Mathonwy 🌸

Worcester Pearmain!

obviously the apple tree can sense @mathonwy.bsky.social's happiness

our apple tree with lots of red apples

our apple tree has been productive this year

These are the important questions, indeed!

"Buy travellers' insurance for your American holiday."

Ok, but you're definitely going to deny my claim.

I've moved between countries so often in the past two years that I've finally tricked Google Ads into thinking that I'm a visitor in the US instead of a naturalised citizen.

I may not look cute when I sneeze, but the sound is impressive.

Rapunzel is excited to know as much about axe grinding as Mathonwy does.

Ooh, ooh, I know this!

A grinding wheel!

Oh aye, it is indeed different! I didn't notice that.

AI?

The same dino-riding samurai cat shirt

I just got the same advert lol

A sweatshirt with a fish on it and the word "Nantucket".

It's funny because I'm wearing my Nantucket fishing sweatshirt this very moment lol

Delicious enemies!

A fisherman's platter is fish and chips plus deep fried clams, scallops, calamari, and often other deep fried seafood items or onion rings, etc. There are variations, but just a bunch of deep fried things.

Scottish food is actually really good usually, but some things you can get from a chip shop are just deep fried junk food.

I love fish and chips though, that's still a knockout.

A Scottish munchy box is basically the same concept as a New England fisherman's platter.

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piles of deep fried things

Don't look up a munchy box lol

[quoting a tweet by fractalcounty that reads, “today I learned that there are actual people irl who get genuinely upset if they catch you using chatgpt. like they view it as a serious moral failing in certain circles”]

If you're using AI to write essays, eulogies, a text to your wife, I do think less of you as a person. Ceding your mental and creative abilities to a machine is an embarrassing thing and people should be ashamed to admit doing it in public.

It's a deep-fried hamburger patty with chips (fries).

They are filled with cream. Dana jokes that "fudge doughnut" is the ultimate Scottish misnomer besides "hamburger supper".

I was going to say Highland Games, but I'm not so sure now.

Scotland's fudge doughnuts, or New England's Boston cream doughnuts? Which do you prefer?

Trick question—they're basically identical.

Either they want a real relationship and have tragically poisoned themselves into believing that this isn't "manly", or they're just pseudo-rapists whose idea of sexuality is to "conquer" women instead of date them.

Under no circumstance should either of those attitudes be coddled.

My controversial opinion is that all these dude-bro straight men don't actually want to "get laid". If it were just about "getting laid", they could pay for a sex worker's services.

I think it's pretty clear that right-wing men think that impressing women is somehow "totally gay" or something.

Thus all the jokes in the format, "Guys, is it gay to [insert normal behaviour]?"

Like, what even is this take? I don't like to dunk on things, but I'm just actually baffled lol

Like, you can absolutely spell it out in plain English (or whatever language you speak) what straight women want, and men are just like, "Nah, can't be that."

So the left-wing position of "respect women" and "listen to women" is actually really conducive to men's romantic chances, believe it or not

On the contrary, I think the position of "the left" on how men should behave romantically is basically a how-to manual of what actually impresses women (that are attracted to men).

It's not our fault straight men listen to each other's bro podcasts instead of paying attention to what women want.

YouTube is going to have a hard time figuring out why an account that's 17 years old is still watching Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure clips.

I have overinflated confidence and a broad cynicism about so-called qualifications, so there aren't too many jobs I DON'T think I would be good at.

Like working for the forestry service. Do I really need a master's in forestry science, or would an apple arboriculturalist make a great tree surgeon?

I might have drunk from a hose once or twice, I honestly don't remember. Parents usually would refresh you and your friends with drinks. No need for hose water!

Rapunzel points her finger accusingly.

Gen X needs to get its story straight when it comes to the "drinking from the hose" thing.

You didn't HAVE to. You CHOSE to because you were too lazy to go inside for a glass of water.

I was there, I know. You can't rewrite your weird mythos around me. I WAS THERE!