Chris Farnell

The traditional punishing route.

That last RT has reminded me that I spend a good ten to fifteen years of my life wondering why Dr Peter Venkman didn't think any *human* could stack books like this.

SCULLY: It's impossible. There's no one on earth who could teach you to fit that many marshmallows in your mouth.

MULDER: Daff righ...... No one...... on urff...

I have just completed my Self Assessment Tax Return (bar getting my accountant to read it and point out my stupid mistake). Quite a pleasantly dull and routine process compared to the heart palpitations, hyperventilation and blurred vision it brought on a few years ago.

Just finished listening to Bee Speaker last week. Loved it!

Yeah, I remember that one. And the thing that gets me is not just the rudeness and callous disregard but just a sort blithe comfort about your own worldview. She knows *she's* not a racist, so she never has examine her thoughts around race.

In case you're wondering what studies are kept in that other row on the right.
bsky.app/profile/erin...

When you've been given another study that shows it helps people to give them money.

I'm old enough to remember when the BBC wouldn't immediately roll belly up to appease the government.
Doing it for foreign governments is new though.

That is a terrible way to perform surgery.

I'm not a brain scientist, so let's assume all the science here can be taken at face value.
The "Adult Era" is only really called that because you're calling it that, isn't it? That's not science, it's nomenclature.

Very shiny. Meanwhile Tennant lets the whole side down by just turning up in his work clothes.

Also how can you be a "bit" of the war? Surely if you are in the war you are assuming the role of one of the people or factions in that war, not the role of "a thing that happened"?

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

I muted Moran way back in my early Twitter days because she kept turning up in my timeline but always gave an irritating vibe of wearing progressive clothes while not believing she had any real skin in the game.

This made me look her up again and this is her current bsky bio. So... yeah.

“I can no longer post content on this internet platform, filled as it is with malicious far right cranks spreading lunatic misinformation and relentlessly inciting hate and fear” - Me, at the Times website

“Look out, it’s the Warhammer 40,000”, cried the Emperor.
But it was too late, Sanguinius had already been squashed flat.
Horus looked through the cloud of feathers at the Emperor, his eyes narrow and his bald head gleaming in the light. “Let’s get Heresy”, he shouted.
It was time to fight.

Nope. He's stoll going to live comfortably for the rest of his life with a level of wealth that's still unfathomable to you and me.
The only good way to be a billionaire is to not be one.

I nearly had a rescue attempt from the entire gestalt human race.

But then I went and watched this afterwards.

Mostly agree although I feel like Solo gets done dirty every time with these.

I heard there was a mighty fish
With solitude its fervent wish
When hungry, their demeanour's even ruder
They're known to bite their prey in two
They'd even have a go at you
The silver and the salty
Barracuda

Only You Can Save Mankind is perfect for 13yo boy, and is (unfortunately) still horribly relevant despite being a book about videogames published in 1992.

This is good to know for me too. Tucker & Dale Vs Evil was our go-too comfort watch for a long time, but I wasn't sure how his take on Scary Murder Clowns would go.

I think from this it's clear he isn't on purpose.

Before you criticise this, bear in mind that it will trigger a chain of events that could culminate in a baby shooting Elon Musk.

"music hall, not opera, is the mirror of life"
- Oscar Wilde

Got a piece coming out soon that amounts to "Why are all Frankenstein movies so keen to go into minute detail on the bit Mary Shelley deliberately skipped over?"

You ever watch Shooting Fish? They're hired to paint an old gas holder, and they realise that if they get a bunch of splotches of paint dotted around the upper half of the structure, nobody will ever look closely enough to see if they've actually properly painted it.

Good film.

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