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Sometimes, people ask me, “What’s your favorite swear word?” I don’t know why. Also, I don’t know what to say. I’m interested in profanity but not especially invested in one word over another. It’s not a competition. They all have their uses, or we wouldn’t use them. I’d have to say something like, “Well, Fuck! is best when I’m frustrated beyond words, and my favorite profane put down is probably …

Now What? Meanwhile, the BM’s political reporters decided that inflation was Biden’s fault because of all the government spending on COVID relief, infrastructure and bringing manufacturing jobs back to the US. This was a lie. This post-election analysis resonates with me. It does feel like many of my own habits, patterns, and assumptions need to change.

In my doctoral seminar last Monday, I started class as I always do – with a “This Day in History” moment. Essentially Nicole Oster and I spend a bit of time digging through that date’s Wikipedia page finding interesting nuggets that connect with topics we are discussing in the course. Since the course is a […]

DC has posted several preview pages from next week’s issue of The Flash, and you can see them at Adventures In Poor Taste. The preview features things going haywire on Earth and the Sun, and it may be connected to what’s going on in Skartaris…time will tell. Check it out at the link! THE FLASH #15 Written by SIMON SPURRIER Art by VASCO GEORGIEV Cover by MIKE DEL MUNDO Variant …

The Internet Archive was allegedly hacked1, and their crawler stopped updating conveniently prior to the election2. Although the Wayback Machine was partially restored, most of the archive’s services were down for a considerable amount of time3. The Internet Archive has recently gone through a substantial amount of legal trouble, and some of their content has disappeared after they restored all their services. For an organization that has preserved so much …

Sometimes it is hard to make direct eye contact with art. It is hard to meet it on its own terms, for many reasons. 1: I often know what I am going to see before I see it. It is rare that I walk into a gallery, into a room, and feel surprised by what’s in there. If I am surprised, I am surprised that I’m surprised. 2: the thing …

As someone who spent more than two years tracking down the greatest lost Jasper Johns painting, you’d think I would have already identified all the other lost Johnses. But I had not. Though the list of destroyed Johns works is certainly longer and more mysterious—the artist is famous for destroying things he made before 1954, and the fire in his Edisto Island, SC home in 1966 wiped out many works …

Sliding Messages by Hitsuono Historical strategy meets puzzle game in this 2048-like sliding game. Determine which messages get delivered when and where and see the consequences play out. Play game on itch.io The post Sliding Messages appeared first on Weird Fucking Games.

Ok, small venn diagram of people who:read thishave been to Violas Roomhave seen the John Lewis adBut if that’s you – strong Viola’s Room vibes in the ad, no? I mean, Matt, I think it’s just you. But still.

Because I wanted to try out different historical whitework and lace making techniques, I made an Edwardian hand-embroidered blouse. So my hand-embroidered mixed lace blouse is basically a wearable lace sampler! It was a lot of work to embroider the Edwardian blouse by hand – especially because I filmed the whole process – but it was also fun! I used a variety of embroidery techniques from the Edwardian era: such …

The GameBoy Advance Games Ecks vs. Sever and Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, with Dean Buckley. At time of recording, the film was not ranked on the list of worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database. Show notes, including links: https://them0vieblog.com/2022/07/09/290-network-219/ Follow us on twitter at @thetwofifty.

12th November and a good forecast. Mary was up for a canter over the Pentlands so we caught a number 4 bus to Oxgangs Road, ran down Swanston Road (across the bypass) past the golf club and headed for Allermuir. Light packs and no big cameras. Running mode. We bumped into Kathy just after the thatched cottages. She has been going really well lately and we swapped stories of getting …

A Snap user connected with another Snap user, bought drugs offline from the other Snap user, and overdosed. Her estate sued Snap in Nevada for its alleged complicity in the death. Snap successfully invoked its TOS venue selection clause, sending the case from Nevada to California. With respect to the plaintiff’s unconscionability challenge, the court says Snap’s TOS formaton process is fine: Snap’s Terms of Service are hyperlinked in blue …

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Tip Top Proper Cocktails are one of my favorite ready to drink cocktail brands, and their Mai Tai is the best I’ve tried. The Bee’s Knees is pretty good, though I felt that the honey was too forward and had a honey flavor that reminds me of processed honey candy that I’m not a fan of. My preparation involved refrigeration and direct pour into the coupe. I’d strongly recommend a …