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Woah - boards of service in the Marines and the Navy are ignoring Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth's order to purge transgender troops from the military. "Navy and Marine Corps boards have voted to retain trans members in nine of 12 cases." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...
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Thanks to this vile little goblin for helping me make some progress on a unified theory of contemporary-style evil guys. defector.com/vivek-ramasw...
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This is wild - somebody did a deep dive into the real stories behind this famous XKCD: sheets.works/data-viz/hol...
Decades ago I saw a library book that was the Tao Te Ching in English. The author didn't know Chinese, but had read 5 English translations and decided that he had sussed out the most correct translation via triangulation or whatever. I think of it often.
The Elegies of Tibullus, indirectly translated by someone who does not read Latin: www.thechatner.com/p/the-elegie...
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TODAY! IN! SPORTS! is about the #1 sports story that I have witnessed since I started writing this newsletter The saga of Wharfie Time, the moment an Australian football team played their team's in-stadium hype video at the exact worst possible time
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Golf Cart One (2026) - my new sculpture at the @lucasmuseum.bsky.social in LA. A life-sized, cast-aluminium, militarised presidential golf cart, commissioned for the museum by George Lucas and based on a 1:12 scale model version I made back in 2017.
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And yes I’m wearing a Valley Heat t-shirt. Have you listened to Valley Heat yet? It’s so funny you will damage your body laughing at it. Doug Duguay narrates the goings on in the Rancho Equestrian neighborhood of Burbank. Funniest podcast there is. www.patreon.com/ValleyHeat?u...
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a huge part of my childhood was stuff like this. just sort of puzzling over the Letterman Top 10 Book and trying to reverse engineer what the Iran Contra Scandal was from it
Furthering my theory that this entire website is for people who owned Doonesbury collections as children and understood about a third of it.
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I need to know whether this headline was submitted with the pun intact and then changed for the sake of propriety or if they thought it was more clever not to (literally) spell out the pun or if it was somehow a coincidence that no one noticed
July 5, 1996: Dolly the Sheep, first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell, born in Scotland.