A good friend is like a chronometer – very reliable, well balanced, and generally powered by a nickel-steel spring.

I like the suggestion that the witch hadn’t cast a spell before this point because they thought it was a social faux-pas. Confrontation anxiety strikes again.

You don’t need to pretend Musk has German ancestry to criticize them. His father is a violent bigot who supports Russian imperialism and his maternal grandfather was a racist, fascist Southern African politician.

Now here’s Concentric Lamb with the weather.

Sonia Sodha is still a contributor to The Guardian and is a massive TERF. The Guardian is one of the better news outlets in the UK, but so long as they give her a platform, fuck them.

FYI, Brother seem to be acting a little shady in the last couple of years.

O true ammunition manufacturer,
Thy rounds are quick. Thus with a splat I die.

!showerthoughts@lemmy.world would also be appropriate, though the mods might disagree.

This is a portrait of her friend, Lizzy Ansingh

And niece – her sister, Clara Ansingh, was Lizzy’s mother. The other daughter of Clara, Sorella, was also a painter.

TL;DR: they shoved twigs up his ass. No, really.

Nah, that’s a conference venue. You’re thinking of the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center & Fairgrounds in Oaks, Pennsylvania.

Qualified “explain” link for mobile users: https://explainxkcd.com/3080

Exactly this - here’s Bill Hader telling the story in 2014.

The sort of end user that gets common sense stuff wrong is not the sort of end user that would ever have read the documentation anyway 🤷

On Saturday April 19th he met with Pietro Parolin. This was framed as a snub. On Sunday 20th he met with Francis.

When humans get bright ideas, a lightbulb appears above their head.

When inspiration strikes a kingfisher…

Michel Vaujour had 28 years to serve for attempted murder and armed robbery; this was his fourth escape attempt. He made his way to the roof by threatening guards with a fake pistol and nectarines painted as grenades. On top of the jail he was picked up by his wife Nadine, who had taken helicopter pilot lessons especially for the escape. They landed at a nearby football pitch and fled in a waiting car.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_helicopter_prison_escapes

The couple’s hideout was right back in Paris. Bold or foolish, they stayed in the city where they had just staged a daring escape. Three months later, they were caught not opening a charming coffee shop but robbing a bank—again. In the shootout that followed, Michel took a bullet to the head but survived. He was soon back in prison, his sixth escape attempt with a new accomplice, Jamila, ending in failure.

- https://www.readingolive.com/storyDetails?story=nadine-vaujour-the-woman-who-got-a-pilots-license-to-help-her-husband-escape-from-prison

There’s a weird thing here. I totally accept that the traditional tongue map is pseudoscience and debunked, but if you’re paying attention to something like wine or good chocolate, letting it spread across your whole tongue really does seem change the flavor and bring new aspects to what you’re tasting.

My subjective impression is that there is some effect to exposing the whole tongue to a stimulus, and I’d really like to understand it more - but when you search the web, you pretty much just get deconstructive articles about the old model, and not much about what might actually be happening.

I hate to ask, but is that enough space for a tortoise? They’re natural roamers.

Non-web ref: !cooking_with_fire@feddit.uk