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@vpj.bsky.social being authoritative and delightful on my screen!

Terror CAMP and not least of the joys of this blessed event is Reg's voice purring soothingly from On High

This is insanely generous, thank you so much!

Huh, didn't realise RF Kuang was in the news again for cluelessness. Anyway, here are my thoughts on the ChatGPT intellectualism of Katabasis.
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Gentle keems atop agata's lovely head

But also FR mute me for like the next hour.

I'm sorry Agata I'm really sorry! The fits are fire though.

I am highkey delighted with this pun, NGL:

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Also who the hell is surprised at lusting for The Creature. For example, there was a production directed by Danny Boyle where Benedict Cumberbatch and Johnny Lee Miller alternated the role of the Creature. I was there, Gandalf, and I assure you the girlies were hornt for him.

What even is 'the right amount of horny' for a fictional character anyway?

[guy who’s only seen Zardoz watching a second Sean Connery movie]: “uh, gotta be honest, not really getting any Zardoz vibes from this at all”

Is the BBC perfect? No.
Is it a good thing when the leader of a foreign power can seriously threaten and interfere in the running of what is still the national public service broadcaster of an ally? Also no.
Both of these things can be true.

I have a pair of black leather gloves all the way up to my elbow and am just W A I T I N G for the weather to get cold enough

g l o v e s

Agata your fits are always f l a w l e s s

Likely cuttin' me own froat here, but I realised you probably don't need to read this whole thing when the below is pretty much the gist:

your cat does seem like a delight, to be fair.

NYC besties, you know me. You know my heart, and you know I love you and your great city. I am delighted about Mamdani's win. But fam. Fam.

👀👀👀

Ouf i'm so sorry. Thinking of you, bud.

lol

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Does it make up for the absolute firestorm of Bad Stateside News that has led to little warm turdsplatters of Related Bad UK News? No. But just for now, let me warm my hands

As I sit in a UK whose only hope of fighting off a gurning frog-faced Fascist is male, pale and stale middle manager Keir Starmer, I am inhaling the news from the States like it's the heatlamp in a neighbouring house.

From your lips to God's ears

This is a stunning piece of speechwriting. Rhetoric and oratory are BACK

Bad(el) Education The insufferable hectoring of RF Kuang's Babel

In which I have Thoughts and Feelings about RF Kuang's Babel

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I repeat: A Babe???

Common People is a good shout! Obviously Another Brick in the Wall is good, but there is of course repetition in the lyrics

Hokie, in about a week I will be Subbed Stacking about Babel, followed by Katabasis (they have it coming). Since both books are notionally dark (hurk) academia (hurl), I am thinking section headers with lyrics about Education. Recs? Recs for the lidy?