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Rest Of Party Thanks Fucking God 2 Guys Who Like Etymology Found Each Other theonion.com/rest-of-part...

submitted 11 hours ago • 33 comments

This seems bad.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Psst…You want to know about the NASA website that spells out your name in Landsat imagery. 🧪 landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

submitted 180 days ago • 97 comments

They misspelled Executive.

submitted 6 days ago • 37 comments

Looking for a dystopian novel you haven’t read that fits our current zeitgeist? Look no further than Jack Womack’s 1993 book, Random Acts of Senseless Violence. Especially if you’re a New Yorker. #booksky

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

submitted 9 days ago • 66 comments

Goodreads giveaway for copies of THE BEWITCHING, out July. A grad student in 1990s Massachusetts doing research on a horror author senses a strange presence on campus which reminds her of her great-grandmother's stories of witches from early 20th century Mexico. www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... ⁠

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

“I never noticed part of my brain growing,” David Cohen, a member of the London Cab Drivers Club, told the BBC. “It makes you wonder what happened to the rest of it.” RIP Dr Maguire, whose contribution may have unlocked the neuropsychological theory of fiction.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Newsletter: The tech industry has turned on the consumer, using abusive, manipulative software as a means of extracting wealth from every corner of our lives. Both society and the tech media must fight back, as I believe many of us deeply love our tech. www.wheresyoured.at/what-were-fighting-for/

submitted 15 days ago • 42 comments

Any dictionary can be a pocket dictionary with big enough pants.

submitted 16 days ago • 100 comments

Just realised that "Gene Hackman" is the exact name that Hideo Kojima would give a biochemist

submitted 22 days ago • 63 comments

Either you die an Ernie or live long enough to become a Bert

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Given all these critical webpages are being taken down, this might be a good time to familiarize yourself with the Wayback Machine on Internet Archive. It can pull up pages that are no longer active: web.archive.org

submitted 26 days ago • 86 comments

www.benmassey.ca/2025/01/cana...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Vancouver Music Fund Grants are now open! Apply now for a Demo Recording Grant (up to $2,000) or a Business Foundations Grant (up to $10,000). Applications close March 12th 🎶 These grants are offered in partnership with Creative BC #musicsky

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This is short but pretty good.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

The first big publications from the OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission report the building blocks of life (lots of them!) in the asteroid Bennu. Words by me:

submitted 28 days ago • 8 comments

Time to share my current historical obsession: Clarice Orsini de Medici’s EXTREMELY ILLEGAL HAT! A cool reflection on performing social class, and part of my release countdown to “Inventing the Renaissance” 1/?

submitted 30 days ago • 16 comments

US only but reposting so more people see it.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Anyway, yes, here is today's ACTUAL Popeye strip. www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/p...

submitted 31 days ago • 11 comments

HEY come to Banff and hang out with me and the other great faculty and do some writing! I promise I will protect you from the elk. 👍

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments

The novel I'm reading now has referenced both the Dik van Dykes *and* Repo Man (in separate scenes).

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Can you lose weight just by *thinking*? theneuroscienceofeve... The brain uses more calories than any other organ, but some margin. So, if you think more, you'll use more calories, and lose weight. Right? Actually, it's not that simple... #Weightloss #Fitness #Diet #Brain

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment