It never quite occurred to me how the prefix ob- (or indeed o-) can just be whatever the hell you want

Friday! Lunchtime! No slop! ALL GUNK! Stop looking at the news, it is HORRIBLE - look at some lovely internet instead. The internet loves you. The internet cares. Web Curios! Share! Enjoy! Click! Marvel! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-30...

Wonderful @secondmentions.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

This is an incomprehensibly unceasing source of childish amusement for me. My personal favourite was Hainview Wainview Plainview from There Will Be Blood

This is a sentence?

Friday! Lunchtime! Something to line your, er, mental stomach with as you careen from one drinks party to the next! All of the material you could EVER need to help you talk to that weird guy from accounts (unless YOU are that weird guy from accounts)! Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-05...

This question is so terribly phrased

I'm not sure Zach realises what he may have unleashed

It’s always worth remembering that this utterly horrific wave of mass death inflicted on some of the poorest people in the world was for literally nothing. It hasn’t even been for some monstrously cynical benefit to someone, it hasn’t saved money. It is just some of the purest nihilism imaginable

This is very cute. It reminds me of going to see an ice hockey match. They announced "please welcome the Toronto Maple Leafs" and these four very elderly men plodded out onto the ice. I said to my now fiancée "I don't think we stand much of a chance".

Happy Saturday! Presuming you are not marching to, er, 'unite' the country, why not spend your afternoon with some internet (the good, non-radicalising sort)? Web Curios! The semi-acceptable face of 'too online'! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-12...

Ignore what is a rather beautiful afternoon (in southern England, at least) and instead pay attention to my words and other people's (excellent) links in this week's fun-packed* edition of Web Curios *Definitions of 'fun' may vary webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-08...

@adjwilson.bsky.social has just pointed out that I bear a striking resemblance to Emile Zola. There are many worse historical doppelgangers

Som and I have just happened across the international glossary of shit. I love that it was produced by a proper academic international development organisation. She hits me every time I say the Bengali word though archive.ids.ac.uk/clts/sites/c...

The Tiny Awards are a fantastic project to celebrate all the wonderful little things that are still out there online. Have a look

Very happy to see that, after last year's very inadvisable nesting location, the swans in Burgess Park have this year successfully hatched a brood of half a dozen signets

Omg what??? The baby is being chucked out of the bar/womb??

Just spotted the Hellraiser series on VHS tapes neatly arranged into a formation on top of a bus stop on Old Kent Road. What does it mean?

Why is there a young Kent Brockman in the crowd at the monorail opening?

Was listening this morning to a short radio interview with the author of this book, Ghosts of Iron Mountain, which sounds fascinating. Desperately hoping the QAA podcast invites Phil Tinline on for a deeper discussion soon @travisview.bsky.social @annieknk.bsky.social @jakerockatansky.bsky.social

Heartily endorse this. It's a great way to find hidden gems

Is he/she...dabbing?

Big fan of this guy

Minor point but implying that Lancashire also has an east (or non west) coast is a great way to rightly erase Yorkshire

Look at this face we spotted at the theatre last night

Today I discovered (in Manchester of all places) that a version of Vimto has been manufactured in Saudi Arabia for over 80 years and is very popular at iftar parties

Ah yes, the five stages of difficulty

Sadly the inquisitive canine's references don't check out

The vanality of evil

So for anyone who, for whatever reason, can't quite get on board with a 10,000 word newsletter each week, @shardcore.bsky.social has kindly reseurrected the CurioBot - all the links from Web Curios in your feed, and you don't have to wade through ANY of my words to get them (although you still can)!

Friday! Lunchtime! LOTS OF AMAZING LINKS! Web Curios! webcurios.co.uk/webcurios-15... (NB - to anyone who doesn't know what this is, Web Curios is a weekly newsletter full of interesting links. It is far too long, and most people who encounter it dislike it quite viscerally)

Saw this product in the shop and couldn't help myself

TIL there's a league table of the best and worst trig points in the UK trigpointing.uk/trigtools/hi...

Turns out Nic Cage was a firebrand in the Greek war of independence