“-ard” would mean not so much “excessively” as “by their/its nature”; i.e. a seed/condiment whose very nature is mustiness, a person conceived out of wedlock (which was considered a black mark on one’s character back then), one who is habitually drunk, and so on

Do they need to find it and put it back on to transform back, or does that involve them shedding their wolf pelt and emerging in human form from within it?

My impression is that the werewolf transformation is entirely magical and not governed by real-world effects: one moment, the moon is out and you suddenly grow fur, a snout and uncontrollable predatory instincts, and when it’s over, the fur recedes/disappears, your facial geometry is restored and you just feel inexplicably tired. It’s conceivable that you’d shed some hair, which presumably wouldn’t magically vanish once it’s not attached to you, though.

As for vampires, I thought they just used their incisors to puncture their victims and then just sucked their blood out. Their teeth being plumbed into a vacuum pump seems somewhat too complicated.

William Gibson had an Ugly Shirt that confuses surveillance cameras in one of his later books, and I vaguely remember something about some kinds of underground delinquents with dazzle-camouflage-based makeup (they may have been a goth analogue of some sort)

There’s not really a punchline, just a reminder that mean old guys exist.

Related: a guy in Poland posted online about buying supermarket donuts to use as fuel in a wood-burning stove. The donuts turned out an order of magnitude cheaper than firewood.

Perhaps the paper was written by the Russian scientist who always included his cat as a co-author

Now watch all the tankies praise him as a honorary socialist

One thirty-second (short for thirty-second part of a whole)

You can tell this was drawn before people started marrying their chatbots

That’s what happens when you don’t vet whom you give the time machine to

Hard techno must be the pop-punk of dance music

It’s weird how everyone has his number, even if their reasoning was off. The Slashdot penguinheads thought he a literal Sith lord, the Q-nuts thought he, Soros and Fauci were running 5G vaccine chip biolabs, and now it turns out he was an Epstein Island frequent flyer.

or, “hHhHhHhH”, as in “I’m laughing so hard I’m hitting caps lock instead of A”

Some Slavic languages apparently also have distinct masculine and feminine versions of verbs, which match the speaker if in the first person. Apparently so does Icelandic (to the point where an Icelandic modernist novel was titled “When I Got Pregnant”, though in the masculine form)

“Too far right for Queensland” is something

Construction is said to begin in 2 years. The train could be running as early as 2039, which means probably some time in the 2040s.

Then they can start thinking about a high-speed line to Canberra or Melbourne, which if we’re lucky will be operational by the 2060s. Until then, there’s the XPT, the Spanish trains that replace it (which hopefully someone will have ordered sleeper carriages for) and possibly a successor to that.

It’s a federal project not a NSW one.

Vibe coding. Not even once.

or “in your pants”, or “prison-style”