Dan Waterfield

Astrid’s claim to bravery proved false yet again by an excitable molly the collie

Language allows you to understand sentences that have never been said before

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:-)

also, bruv’s weird hatred

If youve seen gingers out and about, absolute guarantee you’ve seen my family.

The fact that the one game made by an explicitly communist co-op game studio now has three successor studios making a self-proclaimed sequel to it, and dispute the legitimacy of the other two is, of course, the most communist outcome possible.

When I got married, my mother’s first reaction was ‘uh do <ex’s Catholic family> mind their daughter is marrying a Jew’ which I thought was a genuinely funny statement at the time.

Learning I’m of matrilineal Jewish descent has been a short and brutal lesson in ‘oh that’s why we hid for ~150 years’

I think a bunch of it is horrific revenge fantasies & old fashioned antisemitism. Which makes opposing Israel so much more difficult, because nobody really takes ‘please stop exulting in death’ well, especially when it’s from ‘their’ side.

Discovered @coldsoresteve.bsky.social in laws lived a 60 second walk away on the same street where I grew up. The world is small.

This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.

This Right Whale I take to have been a Stoic; the Sperm Whale, a Platonian, who might have taken up Spinoza in his latter years.

Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

Ominous.

Books en route from England at last

Por que no los dos?

tried downloading kafka’s diaries but there was a bug

fb suggested that Astrid needed some worship music.

Note the chin crumbs

Nyika just read this out to me

> do not go sightseeing
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Thanks Astrid, very helpful!

apparently the flood plain is visible out of the back and we live in the one bit of helensville that won't flood

Possible tsunami incoming and we live near the coast, probably 1-3m max but we’re 20m above sea level

“They are fighting Quakers; they are Quakers with a vengeance.”

“Queequeg was George Washington cannibalistically developed.”