Aging comedy writer holding an art book from Star Trek: Lower Decks

Oh by the way: it’s real and it’s SPECTACULAR.

Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

The energy requirements of parenting are wild. It can't be Sunday night! I haven't rested yet!

This obsession that some researchers seem to have with academic productivity is slowly eroding my faith in the academic enterprise.

“I want AI to do the grunt work so I have more time to think and write.”

News flash: you won’t.

The grunt work is part and parcel of the research process.

America listen tae Led Zep...and educate yerselves...

Make a post it/poster/sign that say “JUST WRITE THE SHIT FIRST DRAFT” above wherever you write, and then do that, including random questions to yourself, placeholders, everything (but avoid as much as possible starting a new document and discarding your first shit draft, that way doom lies)

For the “fiscal conservative” crowd - It’s cheaper to house/clothe/feed someone disabled, or addicted, or in poverty than to pay for the social fallout of that person’s tragedy. We are still choosing social disorder & higher cost, b/c we want others to suffer.

Also, writing trash is at least one way to get the writing muscle exercised again. Write trash until the real thing bites you again, then switch from the trash to the real.

Endurance athlete here, specifically one who's acquired disabilities forced me out of anything athletic for 2 decades.

I don't care if it were my favorite manufacturer for ANYTHING. A message like THAT is a guaranteed ban for life. I'll learn to make my own first.
(You listening, Merrell?)

An ink and ink pencils drawings of a dragon (profile). It's blue, with red fins, it has enormous claws, very long maw with a lots of teeth and spikes coming around it. Its body is also covered in spikes. It probably had six eyes or so, because from its profile you can see three of them.

Dragon || A4 || ink; derwent inktense
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#dragon #art #fantasy

Chronic pain is very common. This is just not smart from a branding standpoint. It shows you somehow did not have someone with chronic pain, let alone someone who may ID as disabled, in the room.

Running was never part of my identity but imagine this messaging is extra icky to former athletic folks whose bodies are now struggle bussing.

This messaging really is hostile to people with chronic pain who need comfortable, quality shoes but may not be able to run.

(Hit send too fast before putting in alt text: a red sign and in black lettering—“runners welcome. Walkers tolerated.” Nine and its swoosh logo are at the bottom.)

Nike has really lost the plot. Both from a branding POV and from a business POV.

The company put this ad up at a store in Boston without thinking about the impact of its words. It removed the ad after backlash.

Its stock is down 27% this year.

www.runnersworld.com/news/a710526...

EU: The European Union will require sale of mobile phones with “user-replaceable and longer-lasting batteries” starting in 2027.

The regulation demands “availability of spare parts and manuals for 10 years to curb planned obsolescence”.

Researchers warn of severe long-term damage to the brain after Covid following new study Scientists warn long Covid could be linked to lasting brain damage, including memory issues and increased risk of neurological decline.

Researchers warn of severe long-term damage to the brain after Covid following new study

January study of essential workers (with blood samples before & after COVID infection) found those with long-term neurological symptoms had higher phosphorylated tau—a protein linked to early brain degeneration

Apparently I can't turn co-pilot off on my outlook app because it turns back on every fricking time I reopen my fricking app and I am about to chuck it into the fricking ocean (or at least delete the app from my phone, which would mean no work emails on my phone, but also no work calendar and UGHHHH

It will never not be funny how often a hockey game includes someone skating around without a stick holding their hands up like a confused emoji.

Now someone doesn't have a helmet. Seems bad? Oh well, they'll just tag out with someone who is fully equipped. 😂

Absolutely incredible.

NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone.

Watch with sound on.

Autism Acceptance Month Is Not a Celebration—It’s a Reckoning Every April, the world turns its attention to autism. The posts go up, the slogans circulate, and suddenly everyone is talking about “awareness” again. But if I’m being honest, awareness has never bee...

“We cannot say we ‘accept’ autistic individuals while continuing to use practices that ask them to override their nervous systems just to be seen as successful.” Rebecca Engle, at @endseclusion.bsky.social:

endseclusion.org/2026/04/03/a...

#AutismAcceptanceMonth #neurodiversity #autism

Wellington friends : u good?

Holy. Shit. This is Reid Wiseman's video he took with his iPhone while at the moon 🌙

I hate Al and I refuse to use it Peter, if you don't use Al a bunch of super rich men will lose a lot of money I already said I hated Al Harry, you don't need to sell it to me

// The physics of F__ks

Black Alert!

Shields up!

Bad Joke detected!

Q: you know what’s the hardest part about telling jokes about the French Revolution?
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A: The Execution.

Digesting the news of two high profile cases of Black women being murdered by their husbands during Black Maternal Health Week has me deep in my feelings.

A leading cause of death in the postpartum period for non-Hispanic Black women

I love this guy and I wish to subscribe to his newsletter.

And yes, that idiot's glasses are hilarious.