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I misread this image so badly that I can only really hope to illustrate what I saw.

( Also a good excuse for an #art study )

Having not read Moby Dick, wasn't aware there was such an explicit rail link in the original book...

Don't think I ever posted about it, but when I was doing all that decorating while I was between jobs last year, one of the things I listened to was the audiobook of Railsea by China Miéville.

Really great book and one I think might work for the kids on long journeys. Anyhoo...

a screenshot of the Australian version of Taste Christmas, a recipe magazine, showing a recipe for a gingerbread house made of something known as "crack", which I think is some kind of mixture of chocolate and salty ingredients like crackers or pretzels. so they've called it "festive crack house"

oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that

If they can bring some Kia Stinger/Hyundai N magic to match the looks, baby we got a stew going.

A photo of a sign, white text on red background: JESUS... WHO IS HE? WHY DID HE COME?

When I arrive at the party

F365 Headline & sub-head: Man Utd summer flop ‘looks like an academy player’ as striker is warned about joining Red Devils Man Utd summer signing Benjamin Šeško has been likened to “an academy player” by Liverpool legend Robbie Fowler after his poo Incidentally, the player featured in the image alongside the headline is neither Robbie Fowler nor Benjamin Šeško. I have to assume the person receiving the aforementioned warning is Danny Wellbeck, but it does highlight how stupid the whole format for writing clickbait-y headlines is...

Look, we all know that the rest of the sub-head will say something like "...poor start to the season". But, just for a moment, it was fun to imagine a journalist awkwardly hanging around outside Robbie Fowler's toilet, waiting to ask him about Benjamin Šeško.

Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms

Maybe if we get the guys who are taking the jewellery off the fleeing refugees and dress them up in clothes with skulls all over them as a reminder of the transient nature of riches in the face of our own inevitable mortality, it will make us look like the good guys?

I took this photo on the Teign Estuary in Devon in spring 2022. I thought I was just taking a photo of an attractive hole in an old tree. It was only when I got home and looked through my camera roll that I saw the leaping dog, who I'd caught perfectly framed, mid-leap, totally by chance. I remembered the dog immediately, because of what an annoying twat it had been.

THREAD.

The definitive list of the absolute best interdimensional portals I have photographed on walks in the British countryside.

1. Gateway To The Land Of Leaping Dogs.

A small price to pay...for the smiting of one's enemies.

Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

It's the City of Drotherly Bluv.

Deeply confusing company.

I pay a reasonable amount of attention to gaming news and media and I've barely heard a thing about Outer Worlds 2. The insane Game Pass price hike. It's like they're actively trying to torpedo the Xbox Division.

I hope I'm being melodramatic and hyperbolic and wrong when I say that if you were trying to usher in a new Dark Ages of ignorance, you'd probably start with doing something along the lines of what is happening to research in the US.

You've never threatened I&J with a ukele lesson and that is entirely to your credit (I also think J really quite enjoyed the vintage cameras demo, as well!).

My kids talking to their Auntie @nikkicoates.bsky.social :

Takes 10 seconds if you have your NT membership card to hand!

Don't have nightmares, folks.

Are the rest of the royals now going to compete for his titles in a re-run of It's A Royal Knockout?

*Polyphony*, Greg. C'mon.

In an admission that will shock not a single person who's been paying attention, Elon reveals his media literacy to be at a sub-stunned-bee level.

The Chemical Brothers remix of Everything Must Go is still my favourite, but Polphony were really cooking with all of those first 4 intro videos.

Americans trying to gaslight Brits into believing that baseball is real and not just a made up sport created to make movies about. Nice try, fellas, going to have to get up a lot earlier to pull the wool over Greggy boy's eyes...

Great match to see live, too. Frustrating to concede 2 goals when things looked so in control, but never going to complain about scoring 4. First league goal for Matheus Cunha plus two more for Bryan Mbuemo. Exciting!

The view towards Old Trafford from the Salford Quays.

The large Manchester United frontage featuring the statue of Matt Busby.

The view of the Old Trafford pitch from high in the East Stand.

This is starting to look dangerously like an annual tradition forming.

Yes! That's an all-timer for me. When I was trying to convince an old band to cover Cheap Sunglasses, that was the version I sent them...

Anyone heard from Adam Curtis lately?

Might have to conclude that we are cooked as a serious country. Yes, this is the opposition and not the actual government, but that someone in such a relatively senior position felt they could come out with something so abhorrent and not expect to face repercussions says a lot.