2022 - Wk 43
Wk 43
Artist leaves flyers for improbable workshops on lampposts
Giant inflatable duck breaks free of moorings, escapes Maine harbor. Run! Run for your lives!
On the one hand, I get it - the IRS is always unpopular and an easy target. On the other hand, the government needs money to operate, and the people trying hardest to shut the IRS down are the ones that are currently getting away with not paying their fair share so of course the GOP wants to help them.
Photographer has what's called the the Grace Project, aiming to photograph 800 women with mastectomies that are dressed as goddesses. Pictures may be NSFW
I haven't read this but let me pass this article on
GOP groups around the US have fought to ban books from libraries and schools that contain sex, or admit that LGBTQ people exist, but MI GOP gubernatorial candidate Tudor 'Gilead' Dixon, wants to take it a step further and ban books mentioning divorce.
The idea that London started to ‘swing’ in the 1960s was largely the concoction of journalists in need of a story, most of them American. But in Soho and on the King’s Road in Chelsea, ideas were taking shape that would eventually change what people all over the country wore, what they listened to and what their houses looked like.
The Improbable Rise and Savage Fall of Siegfried & Roy
In a case litigating Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince, the Supreme Court wades into the uncomfortable territory where art criticism and copyright law collide.
Suffer the little children
Ukrainian children say they were taken against their will by Russian forces and placed up for adoption in Russia, where the process has been expedited.
Ukraine urges global ban of Russia's RT after presenter calls for drowning of Ukrainian children
Amazing Obits
The creator of the stop motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Frosty the Snowman films, 87.
Pierre Soulages, a French painter who created hundreds of canvas almost exclusively in shades of black for decades, died at 102
Kids who play video games have better memory and better control over their motor skills than kids who don't, according to a new study looking at adolescent brain function
For those saying the Ottawa convoy idiots were never violent, here’s a list of articles about what they got up to…
US runners have never been slower
Pictures Showing Bizarre Medical Treatments From The 1900s To 1960s
The US Navy’s plans for swarms of drones
High-Tech Cars Are Killing the Auto Repair Shop: New vehicles are rigged out with sensors and computer chips—and they're costlier for shop owners to fix. Get ready to wait longer for repairs
Ever get a tune stuck in your head, but you can't remember the lyrics or artist? This site will take a simple rhythm that you tap on your keyboard as though you're sounding out the syllables of the words, and it presents you with a short list of possible candidates
Pose a skeleton using all bones present in the human body. Useful if you're an artist.
How to impersonate Alan Rickman
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, first told by Plato and taken literally by the halfwits of the Renaissance as they began to explore the oceans.
Who's drawn to fascism? Postwar study of authoritarianism makes a comeback
The Limey: Why Should Editing Make Sense?
So a cat is stuck up a tree in Russia and, well...This is the most Russian thing you'll see all day.
Why was the really interesting game Black & White abandoned?
1989's The 'Burbs had an alternate ending. God, I love this film. Interesting to see footage from this film without Jerry Goldsmith's note-perfect comic film score.
Unintended consequences and correlations
When the printing press made its debut in Europe in the 15th century, thousands of old texts were ‘recycled’ for use as binding material for newer books. In 2015, researchers at Leiden University started using an x-ray technique to reveal these texts. Some are up to 1,300 years old.
Considering COVID a hoax is ‘gateway’ to belief in conspiracy theories
Dumb criminals
Pro tip: When you head out to rob someone at an ATM leave the personal-property receipt from your last jail stay at home
It's 3:50 a.m. and a criminal mastermind finds unlocked doors to a temporarily unattended lobby, ripe for his rebellious messages through dastardly vandalism and destructive arson. If only he'd checked the sign on the door
Strange headlines
Robbie Coltrane had six - count 'em, six - causes of death listed on his death certificate, obesity being the least of the bunch
Jail Term For Woman In Sex Toy Stabbing
A tepid distopia
French cement company paid ISIS to protect their factory in Syria
Uttering threats is illegal in Canada. Apparently not south of the border.
It cost $38,398 for a single shot of a very old cancer drug in guess what country?
This week's nincompoop is from Florida
Attorney who fought Florida helmet laws made the papers guess how?
Sherlock Holmes ranked. Note the Russian portrayal in the sixth position and that Cummerbatch fellow waaaay too far up. That was more fan fic than Sherlock Holmes. My favourite Holmes, Jeremy Brett, didn't want the role. He felt himself a romantic actor who could not play a super logical person; in this interview Brett reveals how he figured out how to play Holmes.
Letters to the editor from another time that apply today.
What’s the real threat to free expression: cancel culture or the fear of cancel culture?
Poem: The Son I’ll Never Have
When we think of human trafficking, we think of women sold for sex, not men for construction or captive workers on fishing boats.
‘I think about death 35 times a day’: Bill Nighy on sex, social media – and still being able to manage the stairs
I worked for a digital political strategy agency for a brief period last year out of morbid curiosity - I’ve talked about it a lot on this sub and elsewhere. I can’t say who I worked for, but they had a huge public blunder involving a landscaping company.
Anyway my point is that these dig pol agencies hire people like me who are trained in copywriting and manipulation to specifically target 60+ donors. There are real, multi-million dollar agencies staffed completely by nerds like me who grew up on the internet and are skilled at churning out disinformation in exchange for donation money, and they specifically target 60+.
Do not underestimate how targeted your age range is. Marketers in every industry, but especially politics, are essentially waging a war against your age bracket. Istg I have to stop myself from physically grabbing old people by the lapels and being like “there are gay liberals with a slack chat right now whose sole purpose is to come up with the right trigger word to make you a monthly donor WAKE UP”
If hell ends up being real I’ll go there for the work I did for those people.
Also it has nothing to do with 60+ people being incompetent or somehow easily duped - that is not true and is ageist. It literally is just the sheer effort that’s being poured into figuring out how to mine the wallets of the richest generation.
A child who is not loved by his parents will assume himself as unlovable rather than see the parents as deficient in their capacity to love
I now pronounce you heatsource and wife.
Photoshop is not worth the ransom and Gimp/Inkscape is not worth the effort
Rishi Sunak’s wealth is so vast that it would take someone on the average UK salary over TWENTY-FOUR THOUSAND YEARS to earn that much. Remember that when he’s talking about “difficult decisions”. He doen’t mean difficult for him. He means difficult for you.
What is the male equivalent of a sundress??
The driver insisted that he could park in the handicapped spot because his brother in law, who was not present, was handicapped.
Keep having weird dreams involving my therapist. Last week I had a dream she shot me in her office.
They start yelling about “freedom of religion” when they’re told they can’t force their religious views on others.
That moment on a hospital floor when the women nurses leave a room and the male nurses and orderlies long stride to that room.
I swear to god I love him, but there is a limit to how many farts/burps I can hear in a day
If your workplace requires password changes every 90 days just set it to the name of the current UK Prime minister and you should be fine.
Celebrities and influencers need us more than we need them: Hegel’s master/slave dialectic revised for the 21st century
I don't accept tough love from anyone who hasn't shown me gentle love.
My parents love me- I believe that but also the almost singular source of my pain and misery to the point where I’ve changed my name and number and I will never speak to them again.
Does anyone know how to add a turbo sound to my Tesla?
Has it occurred to people that the reason the grass is greener over there is because you’re not over there fucking it up
Keep disabled people in mind when voting or deciding on things like health care, disability benefits, and accessibility measures. I think it's easy for people to go "oh that doesn't affect me", but we're all one bad day away from being extremely sick, injured, or permanently disabled. And even if you stay mostly able for most of your life, old age will get you.
My brother in Christ, what made you move to Winnipeg?
Having a moral compass and being a good person usually means you have a line somewhere, and there will always be someone who is willing to go further than you, undercut you or out compete you.
Why aren't you out wearing leather and fighting crime? Or at least wearing leather?
He looks like a dog trying to figure out a magic trick.
There's just something about peeing with the open sky above you. It's how I imagine dogs feel when they howl in the night.
Saying I'm offended by what you say or do whether it is fact or opinion. Is like saying: "I cannot control my emotional state and you should do it for me"
Retail made me hate holidays and people.
Is Danielle Smith the Liz Truss of Canada? You know it's bad when Jason Kenney looks competent by comparison.
This was the moment I realized my car was full of bees.
Where can I get a sexy Dover sole costume for Hallowe’een? Like, really sexy. It's my wife's favourite meal.
I discovered that I have a talent for axe throwing last night.
If wealth were the inevitable result of hard work, then every woman in Africa would be a millionaire ~ George Monbiot
I watch pimple popping videos to relax.
Yelling. There is never any reason to yell at anyone and shows serious lack of self control. I never yell at people or shout in peoples faces. Ever. Except for that murderer. Him I yelled at.
The data set regarding the safety and efficacy of the COVID vaccine is literally in the billions. If you still think the vaccine is dangerous or doesn’t work, well...
Can we agree that you need to either be a mentally defective or a business major to think that a machine can have sentience
How should I know what I'm thinking? I'm not some sort of mind reader.
If she wants faster I can do faster. If she wants harder I can do harder. If she wants deeper, she better be talking about philosophy.
Putin can survive losing a war. If Saddam did it, which he did being kicked out of Kuwait, then he can too. Especially since Russia isn't going to have a no-fly zone imposed over it, and lying is a reflex.
At what age do farts become a gamble?
Vanquished by my greatest enemy - the consequences of my decisions!
No one on either side of the argument seems to understand the difference between our cultural definitions of male/female and man/woman. These are now not tautologically equivalent categories. These have always been tautological until like maybe six years ago when a subset of the population decided they shouldn’t be and subjected the rest of us to their delusions.
My god, I miss you so much I wanna throw up.
I noticed this with my husband a while back. Whenever I tell him that something he wears makes him look nice, he’ll wear it as often as possible. If he tries something on while shopping that I think looks good on him, he’ll buy it and put it on as soon as we get home. I love that guy.
The fight broke out over the number of states the US has, according to the police report
I won't be masked, tested, tracked, poisoned, or chipped to support this orchestrated lie! I will, however, be hospitalized and intubated
5'3" here. I've been in a long time war with those two cabinets above the 'fridge.
If you’re telling me that you only eat ‘natural sugars’ I’ll take this to mean you don’t understand nutrition.
"It's not a pyramid scheme" is a phrase almost exclusively used by people involved in guess what?
You may want to sit down for this": Paul Pelosi edition. His attacker has espoused extreme far-right views on social media according to law enforcement.
Nurses are the only people that look trustworthy while wearing Crocs. Not doctors, though,
Russia is definitely the Florida of the world. Wacky videos of insanity flood out of that country like the lavatory on an Air India flight. The US is the Texas of the world.
There is no path to Love. Love is the path. - Dan Millman
I hate it when my husband ninja fucks and doesn't make a sound.
I wonder how much damage Kash Patel will do to tires and a trans-axle when TFGreene inevitably throws him under the bus.
Why the balls on a dildo?
Can fish be gay?
Love means nothing to a tennis player
The mayor was then informed that a decade is ten years, not eight.
As somebody who had no friends for a while and now have many, it took me to realize that having friends is work. It takes time and care. The reason I had no friends was because I wasn’t putting the work into it. Some friends require more or different work than others, and maintaining boundaries is important and ultimately it's all work.
Best thing you can do for veterans is create fewer of them
The object of golf is to play the least amount of golf.
I'm shocked after the rousing successes in Afghanistan and Iraq that more people don't want to sign up to be cannon fodder for pointless bullshit. Only in America would this be considered a bad thing.
Almost every hand I've ever shaken has had a dick in it.
The sinking of the Titanic must have been a miracle to the lobsters in the kitchen.
The way this whole war has played out, I'm reminded of a book, War and Punishment, which applies an economic/ game-theoretic approach to the question of how wars end, using WWI as a case study. The author's thesis is that regimes can be divided into three rough categories -- democratic, autocratic, and "mixed." The last of these is the type that has some trappings of democracy but can't be truly called democratic. Russia would fit into that category. And unfortunately, it's the "mixed" regime that proves the most intractable in war; both democratic and totalitarian leaders have good reasons to negotiate peaceful endings.
