I reckon about 30% of the ppl who refer to themselves as “Bluesky elders” are aware of the intense bathos of that phrase. Still they will not escape judgement

The best nuclear block is muting the word “nuclear”, that way you avoid stressing about nukes while also avoiding the trillionth lecture about this sites blocking etiquette

It was me. I’m velocity 69. Sorry for the moon prank everyone

Portrait of 18th April 1930 in an attic

If an actual person wrote in that vapid chatbot style all AI has with like bullet point paras with a difft emoji for each bullet you would think they were the most annoying cunt in your life

Course some ppl actually do write like that now, on LinkedIn: the most annoying cunts in your life

I think the only time V. got an actual laugh out of me was a similar deployment of “the famous ape” for King Kong which is not as funny but surprised me in context

Gold standard for elegant variation is the gag in Against the Day where Pynchon is describing an expedition digging thru polar ice & says something like “vast quantities of the low-temperature solid”

@pb14.bsky.social will be delighted to learn that someone took the hammond organ company to court in the 1930s for claiming their device produced an "infinite variety of tones” & they lost & had to start saying "253 million" instead

Planning on finally reading Black Flame in one gulp at the end of the month, recommended soundtrack?

Poltergeist also really good for this imo

(It was the former, I win this round)

The eternal question: was that a single fat raindrop falling from a clear sky or has a bird shat on me

Oddly the desperate scaremongering about the Greens’ evil intentions towards Our Children and their playgrounds didn’t carry much weight coming from the party with all the nonce trouble

Mirror "I just cried and cried': Meet Hugo, first British baby born after womb transplant from dead donor

He’s articulate for his age

My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions and loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. Proud Spaniard. Drinker of gin. Fluent in sarcasm. Views my own

Million-dollar idea: set of surprising creative prompts for insufferable dorks with zero chat who strive to be outrageously funny

Oblique Strategies Against Humanity

I’ve had it up to here with buildings with asbestos with mice

I still love this place 🙂 for my 40th last year I went back for the first time in ages, there’s a nice Peruvian restaurant right on the seafront now if you fancy ceviche & pisco sour

Could follow his account and find out but it will never beat seeing my granny (who prob read more like 200/y) getting to the end of a book, closing it & saying “well that was a load of shite”

It’s a fine number of books tbh esp if that’s your only job, just the framing is kinda grim (tbf the article is p much saying the same thing but everyone just seems determined to find the most wearisome way to discuss any of this stuff. Derek Owusu’s contribution is the realest I think)

Guardian lifestyle piece x the “bookish internet” a good matchup of ppl who are incapable of being normal about a normal thing

More to the point ctrl+F booksmaxxing no results wtf why even write the fucker then

lol there is new Bouie drama and it stems from USians apparently reading “did they fuck” not as sceptical “the fuck they did” but as a literal (nonsensical in context) “did they have sex” I am sorry to report that this is v funny

ppl are spending their Saturday chainposting/rting about this!

Bizarre filmography that bob clark (I watched Christmas story recently, woof not good)

For my part I somehow never knew that Mary Margaret O’Hara is her sister!!

Putting the semi in semiotics

Photo of a page of the anatomy of melancholy with the phrase “hot heart and moist brain” highlighted

Many such cases

ok but the gag is that the scary looking crew member has always been there

She’s right and she should say it

TheloniOus Monk, goddamnit! There's a second O in the man's name! GODDAMNIT!
GET IT RIGHT! SHOW SOME FUCKING RESPECT!

Better wait till December to be safe

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