Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Without stating your age, post a movie that was released when you turned 18.

So sorry to hear you lost Momo. I’m sure you gave him a wonderful life.

Too bad Laura

Happy birthday Frank!

Photo of watch in a wrist. The watch says easy day, you’ve had a low-stress day. This is untrue.

My watch telling lies, as usual.

Screenshot of Esther showing 19°, sunset and captioned ‘Another sunset, another day without world peace. Mission accomplished.’

Mild day, more carrot snark.

Sometime carrot weather gets it exactly right.

A digital news snippet features side-by-side photos of Donald Trump in a red "USA" hat and a man portrayed as a Pope, above a headline about Trump criticizing "Pope Leo" over Iran war comments.

I check the Hollywood trade papers like I do every day to share sci-fi news, and when you step back and look at it, coming across this really does make it feel like we’re living in a Truman Show-style social experiment—except that it is inspired by the work of Paul Verhoeven (RoboCop, Total Recall).

CHRISTINA KOCH GREETING HER DOG AFTER RETURNING FROM THE MOON IM GONNA CRYYY 😭😭😭

FACT OF THE DAY. 26 March 1953. In a huge medical breakthrough, US medical researcher Dr Jonas Salk announced that he had created the first polio vaccine. Polio cases fell from 58,000 per year in 1952 to 6,000 by 1958. Salk’s vaccine was replaced by a new one developed by Albert Sabin in 1962.

Oh to be young again! I used to see a movie at the theatre most days a week. Now, once or twice a year.

Thank you for remembering us!

This is Hank. He is incredibly invested in this plumbing project that does not require him in the slightest. 13/10 (TT: compound_interest_)

@snichor.bsky.social Here you go. Maybe move to Germany.

I often see confusion around the terminology of fucks to give so I made a chart. #datavisualization

When you're young, you have plenty of fucks to give, but you don't give a fuck.

In middle age you have to give fucks for a while.

Then when you're older, you're all out of fucks to give.

Major blow for Aussies hoarding fuel at home - realestate.com.au Panicked Aussies overbuying fuel face a major double blow that would hit them with a shock bill.

an important FYI for fuel hoarders.

It will void your home insurance

www.realestate.com.au/news/major-b...

Australian. I have English and Scottish heritage though!

Now I know why my first daughter took so long to come out. Not enough tea!

Where there’s tea there’s hope!

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation You don’t need to be a grammar nerd to enjoy this one… Who knew grammar could be so much fun

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation

"You don’t need to be a grammar nerd to enjoy this one… Who knew grammar could be so much fun"

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#Punctuation #Grammar #Writing #Books #Humor #Reference #BookSky

Highway closed for at least three months; Extra rail, bus services announced The Great Western Highway closure at Victoria Pass will last at least three months.

Oh wow, GWH closed at Victoria Pass for at least 3 months. www.bluemountainsgazette.com.au/story/919744...

Cheese

the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

This is Aly. She just learned about capitalism. Certainly not a perfect system, but if that is what it takes to put chippies on the table, she understands. 13/10 (IG: alythebichon)

This is Button. His family decided he was ready to be left home alone for the first time today. As it turns out, freedom can be a little awkward. 12/10 (TT: beginningwithbutton)

I meant chest, but anyway.

Oh the meditative bliss of a dog having its cheat stroked.

Yep, needed to upgrade from curling after the winter Olympics.

A black and white photo taken from a platform at a passenger railway station looking across the platforms. A single deck suburban electric train is arriving at the station about three platforms across to our right.

Today’s historic pic: The very first electric train to carry passengers in Sydney departed Central station for Oatley exactly 100 years ago today on March 1 1926. To celebrate, here's a pic of a Sydney single deck suburban electric train arriving at Redfern, NSW, February 2 1985.