David Chen

I do not consider this the end of my relationship with Alfie Whiteman

If you look very carefully at this mid season, you can very clearly see what Ange thinks of his doubters…😂

Discordian pope card that reads: The bearer of this card is a genuine and authorized POPE. So please treat them right. Good forever. Genuine and authorized by the House of Apostles of Eris. Every man, woman, nonbinary (or otherwise gender-nonconforming) individual, and child on this Earth is a genuine and authorized Pope. Reproduce and distribute these cards freely. POEE Head Temple, San Francisco.

Back of the Discordian pope card that reads: As a Pope, you are entitled to the following rights and privileges: 1. To invoke infallibility at any time, including retroactively. 2. To completely rework the structure of the Erisian Church. 3. To baptize, bury, and marry (with the permission of the deceased in the latter two cases). 3. To excommunicate, de-excommunicate, re-excommunicate, and de-re-excommunicate (no backsies!) both his-/her-/it-/them-/your-/our-/His-/Her-/It-/Them-/Your-/Ourself/selves and others (if any). 5. To perform all rites and functions deemed inappropriate for a Pope of Discordia. "A Pope is someone who is not under the authority of the authorities." From the pages of the Principia Discordia.

Anyone can be a pope. It's easy. What's the big deal.

christ, buy me a drink first

Beyond devastated. We at Zhejiang will remember you forever. Thank you for playing for our shirt 💚

Say what you want about anything else, but no laptops? What has a Lenovo Thinkpad ever done to you? Doing OT is banned when a concert is on?

This says something, not the things you want us to arrive at though…
(Disclaimer: I like Johnson and it’s not a dig on him, keep those back post smack-ins coming)

Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm To: Byron Preiss Dear Byron, Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above). I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible. One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the way it is! There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense. Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with

are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And 'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'. There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to "Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

Producing this tariffs chart with no alphabetization or numerization is an act of profound madness and indicative of a rot in the soul.

Are they footing the bill for their own cock up or are they transferring the costs to the customers yet again?

No mate this is prime Sir Elton John

Someone go get Marcus Rashford

It’s more than four years since Eye 1534 first warned that Cambridgeshire county council (CCC) was in danger of financial collapse because of ginormous loans it had made to housebuilding company, This Land Ltd.

This Land Ltd’s debt to CCC now stands at £127m.

One rule for us one rule for them etc

Strange men lying in palaces distributing swords is no basis for a system of government

Aye. And then I do it all again the next day after vowing never again in the morning

An Ed Davey pun is Gin-nerally the last thing I was expecting today.

Because of the loan the French lost their head of state… and his head. Just saying this for the reference of a potential repayment schedule

make sure to set aside a little time each day to regret everything

Angeball 2.0: Master of Chaos

Finally had enough of “X”. The amount of mind boggling stupidity has reached a critical mass even for someone trained to be detached from discursive idiocy. Soooo…what’s good on this platform? What are the must follows? #X #Twitter #Bluesky