Watching THE GREEN KNIGHT again

This wouldn't work for me as I'm very sophisticated and watch loads of b/w stuff. If anything I'd look at my phone more, buzzing with the thrill of perhaps seeing a still from Jules et Jim or Casablanca, but it turns out to be one of you posting pics of Emu on Parkinson

The existence of Tiny Tim raises the possibility of Enormous Edward, which I'm just saying is I think something we should all be concerned about as we head into the festive perineum

Hark, a bluebottle

And Tonty Blair, who WAS behind this...

A lovely thread.

@benitocereno.bsky.social bread sauce, just for you

I feel like now is a good time to mention you don't have to wait until the new year to "reset" or start things, commitments, etc. I use the start of a new week to do that kind of thing which is 52 resets a year and that seems much more promising than once a year lol

while filming the two towers, tiny tim kicked a helmet so hard he broke his toes and died

Tiny Tim, who did NOT have hoes

me: you boy what day is it today? boy: nonces shout out of the window day. me: oof you’ve absolutely done me there.

Christmas is hard for many. The years roll, the ghosts at the table increase. We’re haunted by the absence of voices, of laughter engines who drank and ate with us. This can be day of remembrance rituals. For what it’s worth, Hooklanders near and far are in my candles today. Be gentle on yourselves.

"A Cat's Life - Wonder" Art by Gerard du Bois #MenWithCats

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

We demand another photo approaching midnight with the scene lit with a table lamp #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

It's the time of year when I can listen to the guiltiest pleasure song ever recorded, A Spaceman Came Travelling by Chris De Burgh. I remember first hearing this in Boots in Leeds city centre circa 1996 while Christmas shopping and being genuinely transfixed by that chorus

I have avoided *every single christmas song* until this evening this year

Sharing this quote from my great (x5ish) Grandfather's book. Seasonally appropriate. Share your yams. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

the muppet christmas carol demarcation between 'animals for talking' and 'animals for eating' is very troubling

Edited. Finished, now.

Here's a poem I wrote in February 2021, during yet another lockdown, and which I had forgotten about

‘Jimmy Page is a hologram’

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

good point, well made

It is the time of year where I load Dwarf Fortress and disappear down the mines for a week

deeply, deeply bored. just the worst ennui

Legendary subterfuge that all b3ta members will remember

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

Lilac sky and my favourite lane. Taken a while before sunrise in Glastonbury.

the appointment has been cancelled by the GP 🫠

This is quite literally the job of an academic. Also, LLMs don’t do this either! It regurgitates what it statistically calculates as the most likely outcome. Stochastic parrots all the way down!

Got an ADHD appointment with the GP tomorrow. Filled in the form, done a list of ways my brain is borked. Think I am going to have to go private and somehow suck up the cost of that and meds because the thought of waiting to deal with this *gesturing expansively* is unbearable. Wish me luck.

Happy Winter Solstice everyone. One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work. Lighter days ahead.

yes, it turns out I probably have adhd about it

A while ago, @wangleberry.bsky.social and I made a shocking discovery. By writing a caption, hiding that caption, and having another person draw an unrelated Thing, the caption and the drawing inevitably resolve into a perfect New Yorker cartoon. We've blown the whole thing wide open. Thread:

What are you all up to then?

Watched 'Klaus'. Am a weeping wreck.

POV: you are The Bad Father who will not let Good Kitten Maelle steal Moxie the elderly cat's food

🎶In the doldrums 🎶It's the place where we're depressed 🎶In the doldrums 🎶Try to make myself get dressed 🎶In the doldrums 🎶Miscellaneously stressed 🎶In the doldrums 🎶(In the doldrums)

It took a little while this morning for some colour to appear but we got there in the end. Sunrise on Glastonbury Tor. Bitterly cold and windy up there as we approach Winter Solstice tomorrow.

Turn on the radio for some company; it's all Christmas music; turn it straight off again

I once heard a cutting assessment of someone’s intellect in Argentinian Spanish that went jugas al tetris y giras el cuadradito. It means “you spin the square tile on Tetris.”

frodo: "gandalf.. could we not have tom bombadil carry the ring?" gandalf, wincing slightly, sighing pissedly, rubbing the bridge of his nose: "tom is.. extremely high"

Gilbert & Sullivan -_-

I just told my kids this was Bloodborne

Could a person with depression do this?! (grimly goes about activities of daily living)

Yep. This is A Depression.

is this depression or is it just December™️