I while back I used to follow someone on twitter who suddenly started retweeting a lot of the deranged posts of a particular loon and I though it was odd, then I realised they were married, lol

my search to solve a troublesome lexical/translation problem has led me to reading a beauty/makeup blog which may in fact be the right track

Digital Artist: In my work I invented the Gowl Detector as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Gowl Detector from classic art installation Don't Create The Gowl Detector

BSKY: writing in English tonight? 👀 BSKY: writing in English tonight queen? BSKY: writing in English tonight? 👀

Always eye-opening when someone with a southern English accent tries to write a northern English accent "phonetically" revealing what an alien perspective they have of the relationship between sounds and letters

remember like 15 years ago when it was revealed that western spies agencies were collecting the metadata of basically everything anyone does on their phones/computers and the response was a collective shrug

they should let you track random people's packages, maybe take bets on when they'll arrive

let's hear it for magazines that make it easy to unsubscribe without bullshit, trickery, or endless passive aggressive wheedling emails. Makes it much more likely i'll resubscribe when times are less lean

sports people are always less famous than they think they are because their careers are so short. Like if I named all the most famous actors and musicians from back in the 90s the young people would mostly know who I'm talking about, but It I told them the names of footballers? Good luck, Ozymandius

all the big tech companies are full of stupid dickheads, and all the smaller tech companies, that you use when you want to avoid the big ones? You guessed it, more stupid dickheads

15 minute spider megacity

Watch to the end

Sure, but have they ruled out that the universe might be a hotdog? bsky.app/profile/flig...

not all heroes wear a cape, spiderman for example

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

people outside of Ireland will have missed this, but I think it's important for them to learn that a former sportsman has been found guilty of defrauding people out of millions while pretending to have cancer by sticking a phone charger up his nose

I'd say the truth is more that a third of Europeans find this normal, another third are about as left wing as Ronald Reagan, and the final third are basically Mussolini

straw man fallacy is a funny word, because what? You couldn't remember the word for scarecrow?

Quantum of Choc-Ice

for a moment, I ruefully understand this as: "moral person pursuing activities which make them no money"

some youth called me a "fucking parallelogram" once. how do you recover from that? you just have to concede defeat

looked at this and it was filtering "rude" posts by default, which is frankly very rude indeed

if you're ever Photoshopping your own face into the smoke of the Twin Towers, Adobe should have a pop-up that says "are you sure that whatever it is you're doing is a good idea"

as a teenager I found it annoying that no one ever translated the titles of French arthouse films. I know what all those things mean now, but at the time it was like, ah yes, Bleugh de Bleugh-bleugh, a timeless classic

Bernard-Henri buttoning one extra shirt button, mid-navel, to show that this moment calls for solemnity

accident prone, accident supine

Feudal underling who's only ever seen it written down: "Yes, my lee-egg-ay"

remember remember the 3rd of December

Ridiculous

Looks uncannily like a guy I used to work with, time-travelling bastard

this guy does not sound emotionally stable enough to be in charge of the Mechanised Death Company

Just remembered the whole "buccal fat removal" thing: Hey, want a surgical procedure specifically designed to make you look older? Surely a very shrewd investment in the impossible beauty standards sector. I can't imagine how that would backfire

entertainingly infuriating thread

I have decided: I don't need to know that the shipping label was created. Keep me in the dark on that. Come back to me when something real is happening

what's funny about saying this is that that probably is the romanticised image the world has of Paris (single people who live near work, cycling around with baguettes) Like I don't think I've ever heard anyone who goes there to enjoy traffic jams on the Périf

has anyone here ever tried a cup of coffee? Very good, would recommend

me, deliberately watching an ad for some shop in a different country so I can understand the jokes on the timeline: "I don't get it, which one of them is supposed to have died?"

Remember Movember? A relic of a time when growing a moustache was such a weirdo thing to do that people only did is for charity. Today's children would struggle to understand

pretty you're welcome with sugar on top

Please just let me type in the year I was born. No more scrolling. We don’t have to keep doing this to each other.

I before Q except after U I before B except after E I before C except after P I before Y except after π

Nice argument, but unfortunately I wasted 60 seconds looking up all the acronyms you used and now I don't care about any of your opinions

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

heirloom tomato: it's just a normal tomato but I'm leaving it to my son in my will

hit da bricks

A handy way to remember how to spell the word "mnemonic" is to memorise the phase: many neurotic eunuchs mangle ordinary non-euclidian isometric coordinates