Some of us manage to think that watering lawns is wasteful too

Like. Come on. Science is cool, and scientists are cool

what if running the global economy on the liquefacted corpses of ancient beings somehow cursed us?

Particular shoutouts to Jamie Cushion as a haunting and powerful Gabe, and Charlie Nicholas who brought Henry to life more vividly than I've seen even in professional productions.

I was quite lucky to catch the opening night of "Next to Normal" produced by SEDOS at the Bridewell Theatre. I know London is home to exceptional musical theatre but to see an amateur production of this caliber was still thrilling. Excellent cast and musicians, interesting staging. Go see it!

A screenshot of a captcha asking the user to solve the equation 4 - -1 =. The user has entered "5" and the captcha has returned an error message.

I guess understanding negative numbers makes me some sort of Superbeing in Captcha's eyes, but it's sure I'm not human.

No disrespect to the athletes but the USA's biathlon performance today is just one more reason our national ambitions for Greenland are just laughable.

Heh, no luck with bollocked either.

12 years later, Democrats are proposing the same bullshit.

Everything in the Universe is made up of quantum probabilities. So it *is* "less" and not "fewer".

Now wrap it in a tortilla

St Patrick rolling over in his grave RN

I don't disagree, but so is tic-tac-toe.

Trying to get anyone to read "Anathem" is Hell. I promise this book rocks. You'll love reading hundreds of pages of history of philosophy on a strange world where neoplatonism is a major religion. I sweat to god you're going to have fun with the made up words everywhere. Please believe me.

It's been less than 36 hours since my daughter opened her Elphaba and Glinda dolls, and they have already swapped clothes, gotten married, and had a child named Daisy. Sometimes it feels like we are raising her right!

The rat content you’ve all demanded… Monkey’s strategy for eating oats (fit as many into mouth as possible)

This is also how I eat oats.

The Christmas Day chess tournament in the lobby has been canceled.

The hotel cannot have chess nuts boasting in an open foyer.

The Rainbow Fish musical punches way above its weight. Shout out to Austin Zumbro, script, music and lyrics powerhouse.

Best Joe Pera bit ever.

Now this is the one I wanna see from people

Pro tip: Cunningham's Law also applies to singing "Golden" around girls aged 5-10.

Wait why do we assume blaster bolts are moving at the speed of light? They are observably not...

State-of-the-art reasoning is to Gemini as plant cravings are to Brawndo.

When Ursula K. Le Guin & Philip K. Dick Went to High School Together When you run a site like this, you learn all kinds of unexpected things, most of it rich and rewarding, some of it strange, trivial and yet still intriguing.

Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick went to high school together.

There is no moral The wolf eats you one day And until it does The forest is beautiful [Collage of a forest with a picture of red riding hood and the wolf in a circled close up]

This is one of the most profound statements & pieces of wisdom I've ever seen in a meme 🖤

Go enjoy the forest, for the Wolf is always near. 🪾🐿️🍁🐺

One of my favorite chess players posting about reading my favorite author. Y'all, my birthday is six months away!

Having a dog and an overgrown back yard makes every day an Easter Egg hunt.

A black and white cartoon showing witches with different modes of transportation under a crescent moon. One young witch stands on the ground looking up disapprovingly, while three other witches fly through the sky - one on a scooter/moped, one on a hoverboard, and one on what appears to be a Roomba vacuum. The caption reads: 'Kids these days... Don't even know how to drive the stick anymore.'

And yet I still don't see Subway rolling out a "throw a sandwich at a fascist" ad campaign