Nintendo Museum 🤝 Super Mario 64

A Thought: How much of sluggish growth can be attributed to the streaming economy? Can't be great that for many people 2-3% of their income now goes to YouTube, Spotify, Patreon, Netflix, etc, ways of spending money that I can't imagine have much of a productivity multiplier?

Society's success at defining racism as a terrible ill, in large part by highlighting its most extreme forms as an example of where such thinking leads, has also led to a significant number of people willing to accept *only* the most extreme forms as racist.

reminds me of Tom Lehrer's send-up of folk singers: "Remember the war against Franco? That's the kind where each of us belongs. Though he may have won all the battles, We had all the good songs!"

O captain my captain

*Actively trying to repel followers* man the IPPR roller banners are really nice

Who's ready for the party of the season? 🐝🍻

If the asteroid hits Liverpool tonight, the world's supply of Toms, Matts and Simons will be decimated.

The classic Conference View in all its splendour

Quite a *direct* approach I have to say

The Boring Fund will be open for applications in November. If your small UK charity needs (up to) £200 to cover something boring like insurance or web hosting, take a look. They welcome donations too.

Point for Sheffield over Liverpool: the Supertram announcement voice has a Sheffield accent, but the Merseyrail one is not Scouse.

Soft launching my conference arrival: these new Merseyrail trains are very nice!

I wish the Fabian Society had the power and wealth some people claim because my client base would look a lot more impressive

Superb. I, a 30 year old man, have developed Freshers Flu. Both quite poorly and lacking dignity.

I can never remember which of Wheatus and Weezer is the one I like. Then I remember it's both of them.

I get sometimes you need to reform how things work and people are using postal services less, but "they won't deliver any post to your door anymore" is mental

This skeet inspired a masochistic act of self searching and I'm glad I could inspire such a delightful OC

A particular favourite from Duolingo Japanese

Wake up babe, new Geronimo just dropped

That's right! Avoid eye contact as I try to hand you a flyer *in person*!

I cannot believe the Americans haven't found this yet

My favourite low-level mystery today is Sheffield's Most Incongruously Japanese Building

my daughter really captured my essence in this portrait of me “at work”

Would be good news exclusively for the Sound Transit employees whomst I heard discussing (less than two years before the World Cup!) how they had no plans for how to handle the crowds.

So I've been thinking about the BC Liberals and if their fate could be replicated for the Tories (the Kemi Falcon scenario, if you will). While it is a possibility, it is also less likely for reasons I'll try and articulate:

It makes so much sense to build SkyTrain across Lions Gate and out to Horseshoe Bay. Massively decongest downtown, boost Stanley Park tourism, and cut journey times to ferries by a ton. But first ye must slay the monsters three - West Van NIMBYs, Park Royal mall, and Ironworkers Bridge capacity.

My Deputy Leadership vote will go to whichever candidate promises holy war on Adobe for how long Data Merge in InDesign takes.

Last week, a woman sidled up to Dad (a white American) at the bus stop after seeing some black men and said "soon this whole town will be immigrants". She was taken aback when he firmly pointed out they were more British than he was, and asked what made her assume he was okay, but they weren't.

Thinking "I should get a mentee" in the manner of this boat-procuring cat

Simultaneously need to buy both toothpaste and superglue.

Feeling melancholy about Twitter. Grateful so many of my regulars jumped ship here, but people whose daily life I once followed have effectively stopped existing. Their life continues, somewhere, while the memories I have are a finite, fading echo of who they were at a point in time.

Real ones will remember Quinn

"Hmm, Foxy Shazam's new album seems like it might be a return to form!"

I appreciate the offer of Freshers Week leaflets guys, really I do, but I am a man who has recently started having to have opinions about his hairline

Reform's communication infrastructure is strong, facing weak opponents, and gets a boost from favourable media, and they're using it to broadcast "hello, we're mental"

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New favourite idiom: 猫の額 means "the size of a cat's forehead" and is roughly equivalent to "the size of a postage stamp"

Quite proud that my Japanese lessons are now 90% in Japanese! Yuri-sensei is now Tokyo's most well-briefed person about South Yorkshire dialect.

We are so back

Made the crucial error of going to use the SU WiFi during Freshers Week, and now feel approximately One Million Years Old. They were born in 2007. Illegal.

My recent trip to the Derbyshire Dales was sickeningly lovely (although it does have a Labour MP!)

One day someone will write a learned work on how many of Britain's right-wing cranks emerge from the Liberal Party. Maybe their attraction for "I'm not like other girls" types.

Booping a travel card is so impersonal. I prefer the British Way of paying a bus fare - having a small pedantic argument with the driver every time you board.

If he wants to give me 9x the cost of my meds every time I fill a prescription my opinion may shift.

I insistently call it Acetaminophen because I will NOT be tricked into using a brand name for a generic. That's how they win.

Tylenol sales may rise since The Libs are the main ones buying it anyway. Real America gets through a headache with prayer, testosterone and maybe a little rubbing alcohol.