Sunday, December 7, 2025

Today's news and jokes



Francis Ford Coppola sold a watch with an animated hand









From the listing:
Coppola extended an invitation for François-Paul Journe to visit him at his Inglenook winery in the Napa Valley. Their meeting in 2012 was creatively fruitful, with Coppola, long fascinated by historic automatons, asking Journe if a human hand had ever been used, or could be used to indicate time. With no timepieces known to have ever been produced using a human hand, the seeds were planted in Journe’s mind to figure out a way to indicate the passage of time using a single hand.

Wonderful article about the ways Tom Stoppard improved the "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade" script

From 2016. Also:


Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

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— Harry Wallop (@harrywallop.co.uk) December 2, 2025 at 12:48 AM

Saturday, December 6, 2025

$10 free at the Monte Cook RPG shop, or to be donated to charity

Instructions here.

The Star Trek and Mignolaverse comic Humble Bundles were reposted

The Star Trek megabundle is $24 for 93 items, and the Mignola bundle starts at $18 for 41 items.

Today's news and jokes

like, it's an abject failure in that no peace prize should look like the hands of the damned dragging earth into the abyss but it's an incredible success at a memorable visual it looks so cursed. I need one. do they give them to people who aren't evil?

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— Jared Pechaček (@vandroidhelsing.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM


This is the most horrific trophy I’ve ever seen. It looks like a cursed object found in a desert crypt.

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— Angus Main (@angusmain.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
The Drag Me to Hell trophy

Person who actually deserves a trophy is the artist who made the FIFA peace prize trophy look like everyone in the entire world holding their head in their hands out of secondhand embarrassment

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— Pwnallthethings (@pwnallthethings.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM


I'm sure Vladimir can't wait

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— Eliot Higgins (@eliothiggins.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM




The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

— derek guy (@dieworkwear.bsky.social) December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM


Walking on top of Ferrari World in Abu Dhabi