Allusionist 205. Lexicat, part 2: now with added Dog — The Allusionist In Lexicat part 1 , we met the author Mary Robinette Kowal and her cat Elsie, and learned about how they communicate via a set of buttons programmed with words. In part 2, two talking dogs, Bastian a...

Helen Zaltzman had a recent pair of podcasts looking at pet communication share.google/z741vZoIMBUL...

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

i hope the white house sends vance to campaign for Reform in britain

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

An advert bragging about how they outfitted Shackleton before his fateful South Pole expedition

not convinced this is how I'd advertise me goods

Randy Newman - Short People (Official Video) YouTube video by Randy Newman

youtu.be/8bfyS-S-IJs

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It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

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Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

everyone gets to make mistakes and make amends and be forgiven but not everyone gets to then be in positions of leadership and people who genuinely have repented after significant wrongdoing understand why they should be excluded from power

this morning anya taylor-joy was hit with a question that has never been asked before in the history of the universe

For years my go to dad* joke has been to check my nonexistent watch when discussing anything time related

*teacher

Kim sighs. “No, Detective, you cannot.”

so grateful I managed to see Refused on their farewell tour last year! what. a. band.

updating my profile to be more bsky (autistic) friendly

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German place-names rendered into English (morphologically reconstructed from historical forms)

realising this can't be @tomreeswilliams.bsky.social due to the age

it's not even "create something" it's "pay creative people salaries to create something"

The whole thing is people fucking up and thinking it’s the fault of the person who made the recipe for not taking into account their fuckwittery. Accept responsibility for your Ls and you will become better at EVERYTHING

I saw this ad while on holiday crossing the shibuya scramble. ngl, pretty surreal

Neanderthal voice YouTube video by Ragna Þórsdóttir

the greatest documentary ever broadcast www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTkF...

Can the BBC please circulate this memo asap, word for word:

When populists talk about preserving culture, they mean race. They are talking about preserving white skin and "whiteness" as they define it. Stop being dumb.

New Batman

I sometimes think the period from 2015 to 2024 when every other year we either had a new election or new pm (or both) broke some people's, esp journalists', brains (obvs not Stephen's)

a recent favourite of mine was the dream where all I recall was I kept yawning

I'm a tall man, had long hair & a bead - think grunge rock style. I decided to shave my beard off & shorten my hair when I got a job as a porter in our local hospital, after three people mistook me for Jesus & thought I was there to take them to heaven instead of the next ward.