Pellegrina Stoat

Ah yes, those good old days when optimism was realising you lived close enough to a high value target that you'd be vaporised in the first strike of nukes, ideally before the sirens had even sounded.

Dog belly dancing, part 2.

Thank goodness, I read it ages ago, didn’t like it, and thought there must be something wrong with me.

I am regularly hearing sparrows at our end of the close for the first time since we moved here 12 years ago, haven’t seen them yet though.

Aren’t they just Emirates cabin crew in mufti?

Don’t you mean:

line breaks really are a
dying art, huh

I vote volcano

Influencers all need to be transported to the nearest live volcano and dropped in. Or at least banned from posing and flouncing around a very busy display in an exhibition. Other people are not background noise to your main character syndrome.

The furniture theory of genre fiction 🙌

Is ‘lifetime net fiscal contribution’ ghoul code for ‘we should kill people if we can’t turn a profit on them’?

I had no idea, but was in Athens last week, at least two lots of scaffolding.

Blistering Barnacles!

No scaffolding!

View Jürgen Geuter’s graphic link Jürgen GeuterJürgen Geuter • 2ndVerified • 2nd Research Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #LudditeResearch Director @ART+COM | Independent writer/theorist | Keynote Speaker | AI-Deinfluencer | #Luddite 22h • 22 hours ago • Visible to anyone on or off LinkedIn Follow Very few narratives piss me off as much as the whole "let's give marginalised people LLM assistants for inclusion". Inclusion does not mean giving marginalised people shittier versions of a thing: Sure you can give kids from poorer backgrounds an LLM to "learn" but what you are saying is that poor people are not worth having trustworthy sources of information. When you say that older or lonely people can talk to chatbots to feel less alone you are saying that some people are not worth a social life. This is a deeply inhumane perspective that goes actively against the ideas and ideals of inclusion. likesupportcelebrate 186 You and 185 others

Regret to report that there has been another good linkedin post

The day someone calls my books “physical media” is the day I need to be restrained from physical assault.

Common Peephole     She came from Greece, she had a faulty socket. Her eye fell out, she couldn’t stop it.   That’s when I caught her eye. Brian Bilston

Pulp poetry.

(I’m massively - probably pathologically - consensus-based. To the point where I have in the past mislaid my own judgement because others believed passionately - or just declared - something I wasn’t sure about. We’re all a work in progress.)

Oooooh yum.

Our stick blender also comes with a whisk attachment, would I use that or stick to the normal blades?

Autistic woman's whole personality is cheesy puns Image of woman sitting in front of laptop, smiling mischievously

“My friends Camembert it. Honestly, it drives Emmental.”

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"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."
"OK," you say. You take a step forward.
He takes a step back.
"Be reasonable about this," he says. "Meet me in the middle."

Slightly Musical Conehead Slightly Musical Conehead (Neoconocephalus exiliscanorus)     Formerly called Long-beaked Conehead, the Slightly Musical Conehead has the longest head adornment of all the coneheads. Its …

I feel the need to introduce everyone to the best insect name:

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Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

Can you omit/replace the wine for extreme teetotallers?

In 1938, the Nazi regime invalidated the current identity papers of Jews and required specific identifying marks (and suitably Jewish names) on replacements. We are living through horribly precedented times.

"i'm literally just a plant that's been cursed with the ability to complain."

Tasty signature.

From Parkinson’s Theatrum Botanicum (London, 1640). @theulspeccoll.bsky.social Syn.3.64.6.

Comic. [Person is sitting at a desk with a laptop, turned toward voice coming from off-panel.] VOICE FROM OFF-PANEL: I got you the ingredients for dinner tonight. Oh, and the plums in the fridge drawer are for my yogurt tomorrow; you should just leave them. Be back later! PERSON’S THOUGHT BUBBLE: Oh no. [caption] Help. It actually happened. I shouldn’t. But how can I not!?

Plums

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Trust your gut? Autistic woman’s intuition feels pretty much the same as generalised anxiety disorder An autistic woman told by her therapist to “trust your instincts” is reportedly struggling to discern her instincts from her debilitating anxiety disorder. Alma Montague, 34, could be holed up…

Alma Montague, 34, could be holed up indoors with the curtains drawn because of her irrational terror of the outside world – but it could also be her gut telling her that everything’s gone screwy and it’s not safe out there.

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History: who the fuck?

Historiography: who asked "who the fuck" and why the fuck did they?