What’s Normal, Exactly?
Kunstler.com | 3 May, 2025 | James Howard Kunstler

Scientists Create 3D-Printed Calamari With More Protein Than Real Squid
Study Finds | April 28, 2025 | Poornima Vijayan and Dejian Huang, National University of Singapore

Scientists successfully 3D printed plant-based calamari rings using mung bean protein and microalgae, creating a seafood alternative that closely matches real squid in texture and even surpasses it in protein content.

Comfortable seats (preferably, bench seats)

Seatbelts

Variable-speed windshield wipers

Vinyl floormats

Speedometer

Mileage gauge

Fuel gauge

Alternator gauge

Temperature gauge

No internet connection

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I’m willing to go as high as $5,000.

The National Endowment for the Arts Begins Terminating Grants
New York Times | May 3, 2025 | Michael Paulson

The endowment told arts organizations that it was withdrawing or canceling current grants just hours after President Trump proposed eliminating the agency in the next fiscal year.

If You Were Going To Invent a Game Show, What Would It Be?

Belgian Teenagers Found With 5,000 Ants to Be Sentenced by Kenyan Court in Two Weeks
Euronews | 23/04/2025 | Gavin Blackburn

The two men had entered Kenya on a tourist visa and were staying in a guest house in the western town of Naivasha. Their lawyer said that her clients did not know what they were doing was illegal.

Two Belgian teenagers who were found with thousands of ants valued at more than €8,000 and allegedly destined for European and Asian markets will be sentenced in two weeks, a Kenyan magistrate has said. Njeri Thuku, sitting at the court in Kenya’s main airport, said she would not rush the case but would take time to review environmental impact and psychological reports filed in court before passing sentence on 7 May.

Otherwise,

“The Court of Inquiry will give you such a pranging you’ll be lucky to wear the uniform of a bloody toilet attendant.”

— Group Captain Lionel Mandrake

“The movie they said couldn’t be made . . . And they were right! Apply to address below for a full refund.”

Weasels of lawfare?

Long forms of division?

Scissorbirds of snippiness?

Childrens’ choirs of disharmony?

Rhinoceroses of subtlety?

… and Ten Times Is Never Enough

Straight Line:

Spitballing Ideas For New Titles for Upcoming James Bond Films: …