Spent all of last weekend (staying with mates) trying to remember what my stepdad’s phrase is for when a bunch of people over 40 get together and start discussing their ailments: the organ recital
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Chronic illness, moderate nerdiness, mostly here to look at your pets. londonesque_ at the Other Place.
One of the fun things about the Pokemon Go/Pikmin Bloom games is that they’re low key educational
Despite it still being warm, this is the first evening where it’s felt like autumn is a possibility
I also have a great fondness for Philomena Cunk describing Queen Victoria as having a face like “Alfred Hitchcock watching a dog drown”
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
It’s really quite wild how my body has either been postponing or bringing forward my menstrual cycle seemingly based on when the super hot days are going to be, truly next level trolling by my own self there
Reposting cos I have a pair, and I recommend them to EVERYONE.
Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 5d agoSo uhh I have multiple pairs of these USB rechargeable hand warmers that just got recalled for fire and burn hazards that killed someone and some of you might too
Our criteria for success are disastrously skewed. In my view, a successful person is one who does more good than harm, on any scale. On this measure, most billionaires are massive failures, while humble folk in my neighbourhood who look after other people are highly successful.
Conspiracy theory is a bit like Dr Who: seems interesting to the casual observer but is largely comprised of people who will shout at you for being stupid if you haven’t memorised decades-worth of completely fictional narrative.
It would be nice if there was a "save draught" option in real life, whereby you could keep all the cold gusts of wind that numb your knuckles in January, and bring them out in July when it's 29 degrees at two o'clock in the bastard morning and you can't sleep.
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mildly funny that X is having blazing rows about Nolan’s Odyssey because he cast black people in it and Bluesky is having blazing rows about whether a noted Homeric translator’s LRB review of it misses the point or not
150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.
Unreposted so I can repost it again. It stuck with me and I remind myself of it when I'm in the autistic sensory-emotional blast furnace
Leiracal@leiracal.bsky.social · 12mo agoThis concept was introduced to me as "run the dishwasher twice" and was an important part of my executive functioning recovery as well as my path to self-acceptance.
The Nanny McPhee films are up there with the Paddington films as something I’ll always have put on when it’s on telly, please someone give Emma Thompson a billion pounds to make many more
ebenezer boldly asks the question what if johnny depp played a weird guy whose abusive past was magically forgotten
It's 12 minutes of Harry trying to persuade the Hogwarts toilet inspector that he needs to go into the girls toilets to rescue Hermione from a Troll and that he shouldn't have to show them his genitals first.
Never forget that they had to spend trillions of dollars, build massive data centers, consume millions of galloons of water and insane amounts of electricity, just to kind of do what you can do better with your imagination and a cup of coffee. That's how envious they are of what you can do.
Watching the Hurling, didn’t realise Papa John was such a common Irish surname
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