Pete

A happy magic frog that says poof. You are now untired and very happy.

I CAST WHIMSY ON THE SKYLINE

Stoneybridge, perspective host for the 1996 Olympic Games

It’s 33 years since the final episode of Absolutely was shown on Channel 4

Hey, I wonder how the Kyle MacLachlan AMA is goi-

Compromise: have as many fudge factors as you want, but model must be presented on a literal napkin

it's fascinating to watch Costco lap every one of these clowns because they have the only CEO in America who still thinks his job is to run a company that does business and not be the main character of life forging his personal legacy with one eye on the group chat to see if they're impressed yet

Photo of a pan pizza. Text says “Worse than you remember, or your money back.” And the Pizza Hut logo

Incredible ad in my digest email from The Onion

until now, the funniest thing about Lindsay Hoyle was that he wanted to rename Heathrow after Princess Diana. this is funnier

I wanna start a bluegrass/roots Kraftwerk cover band called Woodwerk

We'd all be dressed in identical red and black flannel shirts, black jeans, and black boots

There's literally an electric version of the BMW Mini, and they can all plug in at home for slow charge

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

From the CasualUK community on Reddit: I made some artworks combining late 20th Century UK culture with ancient Japan Explore this post and more from the CasualUK community

I just saw this amazing Blobby artwork on Reddit, and you all need to see it too. Is he a kaiju? A Yokai? A Gashabloburo?

Feeling this a lot today after recovering an escaped cat

One of the oddest and least visible social conflicts is between the basic training of journos to do name/age/location of everyone in a story, and this being so dangerous to do on the Internet that it's a bannable offense on most platforms

Very British conspicuous non-consumption. The more privileged you are the less contact with reality you can afford. The ultimate being the Queen not knowing what money is.

This is like the newspaper habit of using "flat screen TV" as some sign of non poverty when all TVs have been flat for decades. Is it some sort of fossil tic to appeal to pensioners?

Mind you, there was a brief moment when games might have been taken seriously and a contingent of gamers threw it

Larval axolotl almost ready to hatch in a clear egg

Eg

a close up of a man wearing a black mask and a hat ALT: a close up of a man wearing a black mask and a hat

#NowWatching The Mask of Zorro (1998) starring Antonio Banderas. Does he return King Arthur to the throne and liberate the country from the Scarlet Pimpernel? Does Stone Cold Steve Austin play Time Traveler 3? What about the ninjas? So many questions going in. #filmsky

the end card to MST3K that says "keep circulating the tapes"

In retrospect this had a way larger effect on me then I ever could have imagined.

A meme of Alysa Liu based on Da Share Zone reading: JUST WALK OUT work social thing movies home class dentist figure skating too fancy weed store cops it your quick friend ships IF IT SUCKS... HIT DA BRICKS!!! Real winners quit You can leave!! Da Gold Zone

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

Csengetett, Mylord? - Orlai Produkció Az özvegy Lord Meldrum öccsével, anyósával és két lányával éli a húszas évek Londonjának felső tízezer-beli életét. A kényelmüket szolgáló szakácsnő, az inas, a komornyik és a szobalány legalább...

TIL that You Rang, M’Lord is massive in Hungary, and there’s a theatrical version currently playing over there:

Tom Jones singing sex bomb

He’s nicked
He’s nicked
Mandelson’s nicked
Thought he’d been so clever but it turns out he’s been licked*

*In the sense of beaten, defeated, bang to rights etc

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamd... @mayor.nyc.gov Locked, loaded, plowing.

Man I wish

Written English has barely changed in 300 years. If you can read Harry Potter, you can read Robinson Crusoe (1719).

Distinction without a difference when the government can simply change the rules so that a legal resident ceases to be so?

mr blobby, a childrens television character. he is pink with yellow polka dots and has eyes that would eat your soul

most scary american cryptid: "yeah haha if you hear a voice in the forest no you didnt haha man you dont even want to know what hides in appalachia haha no im not misappropriating native folklore what are you talking about"

least scary european cryptid:

Tell me something – a small thing – you really really love. Mine is this quote from an interview with Mackenzie Crook about his writing shed: “It’s not a ‘man cave’, there’s no calendar of saucy ladies or beer cooler (although I do have a fridge where my tortoises hibernate in the colder months).”

have to endorse this important message. the mango flavor distribution runs from "mild upgrade on cantalope" to "proof of the existence and boundless love of God"

being a blizzard fan anytime after about 2010 seems. like it has been a non stop humiliation ritual. could never happen to me, the square enix fan,

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that