If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

they got the big marmite back in the shops and a member of the royal family has been arrested. pretty good day

it's really great to have your hatred of a politician totally validated

"furious clarity" is incredibly apt

a photo of the dashing handsome little gentleman for all of you kind people

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip (with thanks to @juliarez.placid.horse)

Subscribing to the print edition of The Onion has literally helped keep me sane

I do not understand how mandelson is still both a free man and a member of the house of lords. surely this is a no brainer?

In April 1976, in a café at Cambridge railway station, Douglas Adams bought some biscuits. We know this because he told the story so many times that it somehow opened up a wormhole in the space-time continuum, travelling both forwards and backwards and, intriguingly, sideways in time. (1/some...)

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

not really wild wild, but some winter aconite and snowdrops brightening up st martin's in york #wildflowerhour

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

I regret to inform you that max has done it again, and made another poem that fits seemlessly into all his other poems, revealing the true meaning of each one, and the whole revealing the underlying truth of the universe and also it's pretty good, check it out

golden utmost (11 minutes)

Death Cab for Fugly

Far from home

do you guys hear that bell tolling? wonder who it’s for. it’s so loud lmao

"If you die in the game, you die in real life" is actually true for an awful lot of things, like snooker and backgammon

Yes

dreamt about savoury skittles

interesting

i post this story every christmas, and will keep doing so until it stops making me cry merry christmas xx

love a good silly name thread

watching this in public was a huge mistake, oh my god. the fact he's still eating like he isn't being violently thrown around is killing me.

I am sure someone else has already come to this realization, but Gandalf is basically a neighborhood cat. He has different names for everyone who knows him, disappears for worrisomely long periods, shows up whenever he wants, and no one knows where he comes from, but everyone loves him.

you smoke too much, your took too fool, they'll kill you pippin

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

dedicate your life to the twin and warring gods of precision and wild abandon

my friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory the old lie: dulce et decorum est pro patria moria

let us go then, you and I when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherised upon a table

Okay @erinbiba.bsky.social it’s time for my second-most anticipated annual thread: Cats in Christmas Trees (and Battling Menorahs). Starting off strong with Donut.

what's the reason for the season? I'm not sure, but I do know that SANTA CLAUS IS MADE OF FRACTAL PENISES

I would like all of you, each and every one, to go google “Miss Universe National Costume Competition 2025 Norway” right now

Walter de Staplecat, Simpkin IV, Teabag, Balthasar and Benny D Cat take the stage as we meet the college cats of Oxford. And, of course, Magdalen’s Ozymandias. Read on for our photo special. (Includes a cat map.) oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

Kneesvember 2025 Day 11

kneesvember is here, kneesvember is here!

i am literally begging you to watch this video of Adonis in my arms making biscuits on my bathrobe

cone of shame vs cone of delight

Buster just got up from a nap so please excuse his bed head.

Protein powders aren’t poisoning you, but we need supplement regulation. I wrote an article on the lead in protein powder headlines, actual science (spoiler: it ain’t prop 65 & consumer reports) and what we should be discussing about supplements: Read it here: news.immunologic.org/p/consumer-r...

Meowfeggio 528hz Healing Frequencies ✨️🌌

NAWTY TAIL MUST CATCH

Latest poll puts Greens just two points behind Labour. When I said we weren't here to be disappointed in Labour but to replace them, I meant it. Join us and let's make hope normal again. join.greenparty.org.uk

*deep breath* AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!

oh piss