Eddie C.

Ruin a song by adding "In my pants" to the title: The 1812 Overture in My Pants

There's a Politico (lol) piece entirely about how Republicans' hope right now is that the polls are all way off and they only get a MILD wipeout and first of all it's full of a bunch of nonsense but the best part is how it ends on this incredible bit:

When Grammy-winning musician Rhiannon Giddens begins playing “Old Corn Liquor,” a traditional Black American folk tune, acclaimed Chinese pipa virtuoso Wu Man recognizes similarities to Chinese pentatonic music and spontaneously joins in. The joy on their faces says it all.

How quantification and Midwestern culture shaped  D&D’s problematic legacies www.rascal.news/how-quantifi...

new rule: if a university denied someone tenure, or let them go because it canceled their classes, or has shut down the department or program they used to teach in, that university's PR department forfeits the right to put out a celebratory statement when that person wins a Nobel

This puts unrealistic pressure on the rest of us to be doing something arty when the prize committee calls. I can't be "doing the laundry" or "picking my nose".

Triple-A Minesweeper — Mike Lacher's action-packed AAA reboot of the Windows 3.11 classic

🚨 Latest from the border wall blockade: tree sit is still up, one land defender is locked down to machinery, Border Patrol has wrapped a Mylar blanket around them and is running the truck and pumping the blanket full of exhaust to try to gas them out, potentially killing them.

Just for fun, I thought I'd put here the final two pages of 'Galley Slave', a 1957 short story by Isaac Asimov. It may possibly have some relevance to certain social media posts about the desirability of having certain books written by AI. #AI #BookBluesky

A daye wythout anachronisme ys lyke Oscar Wilde wythout hys cyberdeck.

Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

good sentence imho

After President Donald Trump told attendees at the Republican midterm convention Thursday night that "we want honesty in our elections," he led them in a pledge to "cheat like hell" and "go out and vote" in the midterm elections. https://to.pbs.org/4yTjfzl

To the things we cannot control. May they dread the day we can control them. www.schlockmercenary.com/2018-09-22

Here is a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast saying that algebra is a conspiracy by the Jews to turn people into “good little goy slaves.” I wish I was joking.

The proto-Effin’ Birds was my Tumblr “Swear Trek”. It opened a lot of doors for me and I wouldn’t be where I am today without it. I don’t have plans to revive it (one daily comic is enough work), just wanted to thank it for getting me here on this 60th anniversary of Star Trek.

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

This makes me want to scream. This makes me want to kick someone. There's only one thing a lower teen pregnancy rate is a problem for, and it's a bad thing.

"I am a big time proponent of speaking ill of the dead. But I'm also a believer in living a life such that if anyone tries to talk shit about you, they are roundly told to shut the fuck up. Truly the mark of a life well lived." -Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social, you nailed it.

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It always feels like all the wrong people die, but I think it’s because there are far more beloved people than there are bastards.

I think of Superman not as a power fantasy, but as a fantasy of the powerful as really good people. I kind of feel that way about Dolly Parton, too.

If the headline is a question, the answer is no.

[Bob Dylan’s grade school English class] Teacher: Who can give me an example of a simile? Bob: Like a complete unknown. Teacher: Not bad. Another? Bob: Like a rolling stone. Teacher: Good! And extra credit for rhyming them. How does it feel, Bob?

If someone near you is secretly recording with glasses, yell “META stop recording!” It works even if you’re not the owner. (This is more effective than the Disney trick, since there are AI tools to remove background music.)

As folks gear up for the new semester, a reminder if anyone needs it, my Ai statement is available for people to make use of in their own materials. It’s downloadable and printable from my site here spinweaveandcut.com/fall-2025-sy...

Well look at the bullshit they're trying to throw out with the Friday trash.

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Now they're fighting... the Weather Channel

Oh no, there's a vas deferens

also it's always the most lowbrow shit that people find magical, which I love you take a foreign visitor to denny's at one in the morning and they never want to leave

I don't want to say smart watches are not quite accurate with their fitness metrics, but I was just awarded my daily step goal for the hand motions I made while eating potato chips.

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

We should be two “D&D Honor Among Thieves” sequels deep.

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"Voting doesn't do anything." If that were true, they wouldn't try so hard to make everyone stop. #Republicans #maga #americanpolitics

Let’s go toe to toe, gramps.

hold my beer, hemingway

I was going to say well done to Bluesky, but really, the odds were pretty good for this synergy

Trump casts a mail ballot again in Florida even as he calls the method 'cheating'