Close up of Skeletorβs head showing an unexpected instance of face hole economy
This Skeletor has been memed 100 times but not until I was replicating him did I notice that in a stroke of either incompetence or genius the original renderer of this image decided to make hiseye socket and nose hole just be the same hole. But it still reads right if you donβt think about it.
Anna's Archive backed up Spotify: 86 million songs in 300TB representing roughly 99.6% of listens, the metadata alone is 4TB compressed https://annas-archive.org/blog...
In 2023, seismologists detected a βglobal humβ originating in Greenland that lasted for 9 days. A rockslide triggered a 200m-high tsunami that sloshed back & forth in a fjord every 90 seconds, slamming into the fjordβs walls βlike a beating heartβ. [youtube.com]
Photo listing the names of the victims of the Polytechnique MontrΓ©al massacre.
Today, we remember the fourteen young women whose lives were stolen at Polytechnique MontrΓ©al 36 years ago.
Their names are a solemn reminder of the devastating toll of gender-based violence β and the responsibility that comes with our remembrance.
Add Francis Ford Coppolaβs "The Conversation" to the list
I was chatting to someone today about the film Weapons and they said at heart itβs like a Roald Dahl story, and I thought IT IS. And thatβs why itβs so great.
βοΈ 40 000 near-Earth asteroids discovered!
Thankfully, none of them are cause for concern for the foreseeable future, but ESA's planetary defence teams are keeping a watchful eye on the skies.
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
I'm proud to have contributed a migration-governance strategy to this important plan for building new economic and political relations between Canada and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean in the absence of the United States. Some details...
www.ccacanada.com
The World Bankβs latest data shows a quiet global triumph: 93% of people aged 15 to 24 can now read and write. In many regions youth literacy has reached or neared universal levels, marking one of the most successful, least reported stories in development. buff.ly/vnsUhLo
#ShareGoodNewsToo
<Me, sitting in a primary school desk in the corner>
15min earlier:
"All memory is theft"
- Permutation City (Greg Egan, 2010).
/ht @gregegansf.bsky.social
A 3D model using figurines representing an onmyoji shikigami ritual, with two diviners in formal white and black robes respectively sitting in front of a stand with various implements on top, and surrounding them are small supernatural beings, some looking demonic, some with way too many eyes, some with red skin, etc.
The original painting (from Fudo-Rieki-Engi) of Abe no Seimei performing a shikigami ritual. It depicts an onmyoji shikigami ritual, with two diviners Β in formal white and black robes respectively sitting in front of a stand with various implements on top, and surrounding them are small supernatural beings, some looking demonic, some with way too many eyes, some with red skin, etc.
While looking up something for class I stumbled upon this figurine representation of Abe no Seimei's shikigami rituals (created for an exhibition on onmyΕji at Rekihaku in 2023). It's kind of amazing and I want it badly??
TORONTO: this is tonight!
www.eventbrite.ca/e/triple-hea...
Perhaps as a counterargument to all the awful shit flying around this week, TASKMASTER comes back later today.
Canadian residents made just 1.7 million return trips by motor vehicle back into their country from the U.S. in July, a nearly 37% decline over the same month in 2024, according to Statistics Canada.
Mandated age verification is a terrible idea and I hope that all services simply block visits from jurisdictions imposing them.
Yes it places a burden on end users from those locations but hopefully it will force the overturn of these ill-considered laws.
Some extremely damning (non-Nazi!) stuff about Substack in here from @speterdavis.com (yes it's a Substack link)
speterdavis.substack.com/p/substack-i...
My key takeaway from watching the Final Destination movies is the appalling state of American infrastructure.
More and more this seems like the book of the year both because it's wonderful and because its message is so crystal clear. bookshop.org/p/books/one-...
A niche source request! Do you, or someone you know, have a personal weather station in their backyard and live in the general Toronto area? I want to talk to you/them for a story! Email is (always) open at sedwards@globeandmail.com
I tried using a generic non-heated mug for my coffee this morning. I have no idea how I ever survived this in the past! I hadnβt realized how much better my Ember experience was until I went back to the old way.
If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people:
1) The Iraq War wonβt cost a lot of money
3) We wonβt need a lot of troops
4) Weβll bring peace and freedom to Iraq
5) Weβll find WMDs
6) Weβll be welcomed as liberators
7) It will be easy
8) It wonβt take long
All lies.
50 years ago today βΌοΈ
Talking Heads supporting The Ramones make their stage debut at CBGB, New York City, June 20, 1975
#punk #punks #punkrock #talkingheads #cbgb #newyorkcity #history #punkrockhistory #otd
I've always said that the Jaws franchise has the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, and I challenge anyone to find a franchise that has the same gap between the best and the worst.
(requirement: actual films released in theaters, not direct to video/dvd/tv/streaming)
Great "Severance" thread from @qntm.org - one of my favourite current writers.
Iβm happy that British people will have the right to end their lives with some dignity if they choose.
My mother opted to use MAID to avoid a drawn out death at the age of 96. Sheβd lead a good life and saw no value in prolonging the inevitable.
My new standup special "Positive Reinforcement" premieres ONE WEEK FROM TODAY on Blonde Medicine's YouTube channel!!! (The album version with a little bonus material will be out on 7/11!) Here's a little clip (the first one!)! If you like it, maybe tell somebody about it! :)
not sure I've ever seen reddit humour that is so purely my kind of laugh
