Flashman
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Chewing gum is about one-third plastic (styrene, PVA, polyisobutylene or polyethylene)
Pinned
A quick one for jacaranda season. Feels like it wouldn't be out of place in a Little Golden Book.
domain name is "amazing cum"
December 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
domain name is "amazing cum"
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“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
Interactive AIDS Quilt
The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 48,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience People around the world can experie...
www.aidsmemorial.org
December 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
the fuck is wrong with me
December 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
the fuck is wrong with me
Credit where it's due, today I had one person scanning and another packing. It was bliss
November 30, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Credit where it's due, today I had one person scanning and another packing. It was bliss
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"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
November 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
"oh, don't forget to highlight, in bright red, the two-letter word in the tagline! the two letter word that's kind of the whole point of this clever ad campaign! the two letter word that links this show to the horror movie of the same name!"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"no problem boss. i'm on it"
"Do you know what bedazzling is?"
SON (11): "That's where you steal money from your own company?"
He actually knew what both embezzling and bedazzling were and was pulling my leg.
SON (11): "That's where you steal money from your own company?"
He actually knew what both embezzling and bedazzling were and was pulling my leg.
November 29, 2025 at 4:25 AM
"Do you know what bedazzling is?"
SON (11): "That's where you steal money from your own company?"
He actually knew what both embezzling and bedazzling were and was pulling my leg.
SON (11): "That's where you steal money from your own company?"
He actually knew what both embezzling and bedazzling were and was pulling my leg.
on balance Trump's assassination would have lead to fewer deaths
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 29, 2025 at 2:21 AM
on balance Trump's assassination would have lead to fewer deaths
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We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
November 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
We are now further away from the theatrical release of Raiders of the Lost Ark (June 12, 1981) than it was from the year it takes place in (1936). We have reached the Indiana Jones event horizon.
Anyone been to the movies later and seen the absolutely baffling Telstra Christmas ad www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_pr...
Telstra | Together is for Christmas | Girl & Ghost
YouTube video by Telstra
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Anyone been to the movies later and seen the absolutely baffling Telstra Christmas ad www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_pr...
these pieces of shit are making life harder for middle-aged men wearing thick-rimmed glasses
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are at their best-ever price for Black Friday
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are at their best-ever price for Black Friday
They also make for a great gift.
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 11:09 PM
these pieces of shit are making life harder for middle-aged men wearing thick-rimmed glasses
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Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
Headless bodies hint at why Europe’s first farmers vanished
Wave of mass brutality accompanied the collapse of the first pan-European culture
www.science.org
November 27, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide.
www.science.org/content/arti...
www.science.org/content/arti...
had to mute a grass non-toucher
November 27, 2025 at 9:18 AM
had to mute a grass non-toucher
I love that the nation in 'National Hockey League' is Canada
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I love that the nation in 'National Hockey League' is Canada
I watched this last night having heard for years how good a physical comedian Jacques Tati was. And I don't know but maybe it's something he developed in subsequent films because this was not great.
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I watched this last night having heard for years how good a physical comedian Jacques Tati was. And I don't know but maybe it's something he developed in subsequent films because this was not great.
i'm gonna keep on dancing at the
November 25, 2025 at 6:28 AM
i'm gonna keep on dancing at the
None of it exists on the internet, so here is Ruth Ritchie's somewhat cruel review of the somewhat exploitative 'Purple Haze' documentary about the Grafton Jacaranda Festival:
November 24, 2025 at 5:06 AM
None of it exists on the internet, so here is Ruth Ritchie's somewhat cruel review of the somewhat exploitative 'Purple Haze' documentary about the Grafton Jacaranda Festival:
is it sour grapes to say I think this would put too much pressure on me to get High Distinctions
November 24, 2025 at 4:55 AM
is it sour grapes to say I think this would put too much pressure on me to get High Distinctions
Karloff pictured here at stumps on day three of the 1952 Ashes series
November 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Karloff pictured here at stumps on day three of the 1952 Ashes series
i'm so far out of the loop, are these meant to be something?
November 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
i'm so far out of the loop, are these meant to be something?
enjoyed this. very funny that people went into it expecting something supernatural to happen
November 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
enjoyed this. very funny that people went into it expecting something supernatural to happen
It's a shame Roblox is so bad on child safety because they've built a fairly open game platform that people use for interesting things.
This, for instance, is a multiplayer movie theatre with streaming video.
This, for instance, is a multiplayer movie theatre with streaming video.
November 22, 2025 at 3:38 AM
It's a shame Roblox is so bad on child safety because they've built a fairly open game platform that people use for interesting things.
This, for instance, is a multiplayer movie theatre with streaming video.
This, for instance, is a multiplayer movie theatre with streaming video.
Summoning the demon with iambic pentagrameter
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 21, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Summoning the demon with iambic pentagrameter
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I had to try it myself and my god it's just so beautiful
November 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I had to try it myself and my god it's just so beautiful