Our 13th most-read article of the 2022.

Originally published January 10, 2022.

Dear Teachers,

As we continue to grapple with unavoidable disruptions caused by the pandemic, it’s important that we remain prepared and flexible for any and all circumstances. Please read the following scenarios and be ready to discuss them at this afternoon’s faculty meeting:

Scenario 1

There are ten students at home (Zoomies) and ten students in person (Roomies). You have been drinking steadily since 2020 and can’t stop crying. You’re also in-person, double-masked, and weigh fifteen pounds more than you did when this all started.

To the fans, Thank You.

Our intrepid Inner West explorer did his best to press on after the major league surgery, but sadly died on February 20, 2023. Deeply missed.

still here!

Still here! (28 December 2022) But still indisposed, unfortunately. Have some fairly major league surgery scheduled for mid-January, that’ll keep Vanishing Sydney off the streets of the Inner West for another three months at a minimum. Recuperating for the rest of the summer here down under the equator, but sincerely hope to be back in the cooler weather with some fresh material.

In the meantime, enjoy the back catalogue. You can find 2,800 original unique photographs of the Inner West of my beloved Emerald City - Sydney, Australia - snapped over the past four years. The best resolution is seen in the Archive Box on your million pixel desktop, or just keep scrolling back forever on your device. Explore the neighbourhood vicariously! It’s disappearing fast.

Go well in 2023, find some peace, and all power to your oars.

www.patreon.com/keefknight

 Doesn't see anything else, ever.

for each one to individually call scheduling to tell them where they are. Their phone lines are swamped and I’ve seen screenshots of crew on hold for 23+ hours trying to get through to scheduling.

— Ben (@JustAnother_Ben) December 27, 2022

Our 14th most-read article of the 2022.

Originally published February 8, 2022.

Downstairs to Downstairs

HOUSEHOLD SERVANT: I’m worried about Rich Lady.

OTHER HOUSEHOLD SERVANT: Don’t be. She’s rich, ain’t she?

HOUSEHOLD SERVANT: Being rich doesn’t mean her horse can’t die/ her husband can’t die/ she can’t die/ she can wear a hat well.

BUTLER: Stop arguing, you two! Someone needs to take this duck liver blancmange up to the dining room on the double!

OTHER HOUSEHOLD SERVANT: Humph! (Exits to the kitchen)

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A patreon subscriber points out that I've repeatedly done Daniel Dennett-related comics on Boxing Day, and that is the most wonderful coincidence I can image.

I continue to feel that everyone out to be freaking out more about developments in AI during the last 5 years.

A rapidly growing measles outbreak in Columbus, Ohio — largely involving unvaccinated children — is fueling concerns among health officials that more parent resistance to routine childhood immunizations will intensify a resurgence of vaccine-preventable diseases.

Most of the 81 children infected so far are old enough to get the shots, but their parents chose not to do so, officials said, resulting in the country’s largest outbreak of the highly infectious pathogen this year.

Prosecutors have alleged, and two of SBF's closest associates have admitted, that much of Alameda's money was stolen from the FTX crypto exchange.

In turn, Alameda extended huge sums to SBF personally. Here's one 'promissory note' for $316mn: https://t.co/bO1gJMHly6 pic.twitter.com/qAo222KtpQ

— kadhim (＾ｰ^)ノ (@kadhim) December 27, 2022

Our 15th most-read article of the 2022.

Originally published February 3, 2022.

6 a.m. Wake up and put on knit cardigan, slacks, and sensible shoes. Feed my cat, Mr. Foibles. Have tea and English muffin while I read Shakespeare and listen to symphonies.

7 a.m. Get into twenty-year-old Corolla, turn on NPR, get rattled by news and switch to listening to a Charles Dickens book on tape read by Alistair Cooke.

7:15 a.m. Arrive to an exact replica of your hometown library, or what you imagine a library to look like, basically where Giles from Buffy works.

 Another fun day at Elmo's ranch.

Chris Hedges on how Democrats sold their souls to corporate donors, and, by extension, to powerful weapons makers and war hawks.

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