Folks in the Kenosha vicinity: Get your tickets now!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/magic-in-the-lab-psychological-insights-from-magicians-tickets-1325228747859?aff=efbevent&fbclid=IwY2xjawKcuU9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHmi4JRTJkHOWr2frm6zF7WvYsHZ3_CUtg3S1EbaIa8GFgaDA3hJwemqV9A_S_aem_60NLZrEqEZq0Zq-AVH6nng

I'm very close to blocking email from @PLOS. Constant invitations to review papers far outside my expertise. What does a PLoS publication count for at this point? It has become a sham journal.

https://racinecountyeye.com/2025/05/20/carthage-college-no-confidence-vote/

@idoubtit If I had it, I'd flaunt it.

Currently obsessed with this piece of art:

“Les Révélations Brutales”, illustration by Bertall (Charles Albert d’Arnoux) from Balzac’s Petites misères de la vie conjugale (1846)
https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/essays/warburgs-werewolf-an-anamnesis/petitesmisres00balz_0353-edit.jpg?fit=max&w=1200&h=850&auto=format,compress

Loving this cryptid pattern!

https://prettysnake.com/search?type=product&options%5Bprefix%5D=last&q=cryptids

https://news.northeastern.edu/2025/05/12/faculty-staff/magic-and-medicine-stephen-wood/

https://www.axios.com/2025/05/09/fetterman-health-votes-pennsylvania-senate

Did this kid lose a bet or something?

https://ring.com/share/8020a6a1-4ee0-499e-b0b0-36a6640ce4f8

Important question: Why haven't there been any new seasons of Instant Hotel? What gives?!

It seemed unlikely that the grifter would start a fight with me while I was holding a knife! (I was right, and the grifter was very upset with me.)

It seemed unlikely that the grifter would start a fight with me while I was holding a knife! (I was right, and the grifter was very upset with me.)

I was traveling with a pocket knife, so I approached a very confused Asian tourist who was being accosted by the grifter and cut the bracelet off his wrist for him.

Once upon a time, I saw grifters running a similar scam in the Piazza Navona. They'd invite a tourist to extend their finger and quickly braid a friendship bracelet on it. They'd tie the bracelet around the tourist's wrist and demand money.

https://youtu.be/Gl-PPrI5pmc?feature=shared

@LoneLocust Thou shalt not have carnal knowledge of THY NEIGHBOR'S pig. It's fine when it's your own, I believe.

I don't actually know that it's a sin. I just assume most things are.

Don't they know it's a sin to gamble?!

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/07/world/europe/betting-sites-next-pope-predictions-conclave.html#:~:text=Cardinal%20Pietro%20Parolin%20of%20Italy%20has%20emerged%20as%20a%20favorite,little%20to%20dent%20that%20lead.

While y'all are watching Conclave, hoping for some chaos this week, I'm over here watching Angels & Demons, hoping for CHAOS.

https://www.forbiddenhistories.com/2025/05/censoring-william-james/

Video footage from my recent keynote address for the Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities has dropped!

https://youtu.be/PJUFw9gtwwQ?feature=shared