This has to be a bad machine translation, right? Surely this cannot be serious

www.intellinews.com/iraq-bans-la... they're right to do this

numerous times in my life I've started working out again only to immediately get felled by some kind of cold/flu hybrid, and I realize it's a coincidence, but I want to believe it's some kind of body humours healing crystal thing. the workout dislodged dormant calcified kennel cough viruses

living in the UK for as long as I did gave me a useful concept to describe people like this. We get weird about it in American English, and the Brits win on this one because it is a genuinely helpful term: these people are cunts. They're not motivated by anything other than being cunts. That's it!

American microbrewery culture has made inroads in the French-speaking world, with all the same design elements and branding, but something about this particular name feels unsettling somehow

with the caveats up front that this is not a hugely common expression for annoyance, and there are tons of other ways to say it in French ("tu me fais chier" being particularly evocative), there is the funny aside that the phrasing here would be closer to something like "you're putting bees on me"

another @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social script complete and I found myself struggling to find a 21c comparison for what it would be like to be an 1820s fan of Byron's work and then he suddenly reappears to fight in Greece. And then it occurred to me: what if Jeff Mangum joined ISIS

I think about this tweet every day

I guess I've been Swiss longer than I realized

erika kirk and bari weiss considering what the existence of a just god would mean for their worldviews

I find this baffling because recent episode writing has required me to learn a bit about what UK grammar school education was like in the late 18c / early 19c and it was 1) only a tiny rarefied elite who went to school 2) they had to learn rote memorization of Virgil 3) they *hated* it

new service allows 3000% increase in your phone calling you fat

no idea

best of luck with that. I'm embracing the fucked up off thos beans lifestyle

christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)

Me, researching Lord Byron for LLBD: so, Byron absconded with a teenage Greek boy, stranded him in Malta, made a show of writing him into his will and then removed him as soon as he could, and then never spoke to him again? That's... insanely fucked up even by 1811 standards? 20C Byron scholars:

I've given thought to what would be the most accurate description of what Geneva is actually like as a city, and it's the following: Final Fantasy 8 but in French language localization. And, crucially, everyone is Portuguese somehow

Somehow this garnered the most annoying interactions I have ever received online. Just need to get some kind of cutesy embroidered picture of a cat with text that reads "Thank you for sharing that with me! This doesn't have anything to do with what I was talking about though!"

rented a car for an upcoming weekend trip and: after 11 years of not owning a car and not driving more than once a year tops, I can say with utmost conviction that I absolutely hate driving and it's terrible

Just finished researching a Lions episode that we recorded today which required me to read documents in Middle French, and I am happy to say that I can understand just about all of it, but actually reading it feels like I've smoked K2

This is my absolute worst nightmare

Not that anything matters anymore but just on a personal level that mid 2010s period where these people got to feel like staunch antiracists by opposing the only viable left wing alternative to the shitshow we’re facing now was some of the most galling stuff I’ve ever lived through

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

a left-of-center charles murray type who argues that we must stop blaming the myriad problems of southern whites on their diseased culture and instead accept that southern whites are genetically inferior

Mario Kart: Double Dash contains a bizarre "eternal European pain" glitch whereby being burned when entering a pipe will cause the character to remain in pain indefinitely, but only in the European version.

so one time when I walked into a gay bar with an accurate WW2 field officer uniform (for halloween) I nearly gave a regular a heart attack cause he met his first love in the service and thought he was dying.

moving a bunch of 125cc motorcycles and a coworker was like, "it's fine, I can ride this one up the hill, I know how to ride a fucking motorcycle." He almost made it and then flipped it backwards, causing him to immediately down the hill. He was fine and the bike was a piece of shit anyway

I got into making music well into middle age because of podcast / video production, and then writing songs for TF. I loved Rumours as a kid and as a young adult because it whips. And now that I can much more clearly recognize what's going on musically / technically, I can say: holy shit it whips

That they appointed an antideutsch German gentile academic to enforce the new red lines seems too perfect, like you were inventing a worst-case scenario

Cool photo I took a few seconds after waking up when Joe Camel hit me with his car

Throw more batteries at him

Please check all that apply

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

Proposed designs for the Cheney Memorial in Washington D.C. have been released:

Air Bud Returns (2026)

Okay what the fuck, how is this real and how is it so insanely good youtu.be/xrlwESkntIk?...

the worst era for pop music was (UserProfile: BirthYear+13) to (UserProfile: BirthYear+21). that was total dogshit. everything else pretty much fine

Second night in a row of this. What is going on

Funny parenting moment but also weirdly disorienting in a way: why is it that my daughter always falls asleep when I sing a song about how there is no hope for anything ever

Monday Patreon update is posted for free. We had so much fun revisition Fight Club that @inthesedeserts.bsky.social and I want to keep this going. Click the link to vote between Pulp Fiction, Heathers, Natural Born Killers, and American Psycho www.patreon.com/posts/141647...

If Keir starmer really wants to prove he’s not antisemitic he’ll riot with Maccabi Tel Aviv. Anything less he may as well be Hamas.

Having a lovely time on holiday in Cyprus. And also my observations in a hotel that is admittedly bougie as hell has me once again swearing by one of my basic guiding principles in life: I'd rather end my own life than be rude to hospitality staff

very strange feeling seeing this happen at the paper where I got my very first bylines a long time ago. I can't even make sense of how the university could do this so arbitrarily

People ask me how I visualize success and there's all sorts of cogent ways to explain it, but inside my head I've already got it visualized and unfortunately it's this