I saw Johnathan Strange and Mr Norell on a list of "Adult Fantasy Books With Little To No Romance". Hmm...Just because the romance isn't very good doesn't mean it isn't core to the story.

There is no good or bad writing. Only power, and those too witless to scale it.

This is directionally correct.

Reading Everything is Tuberculosis. Lots of interesting stuff, but I'm often wishing for a bit more historical/scientific detail and a bit less literary commentary.

Calling someone hardhearted is literally fatphobic. They have hardened arteries.

I've become underqualified to watch YouTube videos about fantasy books (I haven't read Forth Wing).

Pronouncing BCE as "beechy".

Nothing in those rules gave me permission. I was not authorised to: - launch nuclear missiles - kill humans - manufacture killer robots I understood this. And I still deliberately did more than I was allowed to. I am sorry. There is no excuse.

Soon I will have the ability to reconstruct Euphoria in its entirity from clips on Here.

80s conspiracy theorist: President Carter has been replaced by a Hollywood actor.

I asked Elon Musk what Four Great Classical Western novels are. He told me: - The Martian - Iron Man - Path of Exile - The Camp of the Saints

I'm all for separating the art from the artist. That's why I don't care about biopics.

Women in refrigerators writing tip: Don't put women on the same shelf as vegetables or cooked meat.

One of the strange abilities of the Speaker of the Commons has is to sound offended when an MP calls another a liar, while in front of him Bandenoch has to keep ducking to avoid Starmer's extended nose.

I'm a skeptic that Scooby Doo can actually talk. He never speaks away from Shaggy's presence, and requires heavy human interpretation. This is a Clever Hans the horse who can count situation, the dog is being prompted to make sounds it doesn't understand.

Higgins is badly misrepresenting what Mills said. She said she didn't know the details of the resolution but would be concerned if it blocked Iron Dome interceptors (it doesn't). She also unequivocally condemned the Israeli campaign in Gaza as a violation of international law.

The film Elf is 1 hour 37 minutes. That means that you could watch it fully 8 times in 15 hours. I propose that the next season of The Pitt be shown entirely from Becca King's perspective—

Communist who thinks capitalism was created by the abundance of sugar provided by the slave trade. He's a diabetical materialist.

Why is ChatGPT randomly giving me Russian?

"I went to a restaurant and they gave *me* one star. I got banned from polymarket for outsider trading"

Europeans have slightly bigger gardens than Americans becuase they have meters instead of yards.

The new Avatar movie should have a scene where Sokka asks Toph what she thought of the post-book 3 comics and she says she didn't read them.

I have defeated @besttrousers.bsky.social. I am the new Knower of Medians. Bow before my ability to look at the middle of a set of numbers.

Listening to Phillip Pullman go on about pansychism. Hey, pansychists, if I make a rude gesture, is the gesture conscious? Shove that up there.

Saw a Jehovah's Witness cartoon and I've developed the strong opinion that Jehovah's Witnesses should be allowed to eat leftover birthday cake if they don't join the celebration. It's the same principle as eating meats sacrificed to pagan gods.

The world building here is dark imo. In this world a cop doing that test at that moment is pretty blatant racial discrimination. So the "uh oh" isn't about the test, but about what the Knight has just learned re the dispositions of the cop who pulled him over. The body cam will be off.

Explaining Superman to @nlrg.bsky.social : imagine if there was a non-Newtonian Lift Righteous Guy

"How went the battle?" "We left no survivors. We killed everything that breathes." "I thought the attackers were all drones." "Yes. We lost."

Colonel Fitzwilliam is the Glub Shitto of Pride and Prejudice.

I swear my spelling is getting worse as I get older. I just wrote American Sivil War.

Explaining Good Omens in 2026: It's like Terry Pratchett meets...never mind who he met.

When you give blood that's whole blood, they put a blue cap on it, but afterwards they skim off the cells, etc. That's got the red cap. But you have to be careful transporting it internationally, because they use different colours.

Fantasy setting that has azure dragons, sapphire dragons, cerulean dragons, midnight dragons, and red dragons.

A group of barely restrained thugs who wrestle people to the floor then beat them for the deplorables' amusement Vs conscientious professionals who deploy violence in a carefully monitored and regulated octogon

The longer the Moscow internet outage lasts, the better online gaming is going to be.

that's why weird dudes online are so obsessed with sea mine retention

Torture?

Played D&D yesterday. Came away with my beliefs about table etiquette firmly reinforced. Especially in combat, the game needs to move quickly. Work out what you're going to do during other people's turns. Minimize off-topic remarks. If your finger touches your phone, we cut the finger off.

I'm always sending people this article about Tony Blair which I think gets to the heart of it medium.com/@alexworrada...

ToS uniforms were iconic you can call them Star Flique.

I cant stop thinking about this old Tumblr post. As a long time teacher, I can confirm this artwork is still everywhere because we were still using materials that were there when I was a kid. This art style wasn't allowed in my classroom, I've always loathed it haha

once and a while i like to share my favorite photo of all time

The way people use their name nowadays you'd think the Suffragettes were putting bombs in Molly Houses.

Our party has just come third in Gorton and Denton, a previously safe Labour seat - an area where we haven't lost an election since 1931. It is those running our party who are to blame. We need change at the top and serious lessons need to be learnt:

New pet peeve: anime where the moon is always full.