Some people in the office were like "He shouldn't crash into the word 'Tech,' that's too on the nose, but I was like "Guys this is our first metaphor -- it should be juicy!"
Anyway next week we're gonna have a Bald Eagle die of measles so look out for that one.
It's like if Barbie had a really quirky aunt!
Canada and Toronto mugs.
Chuffed to get these from my oldest son, just back from Toronto. Given the shit with Trump they wanted to try Canada instead of the USA, they loved it. They want to go to Vancouver next year.
The Loop is a fun game! Challenging, but not frustrating
Saucy Fox
A cartoon by Megan Herbert showing people all around the world in different situations - people getting married and guests attending a wedding, people performing in and watching a circus trapeze act, someone snorkelling and surrounded by fish, a person sitting on a remote mountaintop while meditating - all thinking the same thing: "Why don't they invoke the 25th?". The caption beneath the cartoon says "The whole world tries, and fails, to think about something else."
Seriously
American journalism is so comprehensively unequal to this moment that it beggars belief
Zing! 😂
My daughter, page 125! www.keeneland.com/media/keenel...
A cartoon illustration of a robin wearing a blue hoodie.
"We're in the Economist?"
A lot of the push for consumer-facing AI seems to be based on a fundamental misunderstanding of the creative process by people without a creative bone in their bodies.
Ariel with a macro probe lens in Antarctica. "Hey, I'm Ariel Waldman. Meet the host of the new PBS series: Life Unearthed with Ariel Waldman".
Image of a tardigrade. "I'm a wildlife filmmaker at the microscopic scale."
Ariel talking to camera in front of a helicopter in Antarctica. "I filmed a series solo in Antarctica. No film crew. Just me for two full months in Antarctica."
Ariel in front of a large NASA logo. "Prior to filmmaking, I worked with NASA on advanced tech, astrobiology, and human spaceflight."
Watch LIFE UNEARTHED with Ariel Waldman on @pbs.org
Stream, watch, rent or download in the U.S. and Canada!
Episodes released weekly. Season 1 explores Antarctica and the North American Prairies.
Cover to a midcentury children's book, Space Alphabet. There's two kids with clear domed helmets on and sitting on a floating block with A, B and C on each side.
Today, in honor of the Artemis II liftoff, I'll share a book I scanned and posted about years ago and is still one of my favorites in my collection: Space Alphabet by Irene Zacks, illustrated by the talented Peter P. Plasencia (1964).
#wardsmorguefile
No
👽
hello
what did i miss
tell me every thing
Welcome back!! Things are crazy!
Ok - so, we’ve got a cartoon of a very long table full of people titled “Everyone at the Dinner Party” Each person has a little annotation and an arrow pointing to them, while they generally do the thing that’s written about them - any extra visuals I’ll add in parentheses. Ok - let’s go! The Friend pretending to know about wine because they went to a wine tasting once. The Friend who IS going to show you a picture of their dog. (Standing, with a carton of beer over their head is) The Friend who thought this was a house party and arrived at midnight. The Friend who nobody really wanted to come but it would be weird if they weren’t invited. (This person has two glasses of wine) The really shit fork that nobody wants (This is the only fork on the table with three prongs) The Friend who will tell you the best way to roast potatoes while eating your potatoes (This person is saying “Bla Bla Bla Duck Fat…”) The Smokers who everyone pretends to be disgusted by but is secretly jealous of their ability to regularly extricate themselves. (The arrows here are pointing to two empty seats)
The Friend whose story is STILL inexplicably going. (They’re saying “And then, wait for this bit…) The Friend who is only able to talk about that one tv show. (“You haven’t seen it?!” The Friend with a bit of a messiah complex. (This character is positioned in the middle of the table, a nod to The Last Supper of course - he is also the only one that has a water jug suspiciously full of wine in front of him) Second cheapest bottle of wine that everyone bought from the shop. The Friend who is quickly going to check their phone. The Friend who is going to spend the majority of the dinner complaining how ‘phones ruin dinner’. (This friend is staring at the phone checking friend) (Note: There’s a vase with three flowers in it on the table here - remember that) The rival ‘Best Potato Salads’ that nobody was asked to bring. The new boyfriend who seemed ok at first but is now weirding everyone out. (“Want to hear more about how much better natural wine is?”)
The Friend who interrupts everyone’s story with their own better version of the same story. The Friend googling everything to show everyone that… “Aaaah, actually…”. The Friend who was all like “Oh my god, yes! I’ll absolutely be there. (Again, this arrow is pointing to an empty seat) The awkward bench seat two guests will stoically share. Person who’s made it their one mission to befriend the disinterested cat. (This person is hovering over the cat) The Cat, who is absolutely furious about all this. (Note: At this point, the table ends and we continue through a door and into the kitchen) The Friend who is offering to do the dishes just so they can escape everyone at the table.
The two friends who wished they’d thought of that (the washing up), so are now sharing the one-person drying job. (At the end of the kitchen bench, a solitary figure sits on the bench, helping themselves to a bottle of wine, they are of course…) The host, who might be regretting all this. (Note: we now move out through the back door and into the fire escape, the door here has been propped open by a flower pot missing three flowers that’s been dragged into place. It is here that we find the two smokers, enjoying a cigarette in relaxed silence. The end.
“Everyone at the Dinner Party”
Very happy to say I’ve finally managed to format this so it’s actually legible here. So, jump on in and see if you can find yourself! Enjoy.
Wonderful cartoon! I'm the friend washing the dishes in order to avoid everyone and everything
One of my two #cartoons in the current @privateeyenews.bsky.social - new issue out tomorrow. #eatingout #restaurant #diningexperience
Just three weeks before he was assassinated Malcom X appeared on a Canadian game show. It is incredible footage. It reveals how Canadian media saw Malcom X as compared to how he was treated in the United States.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqmy...
A those mothers who drove their sons to their lessons, practices, and games. All of the wives who took extra shifts with kids so their husbands could play enough hockey that they'd eventually win gold.
A lifetime of support from women, only to laugh at the idea of women being worth celebrating.
Both USA hockey teams winning gold at the olympics is such a huge cause for massive celebration. An opportunity for togetherness and unity.
Trump's natural tendency to divide and diminish is so strong that it happened immediately - while the men's team was still in the locker room after the game.
if someone can come up with working adversarial garment that fucks with smart glasses, to almost any extent, I will not only buy it myself but promote it religiously
ideally something that does lasting damage, but even compromising certain functions is better than nothing
who is working on this??
What women on the left already knew before the files came out is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.
