Andrea Burgess

Oh, DUH. I did wonder why Dave couldn't get to a Dishoom.

People slag it off because of the queues and the attraction to tourists and say it's overpriced. They have a point about the queues, but at least you're taken care of in them. Can't blame out-of-towners for wanting the food, either, because it's GOOD. (Hope you had some black daal.)

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

Trans women are women, and we know this because if we weren’t women the majority of cishet men would automatically believe us when we shared our lived experience, and wouldn’t assume that they had a better grasp of the issues “as an outsider with a more objective opinion”

Robin Williams' daughter, Zelda Williams, also recently slammed people who are making Al-generated videos of her late father, calling the clips "gross." She added, "To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough, just so other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop pup-peteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it."

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Beleive it or not, I actually enjoy the bits of my work that involve, for example, cross-referencing the list of rare-earth elements with Tom Lehrer lyrics.

Some people are trying to convince me I once set light to one of my farts. I have no memory of it. I think they're gaslighting me.

You know, there were local byelaws against people feeding the gulls... 🤔

It was Aldeborough, on the Suffolk coast. It's not Reykjavik, but I think you'd like it.

We have spent six days and nights in this seaside town and in all that time we have not seen one single cat.

If you didn't know what a juvenile gull looked like before today, how do you know that, HMM?

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This is now 70% towards its target. I know it’s one of many cases of students from Gaza offered doctoral places in the U.K. and then denied on paperwork grounds, but it’s a small chance to make a real difference to someone.
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Here to echo everyone saying that it's a juvenile gull, and how do you live in a city near the sea and yet you have never seen a juvenile gull before?

[To the tune of Eleanor Rigby]

Aleister Crowley,
Practicing summoning Satan while out on the beers,
Santa appears

The existence of Betty Boo doing the do implies the existence of Betty Boothroyd doing the doothroyd

I have not.

YES HE IS!
I felt very proud of myself for spotting that about 10 seconds after he walked into the room for the 1st task.

This whole thread is gold.

Headache update: Basically walked my way through it, apart from a bout of terrible headswim at Borough, when I wound up clinging to the edge of the pasta stall for a minute.

Yes please! Shall I message you on the book of face? Or here?

A day off work! Hooray!
Waking up with a splitting headache. Un-hooray.

This is my official call to whoever is interested: I’d love to expand into more than comics covers! Posters, albums, whatever else you might need art for. I’d love to diversify. Would love to have done a vinyl cover before I drop dead! Email in bio if you’re interested!

I cackled. You win *this* time, McK.

[sad fist-bump of sympathy]

JFC how much of my time over the course of a year will I waste just turning off AI summaries on everything I use for work? 🤬

Men only want 2 things.

I would not be surprised by *any* of these people being one of your readers.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail updated for Britain in 2025.

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