A Short History of the Varangian Guard for Bostonians - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Now, evuhryone knows that the Vikings were some sehriously hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs. ’Cept most’ah ’em actually didn’t go a-viking as they just stayed there in their frigid fuckin’ homelands fahmin’ n’ fishin’ n’ shit. But those that did go a-viking, they were some hahdco’ah fuckin’ fightahs… when they weren’t too busy tradin’ tah be supah fuckin’ violent that is. I guess accumulatin’ material wealth has always been a top human priahrity regahdless’ah race, gender, creed, ah innate inclination towahds extreme violence.
Nobel Prize in Literature 2025 - Press release - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai,
“for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”.
Six billion tonnes a second: Rogue planet found growing at record rate | ESO
Astronomers have identified an enormous ‘growth spurt’ in a so-called rogue planet. Unlike the planets in our Solar System, these objects do not orbit stars, free-floating on their own instead. The new observations, made with the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), reveal that this free-floating planet is eating up gas and dust from its surroundings at a rate of six billion tonnes a second. This is the strongest growth rate ever recorded for a rogue planet, or a planet of any kind, providing valuable insights into how they form and grow.