It's not a river but the closest waterway is this beauty.

You can argue just about anything if you're willing to bullshit hard enough I guess but good lord.

You know what? I think Fierce Corpse Song Lan's interior has great potential as a storage space no one will think of searching.

"British fascism was founded by a tomboy then headed by a femboy" What the hell am I about to discover about Oswald Mosley?

Man, is Dust Bunny ever getting a UK release?

The world is very odd.

Also if anyone is interested in the history of the United States' attempts to topple leaders in South America and install more friendly dictators then you can - and I'm not joking here - download the files from the CIA website.

Wasting my precious life by reading a Who Would Win featuring the most advanced Culture warship. "oh yeah and can the ship get out of solar system range in nano seconds?" "well a less advanced ship covers thirty light years in eleven microseconds"

Days so short the Moon can't even be assed to go home.

I do know that Alpha-gal syndrome is a meat allergy but when I see someone announcing they have Alpha Gal syndrome my automatic mental picture is very different.

Awoken by the sound of fucking artillery reverberating round the houses and turns out my neighbours decided to let off new year fireworks in the back garden. Sparkly.

"I am relying on AI to identify a photo on reddit. I do not care to spend any of my time trying to identify it." Does this person know they're not actually obliged to answer random questions on r/whatisit? It's an optional task with no reward and you're just muddying the waters for the questioner.

I just saw someone argue we shouldn't give ADHD meds to kids and they cited a neuroscientist going "look! This guy says it's basically crystal meth!" I Googled the guy and he does say that, and he follows it up with "so we should legalise meth! I actually tried it and it's nice. :)"

I'm actually curious about these, but not five quid curious.

Absolutely taken out by the notion that the ~historical Achilles led his men on strike for better pay.

The big library in the city has a wide range of resources.

#ai #mozilla #firefox #fuckAI #genAI #fuckGenAI

Borrowed the Murderbot Diaries from the library, comprising three volumes, and they appear to just skip an entire novel. Vol 1, first two Murderbot stories. Vol 2, third and fourth stories. Vol 3... sixth and seventh stories.

Was going to go into Glasgow to try other yarn shops but it seems like they're almost all closed on a Monday. I'm sure they have their reasons but as a shopper, it's sub-optimal.

I discovered there is a gay hockey show and immediately rushed to r/hockey to see what they think about it. Currently reading a thread of men telling each other about how their wives read the books and quizzed them on the topics therein. ("are goalies weird" apparently a popular question)

It's not just social media. Looks like visitors to the US from Europe and other countries that are part of the visa waiver program will have to submit an enormous amount of data about themselves and their families, including DNA, if proposed new rules are accepted

Just got an email from Netflix describing Casablanca as a "beloved franchise" and I dunno if there's another Casablanca or they're planning the Rick Blaine Cinematic Universe.

Today I travelled into Glasgow to buy wool yarn for some simple beginner knitting. Easy, right? Nope. Visited the bargain wool shop - some things did have wool in them, but almost everything had acrylic. Then, the fancy yarn shop. Hand dyed, hand spun, hand combed off the paws of napping lynx.

Listen I am never one to defend the general horrors Britain has committed throughout history, but this is hilarious. Slave ships like "let's disguise ourselves as someone the British won't kick off with!" and bad news, there's no one.

I think I have chilblains on my toes, which seems unfair as they're caused by rapid changes in temperature and I've been keeping my feet pretty cold all the time.

After reading The Wager, I get why it was a ship in the Ship of Theseus thought experiment. In the 1740s ships were basically rebuilt after every voyage. They were battered by weather, rotted by seawater, and eaten by worms, termites and beetles. Ships still being built were already rotting away.

I've been reading The Wager, about a mutiny, and after a couple hundred pages of brutal misery the last few chapters are like a hilarious fever dream with everybody doing the most, including a selection of agreeable Patagonians, one of whom was called Martin.

Incest discourse reaching new heights; just saw someone complaining that Eve was made out of Adam's rib so they have the same DNA. Actual quote: "I do not understand why Eve could not have been made out of clay as well."

What a great writing prompt.

Just upgraded to Android 16 and I find the new system font offensively ugly and there's no way to change it. For fuck's sake. Why does everything get incessantly worse?

Just discovered that for seven years the director of the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs was M. OTHMAN. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazlan_...

Delighted to learn about this Japanese artist who was like, Gaugin in reverse. Saw some Western painting and went "Amazing! Inspiring! I have to get some of this in my art, I'm moving to Paris!" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsuguha...

Several tabs left open because they are for sharing with a particular person who has not yet responded to my last share and I don't want to overload them. Their day will come.

This is a fountain to commemorate Georges Cuvier, a great French naturalist considered by some the father of paleontology. At first I thought Georges Cuvier was depicted as a semi-nude woman - a bold choice - but no, she represents Natural History. I'm sure it's what he would have wanted.

Xue Yang would be a LinkedIn legend.

I would prefer social media not to surreptitiously conceal crude language (undefined) from me but I guess these days that's a pipe dream.

I dreamed it was election day in the US and I opened a rather odd satirical pamphlet to find rainbow unicorn yuri inside. I wake up and it was apparently election day in the US? I proceed with cautious interest.

Listening to a French tour guide earnestly explain that sometimes if he doesn't know the English word for a thing he tries the French word with an English ending. The French: they're just like us, really.

If you've ever wondered how they transported their fancy bicorn hats around without squashing them, wonder no more.

An ancient good boy left his mark here, some nineteen hundred years ago.

This is a great moment for a canon divergence where Jiang Yanli wakes up to find she's been deposited on a random monk and hijacks him for the roadtrip of her choice.

Person who has only played Dishonored 2: getting a real Dishonored 2 vibe from this Mediterranean city.

Butlerian Jihad imminent?

Looking for songxuexiao prompts? Here's a helpful list of Relationship Red Flags Ignored Because They Were Hot. old.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

You know I'm reading The Big Four and it's astonishingly like a Bond novel only instead of a suave spy it's a fussy Belgian detective. Straight up hollowed out mountain base for the secret society intent on dominating the world with atomic power and an honest to god death ray.

Scrolled too fast on Tumblr and thought a passionate "you may think it's wrong to compare this pain to the transatlantic slave trade but -" was in reply to a post expressing solidarity amongst fat girls crying in dressing rooms.

Bring them home. Let them go.

I am not sleeping for normal reasons and my mind is going weird places. For instance: A-Qing is maybe fifteen or sixteen when she dies and I really hope that poor nutrition meant she hadn't reached menarche yet because can you fucking imagine?

OK "jiang cheng got his ass kicked by xue yang entirely offscreen and it just never came up in the story" is the absolute funniest thing. Sure absolutely.