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"If there is intelligence work being done here, it seems more likely to be an attempt to generate anti-Russian sentiment." (Mefi thread)

"SONNET FOUND IN A DESERTED MAD HOUSE

Oh that my soul a marrow-bone might seize!
For the old egg of my desire is broken,
Spilled is the pearly white and spilled the yolk, and
As the mild melancholy contents grease
My path the shorn lamb baas like bumblebees.
Time's trashy purse is as a taken token
Or like a thrilling recitation, spoken
By mournful mouths filled full of mirth and cheese.

And yet, why should I clasp the earthful urn?
Or find the frittered fig that felt the fast?
Or choose to chase the cheese around the churn?
Or swallow any pill from out the past?
Ah, no Love, not while your hot kisses burn
Like a potato riding on the blast."

--anonymous, from A Nonsense Anthology ed Carolyn Wells (1915)

Alternative to the periodic table.

"every time a student uses chatgpt to write an essay on Never Let Me Go it always fabricates hilarious quotes like, 'So this is what we’re made for, eh Kathy? To be clones so the rest of the world can use our organs in this so-called ‘donation’ system? It makes me want to scream!' " --@dee_of_e

"Which does not mean that we should do nothing."