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I’ve wondered about this before!

Lies. I want a wienermobile.

Fortunately the Baltic is not known for rough seas! I wouldn’t want to bring that ship into the North Sea.

I’m sure your local cat shelter also has a weird vampire who has crossed oceans of time to find you!

*come up with names. Ducking autocarrot!

It’s surprisingly hard to come up either names for a fictional American city. It’s either been done decades before by comic books or it turns out to be a real place in East Alaskabama. Or it’s multiple real places and half of them are ghost towns.

I wonder if woods porn is still a thing? I feel like the internet might have reduced its prevalence.

Aaa a tiny stripy potato

San Diegonians! Invite this vampire into your homes! There are no possible downsides!

a small pumpkin with a smiley face drawn on in sharpie pen sits within a larger pumpkin carved to look like its home

a pumpkin man sits inside a pumpkin house, is the house made of flesh, or is he made of house? he smiles for he does not know

I love Art History With Spike time.

Tap the sign meme saying “Using AI ironically is still using AI.”

Don’t make me tap the sign.

Why my brain extemporised a rap from the perspective of Lord Byron I can’t say. I don’t know what goes on in there.

“To win without battle is the highest victory”.

I’m dandiacal
Maniacal
Takin’ lives as I ride on my bicycle

They in awe of my drip
They in fear of my gun
But the ladies all know
That I’m just havin’ fun

You gonna find out
Let the record show
That I’m mad, I am bad
I am dangerous to know

Equal parts self-rising flour and full-fat plain greek yogurt. Mix into a dough, divide into balls, roll out, cook on each side in a bit of olive oil for 1-2 minutes or until it starts puffing.

It's not quite naan, but it's really close. Goes amazingly well with stews, curries, chili, soups...

Given Ms Saunders’ proven prior attempts at vehicular homicide, maybe someone should be bringing a cadaver dog to that basement …

I’m feeling parallels to how queer/minority authors are expecting to be perfect angels and write perfect Representation, while cis authors are praised for the measliest, most ham-handed mention of queer people.

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I don’t get the reference. Who’s Fred West?

I like the rounded one with the T shaped handle, it is round and friendly like a beetle.

Gotta be the latter. He wouldn’t *un*ban someone doxxing nazis.

And was Taylor wearing a hotdog suit while saying this?

Evidence is hard to come by in such things, because the elite closes ranks around their own - but it’s like Andrew being shielded by the Crown, everyone knows what he’s done even if he will never see the inside of a courtroom.

Yeah, it does seem like the USN in recent years has “saved” money by … not painting its ships to prevent corrosion. Which is bizarre to me but in keeping with the standard late capitalist democracy practice of not caring for anything that’ll happen after the next election.

… while the idea of making British Parliamentarians wear the shame of their association with and protection of prominent pedophiles has some attraction to it, I don’t really want to go there.

I know … but not being British I couldn’t think of any *actual* horrifying British children’s TV characters embodying the trope exemplified by Mr Blobby. I don’t think Thomas the Tank Engine counts.

Here in NZ we only had Thingee, and while horrifying he’s remembered too fondly to bedeck PM Luxon.

“Beloved” UK children’s television characters. Specifically the terrifying ones like Mr Blobby.

I think LCS is basically the New Coke version, where they spent a lot of money pointlessly trying to reinvent the wheel and everyone hates it.