Lili Yochana

College cats of Oxford Once upon a time, we featured an image of Magdalen's kitten, Ozymandias, in our newsletter. We figured it might be a gentle contrast to our regular diet of planning and local politics. The grey ball ...

Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

i hope bsky realizes there is no more certain way of ensuring I will never follow someone back than adding a giant blue FOLLOW BACK button to my notifications

Hollywood was better when execs were just doing a lot of cocaine and greenlighting everything that sounded cool

There is no reality where algorithmically picking projects for maximum shareholder value creates Art like Earth Girls Are Easy

I'm not convinced Americans understand what British people mean when they say it (as an American).

How the Fitzgerald Sank Twice An excerpt

TIL Edmund Fitzgerald, namesake of the ship lost with all hands in a Lake Superior storm in November 1975, had a great uncle Edmond Fitzgerald who also had a ship named after him, the Edmond Fitzgerald, which was lost with all hands in a Lake Erie storm in November 1883

I have heard it from a couple Americans from Vermont. Not sure it's really regional, though.

Are they following me around with a camera?

Even still yet more psychic damage

US Midwest, "two thirty." I don't think I'd ever say "pm." Maybe "in the afternoon" if there was something ridiculous about it.

I don't believe in ghosts but, after a couple decades working in IT, I am somewhat animistic about technology.

YouTube video by TMF - The Music Factory Des'ree - You Gotta B | Live at Pepsi Pop 1998 | The Music Factory

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You gotta be:

a) bad
b) bold
c) wiser
d) hard
e) tough
f) stronger
g) cool
h) calm or
i) You gotta stay together?

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

A Facebook post from Scrivener: "Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you're on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. Here's why, and what you can do if you want to remove this" attention-grabbing graphic says "SCRIVENER AND AI: WHY DO I SEE AI PROMPTS IN MY SCRIVENER PROJECTS ON MAC?"

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

there are 4 types of guys online. no exceptions

Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw:
Vance Gilbert
Paul and Storm
Jonathan Coulton
Jean Grae
Aimee Mann

(I haven't been to a concert since 2020)

Joe Thornton and Brent Burns on the cover of ESPN. They're both naked with long crimped fake beards.

No mentions of the ESPN body issue?

A show you've watched beginning to end more than once.

I've mentioned this quietly, but - since the summer my hobby has been making this ambitious murder mystery podcast. A story. Narrated by me, with a mouthwatering cast. Partly interactive. Trailer is coming tomorrow but if you like the sound of this, please follow @murderbastard.bsky.social.

Wish this showed the shirts though

youtube suggesting i reply to a comment with "i miss my ffamily"

losing my mind over youtube's suggested reply for this comment

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

A black cat with yellow eyes standing on a beige floor

A black cat facing away from the camera yowling while standing on a rug in muted colours

He's a 10 but his life, his love, and his lady is the sea

I was also the only woman in my assembly language class, (which was taught by two incompetent men) and had such a bad experience with how nobody would listen to me or consider that I might know what I was talking about, that I dropped out three years into my degree.

Not really because everything is a fish (I sing the "I'm going to eat you little fishy" song from Red Dwarf).

I wish I knew the secret to that one! Unfortunately I only know how to get around five other problems with their site.

*doily

I saw a wizard* once

*woman wearing a white lace daily dress on a crowded Seattle bus! Who chowed a whole hot dog with everything on it in a paper bowl! That she took out of her fully closed bag!