Happy #StarTrekDay!
European companies are still paying vastly more for energy than they would in the US or China. This analysis comes a year after a landmark report warned inaction would condemn the continent to economic stagnation.
One of the best adaptations of Jane Austin, it set the standard and made a mark for later adaptations.
‘Looks so sizzling they could fry an egg!’ How the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice adaptation changed my life
JUST IN: Thailand's top court orders former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra to spend one year in jail. https://cnn.it/41KavgN
Big Oil slashes jobs and investments as low crude prices take toll on.ft.com/4mRalfR
If Trump Isn’t Dying, Why Is He Being Treated Like a Make-A-Wish Kid? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qxW...
UK consumer confidence slumps among over-65s but surges in young on.ft.com/4n2LSoc
South Korea reached a deal with the U.S. to free hundreds of South Korean workers arrested when U.S. immigration authorities raided a Hyundai-LG electric vehicle battery plant in Georgia. nyti.ms/4887Cdr
xkcd: Chess Variant xkcd.com/3139/
The Two Gentlemen of Verona IV.iv 123 Sylvia
Bill Murray on how his move from blockbuster franchises to indie films was all about following “great storytelling”
Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure xkcd.com/3138/
![Comic. Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure. [mockup of “2x4” piece of wood showing the dimensions as 1½“ by 3 ½“] Dimensional lumber sizes are tricky. A “2x4” is actually 1½“ by 3 ½“, and a “1x8” is ¾“ by 7⅛“. [two tape measures: one is labeled 12’, the other 12’*] If you know someone into carpentry or woodworking, get them our *dimensional lumber tape measure*. [A “normal tape measure” with even increments and a “dimensional lumber tape measure” with increments at different lengths for each inch] *Don’t tell them you got it*—just leave it in their toolbox. They’ll appreciate the surprise when all their measurements work out!](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreigv4ewit5j2o4jyy5twrm5kz4bv5iq7ve72fg7b6dncksdluntfnq@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Like measles in Florida, The Daily Show is BACK with Jon Stewart tonight at 11/10c on Comedy Central!
This is easy.
Pret A Manger writes down a third of its value from 2018 JAB takeover on.ft.com/3HPbzt3
Welcome to the best city for families, Hasbro!
Compared with the curated pictures that are the mainstay of social media, Adrienne Salinger’s images of teens in their bedrooms, taken in the 80s and 90s, offer a sense of the perilousness of adolescence.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
The change follows an executive order signed earlier this year by President Donald Trump directing agencies to move entirely to electronic payments.
August, which is heralded as Black Business Month, should have been a time to celebrate the Black labor force. But last month’s jobs report showed unemployment rates increased for Black workers — and it could point to an economic slump. https://cnn.it/3JU1ewn
His name was Clinton. He's retired.
While there’s concern Gov. Newsom’s office will table a key transit loan until next year, politicians suggest there’s still hope for the funding measure to find approval before this week’s...
Putin, Xi Discuss Immortality On Hot Mic https://theonion.com/putin-xi-discuss-immortality-on-hot-mic/
Trump Urges Supporters To Move On From Societal Disdain For Pedophilia
so dishonored in the court
Titus Andronicus II.i 53 Aaron "Nor would your noble mother for much more Be so dishonored in the court of Rome. For shame, put up."
"Underneath all this shit, the has to be a unicorn someplace."
The S&P 500’s 10 largest companies make up a record 40% of the index’s value. These valuations suggest AI will deliver $1T in cost cuts or revenue growth within 2–3 years. That assumption is shaping how I think about AI. Read more in our markets newsletter: www.profgmarkets.com/p/the-photo-...
@leahlitman.bsky.social said it best: “Political culture imagines that the Supreme Court safeguards the Constitution, when in reality it is chipping away at the constitutional rights of historically marginalized groups."
Toronto - Mayoral Polling: Tory: 48% Chow: 37% Forum Research / Sept 4, 2025 / n=909 / MOE 4% / IVR
Johannes Gutenberg & the Invention of the Printing Press by Anisia Iacob www.thecollector.com/johannes-gut... Johannes Gutenberg at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #books #printingdevices
Glory Edim on Jessie Redmon Fauset’s Remarkable—and Forgotten—Plum Bun Remembering the Work of “The Crisis” Editor and Harlem Renaissance Writer lithub.com/glory-edim-o... Harlem Renaissance at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #books #literature
Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake www.openculture.com/2025/08/hear... “The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs" #books #music #literature
Rick Davies, chanteur et cofondateur du groupe de rock Supertramp, est mort
Happy International Literacy Day to those who celebrate it! The day's aim is to highlight the importance of literacy to individuals, communities, and societies. Celebrations take place in several countries. www.unesco.org/en/days/lite... via @rossolson.com #literacy_day
Police in Kathmandu opened fire on protesters demonstrating against a government ban on social media, killing at least 11 and wounding dozens more. Read more: https://cnn.it/4n13kcI
Took 6 hours longer than expected thanks to every airport on the east coast being ground stopped for thunderstorms last night, but made it in time for this seven year old's golden birthday — & witnessing the games she designed for her friends. But first she & Small Nephew requested The Quiet Year.
From pumpkin Joe-Joe's cookies to pies and Greek yogurt, I reviewed seasonal fall snacks from Trader Joe's to see what's worth buying right now..
In a spate of new memoirs, including books by Arundhati Roy and Molly Jong-Fast, daughters reckon with the legacies of their formidable mothers.
The Comedy of Errors II.ii 22 Antipholus "Yea, dost thou jeer and flout me in the teeth? Think’st thou I jest? Hold, take thou that and that. [Beats Dromio.]"
Work absences due to National Guard, military deployments and other duties are at a 19-year high
At the end of the day…
History as Science Part 13: The Moveable Type Revolution open.substack.com/pub/stirling...
An octopus has 7 left...
Actually, there have been trains since ancient times. They were pulled by horses even in Shakespeare...
King Lear I.iv 262 Lear
It was a package deal.
Cyclist Friend Explains Necessity Of $35 Socks
As natural catastrophes become more frequent and destructive, a key backstop intended to help cover losses has gotten harder to access
Patriots To Stop Serving Alcohol To Players After 3rd Quarter https://theonion.com/patriots-to-stop-serving-alcohol-to-players-after-3rd-quarter/
The Russian and North Korean leaders met in China.
We are to fat to be believed.
Sorry folks, but it’s true. We still love most of you though. 🇨🇦❤️🩹🇺🇸
Traveller lets you run it as skill versus skill.
Esta es nuestra ciudad. Vota el martes, 9 de Septiembre.
Merry Wives of Windsor - Several times.
#FreeDC Mass march hitting the streets of DC now.
GOP: "Just die!"
Florida's surgeon general is ending vaccine mandates in schools, and he isn't stopping there
NEW: DOJ says names of two associates who Jeffrey Epstein wired $100k and $250k in 2018 should stay secret. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor reports.
This is what democracy looks like! A people united will never be defeated. We want federal forces out of DC NOW! #WeAreAllDC #FreeDC
A perfect afternoon in Astoria.
Well, he owned the libs.
C'est comme si vous les voyiez en concert.
Est-ce bien raisonnable de… porter des tee-shirts de rock ?
In theory, quantum physics can bypass the hard mathematical problems at the root of modern encryption. A new proof shows how. www.wired.com/story/the-ne...
How Did Eleanor of Aquitaine Become One of the Most Powerful Women of the Middle Ages? by Erin Wrigh www.thecollector.com/eleanor-of-a... Eleanor of Aquitaine at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc... #books #history
The Female Artist Who Showed How Plants and Insects Relate Her illustrations had a lasting impact on future botanical artists By Alice Alder nautil.us/the-female-a... Entomology at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #women_entomologists #scientific_illustrators
Pull xkcd.com/3136/
![3-panel comic. (1) [two people laying on the grass on a curved surface, oriented vertically] PERSON 1: I don’t like being stuck to this orb, but I guess falling off would be worse. (2) [the surface has rotated slightly] PERSON 2: I wouldn’t mind if it pulled a little less hard, though. I have places to be. I shouldn’t just lie around in the grass. (3) [the surface has rotated a little further] PERSON 1: Maybe the pull will weaken if you wait a little longer. PERSON 2: Good idea. I’ll give it another five minutes.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreialozggxrphnx7hphjslr736vy2qrl2qn2j6szyouhgbsd3eqwhfi@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Cursed Number xkcd.com/3137/
![Comic. [Three people standing behind podium labeled math department. Person with bun holds up a paper. Behind them is a projector screen displaying the equation 💀>26 x 10^21] [caption] Good news: Mathematicians have put a new lower bound on the *Cursed Number That Destroys the Minds of All Who Perceive It!* It’s at least 22 digits, which means it’s unlikely to be seen by any human no matter how many random numbers they look at. They say it’s once again safe to view large random numbers without eye protection.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifaxe64bsuqi4gckktpv4pmoegy5nv7kfhp2mz4f7x6ulrbu62mtu@jpeg "Click to view full size")
The separatists are merely very loud about it.
Those who say the Western provinces should join the United States: 🔴 MB: 6% 🔴 AB: 6% 🔴 BC: 4% 🔴 SK: 3% Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
Two new papers find renewables are good insurance (they stabilize electricity price volatility in welfare improving ways) www.nature.com/articles/s41... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🔌💡
"Del dolor gli spasimi, Urli di rabbia, udrete, e risa ciniche!" Pagliacci It means that at a very early age, the human mind knows that it must laugh or it will cry.
Psychologists have long studied how children develop theory of mind—an intuitive understanding of what other people know, think, and feel. What role does humor play?
All Americans are, at least in part, African-Americans because that is the place where much of our culture comes from, even though many people will deny it.
A new book argues that Black women, from the colonial era through Jim Crow, shaped how America birthed its babies, nursed its sick, and fed its families, writes Danielle Amir Jackson: https://theatln.tc/T9aMJQdF
History as Science Part 12: The Dying Problem open.substack.com/pub/stirling...
Newly discovered portrait may depict ‘fair youth’ of Shakespeare’s sonnets By Dalya Alberge www.theguardian.com/artanddesign... Shakespeare’s sonnets at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #art #books #history
Visualizations with the latest Earth monitoring data: 📈📉 + Global climate indicators: zacklabe.com/climate-chan... + Polar climate indicators: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i... + United States climate indicators: zacklabe.com/united-state...
King James I and the Macbeth Witches The ever-pragmatic Shakespeare added witches to the Scottish play to please his new patron, King James I of England. By: Emily Zarevich daily.jstor.org/king-james-i... Macbeth at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1533 #art #books #culture
I’ll have five hundred voices of that sound.
Coriolanus II.iii 235
It's undeniable: The Laken Riley Act violates immigrants' constitutional rights.
Not Just a Fashion Statement: How Purses Are Used as Political Tools "Kathleen B. Casey Explores the Connection Between Black Women’s Purses and the Civil Rights Movement" lithub.com/not-just-a-f... #africanamerican #ushistory #history
Sounds like the need to toke some weed.
Police have ‘no choice’ but to arrest Palestine Action supporters, Met chief says
The better question is whether working people can exist in the city they built.
BREAKING: Hundreds of South Korean nationals detained in largest single-site immigration raid at a Hyundai facility in Georgia
DHS unveils a Trumpian ICE recruitment poster.
Starmer is going down with the dinghy.
Cabinet reshuffle: More changes to Starmer’s top team expected
Not only does G*d play dice with the universe, but sometimes he rolls them till the battery dies.
Impossible. Violates basic principles of causality. How can energy that was generated at one time be stored and used at a later time? God does not play dice with the power grid! #ChrisWrightPhysicsTheories
Let the adults do the driving.
In 2021, PS110 teacher Matthew Jensen was killed in a hit-and-run on McGuinness Blvd, the site of countless injuries and deaths. Led by @emilyassembly.bsky.social + Make Mcguinness Safe, Greenpointers thought they had won a street redesign — until Adams admin corruption halted work.
xkcd on lumber distance: xkcd.com/3138/