[At the café. I pick up my phone and start typing]:
Friend: I thought you didn't have social media.
Me: I don't.
Friend: But- you're... What is that, Bluesky?
Me: It's not social. It's not media, either.
Friend: Bu-
Me, exasperated: It's a POST,
Oh no
A screenshot of an oral translation from Japanese to English. The English translation is “I learned about meat and money”
A screenshot of an oral translation from Japanese to English. The English translation is “I find meat and fish to be a nuisance”
A screenshot of an oral translation from Japanese to English. The English translation is “I connect fish with onions”
Pronunciation practice is going great
It’s a beautiful weekend — and for 300 lucky people who click the free link it can begin with reading this absoluyely mad yet undeniably insightful story from today’s egg-themed magazine. Jemima’s fever dream brought to life
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Beautifully written, beautifully observed
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Will add to my list…!
Kind of confusing! I keep expecting to be able to go down wells or up through rock 🫠 But still – so enjoyable! It has great replay value
I recently started BOTW from scratch again and the Thunderblight Ganon fight is doing my head in. I hate that guy
You imagined it! But I’ve just looked it up and I’m definitely going to…!
An explosion of rose petals strewn across a tiled floor
Valentine’s Day eve at the florist
These people who want to “generate a book in a day” will never know the joy of getting to know a character layer by layer, the relief of solving an intractable plot problem, the satisfaction of PUTTING IN THE WORK and seeing your story flower into life. Absolute soulless motherfuckers
the painting "Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind" depicting a furiously wailing woman climbing out of a well and gazing directly at the viewer
screenshot from Twin Peaks with BOB, a long-haired and very creepy man in denim jacket crawling over a couch in a 1980s suburban living room, looking directly at the viewer with malevolent intent
the painting "Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind" but the figure of Truth has been replaced by BOB from Twin Peaks, who strikes the exact same pose when he climbs over the couch in the original show
the Twin Peaks screenshot, but now Truth from the painting is crawling over the couch
A drawing of a lion and a dragon, about to tongue kiss (or so I choose to believe) Source: the German alchemical manuscript ‘Clavis Artis’
Me and who
I cannot get to Europe for this but you can bet your ass I’d write the hell out of a paper on how the Catholic Church reckoned with the demoniac spectres of Spiritualism during WWI
(Apparently it’s about the tennis ?? but I choose to believe otherwise)
Key event: 33m ago Demon questioned on wedding plans
A real news headline today
This has not aged well
you’re right! it feels mostly awful to Go Online™, these days. the internet in a sad state, for reason after reason after reason. but there is a way to fix it; to trade the voidful howling for a quiet & joyful song.
here’s how to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.
Oh no, thank you, I actually just had a year.
I feel like a little electric shock might be a good way to combat the out-of-body experience that airports and long-haul travel tend to deliver
This needs to be the cover of an eerie novel about a haunted house
This is insanely good. Rare to see a website with such tactility
Ahh, I love that. It’s like having a nice time-capsule!
I deleted my Spotify account a few months ago. Zero regrets. Currently using a mix of Bandcamp and my old library of ripped CDs loaded onto an iPod classic and let me tell you, the iPod still fucking rules
Same tbh
