Benjamin

A man speaking into a recorder: Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.

Here we are.

This is problematic behavior. To counter against it, we should have an author who cites all and only those authors who do not cite themselves.

DOCTOR: I told him he needed to get out to a show, that was how he would cure his depression.

CHOTINER: So you learned this technique in school?

DR: No, not— listen it was good advice. Pagliacci was in town.

C: Right. Is it standard to give advice before learning a patient’s name?

DR: Now look

man could we please stop with the ignorant “Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark, so the people who live there must be white” takes?

89.51% of Greenland’s population are Greenlandic Inuit.

Solitaire on WIndows 95

The Well to Hell Urban legend claims scientists drilling in Siberia went too far and ended up punching a hole through to Hell, where the screams of the damned drifted up to them.

There was an urban legend that went around about scientists accidentally digging a hole to hell. www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Oooooookay time to hit that block button

gonna have to break out the old 'Hungarian policeman' jokes for these fuckers.

Snowflakes at night in front of a bridge. Photo credit: Adam Gray for The New York Times

What a beautiful photo from last night’s snowfall. Photo credit: Adam Gray for The New York Times

Drawing in white on black background using stylized cartoonish figures to depict the Nativity, with angels and a star above, the three kings at left, baby and two adults in a small structure, and crawling babies below

Keith Haring, The Nativity, subway drawing, c. 1983

Also: NO PUTTING KNIVES LOOSE IN THE SINK, especially a sink full of soapy water.

You *will* find them in the worst possible way.

HARPERS WEEKLY. JOURNAL OF CIVILIZATION Vor. VII.-No. 314.] NEW YORK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1863. GELCOM SANTA CLAUS SANTA CLAUS IN CAMP.-[SEE PAGE 6]

Nast's image was published in the 1862 Christmas issue of Harper’s Weekly, during days filled with both trials for the Union and rising hope. Santa Claus has arrived by sleigh in a Union army camp to distribute gifts. This was the moment that Nast conceived and introduced our modern image of Santa Claus. Combining European traditions of St. Nicholas with folk images of elves from his native Germany, he created the jolly gift-giver now associated with Christmas that here offers cheer to soldiers far from home. He distributes boxes of necessities such as warm socks, copies of Harper's Weekly, and entertains the crowd with a jumping jack dangling from a noose, its chest lettered "Jeff" in reference to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. In the background, soldiers chase an escaped hog, roast meat on a spit and play fairground games such as climbing a greased pole. This image on the title page of the journal was supported by a two-page spread within the journal that shows Santa visiting sleeping children in New York (see 33.35.26 and 29.88.4(8)).

One of the earliest-ever modern portrayals of Santa Claus features him gifting Union soldiers with a jumping-jack doll of Jefferson Davis dangling from a noose - as drawn by political cartoonist Thomas Nast.

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As everyone knows who has ever written a book or manuscript review, summarizing a text is essential work. It’s the first step of an analysis. If you haven’t summarized the text there is no way I believe that you have understood it.

This reminds me of how a lot of the playground rhymes I heard as a kid involved violence towards Barney. “Joy to the world. Barney is dead. We cut off his head. Don’t worry about the body. We flushed it down the potty.”

A roaring grey feline in ink-wash style illustration

Fantastic palaeoart in a traditional Chinese style, used as a figure in a Royal Society publication, describing a false sabre-tooth feline, Taotienimravus songi. I hope this buckles the trend again "stylised" art in publications and press releases.

Art by Yuefeng Song 🐈

happy stylish but illegal monkey day to all who celebrate!!!!! by the way his name is darwin and he lives a farm now

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie

reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony

This was the calculator included every version of Mac OS from 1984 until the launch of Mac OS X in 2001. Steve Jobs designed it himself.

Microsoft Bob

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Minesweeper

Microsoft Internet Explorer 3

90s 3D rendering. I've had this rendering on my hard drive for 28 years.

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Reviewbrah of Report of the Week is in a thrift store. He's wearing a gray suit with a white shirt and light green tie. The trousers hang pin straight without a pucker or ripple.

look how beautifully these trousers hang

A fuzzy blue spider with longer white hairs scattered throughout its blue fuzz. It is standing on mossy rocks.

We found this handsome blue tarantula just wandering down a trail in the Andes Mountains of Colombia. This genus of tarantula is popular in the pet trade, which may put pressure on wild populations. #Arachtober
(Pamphobeteus sp.)Tatama National Park, Colombia, 2023

Windows 98 Plus: Mystery

Happy Halloween! 🎃 👻

The original Far Side Cow Tools Cartoon by Gary Larson. A cow stands on its hind legs behind a table, staring blankly at the viewer from behind its heavy brow ridge. On the table are four crudely made tools: a lump, a lump with an offset crooked handle, a long stick with hooked prongs at the end, and a crude handsaw with irregular teeth. In the background a barn sits on a hill. Caption reads, "Cow tools."

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.