Local urban legend says (so probably not true but a fun story) the Freiburg Münster's 13th century stonemasons were fired by the Mayor, but told to finish the gargoyles before they left, so this one is pointing towards Freiburg City Hall 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

This year’s cultural experience:

Anyone complaining about Australian public transport should watch this. I so want to catch this train now. “Inside Albania’s LAST Passenger Train - It’s SHOCKING” www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDie...

The Something appears to be worsening. I have an ultrasound booked for tomorrow but the GP is off work again until Monday and the surgeon is still on leave , so that’s… fun.

Managed to get in to see my GP about a physical issue that arose just before Xmas. Apparently I do have a noticeable Something Odd that warrants investigation!

I worked the first day back after Xmas and I did not acquire any new urgent nonsense! Score one for advance volunteering for urgent nonsense BEFORE Xmas. I have secured some tricky/interesting work arising from my pre-Christmas nonsense, which should spice up my life in the coming months.

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

I will never get my head around the strain of queer academic culture that has people writing in some detail about their sex life in the same online spaces that they conduct their Public Intellectual persona (blogs, twitter, etc).

Accurate

@bedlamsbard.bsky.social I did not realise you were on here! Hooray.

Nachos is a Christmas movie

Spoke too soon. Strategically placed Yearning Gifs have sucked me in.

she has defeated every Christmas ghost and now must rest

BREAKING NEWS: Gävlebocken has collapsed due to strong winds! Just like when it was devoured by birds in '23, nature steps in when man fails to step up! @sarahz.bsky.social

Just the worst OpSec imaginable.

🇹🇭 An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, conservation authorities and an NGO said Friday. ➡️ u.afp.com/S8Wc

Sigh. Turns out, if you’ve been hovering somewhere between half the standard and 2/3 the standard t dose and you finally get around to strategising & remembering to increase it (ugh, so. Much. Gel). You may in fact experience a spike in some of the well-known consequential effects.

The fact that she includes one of CS Lewis most famous nonfiction books as an example of a book by a “forgotten” white man tells me everything I need to know.

I am in my house but the cats are not back yet. Very sad.

Oh no Australia's weirdest niche sports stat is back! Boxing Day Test* finishes before first Sydney-Hobart yacht: 1986 ENG d AUS 1991 AUS d IND 1996 WI d AUS 2006 AUS d ENG 2021 AUS d ENG 2025 ENG d AUS *Must start 26/12 Cricket 6 - Yachts 39

I've been thinking about this sign for 6 months. a phrase I'll treasure forever. a metaphor with boundless potential

I cut up boiled chicken for Aces every night at 6pm because it helps with his digestion. When I put it on the floor tonight, he refused to eat a bite until I rubbed his belly for what he considered an adequate amount of time. What the fuck am I doing with my life?

In the process of boarding a train and walking through in search of seats I have knocked the cap off a bottle of hot sauce. There’s no way this can end badly!

Egregious!

Is it wrong that I'd pay full list to pre-order the hardback of John Scalzi's Nipples of Grimdark (Volume one of the ApocaTits Saga)? Definitely. Do I care? Nah...

A small child I am related to has been gifted a Robot Dinosaur That Eats Cars. All it needs is a space laser to achieve peak Toy For Boys, A+.

This… honestly I’d expect that more than of the other 98% there’s also a chunk who have those same questions but don’t call for whatever reason.

I’m working again from the 30th but I actively enjoy working in the Liminal Time. In my current job that means I’m either doing New Tasks that occur during Liminal Time, or it’s like cheating, getting ahead on the work that’s scheduled assuming we return to work on 5 Jan. Cunning!

I’ve always said Somaliland deserves recognition since it has been de facto independent for ages, but this is, shall we say, a potentially spicy moment in their quest to be considered a full member of the global community of nations

Trans rights and trains supremacy.

people are still reposting this even though it’s no longer christmas. i regret to inform you that the time for being gay is over, you can now only reminisce

I . What. Did I miss something? I was expecting the US to fire on Venezuela, did I miss an entire global politics subplot involving Nigeria?

@shadowspar.bsky.social hi! I was looking at my DW list of friends who are rarely if ever On There anymore and realised I hadn’t thought to look you up elsenet since the X-odus.

The traditional post Xmas report: traffic northbound on the M1 backed up for miles leading to Hexham. Lovely clear run southbound though. Bye, unfortunate northgoers!

Gosh this is glorious. I’d love to see Dinklage in some Shakespeare villain roles (or… Hamlet. I bet he’d do a great Hamlet), too, mind, but give him more of the oaf characters please and thank. I know Falstaff is usually typed as tall and broad as well as fat but please, please 🙏

Well, as long as we’re alternating the movies: Hey dol! merry dol! ring a fucking dong dillo!

Please enjoy your Saturday as much as Clara, who is delighted to find that this time when all her people got in the car, she’s going in the car too.

There once was a man from Nantucket. Just one, but that was enough. In hindsight, I'm not even sure you could call it a man. Nobody sets foot in the exclusion zone anymore.

The real problem with this is that it is a fascist conception of nationhood, known as Volksgemeinschaft. It imagines a nation as a “family” that can “adopt” new citizens. It also calls for subjects to obey their rulers like parents and subordinate rights to duties, which is exactly what V calls for.

“Your honour, I move for a directed verdict. How can my client Cain have known that smashing his brother over the head with a rock would kill him if nobody had ever died before?”

In the warmth of our yellow sun, our little alien baby agent orangey feels at home on her adopted planet. We’re happy she crash landed here.

it's funny how bookseller is considered a quiet, sedate and well, 'bookish' profession when we were the purveyors of banned and unwholesome thought and pornography for centuries and were constantly being prosecuted for it

Relatable. This was me with graduate school.

Do you need some direction in your post-Christmas life? Well... First: sit back & enjoy this dog from 1923, described as "the eel's eyebrows."* Then: ask yourself what you can do today to earn such adoration? Now: go forth to glory! *Not eels'. ONE eel's eyebrows. THE eel.

one thing that is very interesting to me about this recent wave of "won't anyone think of the poor white man" is how the authors basically do not consider queer white men to be white men if that makes sense. like I am a White Man TM but I am also trans and gay so these articles are strange to read

and tiny tim, who survived in the flesh but suffered the spiritual death of excommunication for his adherence to the emperor and the antipope in the matter of investiture, being stricken by the sword of anathema entrusted to us by st peter, of whom our lord said, 'thou art peter, and upon this ro

“You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long fucking time to say.”