I'm making one last push to let people know about this online talk -- sponsored by the British Library in conjunction with their current exhibition on fairy tales. The live stream starts at 7:30 tonight, but if you buy a ticket *before* the event you can watch it any time over the next 7 days.
announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite
A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!
Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....
As is the case of Spiders Mum, who's been scoffing a half-boiled egg since she had surgery just before Lent started.
Awwww yeahhhhhhhh ❤️❤️❤️
Anyway today I discovered that the racist lecturer from my first year at university is dead now, so lol wild to read the tributes from people who I guess just were white
the real university experience is having your horizons broadened by meeting people with different upbringings to yourself. your lecturers could never, imo
Tumblr post from hersatanicdragonmajesty: I'm tired of women's moral ambiguity being interpreted as evil and men's evil being interpreted as moral ambiguity.
I've been getting clips of this on tiktok, between the space stuff and the Sleep Token stuff like I'm only allowed stuff beginning with S
the quality of each star trek show is directly proportional to how often you see the characters engaging in hobbies
The simplest solution is probably a zero-tolerance position towards shitty code. If they try to sneak in an trash LLM submission, nuke it and publicly block the submitter for wasting your time with wretched dogshit.
As LLM addicts all quickly become incapable of proofing their code...
I'm now compelled to see if the ice cream van that visits my road sells witch's hats 🍦
And with your spirit
And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion
I thought angry Leftie women had been doing these things for decades already???
What's that? A rare permanent academic job? Come join me in our School of Arts as a Lecturer in Theatre!
"We especially welcome ... candidates with practical expertise in theatre technologies, digital media, intermediality or related areas of theatre practice."
hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit
i send the reginos into space!!
i don't pay the taxes!! ohhh!!
It was an honour to chat to the good folks at @themerl.bsky.social about the history of land ownership in England - in which I attempt to summarise 1000 years of dispossession, secrecy & plunder into one podcast; along with fresh hope that the secrecy may finally end soon…
bsky.app/profile/them...
[bsky timeline]
me: [chanting] forbidden, forbidden
other posters: forbidden, FORBIDDEN
literally every function on this web site: [pounding the servers] FORBIDDEN, FORBIDDEN, FOR-BIDDEN!
sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door
I've enjoyed reading Mike's articles in various places online for years and now his writing arrives in my inbox because his newsletter is on a platform that isn't the terrible one.
I probably should point this out more often but The Hard Pass is on Ghost, sooooo fyi!
I like to pick a town near them that they probably know well and go "oh yeah, it's just like [placename] - a sordid den of iniquity, I don't know how anyone can stand to go there"
As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free
This evening I've been enjoying Jay Malinowski's new album while I wait for people to come back from the Moon. It's really good.🥰 www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5XZ...
Windswept clouds with highlights from late day sun over blue sky.
On an overcast, drizzly day today, clouds over San Francisco Bay in June 2024. Taken from Emeryville, California.
#clouds #nature #eck #eastcoastkin
A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.
Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.
Which is wild to me because for years I've struggled to read books, so a nice 1.5k to 4k fic or wip instalment chapter now and then is what I have been living off this whole time