Stokes out for a duck and Root gets a century seems fitting somehow #Ashes

Sometimes you can find remnants of what the Internet used to be like: mini-essays, albeit often quite idiosyncratic and quirky, on random topics by well-informed amateurs. This page is from 1996 and talks about the PRC's character simplification. zhongwen.com

trying to eat soup in the shower would be a nightmare, you'd be in there forever. you'd get so full.

Truly blessed to have both Starc and Carey #ashes

Hopefully you can say the same on Tuesday

Cricket on today

Some kind of Yakov Smirnoff punchline appropriate here www.brisbanetimes.com.au/politics/fed...

I miss dining in CBD food courts. Saw old mate in an absolutely immaculate three-piece suit chowing down on sushi in like 50 seconds flat

Mad keen runners www.hobbitontours.com/halflingmara...

Hobbits, famously obsessed with fitness

Currencies are like writing systems in that they all end up deriving from like 5 originals (florins/guilders, thalers, denarius, rupees and yuan)

Farewell to the Bulgarian lev

I hope Damien Martyn is OK.

I always tell students if you ask a good question the article will write itself

Gregory of Tours describing a historical event ▶️🔘───────── 00:07 Gregory of Tours about that one guy miraculously healed from hiccups, St Martin be praised ▶️🔘───────── 7:35:12

So many arguments about "what went wrong" in Melbourne that don't mention the words "drop-in" anywhere. Curious!

In 2026 I'm calling time on unnecessary line breaks. If your point is strong enough then you don't need them. This is what LinkedIn needs to hear. The truth.

post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains

I don't really know what "cultural impact" means? Objectively most movies, even the really, really successful ones, have no "cultural impact" in the sense that people quote their dialogue and make memes about them all the time.

I get what this person is saying but why is "it can't be parsed by rigidly logical rules" the linguists' problem? Most languages aren't Lojban; human language seems not to tend towards language that is parsable in logically consistent ways. Blame the ~language organ~/human cognition if you want

Didn’t want to be watching cricket anyway

I had no idea!

Tbh I don't think journalists should discuss this photo without mentioning that it was an ad for Samsung

If you think we don't need to look at how ironic detachment is used as an abusive dynamic that denies filial piety and causes long lasting elder abuse, you are the proverbial sapiosexual idiot 🌐

Scott Boland got a golden duck, 3/30, a catch, and more runs than Root/Duckett/Bethell combined today

Jurgen Klopp is advertising Trivago?? #Ashes

Aussies to bat all day tomorrow, declare at drinks on Sunday morning, and we're celebrating victory by stumps on day 3. As a day 3 ticket holder, that's my fervent hope.

Atktinson set to double England's total here. Unstoppable IMO #Ashes

We have to have a hard conversation about whether the MCG is suitable for first class sporting events

Oh my goodness #Ashes

GOTTIM #Ashes

You'd be dirty at the curator if you had tickets for Day 3

Listen to Dr Luke

Australia clearly should have gone harder at Noosa #ashes

Merry Cricketmas to all who celebrate! Ping @chrisoregan.bsky.social, FYI.

@chrisoregan.bsky.social you know what time it is? Cricket time

When decimalisation occurred in 1966, the Australian government compiled an 81 page file on dangers of using decimal coins in Christmas puddings. There was a media campaign warning people not to use the new coins in their cooking. The file is now digitised. recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetri...

Cricket on tomorrow (if you want it)

Happy Christmas! Cricket on tomorrow.

"Retelling written by an Asian author" Me (thinking): the book of earthly treasures by hong xiuquan

Drancis Forf Coppola

That's right.

Sir,

I can still do the old school writing on my left palm with my right index finger while counting strokes in the radical. Admittedly sometimes several times! 😛

Pondering the other day how hard it is to look up 汉字 when all you have is a paper dictionary, and then considered it's no wonder that the literati were in control of China for so long

It would be very funny if England win this test. Awful, but funny.

Am planning to watch the heck out of the cricket unless there are any objections