a cheery little something to start the weekend
06.03.2026 17:34
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a cheery little something to start the weekend
Scientists discovered a caterpillar that murders insects and stitches their dismembered body parts onto its back as armor
You’re welcome. Happy day! 😆
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
I had missed @melikhovo.bsky.social’s essay on horror theory, an incredible treasure trove of thoughts, critiques, branchings-out, and readings; really gets at my frustration with/disinterest in “why do people like horror” as a research question, particularly as the perpetual default approach
and Deadpool?
Nice to see Reform only misspelled 2/3rds of the three Welsh words on the cover of their Welsh Manifesto.
I didn't think there was anyone in Trump's orbit that was dumber than Noem, for the exception of Boepert. But Trump seems to know just where to find them.
This is Henry. He knows that if he turns right at the stop sign it means a shorter walk. Not today. 13/10 (TT: alaynasimone)
In "Climate Models as a Retroactive and Exploratory World-building Tool," John Cook et al examine the fantasy worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien, George R.R. Martin & Robert Jordan, as well as one built by Cook, as speculative climate models on a global scale.
Read here: fafnir.journal.fi/article/view...
3 panel illustration of a person who opens a book that says how to make money, and inside it says work so they start crying
me
This is a marvelous change not only for the Humpback whale 🐋 population but for all of us. We need to keep our gentle giants from going extinct.
Fifty years after New Zealand stopped whaling, humpback population showing signs of recovery | RNZ News share.google/X1HB3JFgaePK...
The USL’s union-busting tactics won’t intimidate the players.
It’s time for the league to stop the games, negotiate a fair contract, and pay these workers a living wage. Solidarity with USL players!
A woman emerges from a pool of blood in a strange liar. “3 days” and “There is no-one who can conquer these demons…” is emblazoned across it.
On Monday 9 March, the line-up for Forbidden Worlds Film Festival 2026 will be announced and Full Festival and Day Passes will go on sale!
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Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
124/747 Lindsay Gutteridge, Cold War in a Country Garden (1971) and sequels Killer Pine (1973) and Fratricide is a Gas (1975)
Choose a passive-aggressive number of books that shaped you. Even if you are indifferent to or despise them now. No explanations.
123/747 Joe R. Lansdale, Cold in July (1989) and the not-exactly-sequels Savage Season (1990) and the following Hap and Leonard novels, if decreasingly
An adviser to a Gulf government said the prospect of an investment review by the wealthy states had caught the White House’s attention. They manage some of the world’s largest and most active sovereign wealth funds, and Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Qatar last year pledged to invest hundreds of billions of dollars in the US after President Donald Trump visited the region. They are also big backers of sporting events around the world and have all been investing heavily domestically to develop their nations and diversify their economies. Any move that affects investments in the US or other western states may raise the pressure on Trump to seek a diplomatic strategy to bring the war to an end."
Interesting.
www.ft.com/content/ab7d...
I really don't think I should have to verify that I am human to look at the Cheesecake Factory menu online. Dogs and robots should be able to look at 57 types of cheesecakes too.
After receiving more than 32,000 negative public comments, the National Capital Planning Commission has delayed its final vote on Trump’s proposed $400 million ballroom. The commission moved the vote to its April 2 meeting next month.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
Well I hate to imagine what a *worse* political strategist would do to the polling.
I am now in my 55th year of being an imminent millionaire.
can’t say i blame it
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company
A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.
Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.
This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
