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  • Nov 8, 2025

    Nan

    “Jesus Christ, Dad!” Amy shouted, “I don’t know what’s worse- my whole life Nan’s just been a computer or now you’re broke and I can’t have a grandmother anymore!”

  • May 29, 2025

    The egg duck

    In the mid 90s there was a trope in French movies about new technology versus the old ways with an American villain pushing the technology, and then a French hero standing by tradition.

    baby duck

  • Feb 8, 2025

    The End of The World

    'Because of the end of the world everyone will certainly now become calaveras; farewell to all the living, this is for real' - detail from a broadside showing skeletons in pandemonium because of cataclysmic natural events around them. The text, a calavera in verse (epitaph), predicts an apocalypse as the year 1899 ends (1899) artist José Guadalupe Posada

  • Dec 13, 2024

    Belgian healthcare

    Belgian waffle By Ralph Daily - Flickr: Belgian Waffle, CC BY 2.0, Link

  • Nov 10, 2024

    Happy Birthday

    As we were out of cheddar cheese today I found myself, fifty years old, at the Costco, slipping into fascism, singing Jane’s Addiction.

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