"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire #HisBirthdayQuote

This short, three-part documentary (about Russia's decades-long effort to spread disinformation and sow division in the US) is really good. nytimes.com/2018/11/12/opi…

Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive malfunction SFX demonstrated by sound designer Ben Burtt

Since Lake Superior is trending, I'd like to mention that it's one of my favorite places in the whole world.

@michaelfransen Will Buck Odhran Stewart @VillainVaughan - You might actually be able to brag about skipping Ep. 1.

@kelleyreierson - Isaac Newton discovered the laws of motion and optics, invented calculus, then turned 26. (Helping?)

@matthewbaldwin - Legolas! #dadjokes

@kelleyreierson - Just looked up DC Talk. All members still have successful music careers (including Billboard hits and Grammys). #what

My new hobby: finding incomprehensible diagrams on office whiteboards and adding alarming conclusions to them

One of my favorite people in the 1880 census: 15-year-old Catharine Cudney, occupation, "Does as she pleases."