Jess 🐴

[Insert clip of Lord Percy Percy saying "For God's sake man, let us sit upon the carpet, and tell sad stories" here]

It is *such* a nice day out there and I am really, really struggling to feel the niceness of, you know, anything. If you are also struggling to feel the niceness of anything, you are by no means alone in it. We probably shouldn't lie face down on the carpet together about it, though.

We keep our clocks at the same time, but move our homes and businesses 171 kilometers east

THIS EXPLAINS THE JUST EAT ADVERTS 🤯

NB they're not worth it, minimum 250 is plenty luxurious and 180 is just fine

[From Wikipedia] Catbus (Japanese: ねこバス, Hepburn: Nekobasu) is a fictional character in the Studio Ghibli film My Neighbor Totoro, directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It is a large, grinning, twelve-legged cat with a large bushy tail and a hollow body that serves as a bus, with windows and seats covered with fur. Here we see Catbus with a manic expression on their face as they zoom out of the sky and across the landscape leaving behind a Catbus-colored (tan and brown striped) streaking trail of jagged letters reading ‘Maybe it will happen today’.

... I have a *lot* of questions. 🤨

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

M is for maybe this starts with an m N is for next letter, and that one's an n E is for easy, like spelling this word M is for magpie, the stealingest bird O is for only three more letters to go N is for nearly there, you mnemonic pro I is for imminent, this poem's end C is for congratulations, my spellingwell friend

If you are unsure of how to spell mnemonic, here is a handy mnemonic:

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Stop callinge them "data centers" and starte callinge them "slop peripherals"

>_<

Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling and Scarlet Morning: Book One by ND Stevenson

Aw yeah (cc: @biggreenbooks.bsky.social , @gingerhaze.bsky.social , and the ghost of Pu Songling)

I mean, apart from all the desperate poor all those Elite Capitals will abandon to torment and death once they all manage to find private jets out of there

Oh dear, have they all just realised the very worst consequences of their own actions? Trapped themselves in a hell of their own making, have they?

Ink drawing with pencil colours on white paper. Nearest to us is a cliff edge, the top of which is green; the sides of the cliff (which goes down below the frame of the picture) are red, green and black striped. Behind the cliff edge, on the right and in the background is an open flat plain with the same coloured stripes. In the sky, two faint, long grey clouds and a crescent moon (although the entire moon can be seen, the non-crescent bit is coloured black against the white sky of the paper). Quite near the cliff edge is a sign post with four sections, one on top of the other. Each section (and the stick that's stuck in the ground to hold it up) has a frame that is the same stripey look as before. The sign reads: "Harvey Creature and his Rival Orchestras. Live at Tigersgirth Village Hall. Tonight. Starts at sundown."

New picture. Quite wordy for a picture. But anyway.

Geordi, his face doubtful: meme images
Geordi, his face attentive: Tamarian mythological references

He keeps making that noise. It undermines his appeal.

TITLE: Lord’s House. A child’s stick figure of a smiling little boy with messy hair and a crown on his head

Behold my son’s (6) latest book: “Lord’s House”

Will now be disappointed if you don't appear on the next episode of The Sky at Night in a hamster costume

Sarah Vaci is a "gender critical" artist who set out 4 years ago this month to create 100 portraits of "female detransitioners." To date, worldwide, she hasn't even found 100 to take part in her project, and at her current rate, it will take her 10 to 15 years to finish.

Why is this important? 1/

I do like "Ornithopter"

The fancy snooker lounge in my bath house features luxurious chaise lounges and a wall TV. An otter with hair rollers in is practicing her trick shots.

Here's the third floor snooker lounge.

A screenshot from Maltese's Fluffy Onsen. Hot tubs, cold tubs, a barber shop, little kawaii animals having a nice time.

Everything is terrible, but I've got a bath house with a bunch of happy lil critters in.

The Twin Peaks title card, but it says ‘TIM PEAKE’.

Don't worry, I've test driven that whole decade! It's pretty cool actually.

I think it might have been February for three million years.

Oh, he can, and its narrow scope consists of "things my girlfriend must be keeping things from me". I want to smack him into the sun.

Ooh, I just looked her up. It IS very neat! Oh wow.

"Maybe I just don't have a big enough imagination," he says. Yeah, I can see that.