My husband, removing whatever prize one of our cats just brought in: Come and look at the size of this mouse! It’s huge!
Me, wearily, because I already know what I’m going to see: That’s not a mouse, it’s a rat.
(Thankfully, an ex-rat)
And I do love a Hysteria Machine blind mask, too
This is an excellent start to a Tuesday
Ooh, I like that a lot.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Thought about this for a few minutes, and dibbled around between assorted nominees, but I think I know my answer now: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946). It still amazes me every time I see it even though I know what's coming. To recapture being entirely unprepared as I sat down to watch it... yeah.
It’s a masterpiece. That, and I Know Where I’m Going!
ok this is a good poster with a good tagline
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
In the last book you were reading
Three people you don't want to get into a public beef with are Kendrick, Isaac Chotiner, and The Pope
"Bluesky is made with AI, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code" - @jay.bsky.team
Ah, that explains it
Maybe, instead of just banning older kids & teens from vast swathes of the online world, governments could collectively act to force social media companies to do something about making their products less harmful all round?
Holy shit
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57...
When people say that the economy being good feels completely disconnected from their lives, this is what they mean. Okay, shoes are AI now, and they get $50 million for that. Reading that sentence doesn't feel like getting bonked on the head with a bowling pin at all.
looks like they're being processed after getting arrested for trying to steal some super cheap cider from a mini tesco's
For a minute, I was genuinely worried I’d somehow Connecticut Yankee’d myself into the past
I was doing a talk about medieval history at my son’s primary school, and for fun I put on a medieval style dress I had, and took my longbow to show the kids. Walking there, I had to cross an old bridge over a river… where I passed a falconer carrying a hawk on his glove going the other way.
I have to start doing the thing I’m anxious about doing, but keep finding other things to do around the house to delay it - because if I don’t then I’ll actually be doing the thing I’m anxious about doing. But I’m also anxious because I’m not doing the thing I’m anxious about doing, but need to do
Super weirdly. I think he might have thought it was fake, and we were somehow pranking him?
My *own child* told my father that I’d had a tattoo for two years. I felt pretty betrayed (particularly as said child was lobbying quite hard to get one on his 18th birthday at the time)
Right?! I feel both peeved and somehow personally attacked.
Strong start to the day: seeing Tobias Forge (precisely 3 months younger than me) referred to as an “old man”. Try not to trip over the shrivelled husk of my agèd body on your way out, kids
Love this. Watched some turtle hatchings in N. Cyprus. Sex of the hatchlings is determined by how deep the egg they come from is buried in the sand & thus the temp as they develop.
So you get Cool Guys (eggs buried deep) & Hot Girls (eggs nearer the surface)!
a medieval illustration of the virgin mary punching a horned, claw-footed, bestial devil
virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century
you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of
In further guitar-learner adventures, I have just managed to play the C chord for the first time! It took me putting one finger down at a time until I finally stopped messing it up, but I GOT it.
I see your timeline cleanser and raise you this, the ultimate post.
all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
