🌎🐎John Hyphen🎮🤠

moderate avalanche warning

that's fine

huge one for the calendar if you're in brussels

also classic irish behaviour, emigrating to boston

*384* of these whales left in the entire world

(now banned) commercial whaling pushed so many species to the brink of extinction

but an explosion in international shipping, bottom-trawling fishing, overfishing in general, oil and gas drilling (and soon deep-sea mining) threaten to push them over

i went to their gig in brussels about a week after the album came out, the room was packed, people up front already knew the lyrics, was so good

hope you get to another one! (you're on their mailing list?)

it's a great show! highly recommend

higher than panda bear, wet leg and suede

massive stuff here

M(h)aol: Something Soft What are the best shoes to run for your life in? The safest response to unsolicited nudes? The quickest giveaway that this one-night stand might hurt you? M(h)aol use noise-rock’s innate paranoia to replicate the toll of marginalized people’s survival instincts. Centered around singer-drummer Constance Keane’s anxious vocals and the warped manipulations of two bassists—one of whom, Jamie Hyland, engineered the album as well as Gilla Band’s eerie debut—Something Soft repeats its unsettling imagery in flashes until the fear sets in firsthand. –Nina Corcoran

pitchfork ranked my sister's band's album number 9 of the best rock albums of the year

huge day for the parish

Ancient egyptian pot with a picture of someone rolling their eyes

this is me reading your posts (2118 BCE)

check out these footloose mfs, i'm about to kevin bacon their ass

turns out they have black velvets in italy, but they use prosecco instead of champagne (makes sense) and they call it a "guinness sbagliato"

🥁

Rome has always been a major import hub for the region, and the dock workers used to have easy access to it so would fry it and put it on top

it's gone out of style a bit, and you wouldn't get it outside Rome now

yeah it's traditional

the italians have a snack up the mountains where they mash potatoes, make a ball of it with a plum inside, breadcrumb and deep-fry it

and then they say i'm mad for putting banana in the carbonara

yeah I put pineapple in my coddle

they're just interested in facilitating open and honest debate, right???

ja natürlich

also a big fan of the word for "cute" which is "Niedlich"

almost too neat

would we accept a tobacco company sponsoring and presenting a cancer summit? would politicians working in health speak on the panels, appearing with the company's logo?

some german tried to scam me on vinted, asking me to do a bank transfer instead of paying through the vinted system and wanted to chat on whatsapp, so i gave the the old 087 777 77 77 number auf deutsch

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

yikes this would be hell

derek van vliet @derek.bike they should invent a bike accident where the car dies September 2, 2024 at 7:43 PM

how many of these deaths are on the hands of the oil and gas industry, raking in billions while accelerating the climate crisis

for every person killed in these disasters, how many more have been injured, lost their home or lost their livelihood

aw I'm hugely jealous!

me and my friends dressing up as different ghosts this christmas and scaring the bejaysus out of some fossil fuel CEOs and seeing if that'll make them change their ways

huge dracula arrival vibes

@selkies.bsky.social or @darach.bsky.social can yous shed any light on the above?

it's well established that the italian "ciao" comes from venice, where irish sailors with the ulster dialect would say "chifidh (ciao-fee) mé amarach thú" upon parting

but i've always wondered if "chifidh" itself has come from a partial reversal of the more common "feicfidh", like french verlan