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Fidget pendants are back in stock! For immediate shipping: carnelian, rose quartz, blue goldstone, tiger's eye. oishiny.etsy.com/listing/1604... (If you want a different stone, see previous posts upthread.) Last chance for US Xmas shipping is Thursday night, 11th Dec, to go out Fri morning.

I’ve worked in public libraries for 20 years, today was the first time we’ve had to tell someone they couldn’t bring their chainsaw in the library.

lol!

Discworld QOTD, from Unseen Academicals "The Office of Master of The Traditions had fallen inevitably on Ponder Stibbons, who tended to get all the jobs that required someone who thought that things should happen on time and that numbers should add up."

Raul Malo, the soulful tenor and frontman of the genre-defying, Grammy-winning band The Mavericks, has died. He was 60. https://to.pbs.org/4abH3Fv

#FountainPen pals - are Moleskine journals as sub-par as I hear chat about? (Not short of notebooks, but there's an embossing freebie at work tomorrow...)

whomst amongst us

THIS! i think there is an entire generation of political leaders and consultants who don't actually know how to *lead* a political movement and think their job is just following polls

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Good Lord

Have just been reminded that my friend Christina once overheard the following in Waitrose: it’s perfect. “Mummy, does Lego have a silent T on the end like Merlot?”

The designer of Times New Roman, Stanley Morrison, was a conscientious objector in 1916 and was imprisoned for his pacifist beliefs. These dipshits can't even vice signal without screwing it up.

New labradorite time! Just added 5 freshly wrapped oval pendants: oishiny.etsy.com #Handmade #ShopIndie

This is really neat - I don't know a huge amount about holiday movies, but I've always said romance and horror seemed like cousins, and this goes into things like genre rules, knowing when to bend them or not to.

it's sonic the clayhog

Okay now this is a funny airline story www.jalopnik.com/2044463/air-...

Syniad rhad ac am ddim ar gyfer eich cyngherddau Nadolig :

Leroy Anderson's "Sleigh Ride," but at the end they get out someone dressed as Mari Lwyd to do the whinny noise

AITA for perpetuating ethnic stereotypes about orange cats?

...Fourth Earl of Chumley.

Thread of importance this season 👇

Thing I learned today: “duck tape” is a far older term than “duct tape.” It used to be made with cotton duck. “Duct tape” is a combination of people trying to make sense, and its association with post war use in HVAC systems. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape

How many thousands fixing up all the little junctions off the Woodstock Road, and they can’t fix whatever it is that causes them all to flood horribly wherever it rains?!?

movies were made for when you have to hand-sew a bunch of tedious bullshit. thousands of years of sewing ancestors are looking down on me second-screening something while repairing my jeans and going yes yes yessssss

Daniel Day Lewis came out of Instagram retirement to show support for Paul Dano. King shit.

"And what did you do in the gender wars Granny?" "I shouted at some biscuits"

Reading through this revolutionary war RPG book and I love it. Who wants to be an elf or a gnome when you could be from Ohio!?

This is nauseating... www.icrc.org/en/article/i...

Just a reminder that there's a Will Shakespeare miniseries from the heyday of BBC historicals starring Tim Curry as Shakespeare and Ian McShane as Marlowe, and it's on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpxC...

Out of nearly 100 qrts, there was EXACTLY one that rightfully called out this article as clickbait and provided a contextual screenshot of what they actually meant This isn't Gen AI, nor is it a misinformed executive. It's the same team that weathered the CGI boom saying they're ready for round two

Decision in the Sandie Peggie case. She was not directly or indirectly discriminated against, her claim of victimisation fails entirely, her claim of harassment fails largely and her claim against Beth Upton fails entirely. www.judiciary.uk/judgments/sa...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The conflict between "No heritage artefacts have been affected by this damage" & "between 300-400 works, mostly books, were affected by the leak - and that the count was ongoing." It's ok, it was just 19thC "Egyptology journals" and "scientific documentation."...

"Emperor Tiddles! We have just received a report! The Earthman yet lives!" "WHAT? GORDON'S ALIVE?"

If you sell a wide range of art materials but don’t charge extra to post to Highlands & Island of UK , lmk of your existence!!

"Well as I look at my watch now it is... a quarter after five. In Las Vegas it is... still swingin'." Happy birthday, Sammy Davis Jr. I give you one of the most thrilling introductions ever to a live album. I bet the MC5 wouldn't be this energetic at 5.15am. youtu.be/QFw0ye4jJEE?...

Had to explain to a 20 year old medical student what "try the link in a different browser" meant. God help us all.

Please sign and share this UK Parliamentary petition for an automatic right to treatment by FFP2/3 masked staff, safe air and ventilation in every setting and stronger infection control: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

Taken a chance at going past the ring road and got tickets to see Merrily We Roll Along at the Phoenix on Friday. More seats were already sold than I expected!

Frank Gehry had good taste beyond architecture it seems. @theobserveruk.bsky.social

The Metrosport was designed by British specialist coachbuilder Rapport as the first open-top conversion of the then-new Austin Metro. When Rapport hit financial trouble, the design was taken on by a small outfit in Abingdon, although it seems few were made. #weirdcarbs

And here is my other grandchild, Morty the Void, experiencing Christmas wonder ✨😻✨ #CatsOfBsky #BskyCats #VoidCats #OneBraincell #YuleCat #TwinkleEyed

Pa fath o arweinydd sydd ddim yn gwbod bod hyn yn mynd ymlaen, Mistar Ffarij? "Three more Farage bloc MEPs alleged to have followed Russian asset’s script". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just discovered that the Levantine Arabic word for dice is “nerd”. Impossible to be a coincidence

every librarian reading this and thinking about all the signage people just walk by

als ich merkte, dass der Herd noch an ist