Mirthless Laughter

Motherfucking. I’m sure the word “motherfucking” is supposed to go in there somewhere.

Of ye Plummef thou didft buy to break thy faft And laid in ife until ye morrowe; I prefently have made repaft, I muft impart with forrowe. I beg of thee thy wrath to ftay; Forgive me for my boldneff. Good were they, and fweet were they, And ftung my teeth with coldneff.

As I wrote in the American Scholar: when people experience a beautiful piece of music or art, a specific area of the brain becomes active. Now scientists have found that the same area of the brain lights up when mathematicians study beautiful equations. theamericanscholar.org/hey-good-loo...

My heart breaks for mathematicians whose lives and careers are being destroyed by AI — and especially this PhD student, who doesn’t even know he is a poet

And remember, all of this is happening amid the AI buildout. AI, which is not a coherent set of products and services, but rather a commercial and political project, can be understood as a full-spectrum class-war offensive. An offensive waged by one industry, which put their guy Vance in the WH.

Students made their first minicomics in my intro making course - mostly standard format but this student, a first time maker(!), did something so off the charts I’m still reeling from it! & he made like 12 of them for his classmates! A paper engineering feat of flipbookery as well as killer drawing!

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and then on Friday I overheard someone on TV talking about Jeffrey Archer so I asked Celeste is he dead or is that just wishful thinking and she said no he’s written a new book and I said Oh God that’s all we need and then this evening she came up to me and said hey guess what

The reduction of politics to voting is part of the 50 year neoliberal project whose foremost goal is to make you think of yourself as an atomized individual and not as a member of a polity.

[scrolls] very good, excellent choice [scrolls further] okay, okay [further still] yeah but they better have included [further still] no seriously where the hell [scrolls to #1 slot] phew! had me worried there for a second!

My sister and I had a cat called Celeste. The neighbour’s cat used to visit us sometimes and for some reason I started calling her Florence. It just seemed like a good cat name. Years later I met the woman I now share my life with. Her name is Celeste and her eldest daughter is Florence.

Apparently I missed Batman Day

The first time Lucy plays the football gag on Charlie Brown, from November 16, 1952.

Placing the papal ring against the orb, Pope Leo solemnly begins to recite the oath: “In clarissima die, in obscurissima nocte”

"At times, things take a turn for the Lynchian, and I mean that in the best way possible, as some outright strangeness descends on this town and its inhabitants." Ground Control Mag recommends Palomar: The Heartbreak Soup Stories by Gilbert Hernandez (out 10/6)! https://ow.ly/zmj750ZOxJ4

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Of ye Plummef thou didft buy to break thy faft And laid in ife until ye morrowe; I prefently have made repaft, I muft impart with forrowe. I beg of thee thy wrath to ftay; Forgive me for my boldneff. Good were they, and fweet were they, And ftung my teeth with coldneff.

What's the point!?!

Carmen is an opera about a taxi company

Full thing here youtu.be/x28WFIY-ms0?...

“Well, it don’t say nowhere that she’s alive neither, do it, Mister? No refunds, see?”

Still recovering from the Notting Hill Carnival

I spent the whole second half of this video hoping that Werner Herzog would say “I only speak French in cases of force majeure”

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Masturbation among birds is ‘natural’ and should not be punished, say experts

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

I live in a country where they had an election and a 1966 Batman villain wasn’t the joke candidate

Bonus points if you can spot the quotation from Hebrews 12:2

This is a lovely site which helps remind us of much of what we take for granted in material progress ordinaryabundance.com (HT @aveek18.bsky.social)

My cover for BAD SEEDS: GOTHAM CENTRAL #2 by @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social and myself!

Dive or fly?

512) Arguebot. Is someone in your life insisting on arguing about something that you don't have the time or energy to care about? Let this robot step in for you and keep them occupied with its tireless dedication to whatever contrary position you choose. Don't buy two. #SmallRobotsRemastered

This is a simple request not to punch down and it’s being met with exactly the kind of derision you would expect on Twitter

Happy birthday, America! Comic from almost 20 years ago, sadly still relevant.

I tried @sweetlosicecream.bsky.social’s Orange Julius recipe and, Madeleine-like, it took me back to the Esquimau ices I liked to get when we holidayed in France when I was a boy. I didn’t trust the structural integrity of my homemade cones. Sorry about the visual impact.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.