If you're having a hard time, if things seem impossible and grim... just remember that World of Sport once covered the International Clown Diving Championships. It won't help with any of what we're all facing but god, it's a good thing to have in your head.

In the pub The bloke adjacent is also in the pub And there has he been for several hours That is about the nineteenth time He has used the word "myriad" To mean "any number larger than one"

i’m terrible at chess but there’s no point in getting good because i already look like i’d be good at chess. you see me at the park and i tell you i’m actually a grandmaster you’d be like “no shit.” it’s only worth getting good at chess if you’re a big buff guy or super hot girl or maybe a child

"Plant one bamboo shoot, cut bamboo for the rest of your life" Also: buy a Flymo, cut the entire lawn three or four times before anyone else could tell

Oj, der gikk lørdag

Sometimes I think my parents only come visit so they can inspect the houseplants they gave us and complain about how their own ones pale in comparison

The Breeders

Foreldrene er ikke hjemme, derfor skal vi: • holde temperaturen under 26°C i alle rom • ha på TV under ropevolum • bare gå i dusjen, uten å måtte forhandle tidspunkt et døgn på forhånd Vi lever som griser, det er kaos

You helped will this into existence, you know...

T-shirt: Price& Guinness& Hobson& Greenwood& Guinness& Guinness& Guinness& Guinness& Guinness& Guinness& Guinness.

Uutnyttet Bluesky-nisje: Småbrisent hagestell Forlot pøbben før England-kampen begynte og nå er det bare meg og jorda

This guy has murdered hundreds of thousands of people this year, most of them children.

Cancelling missions that are in space and still returning science ie: Juno & APEX is about the most pound foolish stuff you can do. And APEX was going to image Apophis (you know that possible extinction event asteroid that's going to fly by in 2029)

It’s astonishing how misunderstood this is: AI is currently theft. That’s it. It’s that simple. And until it pays, it remains theft.

Proper pub, playing host simultaneously to a wake, a tier 8 football club's end-of-season bash and, in the corner, an impromptu bluegrass banjo masterclass

Refugees Are Welcome Here event There was a counter-demonstration, but after about five minutes he fucked off to Greggs

Too broke for therapy, so when I blow my nose I open the tissue and try to decide what it looks like

ChatGPT, like all of the capital innovations of the last, let's say twenty years, is better understood not as something that *eliminates* work, but rather as something that *moves* work onto someone else.

Loving the disclaimer

Had to Google my favourite film, for cast reasons The unavoidable top-of-page AI summary made a big deal of explaining a "pivotal line" which does not actually appear in the film, nor in the poem it claimed the character was quoting How, why, stop it

This is amazing. Also Mike has a great newsletter you should sign up for.

Made a cocktail for my wife and she put it in the freezer, inadvertently creating a new superorganism please hel—*glurk*

Dude at next table is explaining how his digital marketing company has "Netflixified the recommendations pipeline" Come, friendly meteor, and fall on pub

Bootleg Yoda is our new double IPA,

Cannot articulate to my satisfaction how much this thread is absolutely my shit

At the gallery cafe It does not require Sherlockian powers to identify who's here to see the John and Yoko documentary and who's here because turned away from the all-day techno festival happening next door

Not to say we've been neglecting the garden, but that's me just finished mowing the patio 😬

I wish I was a little bit taller I wish I was Pontiff Pizzaballa

This is where I live now. (not Chicago, this tape archive)

Maybe I'm just not making myself clear.

Oh, and here’s the link to the story, which includes the unimprovable quote “Those who know me well know I was eventually going to build a giant curlew”

A conversation about Russell Crowe, Michael Keaton and Meryl Streep, as actors who played in consecutive Best Picture-winning films, leads to today's useless knowledge: Ian Charleson, John Gielgud and Richard Griffiths were *all* in both Chariots of Fire and Gandhi

WFH means nobody sees you sobbing at your desk as you listen to Patsy Cline.

Went to a panel on using real weird things from biology to create your monsters for horror and it was the most neurodivergent room I have ever been in. Just a whole lot of people (audience included) sharing their favorite disturbing nature facts for an hour.

Sunburst lichen 𖤓

Five mornings a week I hop off the bus and a pensioner with a fishing rod hops on. We nod at each other in passing, and occasionally mutter "a'right", but absolutely do not make eye contact. Some days this is the most nurturing human contact I have for the next twelve hours

Mellompave Kevin

He wasn't designed for somatic rest.

This is how to Easter

🧵NOT BY ME, this is a post from someone who wants to remain anonymous but works extensively with trans people pre-transition. They were asked by someone “why do you think that’s so much [coverage of trans people] in the news at the moment?” This was their response:

Well, as I’m sure you all know, we mark something important today. Yes: happy 45th anniversary of the thrremony at tremony at the liremony at the libraremony to all who celebrate

Slijmzwammemballenbad #Camer_A_Pril #DeBalIsRond @jolanda.bsky.social #slimemold

Our annual viewing of the Brutalist Easter Bunny in Jyväskylä, Finland. www3.jkl.fi/taidemuseo/v...

Red-breasted Sapsucker for #WoodpeckerWednesday Yes...they can see directly into your soul. #birds #becurious

the transphobes who are celebrating today will go back to being miserable and furious tomorrow when they discover they haven’t forced trans people to pop out of existence

More Objects from Films (No Country for Old Men [2007]) original drawing for sale by me here: marcusmerritt.bigcartel.com/product/no-c...