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Magazine Madonna
This is not a promising beginning to 2020. An actress and Alt-Med bafflegab grifter presented herself as the Blessed Virgin Mary, under the banner of "Falling for magical-thinking scams = Female...
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Strategies against architecture #2
It is a sobering reflection to think that Brent Wong's1970s period of "Regionalist-painting-with-Levitating-Architecture" is as close in time to his inspiration -- Ernst's Monument Aux Oiseaux series...
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"...So do people in the village call me 'Hasan the Boat-builder'? No! But...
The Guardian is finally catching up with the 'Madman's Honey' story......thereby providing an excuse to link to four-year-old Riddled coverage.
View Article"Talk about a tangled web"
This is very on-brand for Riddled: I am totally claiming credit for this concept.https://t.co/8sKdUnJ02cpic.twitter.com/NgIuoXKM6A— Smut Clyde, X-Ray Haruspex (@SmutClyde) January 29, 2020In related...
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Photographs as Memories
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the nonfrivolity and Explaining Voice. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing, framing story and explanation of the...
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Some things get started by others starting Like finger-snapping at a beatnik...
This seems like a safe generalisation: The greater the gullibility of Someone on the Interweb, and the more difficulty they have separating their desiderata from actuality, the more likely they are to...
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MOOSE AND SQUIRREL
More fun with Words-as-train-stations. Estonian-language data; may not generalise to all language communities.
View ArticleA STRANGE GAME THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY TO KNOCK THE PIECES OVER...
The whereabouts of the post accompanying this title are unknown. It is probably arguing with antivaxxers on Twitter.
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The applicant failed to show a consistent record of publication in...
Why so sad, Diogenes?Did the Grants Committee turn down your application for a new lantern?
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Once you have bested the Elder Gods and sealed them within an iron catafalque...
Eventually some dickhead will stroll past, see the sign, and be all "Hold my beer, let's see what's behind the cliff!"Sorry. My bad.
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Dark Satanic Papermills #1
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing, background details and frame-story. Also a breakdown of...
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Smutdate
So I wrote, "Fig 2 from Ren, Xu & Xu (2019) [6]:"I received advice:This funny face there should become your new avatar.With apologies to Allie @ HyperboleAndAHalf.
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I light-heartedly gave a list of names which, for all I knew, I might...
The story of how Dylan Fazel drifted into academic-publishing scams and from there into conference fraud would make for a fascinating interview, if any journalist or documentary film-maker in Minnesota...
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Dark Satanic Papermills #2
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the unfrivolous tone. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing, background details and frame-story -- copied here.If you...
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There’s loads of goodness in those skins, stalks and stems
Source:Gyngell, whose London restaurant Spring offered a daily “scratch” menu made from so-called “waste produce”, uses carrot, parsnip and swede peelings, say, in a simple slaw: “Toss with yoghurt or...
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Art irritates nature
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the nonfrivolity and Explaining Voice. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and explanation of the back-story.The...
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Halo Payload
This post was earlier cross-posted at Leonid Schneider's site, hence the nonfrivolity and Explaining Voice. The version there is improved by Leonid's editing and explanation of the back-story.aJust...
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Easter Bunday, Lockdown edition
The intended recipient is all grown-up and domestic and responsible (the Frau Doktorin and I are failures as parents; I don't know where we went wrong) and is acquiring whiteware, and even a...
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