Killer filler.

An article from dw.com It is white text on dark blue Germany: Neighbor attacked for pounding schnitzel too loudly Srinivas Mazumdaru | Timothy Jones with dpa, Reuters, AP, AFP, epd, KNA Published 04/18/2026 | last updated minutes ago Police in southern Germany were called in to settle a schnitzel dispute that had turned violent, with a man reportedly slapping his neighbor for pounding his schnitzel too loudly. DW has more.

Roses are red,
The weather is cloudy.

🇪🇪❌🇸🇰 Estonia denied Prime Minister Fico permission to fly to Moscow through its airspace to participate in the parade.

The country's Foreign Ministry said that it would not allow its territory to be used for trips that promote ties with Russia amid its aggression.

Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

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Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Hoping for less ants & more candy soon!

A+ No Notes.

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Black Flag - Slip It In YouTube video by mirvisable

I always forget this video exists.

Don't think I even saw it until the mid 2000s

Anyhow, #ThanksAgainYouTubeAlgorithm

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700-year-old mummy from Bolivia contains earliest confirmed evidence of strep throat bacteria in the Americas A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat was present in the Americas prior to European colonization.

Scientists have confirmed that group A strep can be identified in ancient remains. They found pathogen DNA in a prehispanic mummy from Bolivia — raising the question: Where did strep (and diseases like scarlet fever) originate? 🧪🏺

3 Southern California residents sentenced in bear suit insurance fraud scheme Three Southern California residents have been sentenced in a bizarre insurance fraud scheme which prosecutors say involved them staging fake bear attacks on high-end cars.

People tried to scam insurance by dressing up as a bear and wrecking luxury cars.

"Investigators then took the video to biologists with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to also look at the video. The biologists said, 'it was clearly a human in a bear suit.'"

abc7.com/post/3-south...

A very tiny bright orange baby salamander. It is extraordinarily cute, lying happily on moss.

We saw our first little red eft of the year today. If you see one please do not pick it up! Their skin is highly porous and the salt, oils, lotion, sunblock, bug spray, etc. from your hands can make them sick. Use a leaf to move them if they must be relocated for their safety. ❤️

Otter 🦦 💚

Washington wolf population surges 17% in 2025 OLYMPIA — Washington's gray wolf population reached a record high of 270 wolves in 2025, a 17% increase from 230 wolves in 2024, according to the Washington Department of Fish

Washington's gray wolf population hits record high. 270 wolves now roam the state — a 17% jump from last year. The count shows 23 breeding pairs and 49 packs statewide.