Watching a congressperson kill and lie has never been more wholesome.
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Tamsyn Muir's new series is about lesbian cyberpunk gunslingers under the sea
Bustle interviewed her about Gideon the Ninth, and the series she's writing next.
Today's funny posts
Holy shit, the baseball team from my COVID testing site is going to the World Series!!!
— Justin Shanes (@justinshanes) October 19, 2020
Boston has to crush you that Rondo and Mookie having way more fun In Cali
— Chris Geeter McGee (@geeter3) October 19, 2020
Appreciate ya
That dude looks like Thanos https://t.co/fkpcLd2noA
— Nate Jones (@JonesOnTheNBA) October 18, 2020
Large 2,000-year-old cat discovered in Peru's Nazca lines - BBC News https://t.co/re6O40GmRR
— switched (@switch_d) October 18, 2020
@UniWatch According to Wikipedia, former Minnesota Twins first baseman Kent Hrbek was not a fan of stirrups and helped "revise the uniform code to remove mandatory stirrups." pic.twitter.com/w2E4lxw1NC
— Texas Trev (@texastrevor) October 18, 2020
does imzadi mean exclusive
— Riker Googling (@RikerGoogling) October 18, 2020
Best INT:commercial ratio in the league https://t.co/pgjaIevfA1
— Ted Nguyen (@FB_FilmAnalysis) October 18, 2020
Thinking about when Natalie was visiting and said she was craving juice the very moment we came upon a Jamba Juice. I'm like "they probably have juice," we walk in & the guy immediately goes "unfortunately due to a refrigerator problem we can't make any drinks that involve juice"
— Jenny Nicholskeleton (@JennyENicholson) October 18, 2020
WHAT https://t.co/H0puH4uPz8 pic.twitter.com/0E8eFXyfdP
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) October 18, 2020
i...why?! Iike what situation *exactIy* are you preparing for here?? pic.twitter.com/Obj3u7cz4E
— Lena (@notaterrornerd) October 18, 2020
This fourth kid from RETURN FROM WITCH MOUNTAIN is a gay icon. pic.twitter.com/CbseeKKiL7
— 🎃Robifred Sanderberg🎃@🧙♀️🏠 (@robwillb) October 18, 2020
Today we made our cats a bedroom. pic.twitter.com/CbZpdrK2b4
— Maud Feijt (@MaudFeijt) October 17, 2020
*More funny posts.
"The Haunting of Tram Car 015" is Tor's free ebook of the month
Finalist for the 2020 Hugo Award
Finalist for the 2020 Nebula Award
Finalist for the 2020 Locus Award
Badly drawn NBA logos; Cat Thor costume; Disney's animatronic dolphin
Kinda crappily drawn #NBA logos pic.twitter.com/MkSTDvRaBE
— Dana (@greatdane92) October 19, 2020
REDRAW pic.twitter.com/fcQ5o5Ax9L
— ᴀᴜɢᴜ𝖘ᴛ ᴅєᴍᴀʀᴇᴀ with a cowboy hat (@augustdemarea) October 18, 2020
I think the web version has been reformatted in such a way the jokes doesn't work. I reordered the panels and believe this is how it's supposed to be read. pic.twitter.com/JMBo37D9Ty
— Matthew Murray 🦇 (@MidniteLibrary) October 18, 2020
You Brutal Beauty — Hyatt Regency, San Francisco pic.twitter.com/3486B6heNY
— This Brutal House (@BrutalHouse) October 18, 2020
This is very cool. The remains of a 1,000-year-old house were discovered during the development of a Lidl in Dublin, Ireland. So they've preserved it and shoppers can check it out via a glass floor. pic.twitter.com/6icyflM6vq
— Barry Malone (@malonebarry) October 18, 2020
もこもこお布団で目がギンギンになっちゃってるムーミン可愛い… pic.twitter.com/VIxkM75VcN
— nnpana (@nnpanaki) October 19, 2020
EPCOT nerds: I had no idea idea they once tested an animatronic dolphin at The Living Seas back in '99. This seems extremely good? Sadly, "ultimately it was determined that aquatic figures would be impractical for a daily theme park operation." Video: https://t.co/hMpbwSXr0T pic.twitter.com/SOpENykyUq
— Cabel (@cabel) October 19, 2020
The Golgo 13 sleep mask is very good. pic.twitter.com/rygdhfLche
— Macabresky (@MinovskyArticle) October 19, 2020
Cat-Thor costume is coming along nicely. Verily, it shall be ready for Halloween! @ryanqnorth @EricaFails @whoisrico @derek_charm @unbeatablesg pic.twitter.com/DRvyIUSfYt
— Walt & Amy Lindberg (@WaltAndAmy) October 19, 2020
What possessed me to think using one of these sandpaper sharpeners was a good idea? pic.twitter.com/PMQJksZ4dE
— Dave Stokes is Staying Out of Melee Range (@davestokes) October 20, 2020
Monday, October 19, 2020
Tennessee Titans coach committed an intentional penalty to manipulate the game clock
I’m 99% sure this is exactly what happened and it saved the Titans at least 40 seconds of game clock (maybe more). https://t.co/z5nicaKjDe
— Mike Herndon (@MikeMiracles) October 18, 2020
Here is the sequence. It’s 2nd and 1. Odds of Houston converting either on this down or the next is astronomical. Joseph is confused looking to the sideline and Vrabel is telling him “it’s ok” and then does a sales job to make sure the ref sees it. https://t.co/ZFJzQJC5II pic.twitter.com/EWuOhk5J4U
— Mike Herndon (@MikeMiracles) October 18, 2020
Vrabel on 12-men on the field penalty and whether it worked to @Titans advantage: We have to do a better job on penalties and be better in all areas. ...
— Jim Wyatt (@jwyattsports) October 19, 2020
A longer writeup.
A review of Cadillac's gigantic new Escalade, and its disturbing blindspot
Words cannot describe how gargantuan the new Escalade is, so numbers will have to suffice. The 2021 Escalade is nearly 18 feet long bumper to bumper, and almost six-and-a-half feet tall. This represents a growth spurt from the previous model year, including an additional four inches to the wheelbase (the distance between the front and rear wheels), 2.6 inches to the overall length, and 2.4 inches taller in terms of overall height. Or, as Cadillac’s own marketing materials boast, “the largest and longest Escalade ever.”
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Last year, a local television station measured the front blind zones of many popular vehicles, from family sedans and minivans to large SUVs and full-size pickup trucks. The Escalade had the largest front blind spot of 10 feet, two inches, with the driver sitting in a natural, relaxed position. It took 13 children seated in a line in front of the Escalade before the driver could see the tops of their heads.
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I asked [Cadillac's] Escalade product manager, why the Escalade’s front blind spot in particular was so egregious. “For me, this is new,” he responded. “Your comment catches me a little off guard.
I’m testing out the 2021 Cadillac Escalade this week, and i can’t get over how dangerously huge this vehicle is. This is so unnecessary. pic.twitter.com/dS7UrB0cC1
— Andrew J. Hawkins 🚇🚌🚲🛴 (@andyjayhawk) October 13, 2020
"The Kentucky meat shower was an incident occurring between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock for a period of several minutes on March 3, 1876"
The Wikipedia entry just gets more and more nightmarish:
At the time, Mrs. Crouch, a farmer’s wife, was making soap on her porch when she reported seeing the meat pieces fall from the sky. She said she was 40 steps from her house when the meat started to slap the ground. The meat looked gristly, according to Mrs. Crouch. Mrs. Crouch and her husband believed the event signified a sign from God. A similar event was later reported in Europe. The phenomenon was reported by Scientific American, The New York Times, and several other publications at the time.
Most of the pieces were approximately 2 by 2 inches (5 cm × 5 cm); at least one was 4 by 4 inches (10 cm × 10 cm). The meat appeared to be beef, but according to the first report in Scientific American, two gentlemen who tasted it judged it to be lamb or deer. B. F. Ellington, a local hunter, identified it as bear meat. Writing in the Sanitarian, Leopold Brandeis identified the substance as Nostoc, a type of cyanobacteria. Brandeis gave the meat sample to the Newark Scientific Association for further analysis, leading to a letter from Dr. Allan McLane Hamilton appearing in the Medical Record and stating the meat had been identified as lung tissue from either a horse or a human infant, "the structure of the organ in these two cases being almost identical." The composition of this sample was backed up by further analysis, with two samples of the meat being identified as lung tissue, three as muscle, and two as cartilage.
Brandeis's Nostoc theory relied on the fact that Nostoc expands into a clear jelly-like mass when rain falls on it, often giving the sense that it was falling with the rain. Charles Fort noted in his first book, The Book of the Damned, that there had been no rain. Locals favored the explanation that the meat was vomited up by buzzards, "who, as is their custom, seeing one of their companions disgorge himself, immediately followed suit."
Seven people charged with 25 felonies for smuggling flying squirrels to South Korea
The charges allege that poachers trapped the flying squirrels in central Florida, and sold them to a licensed wildlife dealer that falsely claimed they were bred in captivity. Couriers drove them to Chicago to further obscure their origin, and then they were shipped to South Korea.
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