Geese are horrible but John Oliver is great

You probably missed this one, but here, John Oliver makes the succinct, convincing case—in a rare moment of Oliver aligning himself with Vladimir Putin—that geese are nothing more than "asshole ducks who got really into CrossFit."

Some people may not know that Oliver, pre-HBO stardom, used to co-host The Bugle podcast—"an audio newspaper for a visual world"—for many years with comedian Andy Zaltzman. And never before and never again will exist such a delightful mishmash of bad puns, terrible wordplay, dick jokes, and weird news about cricket.

A sample from the archives: "Bugle 282 - Twas the Dick before Christmas"

Aug 11, 2017

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It was exciting. So I guess I didn't feel anything negative. And afterwards I definitely got a lot of messages from people that I've known for a long time—catching up, saying that's pretty cool.

Interview with the Uber engineer who recently faced Mark Zuckerberg in a jiu-jitsu tournament.

↩︎ GQ

Greenpeace says recycling actually makes plastics more hazardous to human health.

↩︎ dezeen 5d

An investigation finds unreported attacks that killed or wounded hundreds of Cambodian civilians during Kissinger's tenure.

↩︎ The Intercept 5d

It’s the hyper-feminine romanticization of your wardrobe, with extra lace, frills, pearls, and silk pieces that represent the idea of a European vacation more than they reflect actual European fashion trends.

American TikTok users experience “Europecore” by turning off their air conditioning.

↩︎ Nylon

A cosmetics company and an influencer get knocked for using a school shooting to sell a beauty product.

↩︎ High Snobiety 6d

Somes notes on how the ProPublica reporters dug up and broke the Clarence Thomas story.

↩︎ Slate 6d

Some variations of incomplete cubes by Sol LeWitt (and others). That is to say, "all the ways of the cube not being complete."

↩︎ Flashbak 1w

“Ever breathe a frequency?” Report from a recent sound experience in France where alphorn players met Catholic protesters.

↩︎ Pitchfork 1w

“Personally, I think ‘eat the rich’ is quite acceptable right now.” Recent signals from Rosecrans Baldwin’s travel diary.

↩︎ Meditations in an Emergency 1w

Doxa means common belief or popular opinion and comes from verb δοκεῖν dokein, “to appear”, “to seem”, “to think” and “to accept.”

A dozen terms from Ancient Greek that are perhaps worthy of a comeback.

↩︎ Classical Wisdom

A man holding up a sign on the street saw “greatness” in the Los Angeles Lakers when no one else did.

↩︎ The New York Times 3w

The secrets of an obituary writer. "For a newspaper beat, there's nothing like it.”

↩︎ Meditations in an Emergency 3w

A video inquiry as to why so many hair and nail salons feature “Nagel women.”

Maya Bernstein-Schalet recalls the pandemic through dishes cooked.

↩︎ Waxing & Waning 3w

A selection of paintings and extremely detailed preparatory drawings by artist Nathan Walsh.

↩︎ Booooooom 3w

Photographs of “daredevils posed at Yosemite’s cliff edges in days of yore.”

↩︎ California Sun 4w

How to make people appreciate you more during Zoom meetings. "Loudness, it turns out, isn't as good a metric as intensity."

↩︎ Business Insider 4w

How to preserve a medieval Italian ghost town. "Members also take on low-cost maintenance activities such as weeding."

↩︎ Atlas Obscura 4w

Maybe the butterfly is the current “it” animal, taking on the title from owls and llamas and sloths and unicorns. In 2021, birds captured our attention as we all felt caged. Now, newly hatched from our cocoons, we have space to fly.

Some musings on why so many people, celebrities included, have a butterfly tattooed on their sternum.

↩︎ The Trend Report

The cutting edge of coffee drinks features "freeze-distilled" and "cryo-desiccated" milk.

↩︎ Sprudge 4w

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