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CynicalClassicist

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British Nerd of Medieval Literature and Politics

watched an old Doctor Who called โ€œHand of Fearโ€ and thought โ€œooo what could that title meanโ€ and then it turned out to just be literal hand that was scary

Having seen this story fairly recently, it's important that everyone knows the hand is

1. Trans

2. Evil

3. Genuinely seems to see the Doctor and Sarah Jane as friends? Like, even after he reveals that he lied about a bunch of stuff and killed a bunch of people and wants to conquer the galaxy and whatnot, he's still pretty chill with them, meanwhile they're just sitting to the side, listening to him monologue as they realize they may have fucked up

Eldrad: THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME

Doctor: Well don;t mention it

Eldrad: THE BLOOD OF MY ENEMIES WILL FILL LAKES AS I SLAUGHTER ALL WHO OPPOSE ME

Doctor: No really don't mention it, I think you might be about to do war crimes O_O

Eldrad must live!

As it is Passover again, it is time for the annual debate as to whether the frog plague, which thanks to a quirk in the Hebrew, is written as a plague of frog, singular, rather than the plural, plague of frogs, was in fact, as generally imagined, a plague of many frogs, or instead a singular giant Kaiju frog. This is an ancient and venerable argument that actually goes back to the Talmud because this is what the Jewish people are. If we can't argue for fun about this sort of thing, what are we even doing.

In that spirit, I would like to submit a third possibility, which is that in fact it was one perfectly normal sized frog, who was absolutely acing Untitled Frog Game: Ancient Egypt Edition. One particularly obnoxious frog, who through sheer hard work, managed to plague all of Egypt.

I think itโ€™s also important that people know that one of the other theories put forward in the Talmud was that the plague was originally a single, normal-sized frog, but then it did a little whistle to all its friends (as frogs do), and every other frog in Egypt heard the siren call of โ€œhey letโ€™s fuck shit upโ€ and came out to party.

I'm not even Jewish, and I'm interested here!

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq logged their worst performance since Russiaโ€™s invasion of Ukraine slammed into the global economy.

March 31, 2025, 2:25 PM MST

By Steve Kopack

Two of the three major U.S. stock indexes just wrapped up their worst quarter in well over two years. The third barely avoided the same fate.

The S&P 500 dropped more than 4.5% for the first quarter of 2025 as of Mondayโ€™s close, and the tech-heavy Nasdaq plummeted 10.4%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average settled 1.3% lower and recorded its first back-to-back monthly loss since October 2023.

Enjoying the golden age for American business?

Record number of California residents are trading in Teslas, new data show

A record number of Californians turned in their Teslas this month, according to a new report by Edmunds, a car shopping website.

That new data shows that the number of Tesla owners trading in their EVs jumped nearly 250% this month, year over year.

By the way, if you sell Teslas yourself then it means that people won't buy it from Tesla, as they'll prefer a used and cheaper car.

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