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This feels unfair to so many other Supermans
A page from All Star Superman comic. Superman lands on a ledge of a tall building and puts his hand on the shoulder of a young girl who is about to jump off it. He says “YOUR DOCTOR REALLY DID GET HELD UP, REGAN. IT'S NEVER AS BAD AS IT SEEMS. YOU'RE MUCH STRONGER THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE. TRUST ME.” She turns away from the ledge, and he hugs her.
August 9, 2025 at 6:29 AM
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Yes, perfect arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
Australian comedian John Clarke with caption "The Front Fell Off", a still from his classic sketch about the front falling off things
May 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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And not even close to the craziest thing to happen in that episode! So good
Gorilla Grodd bursting into a dorm room, in a scene from Legends of Tomorrow
March 30, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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John Noble reading lines outside his trailer in a scene from Legends of Tomorrow, arranged to look as though it's a scene from the making of Lord of the Rings
March 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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If you have an iPhone, and don’t mind reading in the app, all recent (and new) podcasts have auto-generated transcripts
Screenshot of a transcript in Apple Podcasts of an Unapologetic episode
April 24, 2024 at 2:07 PM
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Here’s the Wirecutter’s current list of also rans
In addition to the Clara 2E, Kobo has a handful of other options that offer more features for a higher price. The Kobo Libra 2 is our former also-great pick, and while it's still very good, it's also $180. The Kobo Sage has an even larger, 8-inch screen than the Kobo Libra 2 and offers a slew of custom accessories, including a charging cover and a stylus for note-taking. But those benefits come with a hefty $260 price tag, so unless you know you want to write on your e-reader's screen or will definitely benefit from a larger display, it's not worth the higher cost. The Kobo Nia is the company's entry-level reader, but it's pricier than an entry-level Kindle and has a lower-resolution screen.
February 28, 2024 at 2:16 AM
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Apparently David Capaldi had just been dressed as David Lynch all this time www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Was your Doctor Who costume partly inspired by David Bowie? Yeah, him and David Lynch, who used to do that buttoned-up white shirt thing. Another reason was I thought kids could look like the Doctor without having to spend any money. Rather than buying a costume, they could just button up their school shirt.
November 29, 2023 at 8:56 AM
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overall. The most reliable way to deter shoplifting is to make thieves think they're going to get caught, but when even customers who want to pay for something struggle to flag down an employee, the store has already forfeited that battle en-tirely. Theft, as well as the losses from the unscanned and mis-scanned items that poorly designed kiosks create, is a trade-off of which retailers are well aware. (Companies con-
October 20, 2023 at 1:08 AM
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There's a war in Israel and Gaza, and the left-wing orthodoxies and right-wing orthodoxies of the moment — each in their own way advocating or excusing the slaughter of unarmed civilians and whole towns — stream past me in impossible numbers, interleaved with videos of violence, with outright propaganda, with full-throated advocacy for ethnic cleansing. In this moment of peril, in which people I love are in real danger, the doubled self is present in its dark mirror. I feel the urge to speak meaninglessly, and the urge to stay silent, and the senseless notion that not speaking is the same as refraining from action.
October 11, 2023 at 6:17 AM
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This is actually quite a good article about an interesting-sounding book. But also anyone who had ever read anything about the 1919 Flu would have expected Australian states to close their borders
www.naa.gov.au/blog/closed-...
Screenshot of Sydney Morning Herald headline: No one thought Australia would close its borders. Could it happen again? Headline of National Archives of Australia article: Closed borders and broken agreements: Spanish Flu in Australia
October 3, 2023 at 11:47 AM
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The Pandemic Skip www.thecut.com/article/post...
It’s possible that there is no worse pandemic skip, that every three-year period lost was equally painful in its own way. I talked to another friend, who experienced a skip similar to my sister’s — 23 to 27. “I feel like I blinked and am now in the second half of my 20s,” she says.
September 14, 2023 at 2:17 PM
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The Twisted Eye in the Sky Over Buenos Aires www.wired.co.uk/article/buen...
To Busaniche, surveillance is a particularly sensitive issue in Buenos Aires because representatives of the mayor's party have already been suspected several times of having people monitored by the secret services. She also sees the possibility of social control through facial recognition: "The construction of democracy in Argentina during the past four decades has been based on very active social movements, people taking the streets and defending the right to protest as a fundamental right." Busaniche wonders what facial recognition could be used for in the near future. To intimidate demonstrators? As a deterrent? "One can debate whether it is right to block a street. But facial recognition systems can be used to stop citizens from mobilizing for their rights."
September 14, 2023 at 2:29 AM
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Covid’s back, you say? As disabled and vulnerable people know all too well, it never went away | Frances Ryan www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I've been phoned because I say I'm clinically vulnerable. I ask whether the nurse has an N95 mask (as they're proved to be most effective). She does not. I ask whether she and the team are taking weekly lateral flow tests, like her colleague said. She is not, and is unsure why that was promised. "We don't need to do that any more," she says breezily. What she means is: she has no official duty to do so any more. Clinically vulnerable (CV) patients still "need" the Covid-19 protections. They just don't get them. The 3.7 million high-risk people previously asked to shield at home - including 500,000 immunocompromised people who get little to no protection from vaccines - have effectively been abandoned to survive alone. With nationwide coronavirus precautions removed, many disabled people I've spoken to feel forced to avoid shops, pubs and public transport. Others who previously stayed safe by working at home are being told to return to packed offices as the shift to WFH is reversed. The so-called return to normal has always been one-sided: while non-disabled people rightly enjoy freedom, clinically vulnerable people are told to accept indefinite isolation.
September 12, 2023 at 1:46 PM
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George Bush Returns Cold Open youtu.be/lpkRFHSpvGI
George Bush played by Will Ferrell on SNL: … and I just wanted to remind you guys that I was George Bush played by Will Ferrell on SNL: really bad. Like historically not good
September 11, 2023 at 2:40 PM
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A rise in shoplifting has Australian supermarkets ramping up surveillance www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
“It’s telling that major supermarkets are prioritising investment in privacy-invasive surveillance technology in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, rather than considering other ways that might lower rates of theft such as reining in their huge profit margins and lowering prices. It’s really cynical, and it’s really punitive.”
September 10, 2023 at 12:45 AM
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“Going shopping” is dead www.vox.com/money/238314...
A couple of months ago, the Target she frequents started locking up formula, and there seemed to be fewer employees around to help her get it, with “much more emphasis on trying to funnel people to self-checkout,” she says. She sees lines of people waiting for the product they want to be unlocked. To shop in a store these days, she laments, “You have to budget a lot of time.”
September 4, 2023 at 9:19 AM
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“Altman added ‘Most patients feel they have less and less support and negligible access to any treatment options.’” www.theguardian.com/society/2023...
The work, reported in Nature Medicine, comes as health officials in England raised concerns over a new, highly mutated variant of Covid that has been detected in the UK and several other countries. "The UK has entered a period of very lightweight mitigations with a very narrowed booster rollout," Altmann said. "Large cohort studies remind us what a gamble we face when getting infected by this virus. We accrued more than 700,000 new long Covid cases during the period of 'mild' Omicron infections."
September 1, 2023 at 2:12 AM