But the river Sananda doesn't even flow through Maitreya??

BlueSky: the social media network for kids who were excited when it was a Wet Playtime.

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I know a lot of people think Microsoft Excel is a dreadful piece of software, but I would rate it October 10th.

Lovely Wittgenstein story of just nine words — lower line here

Can’t let Valentine’s Day pass without a bit of poetry, of course. Here’s one by @rtipple.bsky.social from the old place

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

This watermark graffiti by street artist Mathieu Tremblin is, like, the best thing ever.

Oh this is good. This is very good.

In Agadoo did Kubla Khan Push pineapples, shake the tree

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

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An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

Sport FACT: Tennis star Coco Gauff’s full name is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysilio Coco Gauff.

rich dudes got freakier after butlers fell out of fashion, like say what you will about having domestic servants but clearly it was some sort of moderating force on old rich dudes having a fancy man follow you around saying shit like "oh dear sir, that wouldn't be very becoming"

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How delightfully quaint some of these old Devon village names are, their etymologies lost in the mists of time.

If you see this, post a record cover with a motor vehicle on it.

My girlfriend just said I was rubbish at describing her. She's got a cheek.

Just saw that Pizza Hut in the UK could be folding. I think that officially makes it Calzone Hut. Eyethangewe. I’m here all week. Try the veal.

CHOTINER: So you're attending a No Kings protest today. ME: That's right. CHOTINER: But according to Steam, you've played over 450 hours of Crusader Kings 3. ME: Okay, well- Now hold on. That's sort of unfair. CHOTINER: Oh? ME: Sometimes I play as a duke or a count. CHOTINER: I see.

Born this day, Lee Harvey Oswald 🎂 @barneyfarmer.bsky.social

after careful study, I believe only people born between 1975 and 1995 should be allowed to use the internet

How is it that I've never seen this image before?

Here you are: william-golding.co.uk/william-gold...

If you have two followers, you are ahead of half of all Bluesky accounts. If you have 400 followers, you are in the top 1%. bsky.jazco.dev/stats

Wake up Babe, a new euphemism for students getting drunk just dropped

We've recently learned that no England men's international was born in 1976. But what would an England team only of players born that year look like? www.footballtriviagroup.co.uk/england-1976/

I’ve been waiting for a really long time for Sqwerv to be on Nugs. I can’t believe it’s finally here

Big news everyone: Sqwerv is on Nugs

Trying unsuccessfully to work out the correct conclusion to the syllogism

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Q: What is Bluesky’s business model? A: Bluesky doesn’t need a business model. It was founded by the billionaire Bluford Skynard. He filled this site with slightly problematic posts as a riddle. Whoever replies to each one with a minor quibble will solve the puzzle and inherit his fortune

Mathematicians get their kicks on 8.1240384

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)

Love old papers. Fancy having such a list today!

I said I fancied doing an evening class, so my wife booked me on an "Eat Like A Snake” course. That'll teach me to open my big mouth.

There’s a small estate in Colchester commemorating the leaders of the WW2 Allies - Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin. The council has asked the residents of Stalin Road several times if they want to have it renamed, but the answer has always come back ‘No’.

Very important work here from my learned friend @simonjtreanor.bsky.social .

They finally made the milk from that hotel

Graph of British Rivers

Which reminds me - Mark Burgess from The Chameleons is adamant that The Wedding Present's 'Brassneck' is about a girl both he and David Gedge knew at school called Tracy Bassnett.

It was Frank Sidebottom who famously asdked Fish if Kayleigh was about a girl called Kay Leigh. "You're the first person who's guessed that," replied Fish.

God bless the person who donated a fiver, because somehow it makes this even funnier than if he has raised nothing. www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/laurenc...

It IS uncanny, though.

so they're mycoblogging

I don't remember the last time I was this emotionally invested