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https://xkcd.com/3157/

Many things about Star Wars were not well planned out, but having a 37-year-old in old-age makeup play the Emperor in Return of the Jedi was such an incredible call.

https://xkcd.com/3157/

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DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.

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https://xkcd.com/3156/

If you don't know where you are on Earth, the angle of satellite dishes can help constrain your latitude. If some of them are pointing straight up, you're probably near the Equator, right under the ring.

https://xkcd.com/3156/

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https://xkcd.com/3155/

If nothing else, that reasoning definitely overturns syllogisms.

https://xkcd.com/3155/

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Posted by James Gurney

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2025/10/painting-pre-electric-night.html

Before electricity, nighttime seemed a lot brighter. That’s because electric lights constrict our pupils, making the darkness darker. Read more on my free Substack.

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2025/10/painting-pre-electric-night.html