thomas irvine
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tragedy -> farce -> tragifarce -> something good?
Never do ladder work at the end of the day. Same goes for formatting disks
Water Towers, 1972–2009 (©Estate of Bernd Becher & Hilla Becher) – photo series by Bernd Becher and Hilla Becher, who was born on this day (2 September) in Potsdam in 1934 🗃️
I made my first online purchase since a DVD in the late 2000s, they're quite good at this now, for better or worse
Having recently employed magnets to make my life better, I am once again thinking of Magnus. I would love a follow up interview like we got from the guy who doodled the 'Howard DJs like a madcunt' bit
LIVE: USS Abraham Lincoln docks in Thailand
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Nick Brumfield@nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 3d agoAll of Thailand watching with dark anticipation as the US aircraft carrier deployed for seven months on wartime footing prepares to spill out 5,000 pent-up service personnel onto Pattaya like a ship out of Kaffa 1347
Cannot believe it took them so long to let us mute retweets from follows. A basic and simple improvement
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Two things are true about me: I hate rich people and I love architecture. These days, that presents a terrible contradiction because only the extremely rich are able to finance the perpetuation of arc...
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What is the sociolinguistic explanation for youtube thumbnail face?
They're called boomers for a reason and the age of their obits is upon us
Chris Sidoti's call for Hillel Newman's expulsion is the bare minimum response. Our fellow citizens are sexually assaulted and murdered by the IDF and our pissant Prime Minister does nothing
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 5d agoThe Israeli commander who personally ordered the airstrikes on seven World Central Kitchen workers who were murdered in cold blood says that he is not sorry and falsely claims that the WCK has ties to Hamas. WCK is "not really an organisation you can say is innocent."
You must stop and identify every traffic light in the game to prove you're not a robot
Richard 塚正ー緑@rhtebooks.bsky.social · 6d agoIn pursuit of realism GTAVI requires players to refresh their login using an authenticator app every 3 hours else their equipment stops working
RIP Dolly Parton. A life so extraordinary that you were the last thing Americans agreed about until after The Horrors and Reconstruction II
The 20th Century eugenicists had some interesting adherents like Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes. There is, to my mind, no redeeming features whatsoever in the work of this current crop
Marx failed to consider making kids watch Optimus Prime die just to sell more toys
Six long years ago I imagined buying a new computer when GTA 6 came out. Not directly in order to play it but because I thought it would be so dominant as to dictate performance requirements for a good amount of time. Now I'm just having fun keeping my 15yr old computer running
Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2w agoNothing about GTA VI's launch can be normal aftermath.site/aftermath-hour...
Sad and grim watching charlatans fly the word "fabulist" like it's a cheap kite
Iran controls Hormuz, Houthis the Bab el-Mandeb, El Niño controls the Panama Canal, some typhoon comes for the Strait of Malacca... global shipping demands the acceleration of global warming to open Arctic shipping routes
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2w agoPanama Canal to cut daily transits as El Niño grips region ft.trib.al/7j35vPn
Maybe the hill with the light on it is also the one that's broken
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 2w agoUnion organisers removed by BHP at Port Hedland operations
This striking image of painter Gustave Caillebotte – who was born on this day (19 August) in Paris in 1848 – taking his dog for a walk outside the Louvre in 1892 (taken by his photographer brother, Martial) 🗃️
Saw them at Blues & Roots in the early 2000s. There was an hour long delay while they sorted technical issues with the onstage travellator, totally worth it
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 2w agoThe thing people should know about ZZ Top is that those early records, like Tres Hombres for example, are the gold standard for how rock records should sound. Immaculately recorded records, true auteur stuff, albums that set out to be exactly what they are
Dad came home from work one day in the early 90s with a CD player and three CDs. Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, Best of Édith Piaf, and Ladysmith Black Mambazo's album Two Worlds One Heart. Listened to those for a long time before we got a new CD
The old internet@theoldinternet.bsky.social · 2w ago44 years ago today, the first CD was produced. What is the first CD you owned?
Extremely potent linguistic appropriation behind "woke". An AAVE word in common usage since the 1930s that newspaper headline writers (amongst other even more nefarious actors) adopted because it was shorter than "political correctness gone mad"