happy birthday to me

I had a dream that dominions 7 had come out and it was an rts

happy birthday to me

all quiet on the western front is really good

imagining how chuffed Pepys would be if you showed him an electronic calculator

why is the Wikipedia example of a national insurance number card the one held by someone involved in planning 9/11

isn't this the guy from Ratatouille

sometimes you come across something and you feel super ignorant about the world. like there's an ostensibly Maoist de facto independent state in Burma en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wa_State

Pepys unusually missing the possibility of hobnobbing with the aristocracy to eat some food... sometimes he's relatable

when I was driving once I saw this painted on a bridge:

derby, uk

just looking at one of the two people likely to be in the Peruvian presidential runoff election. very normal behaviour

VERY gross (poop) but good story from censored by confucius: ghost stories by yuan mei. how did you enjoy that, my good fellow

Mr Hater

world where instead of wojaks it was instead variations on :smith: and :unsmith:

the other day I suddenly noticed I've grown noticeably bigger boobs at some point like woah that's crazy.

why do pre dreadnoughts have these two "masts" on them + that beam going across... I assume maybe it's for sighting but it seems there's extra rigging etc... flag hanging for communication? idk I'm curious

or you know what just recommend Games in general. any that you like I'm not fussed. I just don't know the Games landscape

speaking of what are the good strategy/simulation games from the past like 6-7 years. id be most interested in historical and map game likes but anything else is very welcome. especially more obscure stuff

played another stellaris game, doing well vs every computer empire but its 2403 and a fallen empire that's right next to me has awakened and their fleets have x10 the power of mine welp. i think ive just not played well enough or something idk but i dont see how i could stop them

my fave conspiracy theory is the one that every building before like 1900 that looks cool or is over 2 storeys wasn't built by humans, it was "Tartarian" who are probably a race of giants with super technology that disappeared for some reason

I like that PBS (the USA's non profit TV network) has a strand called "masterpiece". and what counts as a masterpiece? well, it's only and entirely TV shows produced in the UK. nowhere else qualified

wow they had toxic yuri vns in his time too...

they're playing :)

I love that the first pink Floyd album has a song about a gnome called "grimble gromble" cause it sounds like the sort of thing someone who doesn't know late 60s music would invent to parody it. but it's real. and it's great

(Norwich, UK)

when the turk is alla rondo>>>>>

re libraries being awesome, as well as the physical books you should check out what online resources they have. usually as well as free access to a LOT of ebooks and magazines there's other subscriptions to reference material eg mine has newspaper archives, the OED, cambridge histories

what are the basic tips for doing ok at stellaris

Unveiling The World's First AI Queen Experience

I'm undergoing a special kind of therapy to turn my suicidal ideation into homicidal ideation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgMv... semi charmed life - girls rituals

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jN8... when you sleep - shonen knife (my bloody valentine cover)

me reading the end of moby dick and being pissed cause I thought it was going to be enemies to lovers trope

this episode of midsomer murders is about birders looking for a "blue crested hoopoe" which doesn't exist and then they show a photo and it's a hoopoe with the black ends of its head feathers turned blue. pisses me the fuck off. most of the birds mentioned in this are fictional. awful

I like how near the end Ahab just goes around to several of the crew and is like hey guys did you know I'm crazy. and they're like yeah dude we know. it's like your only personality

even the British high street is going gay

new tool: 🐈 plano a small in-browser engine for creating your own flatgames. add images, gifs, and text to make a little collage-like world for a character to walk around in play on itch

Gromit Youth

yougov did their poll on going to the moon again. rejecting going to the moon cause there's "nothing to do" is so good

loving this incredibly unambitious slogan on a Newham borough sign outside Stratford station "a place where people choose to live work & stay"

apparently Andy weir got rejected as a star trek writer and then attacked modern Star Trek cause it has too much social/political commentary and he just wants to watch the federation and romulans shoot at each other lol. has he ever actually watched star trek

has anyone noticed that the very end of birdbrain (jamie paige) has the synth bit from homeswitcher. i feel the overlap of fans of those must be high but i can barely find anyone mentionining it

can anyone suggest TV shows which are like. not too depressing and sort of midrange thinky

Remember that weird period from 1996-1999 when everyone drank apple juice and went to first grade and did addition tables and traded cards in the playground. Now nobody does that anymore. What's going on.

"Is Life on Mars an Isekai?" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12,239 pages of heated debate,

the internet peaked the day thatcher died

god help me I'm going back to the detective shows. I'm watching Grantchester now