My other hot take is that I see and appreciate the jokes about how much money Hollywood has spent retrieving a lost Matt Damon but I don't think this one counts since Matt actually got HIMSELF home. He's *learning*

Scarlett O'Hairdye (ScarlettStorm)@scarlettohairdye.bsky.social · 2d ago

My hot take about the Odyssey is that Nolan is being wasted in the streaming era, that movie should come out in a two DVD set and one of the DVDs should just be behind the scenes documentaries

I have a terrrrrrrrible cold, and we're just about to go on the very last leg of our multi-stage trip, to my dad's for a few days before we fly home from the south of England on Thursday. Thoughts and prayers welcome.

Saw this big beautiful feathery dinosaur this week.

Hello I have been travelling in Europe this week and last week. There has been a lot of parenting and childing but it's generally been a very successful trip.

Hear me out: a Pope who is being controlled by a little mouse under his zucchetto. The mouse had a calling to the priesthood (but the Catholic Church won't ordain rodents), and he met the Pope when he was a bored teenage altar server who wanted to make his religious mum happy, so they struck a deal

Me: Complains at length about how my brother and SIL took us on a long roundabout walk and I'm now having a plantar fascitis flare. Mum: Okay so you're coming swimming with us and btw it's a 20min walk there. Me: ... I'm getting an uber, then. Her: ?!????!!!???!!???!

Update: bag did arrive, only 30min after the initial arrival time estimate! I am now wearing my own underwear and shoes, a delight I will never take for granted again.

Toft@toft.bsky.social · 2w ago

WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT OF A 2 HOUR WINDOW ESTIMATE IF AN HOUR INTO IT YOU REVISE THE WINDOW

WHAT IS EVEN THE POINT OF A 2 HOUR WINDOW ESTIMATE IF AN HOUR INTO IT YOU REVISE THE WINDOW

Toft@toft.bsky.social · 2w ago

I'm told our baggage will arrive in the next hour.

I'm told our baggage will arrive in the next hour.

Well, we made it on the second attempt! Our luggage, unfortunately, did not.

Toft@toft.bsky.social · 2w ago

Well, me and HW sat on the tarmac at Boston Logan for 2 hours last night before they announced that the plane would not be leaving due to a maintenance issue, at which point I deplaned a groggy and tearful 6yo and went home. Rebooked for this evening...

woke arabian nights. She/herazade

Well, me and HW sat on the tarmac at Boston Logan for 2 hours last night before they announced that the plane would not be leaving due to a maintenance issue, at which point I deplaned a groggy and tearful 6yo and went home. Rebooked for this evening...

"Everyone can join in even if they can't do the steps." ❤️

AFP News Agency@en.afp.com · last yr.

🇩🇪 VIDEO: Berliners dance to iconic Kate Bush song on Wuthering Heights Day Dozens of Kate Bush fans dressed in red dresses gather in a park in Germany's capital Berlin to dance together to the British singer's cult hit Wuthering Heights.

Massively enjoying the Curse of Chalion!

Phew

Toft@toft.bsky.social · 3w ago

Fingers crossed we go out to Argentina I guess.

Absolutely loving Snacktorio, the new indie game from the studio that made the frog and bee breeding games I got really into in the last year - it's so satisfying. www.tngineers.com/snacktorio

All right, running ads for THE ODYSSEY with the tag line "He's Coming Home" during the England game is inspired

J encountered in the wild yesterday the phrase "Heated Rivalry is the Moby Dick of queer Canadian hockey shows". If you have any ideas as to what this could possibly mean, please do share them with me.

Bad Day (bad dreams, brain full of bees, spilled coffee) until 5min ago, when I ate a muffin and saw a tiny child wearing a very large hat.

I started the new Ann Leckie but I'm finding it weirdly stressful and might have to stop.

Due to my extreme lack of foresight and lack of faith in the England team, I am travelling to the airport with my child for my first ever solo-parenting transatlantic flight at the exact time of the world cup final. If I was by myself I'd just go early to the airport and watch it there, but...

Took HW to his first ever professional haircut, and he did great. Now cool and shorn, he managed to get through the first half of the England game, climbing over me and farting constantly due to the entire bottle of mountain dew he consumed during said cut.

A medieval legend that has sadly fallen out of use in British school nativities is that Joseph brought two midwives to Mary only to find the birth over; they didn't believe when she said she was totally fine and also still a virgin, and she invited them to check. (1/2)

I was waiting for someone to post this.

Stacey Burns@wentrogue.bsky.social · 4w ago

earworm

HW's favorite game atm is to collaboratively build a huge fort with couch cushions and sheets and then play 'school' in it with his stuffies; however after summer camp at a local high school he now demands that the fort/school have an auditorium, theater, and gym.

Offside xkcd.com/3268/

Just want to remind everyone that the original pokemon theme is an absolute banger. youtu.be/wrCUQuJsDYI?...

Pokemon - Gotta Catch 'Em All Lyrics

YouTube video by Lee Jinki

youtu.be

Two thoughts re: Farage vs Count Binface: 1) it is hilarious that apparently Lawrence Fox is also running and he is not even worth a mention because nobody gives a shit 2) J said, "I hope Count Binface is prepared to win"

I did wonder if I had dreamed this in a gin fuelled state but no. This is where we are. A nation watching a farcical joke candidate who degrades the very concept of representative democracy take on a man with a bin on his head.

Jessica Elgot@jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 4w ago

NEW - Greens won’t stand in Clacton. So it is Nigel Farage versus Count Binface.