Heureux Mardi Gras!
Mo gris gris gumbo yaya here.

[Found here.]

This link is All Bunk.
Okay, I’ll admit it. I’m a leftist.
The Peaky Blinders were nasty.
Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit.
Need a Stabilized Amboyna Burl Pen?
Here’s a concise description of basic technical drawing with illustrations.
Once it was lost, but now Wallace’s giant bee has been found.
From the True Facts Department: Exactly half of all Americans have above average intelligence. Discuss amongst yourselves.
Breaking news / bombshell / tipping point / the walls are closing in / the beginning of the end. That still makes me laugh.
[Top image: Andy Capp, playing darts, wearing a peaky. Apparently he was a southpaw.]
Apologies for losing the original link. These guys are great.
These Russians do Chicago better than Chicago.
Then there’s this insanity. Ain’t no fear of thin ice.
Have a great weekend, folks. See you back here after the apocalypse.

[Found here.]

I could retire there as long as it had WIFI and beer. And a nice stereo system with a pool table. Oh, yeah, foosball, too. And beer with WIFI, foosball and beer. And a nice stereo system with a pool table, and beer with WIFI and foosball.
And a toaster. And English muffins with butter.
Yeah. I could retire there.
[Found here.]

Make America Grate Again!
Cowboy ethics [h/t Nancy H].
Something happened in January 2017.
One full minute of Holy Crap They’re Idiots.
“Keeping it real with people.” Idiocy on parade.
Charity hits the donation jackpot but doesn’t get jack [via].
Billy Gibbons sums up the longevity of ZZ Top in two words.
Obnoxious, offensive and shameful. “Environmental Injustice?”
“We are building an army of young people to stop climate change and create millions of good jobs in the process. This dark time in America must come to an end.”
– Sunrise MovementSara Blažević and Varshini Prakash started the Sunrise Movement. Both are amazing pieces of work.
Sara Blažević, a student from Swarthmore College said, “Communities all over the world are currently feeling the effects of extreme climate change and environmental injustice. This global crisis will only continue growing unless society’s power-holders throw their weight behind solutions to climate change, instead of remaining complicit with environmental destruction.”
Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation creeps me right out [via]. If that doesn’t bother you, this should.
[Top image from here:
“Illustration of a spin in a Bloch sphere showing
a) precession in the laboratory frame due to a static magnetic field followed by
b) the usefulness of considering this in a rotating frame and finally
c) the magnetic resonance effect due to a resonantly oscillating magnetic field.”]
[Bonus Update: Trailer for upcoming movie.]