Peter B Cohen
@peterbcohen.bsky.social
I can guess what you'll do next after reading this post from Mirriam-Webster.
Your lips only touch for four letters of the alphabet.
December 17, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I can guess what you'll do next after reading this post from Mirriam-Webster.
Apple Music’s music transition is an abomination. There, I’ve said it and feel much better for it. And now I’ve ditched it.
December 6, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Apple Music’s music transition is an abomination. There, I’ve said it and feel much better for it. And now I’ve ditched it.
Combining anyone called Bligh with the navy invariably ends badly.
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December 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Combining anyone called Bligh with the navy invariably ends badly.
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Presumably he can expect sugar, butter and a little vanilla to be next.
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
France’s far-right leader hit by egg, days after flour attack
Jordan Bardella, leader of France’s far-right National Rally party, was hit on the head with an egg Saturday, just days after another incident in which a protester threw flour at him.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Presumably he can expect sugar, butter and a little vanilla to be next.
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
Seems risky to be claiming "so we can finish what God started on that field in Pennsylvania" will end one way and not the other
November 24, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Seems risky to be claiming "so we can finish what God started on that field in Pennsylvania" will end one way and not the other
What dictionary is in use @theageaustralia.bsky.social? Since when was "gotten" a word used in Australian English?
November 20, 2025 at 10:50 PM
What dictionary is in use @theageaustralia.bsky.social? Since when was "gotten" a word used in Australian English?
If he wants to play the "game" of saying "Green turns to Brown where there is rot involved" perhaps someone should remind him that there is a game where No Trumps is a stronger hand than any other type of Trump.
Also: nobody cares.
November 17, 2025 at 3:52 AM
If he wants to play the "game" of saying "Green turns to Brown where there is rot involved" perhaps someone should remind him that there is a game where No Trumps is a stronger hand than any other type of Trump.
Actually, "Hope springs eternal" is by Alexander Pope in "An Essay on Man" written in 1733-34.
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come."
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come."
Shakespeare once wrote..
“Hope springs eternal”
In that regard, today’s headline went hard:
“White guy with a footlong goes free thanks to hung jury.”
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
“Hope springs eternal”
In that regard, today’s headline went hard:
“White guy with a footlong goes free thanks to hung jury.”
🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
November 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Actually, "Hope springs eternal" is by Alexander Pope in "An Essay on Man" written in 1733-34.
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come."
"Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest:
The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come."
I wonder if he means for past offences or illegal actions yet to happen.
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I wonder if he means for past offences or illegal actions yet to happen.
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Winston Churchill
There is a distinct possibility that some people are too stupid to participate in a democracy
November 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” - Winston Churchill
If this had happened in Australia, the victim's evidence in Court would have been, "He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich".
In one of Washington D.C's most surreal trials, a judge must decide if the heave of a sandwich chucked at an ICE agent constitutes assault.
DC Hoagie Hurler Trial Devolves Into Detailed Sandwich Description
The DOJ wants the offending protestor locked up for throwing a Subway sandwich at an ICE agent.
trib.al
November 4, 2025 at 11:52 PM
If this had happened in Australia, the victim's evidence in Court would have been, "He just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich".
"similar"? It IS a rainbow.
When sunlight passes through a glass prism, it separates into its component colors due to a phenomenon called dispersion; each color's wavelength bends at a distinct angle, forming a spectrum similar to a rainbow.
Credit: Drake Anthony
Credit: Drake Anthony
October 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
"similar"? It IS a rainbow.
Is this picture real? The President's facial expression and his hair seem quite unreal.
Pete Hegseth:
“It's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the world. It's a bad look."
“Now join me in welcoming our fat Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump"
“It's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals in the halls of the Pentagon and leading commands around the world. It's a bad look."
“Now join me in welcoming our fat Commander-in-Chief Donald Trump"
October 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Is this picture real? The President's facial expression and his hair seem quite unreal.
A masterclass in avoiding the elephant in the room. "Strip softness", "lower visitation to the Strip", and "a confluence of headwinds including geopolitical/immigration tensions impacting visitation" (and more) leave it to the reader to presume the real reasons why.
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Gaming analysts don’t expect the Las Vegas Strip to bounce back in 2025
A Wall Street analyst isn’t expecting a bounce back in leisure and foreign visitors to Las Vegas by the end of the year and worries softness on the Strip will spill over into the locals market.Chad Be...
cdcgaming.com
October 1, 2025 at 12:20 AM
A masterclass in avoiding the elephant in the room. "Strip softness", "lower visitation to the Strip", and "a confluence of headwinds including geopolitical/immigration tensions impacting visitation" (and more) leave it to the reader to presume the real reasons why.
cdcgaming.com/gaming-analy...
cdcgaming.com/gaming-analy...
Apparently Western Australia, with no pokies outside the casino, has a higher gambling prevalence rate (69.6%) than New South Wales, which has about 85,000 pokies outside the casino (63.9%). Suggests that gambling prevalence rates should not be used as a proxy for gambling harm prevalence rates.
Gambling participation and harm on the rise in Australia, study reveals: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-24/gambling-participation-harm-rising/105812048
Gambling participation and harm on the rise in Australia, study reveals
New data reveals that around 3 million Australians are engaged in some form of harmful gambling, which is linked to financial stress, family violence and poor mental health.
www.abc.net.au
September 24, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Apparently Western Australia, with no pokies outside the casino, has a higher gambling prevalence rate (69.6%) than New South Wales, which has about 85,000 pokies outside the casino (63.9%). Suggests that gambling prevalence rates should not be used as a proxy for gambling harm prevalence rates.
Reposted by Peter B Cohen
Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists.
I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.
Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.
I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.
Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.
September 16, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists.
I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.
Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.
I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to.
Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.
300 million deaths last year? Wow. A quick online search suggests it was about 600,000. I wonder which source is closer to the real number.
Reporter: The president of Venezuela called the strike on the boat illegal
Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs
Trump: What’s illegal is the fact that 300 million people died last year from drugs
September 15, 2025 at 1:05 AM
300 million deaths last year? Wow. A quick online search suggests it was about 600,000. I wonder which source is closer to the real number.
"fixing"...as in the 1919 World Series?
September 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
"fixing"...as in the 1919 World Series?
Mesmerising. Three incredible scientific achievements here: the understanding of our Moon, the ability to present it in an artistic form, and that I get to see it online at no cost to me.
The evolution of the Moon.
4.5 billion years in 2 minutes.
Credit: NASA Goddard
4.5 billion years in 2 minutes.
Credit: NASA Goddard
September 11, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Mesmerising. Three incredible scientific achievements here: the understanding of our Moon, the ability to present it in an artistic form, and that I get to see it online at no cost to me.
Is pre-emptive confession even a thing?
Karoline Leavitt praying before heading out to help Trump cover up the Epstein files
September 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Is pre-emptive confession even a thing?
"Duck Soup" parallels continue with the re-creation of the Department of War. (And the choice of Secretary of the Department, too).
September 8, 2025 at 5:04 AM
"Duck Soup" parallels continue with the re-creation of the Department of War. (And the choice of Secretary of the Department, too).
Once again, the word "sanctioned" is used in a headline where it could mean two opposite things. Is the project approved or opposed by the US? "Sanctioned" could be either.
China appears to be setting up a system to import regular cargoes of liquefied natural gas from a Russian project sanctioned by the US, a move that will test the Trump administration’s willingness to penalize Beijing in its efforts to curb Moscow’s energy revenue
China Is Cranking Up its LNG Trade with Russia in Test For Trump
China appears to be setting up a system to import regular cargoes of liquefied natural gas from a Russian project sanctioned by the US, a move that will test the Trump administration’s willingness to penalize Beijing in its efforts to curb Moscow’s energy revenue.
bloom.bg
September 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Once again, the word "sanctioned" is used in a headline where it could mean two opposite things. Is the project approved or opposed by the US? "Sanctioned" could be either.
About 23 years too late. Nobody would have blinked if this had happened in the aftermath of 9/11. How times, and reputations, have changed.
President Donald Trump has announced that he will be awarding his former attorney and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest US civilian honor. https://cnn.it/3HGgsoa
September 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
About 23 years too late. Nobody would have blinked if this had happened in the aftermath of 9/11. How times, and reputations, have changed.
The best evidence that more money needs to be directed towards maths education. How, exactly, can a price be reduced by more than 100%?
August 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
The best evidence that more money needs to be directed towards maths education. How, exactly, can a price be reduced by more than 100%?
Cute comment, but not the full story. If she bet on herself to win but didn't win, tax would be paid by the betting company on the money she wagered and lost. So, she would be a two-time loser! More relevantly, gamblers who lose money are indirectly contributing tax revenue every time they do so.
Michelle de Krester could bet on herself to win the Miles Franklin and wouldn't pay tax on her winnings, but would on the prize money from the actual award.
Looking forward to seeing who wins the Miles Franklin tonight.
A shame that they pay tax on their winnings but if you win the Block or a TV game show you don't pay tax.
Past time for change!
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A shame that they pay tax on their winnings but if you win the Block or a TV game show you don't pay tax.
Past time for change!
australiainstitute.org.au/post/heres-s...
July 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Cute comment, but not the full story. If she bet on herself to win but didn't win, tax would be paid by the betting company on the money she wagered and lost. So, she would be a two-time loser! More relevantly, gamblers who lose money are indirectly contributing tax revenue every time they do so.