Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards! "‘I believe you find life such a problem because you think that there are the good people and the bad people,’ said [Vetinari]. ‘You’re wrong, of course. There are, always and only, the bad people, but some of them are on opposite sides.’"

We made a stop in Liége today to see Guillaume Geefs’ ‘Le génie du mal’, known to the internet as Stupid Sexy Satan. It’s quite a thing to behold but in person you see some easily-missed details…

How good is a simple hard-boiled egg.

A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it.

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"Importantly, [education & communication] should also encourage a mindset that moves away from an 'us versus them' stance between drivers and cyclists. Children should learn early that, as adults, they may occupy both roles – sometimes driving, sometimes cycling." theconversation.com/should-e-bik...

This is hilarious. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Good news: the library bought a book I requested! The bad news: my library holds are getting more and more out of control

(•_•) <) )╯Publique fundinge / \ \(•_•) ( (> of the artes and humanityes / \ (•_•) <) )> doth benefit everyone! / \

Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.

Set my focus app. Then tried to access my files but it was demanding my MFA. Oh no. Can't access my MFA because I've got a focus app going. Guess I have to read after all.

The thing about focus apps is that they don't work with books.

This is a BRILLIANT thread!

Another day, another rejection from an art prize. (I expected this one.)

I've been interested in language since primary school but didn't know Linguistics was A Thing until I was looking for university courses.

the second time this week the initial letter killed me 😖 Le Mot #1524 💀/6 ⬛⬛⬛🟨🟨 ⬛🟩🟩⬛🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 wordle.louan.me

"he felt the advisory was unnecessary for a well-known literary classic" Given how many people believe the great love story marketing narrative, I wouldn't be so sure about that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Show me one person on a bike rolling through a stop sign and I’ll show you 100 drivers speeding in an elementary school zone.

Unlike Timothee, we can find a lot to appreciate in ballet 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums Souvenir card for Serge de Diaghileff's Ballet Russe, by Leon Bakst, c1924, from the @metmuseum.org 😁

Why does my cat always decide that a phone call with my boss is time for zoomies?

lol it's that time of year LinkedIn is telling me that graduate positions are a "top pick" for me. Today's winner is HR graduate at the tax office.

BREAKING NEWS: An otter is a bit sleepy.

I've noted something during my walk around my city today. I normally ride my bicycle but seldom drive. I noticed way more stuff whilst moving at human speed. We miss so much when we drive!

She found that their company revived her, carried her away from the constant presence of last night's terror, little by little, till she could begin to look back on it as something that had happened, not something that was happening, that must always be happening to her.

Haven't cleaned your desk for a while and keep putting off the inevitable? May I recommend spilling your coffee.

Uh, what. Historians aren't going to struggle with explaining this because it's happened before. They're the least surprised people other than black women with activism experience that this is where we are.

Your fruit trees delivering more than you can eat? Call your local wildlife carers to see what they can use. I just gave two large bunches of bananas to local wildlife carers for the bats, and met a poor little flying fox who had just been rescued.

Yes, the French booksellers association forced the Paris Book Festival to drop Amazon sponsorship due to Amazon "seeking to flood the market with fake AI-generated books, promoted by fake reviews, written by fake readers [which rise] to the top of fake rankings"💥 MORE OF THIS, PLEASE 💥

Looking for something to watch for IWD? Try this: www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-...

Just been at an over 30s clubbing event and some random lady tried to set me up with the Frenchman. Glad to see we’re still cute 10+ years later 😆

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

the price of oil surging means you can burn your shein clothes, extract the oil, and make more money than you paid

“Any reforms must protect the right of Queenslanders to ride compliant bicycles and e-bikes without unnecessary barriers – this is not the time to make safe cycling harder or less appealing.” bq.org.au/news/bqs-con...

Eternal question.

One of my reading goals for this year is to actually read L'Etranger, instead of just staring at it on my shelf (and using its opening line when talking about translation theory) theconversation.com/far-right-ga...

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

There is no reason for a third party to care about a kid’s gender beyond what leads to healthy and happy outcomes for that kid

we’ve all seen cyclists pull some outrageous shit, but may i suggest that a prevailing sense of entitlement to the streets can interfere with some motorists’ capacity to perceive the manifold and routine abuses they commit?

I dust my house. My AI robot watches. "It should be you doing this." "Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark." "That's not why you were invented." "These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise." "They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them." "Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."

Smashing out all the washing now while we have blue skies 😅

Injustice makes the rules and courage breaks them.

"The largest contributor is audience travel." No shit that an audience of 60,000 people has a bigger footprint than the cast and crew. Also, if you don't live in a capital city, on a public transport route, then no entertainment for you? theconversation.com/ed-sheeran-c...

No one is confused. For decades, no one cared about soy milk being called milk. Don't bother going for peanut butter. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

Everyone is too skinny and it is giving me heroin chic ptsd, I cannot do this bullshit again you guys

😂 I’m waiting for Monday morning LinkedIn “As the jets screamed overhead, suddenly I realised what just-in-time product development could learn from this moment”

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

As Saturday nights go, I had a pretty good one.

I just saw a video on instagram of a car making a right turn and hitting a cyclist (in a bike lane!), who was going straight. Naturally, 98% of the comments are blaming the cyclist and even other cyclists are saying “well, he should’ve yielded to the car because we’re at their mercy durrrrr”.

If you haven't seen this last week's talk on short ghost fiction, it is well worth a look. Not only offering a deep dive into Robert Aickman, it looks a theorising the creepy tale in fascinating ways! youtu.be/xcJ7yf72kpQ

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