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August 29, 2021

Summarize Your Marriage in a Single Woodcut

This isn’t me and my wife, but straight talk: this is totally 100% me and my wife (source is the artist Rothmansmoker)...

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Published on August 29, 2021 08:30

August 25, 2021

this is my birthday goat

not that this is my birthday; that happened ages ago. i just failed to share the goat a friend shared with me in honor of my Nativity back when she did so. i’m remedying that error now.

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Published on August 25, 2021 10:31

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August 11, 2021

BILLIONAIRES

A few weeks back I was walking the dog when it dawned on me that a billionaire could give away $1 million each week for a year, and he (yes, HE) would still be a billionaire at the end of that year[1] And a billionaire is practically a pauper. If Jeff Bezos did this for 1,000 years—if he gave away $1 million every week for 52 weeks each year over the course of 1,000 years—he’.

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Published on August 11, 2021 07:21

August 9, 2021

Tough Turban looks boss as Hell!!!

I literally love everything about this: I love it when advances in manufacturing and design technology are used to democratize freedom I love it when anything is free (as in beer) for non-commercial useI love non-Newtonian fluids and foamsAnd, as someone in a similarly minuscule minority (Sikhs are ~1.5% of Canada; Jews are ~2% of the U.S.), I love it when folks in the majority dispense with their...

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Published on August 09, 2021 09:15

August 2, 2021

“Why isn’t there a cereal for goth kids?”

It’s a valid question.

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Published on August 02, 2021 07:07

June 30, 2021

Hieronymus Bosch Butt Music ♬♫♪

From the artist: “Music printed on the butt of one of the tortured souls in the 15th Century Hieronymus Bosch painting “The Garden of Earthly Delights” , Played on (What else?) Lute, Harp, and Hurdy-Gurdy by James Spalink. The melody is based on the transcription by Amelia Hamrick. The intro and outro employ the “Devil’s Interval”, and the last couple of...

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Published on June 30, 2021 08:18

June 29, 2021

Seems facile…

but is actually sorta fun and worth it, ultimately. Recommended way to use 11 minutes you’ll never get back, no matter how long you sit in that Lay-Z-Boy of yours.

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Published on June 29, 2021 13:56

June 8, 2021

This is a fun little film…

but just a reminder to my American readers: We already live in this reality. This country isn’t just full of guns; it’s full of ammunition. If you have access to even a single bullet, you are $10 and a trip to the hardware store from making a wonderfully lethal weapon: unserialized, untraceable, highly concealable, nearly foolproof. You won’t be doing any civil massacres with a hardware-store...

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Published on June 08, 2021 09:29