Fannie-Annie

This is bringing back sobsnot memories of Everything Will Swallow You

You may be thinking of Persuasion, in which a bunch of them go to Lyme Regis so that a young woman can fall and crack her head open at the beach, leading indirectly to the resolution of a very messy situation.

Define “us”.

Angels

Icestapo

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Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue filtered through some snivelling asshole too stupid to sit the LSAT.

It was a typo. He meant “ruin”.

Abandoned Twitter for obvious Nazifying reasons, came to Bluesky only to be scolded regularly about comedy and being born before 1965.

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I’d never thought about a heron before reading that book. Since then I think about them all the time

This reminded me very much of Ben Okri’s pages-long description of a heron in his wonderful novel, Starbook. I found the description staggeringly beautiful, especially as I’ve never encountered a heron in the wild (they’re probably all hiding).

I have the same problem, but for me it’s always an entire pineapple, in my fridge

Person: I did a good thing and here I am posting about it to raise awareness of animal welfare & cos I’m proud of being able to help ease suffering

Blueskyers: wah, why didn’t you donate all of your money, how dare you not be poor, telling everyone about the good thing you did makes it a bad thing

We did the same in the 1970s when KFC opened in Christchurch, NZ. There’s nothing else to do here.

Sick to death of the constant ageism. Don’t you realise you’re no different than anyone else who blames an entire demographic for all the ills in the world. Shame on you.

I’m incapable of scrolling past a Jim thread without stopping to look, read and experience joy

YouTube video by Happy Doggo Emergency Response: Delivering Lifesaving Aid to Flood Stranded Dogs in Thailand

Every single one of these people - @niallharbison.bsky.social and his friends at Happy Doggo - is an actual angel.

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Duh

How exactly is that a boomer thing? It’s the default in the mail app, it’s a laziness thing. Sick of seeing ageism on here every time I open my eyes.

What a ridiculous thing to say. Which generation do you think invented the internet

If you are a tech bro billionaire, you can delete the receding hairline your ancestry has saddled you with and replace it with a tight-knit block of follicular robo-growth, you can change your face, change public opinion en masse via the misinformation you spread via your digital platform and the more moderate and considered voices you are able to algorithmically drown out, send rockets to space, buy yourself a position at the forefront of political life despite being singularly unqualified for such a position. You can, because of all this, probably convince yourself there is in fact *nothing* you cannot do. But here you will be incorrect. What you can't do is ever be a reflective, compassionate human being who can grasp, with any feeling, the harm of your actions. The bubble of unreality you have constructed around yourself - the one which no longer contains anyone who tells you the truth- will be too well-insulated for that to be possible. You would probably believe you are enhancing your legacy with each additional chunk of power you purchase if you hadn't already dismissed the concept of "legacy" due to your conviction that, for yourself (although not for the minions) you can invent everlasting life. But, despite what you have convinced yourself, one day you will, just like everyone else, die. In the final moments, you will be reduced to something frail and helpless. You billions will not grant you an exemption from that. Maybe right then, in that reduced state, the last thing you will see is the true horror of what you were: the rippling evil of all the choices you could have made with your money and didn't, and the repercussions for the planet. Then it will be over. Those voices who said, "Fucking love that dude, he really tells it like it is - I wanna be rich like hime one day!" will fade. All that will remain will be the more rational and sane voice of history above your grave, announcing "Here lies the most heinous piece of shit imaginable."

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Ever a fan of Tom’s writing & this is no exception, but on this day, I’m completely in love with that print. If it was for sale on Etsy I would buy the hell out of it. If I could, I would sing it to me. I would send a great ship across the Pacific with a vast host to carry it tenderly to me.

I support the message, but must express that is a magnificent photograph

In my country I don’t think I’ve ever once seen the speaker of the house hold a press conference. Why is this motherfucker in front of the press every single day when he has nothing whatsoever to impart to the people? Why does the press lap it up? Why is American public life so fucking cringe?

Soggy chips 🤢

Any minute now, @theonion.com is going to announce that Andrew has been stripped of his posh accent

Tell that to dollar store Goebbels Stephen Miller