# \#humour
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## [Babylon Bee 🐝 and other stuff that is funny](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/babylon-bee-and-other-stuff-that-is-funny/4733)
**Author:** [@Citizen\_bitcoin](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/Citizen_bitcoin)\
**Replies:** 450\
**Last updated:** [21 September 2026 16:08 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/babylon-bee-and-other-stuff-that-is-funny/4733 "2026-09-21T16:08:26Z")
Ongoing topic for Babylon Bee material
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## [Blue Origin New Shepard 35 "RSS H. G. Wells"](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/blue-origin-new-shepard-35-rss-h-g-wells/6071)
**Author:** [@CTLaw](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/CTLaw)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [25 August 2025 10:13 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/blue-origin-new-shepard-35-rss-h-g-wells/6071 "2025-08-25T10:13:46Z")
Scheduled for August 26, 2025: Instead of space tourists, this one will be carrying “experiments” to maintain the pretense of a business purpose of the New Shepard program beyond sending Bezos’s friends to …
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## [Coming Soon from Fourmilab: The Current Thing Wireless Connected Hat](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/coming-soon-from-fourmilab-the-current-thing-wireless-connected-hat/1219)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [7 January 2024 15:21 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/coming-soon-from-fourmilab-the-current-thing-wireless-connected-hat/1219 "2024-01-07T15:21:28Z")
It can be so difficult keeping up with “The Current Thing”: Occupy Wall Street I’m with Her I Can’t Breathe Black Lives Matter Defund the Police Refugees Welcome Decolonize the Curriculum Bathroom Equality Climate Em…
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## [Extreme Pencil Sharpening](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/extreme-pencil-sharpening/3856)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [14 October 2023 13:01 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/extreme-pencil-sharpening/3856 "2023-10-14T13:01:55Z")
OK, the chain saw didn’t work all that well—how about explosives?
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## [Filtering Television Profanity with 1980s Technology](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/filtering-television-profanity-with-1980s-technology/2281)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [4 December 2022 05:09 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/filtering-television-profanity-with-1980s-technology/2281 "2022-12-04T05:09:59Z")
The results are sometimes hilarious. Remarkably, a version of TVGuardian is still on the market, updated to send a mute signal to the television’s infrared remote input. It still relies on the closed capt…
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## [Video Game “Speed Runners” as Seen by Non-Player Characters](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/video-game-speed-runners-as-seen-by-non-player-characters/2191)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [24 October 2022 12:56 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/video-game-speed-runners-as-seen-by-non-player-characters/2191 "2022-10-24T12:56:02Z")
Here is more on speedrunning video games. Here is a madman who made it through Bioshock Infinite in 92 minutes and 47 seconds (albeit in “Easy” mode). When I played through it in 2018, it took me 58 days. …
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## [New White House Press Secretary Tackles the Difficult Questions](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/new-white-house-press-secretary-tackles-the-difficult-questions/1385)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [3 August 2022 15:02 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/new-white-house-press-secretary-tackles-the-difficult-questions/1385 "2022-08-03T15:02:45Z")
In a U.S. administration headed by a mean-spirited Ficus benjamina plant, it often falls to the White House press secretary to untangle the word salad decoded from the random leaves that fall whenever the c…
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## [Who's on First?](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/whos-on-first/1581)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [23 June 2022 15:14 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/whos-on-first/1581 "2022-06-23T15:14:54Z")
This performance of “Who’s on first?”, from the 1953 “The Actors’ Home” episode of “The Abbott and Costello Show” television program is considered the definitive version.
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## [Liechtenstein Maritime Law](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/liechtenstein-maritime-law/1439)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [18 June 2022 15:48 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/liechtenstein-maritime-law/1439 "2022-06-18T15:48:42Z")
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## [FIST Version 4.1 Released, Source Code Now on GitHub](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/fist-version-4-1-released-source-code-now-on-github/1334)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [9 May 2022 20:40 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/fist-version-4-1-released-source-code-now-on-github/1334 "2022-05-09T20:40:30Z")
I have just posted version 4.1 of the FIST program, Fourmilab’s vintage emphatic message generator. The release corrects a buffer overflow in the image assembly code, revises the Makefile generation procedure to avoid…
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## [Scott Alexander—“Every Bay Area House Party”](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/scott-alexander-every-bay-area-house-party/1321)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [6 May 2022 14:50 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/scott-alexander-every-bay-area-house-party/1321 "2022-05-06T14:50:06Z")
Scott Alexander has posted a hilarious piece, “Every Bay Area House Party” at Astral Codex Ten. It starts with: You walk in. The wall decorations vaguely suggest psychedelia. The music is pounding, head-splitting, ame…
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## [Harry Flashman Turns 200](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/harry-flashman-turns-200/1312)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [5 May 2022 13:35 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/harry-flashman-turns-200/1312 "2022-05-05T13:35:56Z")
According to canon, Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC, KCB, KCIE was born on 1822-05-05, two hundred years ago today. The (anti-)hero of twelve novels published between 1969 and 2005 by George MacDonald Fraser, Flashman was…
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## [The Contemporary Web Experience](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-contemporary-web-experience/1288)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [30 April 2022 21:48 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/the-contemporary-web-experience/1288 "2022-04-30T21:48:06Z")
Visit “How I Experience Web Today” for the distilled essence of the present-day Web user experience. I don’t know who did this—the domain is registered to an address in China and was created on 2021-08-22, with the site…
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## [Have a White and Fire-Proof Christmas!](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/have-a-white-and-fire-proof-christmas/515)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [5 December 2021 19:08 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/have-a-white-and-fire-proof-christmas/515 "2021-12-05T19:08:34Z")
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## [Finally—The Journal of Universal Rejection](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/finally-the-journal-of-universal-rejection/484)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [1 December 2021 18:09 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/finally-the-journal-of-universal-rejection/484 "2021-12-01T18:09:05Z")
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## [Welcome, New Unread Book!](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/welcome-new-unread-book/371)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [17 November 2021 03:41 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/welcome-new-unread-book/371 "2021-11-17T03:41:12Z")
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has said that the most important books in your library are the ones you haven’t read, since they contain things you don’t yet know.
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## [Dinosaurs—The True Story](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/dinosaurs-the-true-story/223)
**Author:** [@johnwalker](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/u/johnwalker)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [28 October 2021 15:34 UTC](https://scanalyst.fourmilab.ch/t/dinosaurs-the-true-story/223 "2021-10-28T15:34:36Z")
How's that space program coming along?