me: i’d like to donate my body.

science: yeah, no. we’re good.

Japan reveals new name for 40C-and-hotter days after blistering summer The term - kokushobi - translates to "cruelly hot", "brutally hot" or "severely hot", and comes after Japan's hottest summer on record.

A new language for climate change was voted in: “kokushobi” heat, >40°C (104°F), from the Japanese word koku, meaning harsh or cruel. 2nd choice for the new heat term was ‘super-extremely hot day’ or ‘cho-mosho-bi’, while ‘sauna day’, ‘stay-at-home day’ and ‘boiling day’ were also among the choices.

Fun fact : the collective noun for unicorns is a unicornucopia

“Who’s there?”

6th Sense: If you’re seeing dead people, get a second opinion

you just know some guy named geoff decided to spell it "pigeon"

nice one

When will autocorrect realize it’s realise?

RENEGADE (Palindrome)

Named a general,
war began.
Amid, I manage, brawl —
a renegade man.

Who called it potato salad instead of Murphy slaw?

"You're just a layabout who thinks he knows everything."

"It's lieabout."

Accidentally passed through the insecurity gate at the airport and they took me aside and explained that my baggage makes me fundamentally unlovable.

Every day the same old thing, me and my coworkers orking cows

hey Tom - please note the tweak I posted for 5/12ac

Small tweak for 5ac/12ac in today's cryptic crossword SMH @theageaustralia

Eccentric rich aunt trapping bear on a remote Atlantic locale (7,2,5)

Me: This has been a poor and needlessly complicated experience with your service

Chatbot: Thanks. Have a great day

who called it being a lone warrior in an post-apocalyptic world and not Madmaxxing

Fun fact: goddamn shit-kicking Artemis II was the first crude moon mission since 1972

Creative creature names:

Disco chook - peacock
Gropey-ropey - octopus
Murder log - crocodile
Trash panda - raccoon
Furry potato - hamster
Giraffe sheep - llama
Hose-nose - elephant
Stab rabbit - echidna

"But @claireb76.bsky.social, it's not clutter. It's the Japanese art of tsundoku."

In Japanese, "tsundoku" (积ん読) means collecting books and letting them pile up, not from neglect,
but for the joy of knowing they're there, full of untold stories. It combines "tsumu" (to pile up) & "doku" (to read).

Why have we coined "Popesplaining" when "Pontificating" is right there!?

I shouldn't have to verify I'm human. They should have to prove I'm not.

From radio listeners, when you’re fooled into thinking there’s a car-spot only to realise a smaller car is in the space:

spotnot
carfuffle
disaparkment
carmitrage
exhausted
hood-winked
sharked (short/parked)
carage (rhymes with mirage)

New research shows the best kind of time is “windfall time” from a cancelled meeting

my doctor analysing recent blood sample

#BookSky

it'll be back in three days

I named my dog "Nature" because he abhors the vacuum.