Fiona Zerbst

But he's fine with talking to his AI 'friend' necklace. Can these solipsistic misanthropes just go and hide somewhere with their weird gadgets and let us rebuild our communities before it's too late? 🤮

Good analogy.

America is the most unserious country. 👀

Oh, this is excellent!

As a lifelong reader, anything that tells me that reading is actually a waste of my time gets thrown in the trash. 🗑

co-pilot summaries of emails. a useless solution in search of a non-existent problem. awful. and pointless. and witless (bc co-pilot doesn't understand context).

And there's no consumer protection any more. What a disaster!

Things you don't expect your orthopedic surgeon to say (but are completely blown away by): "If you want to understand the state of a country, read its poets."

Something cool happened today - I found out that my brilliant orthopedic surgeon actually bought one of my poetry books when he was a student (and read it!). 📚

My beloved Ismail Kadare never won. But I would be fine with Elena Ferrante, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Yasmina Khadra, Nuruddin Farah, Enrique Vila-Matas, Annie Proulx. Outside chance? Maybe Ian McEwan or Amitav Ghosh (but I have quibbles with both).
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Am chess-obsessed at the moment! Still making some basic mistakes, but improving every day.♟️🤪

Kirstenbosch was chilly but undeniably lovely this morning.

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Couldn't agree more!

You are probably correct. Nobody is tracing them - nobody knows where they are being taken to. They are being disappeared. It's state terrorism, like Argentina's Dirty War.

Except he did shoot the lights out in Magnolia, to be fair.

I adore those earrings!

Someone appears to want a bath. 😆

The DemoCATS might actually win votes!

My husband is Iraqi and I can't wait to see this ghoul at The Hague.

Appropriate.

😂

Love her!

What's next, conscription? 👀

I just started playing chess again, on Duolingo, and am obsessed. My brother and I used to study Fischer and Karpov games when I was a kid - but that was a good 40 years ago! Working to get my ELO up!♟️

Same.

And yet it's perfect!

My friend's son gave me his copy of The Sims a gazillion years ago and I loved how inclusive it was. Are there going to be more anti-DEI mods cropping up now? 🤮

I know for a fact that Antifa is not an organization because I don't get emails from them asking for money.

"This is my world." What the hell?! These folk have been empowered to think they 'own' everyone else - the rudeness and entitlement are off the charts. Disgusting.