ABBA trivia, anyone? "Voulez-Vous" was partially recorded at Criteria Studios in Miami, making it the only ABBA studio track not recorded in Sweden. Disco group Foxy comprised the rhythm section.

H/T to @rob - run a pizza, get a pizza discount. https://www.francomanca.co.uk/stories-and-recipes/map-my-pizza-run/

In the next episode of The Real Housewives of West Des Moines, Caitlynn is upset because HyVee rejected her coupon for prime rib.

"Mom, did Dad go back on painkillers? He's communicating using words other than Steely Dan lyrics again."

Starting orbit #37 today.

Repechage.

[UKpol, birdsite, Your Party, please don't bother reading this] I've long suspected Zarah Sultana's main mode of politicking is via pithy microblogging, but I'm surprised she's still on a platform so antithetical to her views. What can't she give up about X? The Chronically Online MP for […]

45 minutes: time required to decided that having my wrist zapped each time I receive a Teams message is a bad idea.

[Lewd, London] Is London safe? From my experience, it's usually bareback...

I might have miscalculated twelve days, but I've got the last mince pies of this festive period warming in the oven. The lords a-leapin' seem to have gone absent without leave...

#roadtobathhalf continues. 9.02mi, 1:34:46. In the words of that one fish from Spongebob, "my leg!".

GTFO, but to the tune of "DVNO" by Justice. Video highly recommended for those who appreciate motion graphics design. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiDsLRQg_g4

I kid you not, this just happened on the yellow and black dating app: Me: "I'm good, thanks, I'm just watching videos." Them: "Which videos?" Me: "Map Men. Geography facts. #thuglife" Them: blocks me

I'm surprised by the low number and poor quality of YouTube uploads of "Will It Float?" from the old Letterman show. That shit is seared into my brain from watching with my dad growing up. Road trip? Ooh, we're up past 10:35, Letterman on an unknown CBS affiliate! Out watching the minor league […]

Walnuts, rocket, cranberries. Elite salad.

"Falafel King - Under New Management" implies there was a Falafel Coup d'État.

The dawn from here, earlier this week.

[Traitors UK S4 ep6] I'd let Matthew ask me for a date, tbh. Interesting approach.

Living room fully occupied with faithful friends for televised Traitors.

For me, tonight #totp means Traitors On Turret, Peril! Enjoy, pop kids.

My last relationship had more red flags than a major marching band, but his insistence on parking his car half on the sidewalk, despite having his own driveway right around the corner, should have been the biggest.

BDSSMS ⛓️ 💻

Thanks to Robyn, I've gone rabbit holes reading about both Adam Driver and "Don't Mess With The Zohan"...

Err nerr, there's nerr snerr 'ere.

Meanwhile, Vac Efron drove himself in a straight line across open floor, forgot how to turn around, gave up, and discharged his battery all night. No robot overlord takeover here yet, folks.

I know I'm from Iowa and nothing about corn should be a surprise, but roasted sweet corn in a frying pan. Heck fkn yes.

[Traitors UK S4 ep5] (in the meme sense) THE GIRLS ARE FIGHTING!

[Traitors UK S4 ep5] Tempted to correlate Amanda's kamikaze, Jade-at-all-costs strategy with the "effectiveness" of her former employer, the Metropolitan Police...

[Traitors UK S4 ep5, kind of] Love a bit of O Fortuna. Sang it in concert last year, it's no cakewalk for bass voices. Who's going to turn into a roasted swan in this challenge? Which soprano will get to have their, as our director put it, "personal moment"?

My brain each time I hear about the band Toploader:

Colleague: "Am I interrupting you?" Me, setting headphones down: "No, I'm just listening to Robyn being horny on full blast." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAezWNIUMDM

[Traitors UK S4 Ep 4 meets USpol] I searched Bluesky for "Stephen cage" (horn gonna horn), and unfortunately all of the results are about Stephen Miller putting prisoners in cages. :ablobcatcry:

Reserved this book at our local library based entirely on her description of the trumpet 🎺 (Lindy West, "The Witches are Coming")

Taking a Class 165/166 in the direction of Brixham*? That's a Turbot train.

[Traitors UK S4 ep 4, slight kink] A "Cyber Security Architect" in a cage? Total pup move, really.

[Traitors UK S4 ep 4] I'm still trying to figure out what a "sweet shop assistant" does. "Hello, can I assist you in some Swedish Fish?" "Hello, can I assist the Traitors inadvertently?"

[Traitors UK S4 ep 4] Oh no, Stephen, oh no... (It does seem to all be ignored by the round table?)

Things that the postie will leave outside: electronics, furniture, medications Things that the postie makes me go collect: the score to "Carmina Burana", an RSPB mug

It's the End of an Era for trusting online sources. LLM Training Season is never over, and the veracity of content is an Illusion. You may feel like Houdini trying to escape AI, which is embedded into These Walls of software. You wish it'd make a French Exit from your workflows and the quality […]

Blue pilled (but that's just the PrEP).

Overheard at choir choreography practice tonight: "Fist first, then flat." 👀👊

Google just reminded me of my own birthday next week. ☠️

I've had toxic exes that are less emotionally abusive than HelloFresh.

I currently have too many browser tabs open to display the page title "Sluttbrukertest" properly. The shortened version is not inaccurate.

Person: "I need to go to the whole food store to buy some bulk spice." Me: "I don't remember Bulk Spice singing on Wannabe." Millennials in the room: groan/giggle Gen Z'ers in the room: crickets

"T4 Bacteriophage" Luke Jerram, 2023 Displayed at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. #virus #sculpture #glass

Kumail Nanjiani (appearing in Taskmaster UK S21) is one of the most famous alumni of Grinnell College, the tiny college/uni I attended in Iowa. I saw him perform a set in a dormitory lounge in the late '00s, the entire crowd cross-legged and howling with laughter.

Joy Unleashed A photo of Sidney the Whippet and Bryn the Dachshund in April 2024. #dogs #SausageDog #whippet #zoomies

Date weekend with the Italian boy was generally a great success. We'll meet up again in a few weeks. I think his most animated moment of the weekend was when I said the words "Raffaella Carra". That topic got a good ten minutes of conversation out of him!