Matthew Frye

Britishness. @jeevunsandher.bsky.social x

*Yes, I'm aware the US's founding myths, including The Pilgrims, are gross simplifications at best, but that is an important chapter, and no doubt one that Rubio puts a lots of weight on

Yup, plus The Pilgrims* were pilgrims to (what is now) NE US, specifically because of religious disagreements. I'm a little hazy on the historical/theological details, but afaik it wasn't even a protestant-catholic thing, they were basically protestants fleeing protestant England

Honestly, I expected them to be more extortionate. Still mostly unbelievably tacky. It's just semi-affordable tacky, the very worst kind of tacky.

Sure, but arguably pushing on even further/faster would only have left them even more overextended and vulnerable. The counterattacks were inevitable, and it's not clear that pushing to Moscow would've helped much

Russia: We built a tank for every one of our soldiers. It seemed a shame for anyone to be left out, because that's socialism! Also, ours still function in -40 temperatures, hope you prepared for the cold

Yeah, and if I *don't* take medication for that it'll make "the rest of my life" much shorter.

That plan worked decently well for the Nazis within continental western/central Europe. It's really only the eastern front where that backfired spectacularly.

But even less successfully

Does the whole tariffs situation not count as "extreme"?

I prefer my guitars with full string, not 75% string

...I'll see myself out

"I am making no comment but..." [Proceeds to make comment]

He seems very confused about several things.

Fistfuls of raw penne? No. But sucking on a strand of raw spaghetti is sometimes a thing

"may need to be considered further by the home secretary." Seems interesting. Does this actually have teeth? Or is it really giving the government wiggle room (in either direction)

I've seen many of these quotes before, but I do find this stuff genuinely inspirational

Or this thing I've decided to call "devil take the hindmost"? It's *probably* not an actual devil, although the track is basically a steeply pitched pit, soo…

Hard to sit up to hit the button, alas. Need a porpoise-like jump. And don't point the cameras at the landing point because it's not gonna be pretty.

[Track cycling enters the chat] Hey, anyone feel like just chasing a motorbike for a few laps then elbowing each other at 70 km/h?

It's the "move fast and break things" mindset. LLMs can do both of those for sure

Hmmmm, do we call curling "high speeds"? I guess sometimes they are when they play takeouts

And Boris Johnson

Ooh. It's low draw distances outside this morning.

YouTube video by Laurenan69 Dr. Strangelove - Ending

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Vl...

This video is 100% perfection. Will never be topped. Can shut down TikTok now.

OK, but where's the sauce?

In the Nazgul's defence, Frodo and Sam weren't trying to just, like, move in to Mordor and live and get a little cottage and do some gardening and hang out in the community. Although, now I say it, I'd kinda be here for that fanfic

TBF, I can't understand most opera even when it's sung in English

…chocolate crisps? What fresh hell is this?

It's the same, except everything is worse. And it's printed in a larger font so it appears closer.

Art.