happy rectangular february, sunday-first world.

today's list is: - laundry - grading, at least one but maybe two big assignments - planning outfits/packing for this week's work trip - extract, inventory, and weed out everything under the bed

Art Deco Kimono. The composition of this kimono features dramatically stylized fans rendered as angular, overlapping diagonal bands in rich purple, rust orange, olive green, cream, and deep black, creating a dynamic visual rhythm that suggests movement and vitality. Taisho (1912-1926), Japan

Tit of the Day: Himalayan Black-lored Tit 📷 Nitin Chandra

What a lovely feeling to click through and hiss "yesss" at only the first page of vids, going by title/fandom alone

❤️

her delivery of "com-pu-ters?" in this is iconic

When you leave the classification part of the process to something lacking a human brain. Am picturing some very confused waste management engineers 😂😬

was no one going to tell me it's #goblinweek??

popping to 7/11 do you guys need anything

teaching starts this week, which means i'm fighting the marking from last semester while pretending i'm ready for this semester

Professional mouser for hire! Inquire below 🐈‍⬛

written in the crusted winter crud on the side of a bus: "the dirt holds me together"

written in the crusted winter crud on the side of a bus: "the dirt holds me together"

turns out my shirt has been on back to front the whole day

Would Mrs. Ethel Bromide, owner of a 1944 Pantaloon Roadster, please advise her husband, currently parked outside the Pluto Cummerbund Factory, to cease boiling soup using the car's cigarette lighter.

I did follow up on this, and while they promised that the email did get sent, it never arrived. more the fool me for not making an account and logging in first! (i was only buying through them for a teeny 27p cashback per round trip, bc small wins are fun 😬)

it's been an intense couple of weeks (offline things!) and i am completely justified in taking a lazy day before diving back in to the tasks

i'm just a little guy, innocently trying to cast burnout syndrome from phone to my tv, and the youtube app has now disconnected three times and i've barely started part 3. pls yt i am begging 😭

I have one more task for today and will be scraping together every scrap of attention and focus to get it across the line. It's already gone 6pm, wish me luck 😬

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

I thought I could get one more undergrad essay marked tonight, but the next one on my pile started strong with discussion of a 20s flapper film - neat! hardly anyone picks that film for this question! - before comparing it to Black Panther, for some reason (it wasn't a comparison question!!)

If you people would just bring your own shovels to work as I asked you to, we'd all get home sooner today.

In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies. I have translated some of the highlights

Charley Harper, "Darwin's Finches", from "The Giant Golden Book of Biology", 1961

started / going

museums are cool because the people who work there are like look at this neat thing and you're like wow that is neat and you just do it over and over again until it is time to go

today I have two meetings that I am not prepared for, need to get loads of marking shifted in between, and at some indeterminate time a guy is coming by to do the electrical safety certificate check which means turning off the power (and that I'll have to put away some laundry...)

I made a vid! Heated Rivalry, what a surprise. archiveofourown.org/works/77973076

We've extended the deadline, so you have another week to submit your programming ideas for VidUKon 2026! Share your ideas for vidshows, panels or other programming events by Sunday 25 January. Info and submission form can be found over at DW: vidukon-cardiff.dreamwidth.org/69644.html

once again, awake at 4:30am once again, listening to my downstairs neighbour's snoring as I try to get back to sleep

John Boorman is 93. This anecdote about him & Lee Marvin has quite the punchline.

Bad Bunny Super Bowl promo is beautiful. Hate is so embarrassing. Imaging being against everyone together dancing to good music 🥹🥹🥹

take time to celebrate the little wins, such as catching a sneeze in time to set down your full mug of hot tea and thereby averting disaster

Please don't ask me why my brain works like this, because I don't have an answer

Here I am, a factory worker enjoying his lunch in the North End of Boston on January 15, 1919. I’ve survived the influenza pandemic, I’m feeling good about life, and I’ve never been more confident I will not be swallowed up by a flood of liquid sugarcane extract

due to various excitements and also the crushing stress of marking season I haven't slept well in days, and my guts are in rebellion. fun!

both things are well on track to a swift resolution, much quicker than expected, which is unexpected but also exhausting one is a work thing (oh for locked accounts!) but I will absolutely yell about the other in less vague terms once it's more real

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

Morning commute made more stressful by the train tickets I just bought not turning up in my inbox. Pls sir, my QR codes, I need them,,

new comic time! 😪 www.patreon.com/chuckdrawsth...

Funny how “most divorced woman ever” and “most divorced man ever” have such diametrically opposed energies

Thinking about that time the My Little Pony comics, of all things, absolutely bodied Scott Adams.

there has already been action on both points 👀🤞 and also I have marked one (1) more assignment

turns out a big downside to setting recorded presentations instead of essays is that I can't use background music to help me focus on marking

today had many things, but not enough marking and maybe tomorrow I can blitz through so many assignments hopefully the two main things today both swiftly resolve in the way I'm hoping, despite relying on other people to pick up on my focused & persuasive mind control waves and make correct choices

you will have to pry the millennial “lol” from my cold dead hands. i don’t know how else to express minor despair. if i didn’t say “lol” after admitting i’m a husk inside, i’d have to develop emotional resilience, and i simply don’t have time for that

One out of 12 rams is uninterested in females. Deemed “non-procreative" by farmers, they're typically sent to slaughter. German farmer Michael Stücke rescues the gay rams. His company Rainbow Wool, sells fabulous wool products from his flock of gay sheep. rainbow-wool.com