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Heard about the Louvre jewel heist and my first thought was “finally, some good old fashioned normal crime”

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

I'm not really superstitious about anything, except the computer, which must be restarted if it has been on too long, to cleanse it of bad or negative energies

sorry but "MrBeast defends trapping man in burning building for $500,000" is so bleak. he is living cultural rot

That’s it Sainsburys, you tell him!

Graham Greene in Dances with Wolves

Graham Greene in Maverick

Graham Greene in The Last of Us

Graham Greene in Marvel’s Echo

RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.

Nice to see my hometown's sacred traditions getting the spotlight.

in britain the anchorites of asda dwell by the sacred stones, solemnly intoning the words “that’s asda price”, and performing the necessary ritual (the double bum slap) three times a day to bring about the great rolling back when we will all be redeemed

Also there's a massive Victorian cemetery called the Glasgow Necropolis which was used for Gotham cemetery in The Batman. Nice to just have a walk around.

sharmanka.com The opening hours are a bit weird but I feel like you might appreciate this clockwork Russian machine puppet theatre. Otherwise Kelvingrove museum is good, it has a tremendous Dali, and the Hunterian museum is also great for medical and scientific curiosities.

MAN: What's that, girl? Trouble at the old mine?
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [The miners are striking for better pay and conditions]
MAN: B-but Billy's down there!
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [BILLY'S A SCAB]

Imagine you and another man just having to go 'the jelly was nice' or 'the asparagus needed two more minutes' and both of you fucking it up this hard

An Ayrshire icon.

Genuinely quite sad about this. Admiral Piett was one of my favourite minor characters in the original Star Wars films. Ken Colley's expressions and screen presence made him a stand out.

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

On that note - really didn't like Florence.

Not remotely surprised. I was in the Uffizi about 2 weeks ago and it was like the Wild West. Hoardes of tourists getting up close for selfies with the Birth of Venus and Da Vinci sketches and nobody doing a damn thing about it.

“And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes.”

Friday the 13th (1980, dir Sean S. Cunningham)

American gun culture once again terrifies the shit out of me. John Redcorn and Ken Hotate were incredible characters. Gutted.

BBC headline: Group backed by Judi Dench takes over North Yorkshire nature site.

Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?

Happy Maundy Thursday

Caught myself sitting, staring out of a train window, musing about how I'm quite pleased we're getting rain next week as the plants could use it. I am 175 years old apparently.

This has broken me.

If only.

Mad rambling.

A mountain of binbags in the rat-infested streets of Birmingham.

"Rats to the left of them,
Rats to the right of them,
Boldly they rode and well.
Into the Jaws of Death,
Into the Mouth of Hell
Rode the Six Hundred."

There's a car driving into downtown with pachebels canon absolutely BLARING

Laslows heirarchy of needs diagram edited to say "onslows heirarchy of needs" and the top one says "push hyacinth through a hedge"

I can and will never apologise for the posts I choose to make

The energy I bring to Bluesky.