Gardener’s World still exists

If an exoskeleton needs an update and spasms like that robot in the Chinese restaurant, it would break your bones. The research is valuable like all research is valuable, and may eventually have practical applications. “But it will be good for people with disabilities” is a common absurdity though

Motorized wheelchairs already exist.
Industry has been working on humanoid robots for decades and they’re still too dangerous to be moving in the same space as people. Something heavy and strong enough to break a bone if it malfunctions isn’t anything I want my mom using to get around her house

an older man is standing in a crowd of people and says weeeeell ?? we 're waiting !!! Alt: Caddyshack gif of a man asking “Well? We’re waiting!” for this woman with a farm in Idaho to say who she voted for

She knows what we want to know…

I thought, well, I wouldn’t want a car that I had to charge in Baton Rouge during an evacuation, but if it got me to Lafayette that would probably be okay. So I got a quote to get a charger put in the sidewalk strip (no driveway). $9000. Nope nope nope

The Silk that Hurls Us Down Its Spine, and The Angry Lunch Cafe, essays about the Colorado River in Ellen Meloy’s The Anthropology of Turquoise. And she might check out Nicholas Floch’s photos of the Mississippi waters

Magic 8 ball

What the fuck.

Reminds me of this old Frankie Boyle bit about credulous science presenters doing stories on tv about cars that run on cheese, wine, rubbish, etc. “We’re not in Iraq because rubbish powers cars!” youtube.com/clip/UgkxuYf...

San Clemente, Rome. Nice 12c church on top, 4th c church underneath, and a mithraeum underneath that.

Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping? We would rather talk about literally everything else.

True, but also we pollute those professions, majors, and even hobbies by our presence. Once they reach a girliness tipping point, the ick is too strong to be overcome for some men—the “male flight” phenomenon. Could high pay be enough to reverse it? celestemdavis.substack.com/p/why-boys-d...

The holy trinity by El Greco. God the Father is holding Jesus, who is dead despite being in heaven. Jesus is slumped and awkwardly twisting, but his modesty napkin is still firmly in place

A classic weird pose from a mannerist painting.

This is AI slop. Delete this please

But once they achieve that miracle, they will create literally tens of jobs, so if we say no, isn’t that the same as hating New Orleans and wanting it to fail?

Yeah, I wonder, was Herc ever redeemable? Was there anybody he could have met that would make him shape up, like Colvin influenced Carver? You assume no, that that man was never going to listen to anyone, but there he is, listening to Bodie’s grandma

summary of McNulty in the last season. It’s all there from the start

I just rewatched that episode too! I was struck by Landsman talking to Rawls about McNulty. I think the first time, I sort of dismissed it because you’re set up to hate both men, and see McNulty as a hero, and Landsman is so gross about it. But it’s nearly identical to the fbi profiler’s brutal

I travelled a lot during the George W years and I thought I knew what shame was then, lol. I was denying that man all over India in 05, and one man got quite upset though—“he’s a great man and a great president” etc. I assume now, my first encounter with Hindu nationalism

To compare frito pie and apple cider donuts to lutefisk is just wild

Rococo painting by Francois Boucher on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art. A woman in a nightgown is surprised by a man jump scaring her from behind a curtain, disturbing the cat on her lap. The whole is very 1730s, in that icky-cutesy way.

Close up of the cat in the painting. He’s white with some black and brown cow markings, with a very short tail. He looks a little scrungly. And real mad. He’s on the lap of a woman experiencing a surprise-based nip slip, because it was 1730 and that’s how you reacted to getting surprised.

My museum recently put this deranged Boucher back on view with the maddest cat. Just so annoyed.

Have you read Home Comforts by Cheryl Mandelson? It’s a practical housekeeping manual, but starts with a nice history of housework. She compared how often historic housekeeping manuals recommended you dust—it was like once a week in the 19th c, and twice a day by the 60s.

Picture of a barrel bolt latch

How about a barrel bolt or chain latch at adult-only height? I realize that may only last a week or two before they are taller than you though…

HB 750 by Cox would require companies to have an easy way to cancel an automatic subscription — or at least as easy as accepting automatic renewal terms. It is not clear how easiness would be measured.

“It is not clear how the easiness is measured” could be the new subheading for the city

And more explosive

I agree with every word. A perfect book

In my dreams Hollywood realizes they could make twenty Heated Rivalry imitations for the cost of one superhero show, and they start scouring the publishing industry for books like this. I’m still cross that Bridgerton is what got the Netflix money when there’s so much better out there now

It’s so good! It dropped on Friday and I’m already rereading it

Imagining the slides is also a big part how I come up with the overall structure of a presentation

My faucet obsessed cat forgot about it when we moved and her entire world geography changed. Is moving house an option?

Slings & Arrows: The Complete Collection [7 Discs]

Physical media is The Way www.alibris.com/search/movie...

Okay you sold me, I’ll check it out. Have you seen Fresh Meat? Hilarious. Might cure the Jack Whitehall crush, his character is just awful