His take on mid-century Major League Baseball is sort of equal parts adorable and unsettling. Other highlights of the issue: A Houston family is paid $75 to test a fallout shelter for 3 days, canned raw meat, and Chef Boy-R-Dee as mildly exotic party fare.

See page 58 (archive file pagination) for the Saul Steinberg piece.

Doesn’t seem like anyone necessarily asked at all. He just volunteered it. I doubt it’s true, for the record, but it is a very Utah answer.

For anyone with a sewer system built for TP, this is an ideal workflow. Poops and poopers are not identical, and bidets are not magical. Trust but verify, friends.

NGL, a lawnmower deck is a clever platform. I assume this is their trailer.

Timothee Chalamet is much older than we thought…

Looks like Cobb Vanth to me.

I might also add that some people forget about the “repetitive” in Repetitive Stress Injury. Adjustable is your friend because it allows you to find a really good posture, and also because it allows you to accommodate multiple postures through a day or month or whatever.

How do you find the twist-scrolling? I have the Orbit Fusion for my laptop because the ring is still my preferred scroller on trackballs, and the god-damned scroll-ring Orbit still doesn’t have a third button. I actually remapped a different button to be left-click so I could use a flatter hand position like most of their older designs (even the SlimBlade Pro) allow.

Citttttyyyy Streeeets, Take me to work.

To the place, with those jerks!

West of Boston, middle manage,

Return To Office, City Streets…

I only practiced for about four years. Been orbiting around the contracting process flow at a giant tech company ever since, well over a decade.

My immediate bosses are better people, the hours are much better, and I don’t owe a special fiduciary duty to my employer. As boring day jobs go, it’s got its upside.

We have a 25yo male cockatiel, and he used to do this the female we had. Poor little guy had no clue how it was supposed to work, and after a moment she’d squawk angrily and bite him, then later she’d lay unfertilized eggs and he’d try to stomp them through the bottom of the cage.

I see where you’re coming from, but there’s not enough pouches, and those feet are too human looking.

I would argue that there’s a lot more good than bad in that movie, but it is what it is.

One of the main points of the prequels was that the Jedi order isn’t good. The Clone Wars just made it explicit.

As did The Last Jedi. [ducks for cover]

Seems to be from a 1970s edition of a book of Russian folk poems for children, possibly collected by Korney Chukovsky, but I’m not sure. A translated version is online, and I don’t see any agenda on the webpage, but I’m flying blind here:

http://freebooksforkids.net/magpie.html

It Came Out of The Sky is an under appreciated gem, a growly little redneck riff on Dr. Strangelove a bit, but even more on 50s B movies and celebrity culture.

It’s not exactly sophisticated, but you can absolutely imagine a bunch of drunk dudes laughing their asses off at that one.

…people were upset it wasn’t followed up on in Rise of Skywalker.

Fair warning, I am coming at this as a fan of TLJ who found it really worked for me after falling in love with Star Wars as a little kid in 1983, but one of the great sins of TROS is exactly that.

Every movie before that had its retcons, sometimes pretty significant, but no movie simply rolled back the previous one or refused to engage with it like TROS did. I’ve been forced to accept that there is pretty significant contingent who didn’t connect with TLJ like I did, but Disney and JJ took absolutely the wrong lesson from the backlash in how they responded. The fans who care that deeply view an installment they don’t care for as an annoying relative, but one one to be addressed, rehabilitated if possible, explained if not. Dave Filoni built his entire career on this.

Frank Forde, the fifteenth prime minister of Australia.

Not sure why the pose, though I wonder if the artist was maybe working from a photograph that would have hit the eye better as a moment in time. It’s not a world apart from this 1949 portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt though, who must have been real fuckin’ tired of holding that page just so if she was posing real-time.

You don’t really need to know anything else about her for this story.

Well, maybe a liiiittle bit more:

Perhaps the most well known controversy in the history of the company centres around the racist views of founder Lang Hancock towards Indigenous Australians. Hancock is quoted as saying,

“Mining in Australia occupies less than one-fifth of one percent of the total surface of our continent and yet it supports 14 million people. Nothing should be sacred from mining whether it’s your ground, my ground, the blackfellow’s ground or anybody else’s. So the question of Aboriginal land rights and things of this nature shouldn’t exist.” In a 1984 television interview, Hancock suggested forcing unemployed indigenous Australians − specifically “the ones that are no good to themselves and who can’t accept things, the half-castes” − to collect their welfare cheques from a central location. And when they had gravitated there, I would dope the water up so that they were sterile and would breed themselves out in the future, and that would solve the problem."

Executive Chairman of Hancock Prospecting, Gina Rinehart, caused controversy in 2022, when she failed to apologise for or denounce comments made by her late father in the 1984 television interview. Hancock Prospecting subsequently withdrew an A$15 million sponsorship from Netball Australia after Indigenous netballer Donnell Wallam voiced concerns about the deal and the impact of the comments, pertaining to a genocide, by “poisoning” and “sterilising” Indigenous Australians to “solve the problem”; as well as concerns about the company’s environmental record.