Thank you so much for posting these, they're like a hug for your soul.
Watermelons became symbols of Palestine amid censorship of the Palestinian flag because of its similar colours.
Ah, ok - before reading I thought someone had got their stereotypes mixed up.
This reminds me of Charles Babbage's response to being asked if his computer would give the right answer if the wrong numbers were entered:
I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
I've been tempted to drop this line in meetings more than once.
Does the series spoil the books? I haven't started watching or reading yet, although the first book went on my to-read list four years ago.
I added banana (for scale) and it's on the up and up: https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/wordcount/#fuck*,shit*,crap*,bastard,penguin,banana
If you want to have a tables version (the 90s called!) in one page (without serving different versions), then you'd probably have to have that in the page the whole time then override that with CSS, or just have two versions in the page and use CSS to show the correct version (I'm not sure if Links2 supports any CSS like display: none).
I thought Mathew's genius anticlimax was sure to win - until a few seconds later (Greg didn't agree though). It's funny that he described them as Rube Goldberg machines since that's the American term - we would say a Heath Robinson machine.
Monsters have been a bit of a theme this series.
The members of the public must have found being in that park weird - I wonder if local got used to it since it happened at least five times.
"Your smell seduces ours nostrils like moths to a flame" - wtf.
I thought Rosie was clever to have undignified people there she's to be compared against but it didn't really work (perhaps due to her non-deep message).
Vase via route B - I'm surprised they didn't have routes A and Z just to maximise the chances to correct Jason.
No-one thought of collapsing the tunnel and just stepping through like it's a hoop.
It's more about things similar to Microsoft Recall, I don't think whistleblowers are going to send their messages where other people can see their screen.
I think a lot of people don't realise how much of what makes "them" them is gut biome and your brain retrospectively assigning yourself agency for actions your body decided on (flinching from hot surfaces is one).
We just keep finding more ways that gut bacteria influence our diet and behaviour. And if you obey your gut flora and eat sugar instead of protein, you'll allow them to increase which expands their influence over you. Or that part of you, since where's the line?
innocent until proven guilty but when an algorithm, a camera and a facial recognition system gets involved, you are guilty
Just the algorithm is needed for that, for example the Post Office Horizon scandal.
That was my first thought, but it's actually a library for newsreader-type apps that lets a communication happen without exposing the whistleblower (it's like a digital deaddrop - just a tiny change in everyday routines).
I had a quick look and they're doing the things they need to like certificate pinning, so even corporate-level MITM wouldn't be seeing any unusual traffic. I assume they're also blocking access to the screen like banking apps do, which is more secure but annoying for normal users.
Title text:
If only my ancestors had been fortunate enough to marry into the branch of the bacteria family that could photosynthesize, like all my little green cousins here.
Transcript:
[Cueball and Beret Guy, seen from afar in silhouette, are walking up a grassy hill.]
[They continue walking up the hill, reaching its grassy summit. Now with normal lighting. Beret Guy is a bit ahead of Cueball.]
Beret Guy: I learned something today.
Beret Guy: I went on one of those family tree sites and kept clicking back, and it turns out I'm related to stromatolites![Closeup on Cueball. Beret Guy's reply comes off-panel from a starburst on the right edge of the panel.]
Cueball: The bacterial mats?
Beret Guy [off-panel]: Yeah! A few billion years back, on my mitochondria's side.[Cueball and Beret Guy standing on the top of the grassy hill facing each other. Berety Guy holding a hand out towards Cueball.]
Beret Guy: My Archaean ancestors absorbed some bacteria that were cousins of stromatolites. That's how I got mitochondria.
Beret Guy: Cell nuclei, too.[Cueball is standing behind Beret Guy who is now sitting down in the grass leaning back on one arm with the other arm resting on his bent knee.]
Cueball: I think there are still living stromatolites. You could get in touch.
Beret Guy: Nah, they're probably busy. I don't want to bother them.[Cueball is sitting behind Beret Guy who is now lying down, both again shown in silhouette from a far, revealing they are on the top of the grassy hill.]
Cueball: So what are you going to do with this knowledge? Nothing?
Beret Guy: Lying on a hill in the warm sun is an old family tradition.
Source: https://xkcd.com/3046/
OP's link is just an incomplete summary of the real article
That source post has this Bluesky quote:
Also, that it would have been heavily flagged by users was probably part of it.