this is fucking nuts:

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He knew exactly what he was doing. Don’t get shy now, man, you bought the cake; eat every slice.

A jester laughing in a woodcut from 1503. The woodcut features a text: ha ha ha ha.

* ha ha ha ha *

The year is 1503, and this jester is laughing at you from his woodcut, reader!

The Fanfare Around Geese Actually Was a Psyop The Brooklyn band Geese was labeled an “industry plant” by those who questioned its sudden ubiquity. Maybe it was.

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HOWLING

there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Good day to bust this one out.

Gonna post this on every classroom wall where we are statutorily required by the state to hang the Ten Commandments

The brave Hungarian freedom fighters of 1956 were brutally crushed by the Soviet Union. But their Revolution was the "first tear in the Iron Curtain."

May the people of Hungary succeed today, 70 years later, in defeating those seeking to impose a new iron curtain on the free world.

holy shit he actually conceded

folks, they tell you they’re invincible

they tell you they’re inevitable

they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting

and absolutely none of that is true

Call for papers for the Western Conference on British Studies this October in Denton, TX. Deadline extended to May 1! 🗃️ www.wcbs.org/cfp

Described by Brecht as 'a gangster play that would recall certain events familiar to us all', The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui is a witty and savage satire of the rise of Hitler - recast by Brecht into a small-time Chicago gangster's takeover of the city's greengrocery trade. Using a wide range of parody and pastiche - from Al Capone to Shakespeare's Richard III and Goethe's Faust - Brecht's compelling parable continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today. Written during the Second World War in 1941, the play was one of the Berliner Ensemble's most outstanding box-office successes in 1959, and has continued to attract a succession of major actors, including Leonard Rossiter, Christopher Plummer, Antony Sher and Al Pacino.

"Therefore learn how to see and not to gape.
To act instead of talking all day long.
The world was almost won by such an ape!
The nations put him where his kind belong.
But don’t rejoice too soon at your escape—
The womb he crawled from is still going strong."

--- Bertolt Brecht

A bit of humor for you to brighten your day.

Post an image from a game you played as a teenager:

@richardhowe.bsky.social

Fox News, circa 2013.

Contrary to public perception a huge % of pregnant teenagers in the 1990s were impregnated by adult men. The younger they were, the larger the average age gap between mother and father was. Fixing teen pregnancy was in part a clampdown on statutory rape. That's what conservatives want to reverse.

I have read the first two issues of Matt Fraction's BATMAN and we are verging dangerously close to "owner of a jetpack" territory. I'm a touch skeptical.

A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."

Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.

...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

a tweet from @/ThefirstJonk on 2/19/25 that reads: "Oh so no death cab for ugly? Ugly has to walk?"

got a much needed long laugh from this

Can we just never speak of this story again? How about we do that instead.

Wild, innit?

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

A 1983 poster featuring the really rather splendid Beta Ray Bill by his creator Walt Simonson, all trailing WS’s (terrific) tenure on The Mighty Thor.

young kid in a urban setting, on the wall behind is scrawled why vote? anarchy

Nick Hedges, Liverpool, 1968 - 1972.

More from other cities here.

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