EASTERN ZHOU BRONZE TAPIR MY BELOVED https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Bronze_of_the_Spring_and_Autumn_Period#/media/File:Bronze_animal_with_cast_decoration,_Eastern_Zhou_Dynasty.jpg

Quite aside from everything else, the name Brit Card is so 1997, it makes me think they're going to wheel out the Spice Girls to promote it.

Blue passports tho... https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115264740762817882

The pro women's soccer league has been sponsored by Tylenol this season so whenever they do promotional photos on socials they're also inadvertently poking fun at the stupid government's pursuit of silly conspiracy theories

This balloon has been floating around our house for a month now, ever since our kid's birthday. It has been in every room by now and scared all of us multiple times. Picture this: you are alone in the house and all of a sudden you hear something scratching […] [Original post on metalhead.club]

#thursdayfivelist #sentencing (does anyone else find Songlink constantly jumping to the podcasts tab? Really annoying!) Nation of Language - I'm Not Ready for the Change https://song.link/gb/i/1802059617 The Cure - I Can Never Say Goodbye https://song.link/gb/i/1768728501 Chelsea Wolfe - […]

Exactly this 💯 #actuallyautistic #neurodivergent

Washing-up liquid bottle has a sticker proclaiming its 'irresistible scent', and I'm not sure in what way I'm supposed to find it so hard to resist. I can assure you, I'm always perfectly able to resist doing the washing-up if nobody's expecting me to do it.

Anyone: GWAR My brain: Great Western ... ??? ... Railway.

Was struggling to think of an example of a word earworm the other day, but at the moment, it's Wardruna. I've never heard Wardruna, but for some reason, my brain keeps saying their name. Wardruna Wardruna Wardruna.

Me: *socializes for 1 hour* Me afterward:

welcome to #MusicWomenWednesday and ... are they all gone, yet? Blondie - #Rapture https://song.link/de/i/724422357 #LoehwesPlaylist

*multi-venue, 11-hour music event in my town with headliners I've actually heard of* *sounds good, but can I handle that, and just four days before Halestorm?* *probably not*

Spotted elsewhere. (Hopefully digital manipulation rather tha AI 🤷‍♀️)

Fedi, what have you done to me? My dad said he needed a new laptop (mainly cos of the Windows 10 thing, but also because the hardware is knackered) and I asked him if he'd ever used Linux back in the day (he hadn't). No help/advice plz!

Reading Untypical by Pete Wharmby, which is possibly the most relateable book I've ever read, but this bit is particularly relevant to what I was tooting about inner monologue the other day.

A short ad hoc playlist, in case Tuesday doesn't come 😅 #rapture #playlist Spanish Love Songs - Rapture Chaser https://song.link/gb/i/1685738003 HIM - Our Diabolikal Rapture https://song.link/gb/i/1488012360 CHVRCHES - Bitter End https://song.link/gb/i/1590088654 Deftones - Rapture […]

Something quite nice about seeing my old workplace still promoting a page I edited six years and three(!) websites ago.

But the weirdest thing are the people who use #linkedin as if it were work Facebook. Several updates every day about whatever they're up to. And everyone's got this SUPER ENTHUSIASTIC TONE: "I'm ECSTATIC about my new position as assistant marketing manager at the Adlerlöffel Squeegee and […]

That’s correct, SmartThings, and if I stab myself in the eyes with ballpoint pens I can use them as a handy pen holder!

Oh RIGHT, I nearly forgot. RAPTURE BALLOONS.

#tunetuesday #brittlecold appropriate as I've woken up to find the heating hasn't come on. And any excuse to post one of my absolute favourite songs. 🎵 Why is this bedroom so cold? 🎵 Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart https://song.link/gb/i/275971042

Morning fedi :comfy: today I'm reviewing The Algorithm Will See You Now by @JL_Lycette. Read my blog post about this meticulously-plotted and thought-provoking medical thriller: https://www.draliceviolett.com/the-algorithm-will-see-you-now-by-jl-lycette #bookstodon #bookmastodon

By Liz Climo.

News you didn’t know you needed: there is a single specific seal who seems to have dedicated their life to swimming through the Netherlands’ freshwater canals to tour cities. They’ve been at least as far inland as Utrecht and were last spotted in Amsterdam […]

Such a good writing group session on subplots tonight! Good thing the blog post I drafted this afternoon was about a book with lots going on, so I had an example to hand that I could talk about reasonably coherently. We were tasked with coming up with subplots for a story where someone finds […]

The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar #books #literature #dedication

Sudden realisation that some of the most rewarding conversations I've had have been while riding shotgun, possibly because it's one of the few times minimal eye contact is actually required, you're quite literally a captive audience for each other, and unless it's just a quick lift, you can get […]

Going with an absolute classic for #mondaycovers Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind https://song.link/gb/i/693154534

when you're offered an AI summary 🎵 read the fucking paper 🎵 when you're offered an AI podcast 🎵 TTS the fucking paper 🎵 when they try to sell you the idea that you can buy your way out of spending time learning and understanding 🎵 read the fucking paper, take some fucking notes, write the […]

“Minimum Wage Machine” “The minimum wage machine allows anybody to work for minimum wage. For as long as they turn the crank, the user is paid in pennies as time passes. For example, if minimum wage is $7.25/hour (the current US Federal rate), then the worker is […] [Original post on sfba.social]

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May this Suffering Become So much Kindling For the Fire inside Us all, That we may One day Outshine The dark. #poetry

#mondayrandom10 VLC, 7351 tracks... 1. Young Guns - After the War 2. The Ramones - I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend 3. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Hammer Song 4. L.S. Dunes - Permanent Rebellion 5. Silversun Pickups - Growing Old Is Getting Old 6. Olivia Rodrigo - Hope Ur Ok 7. Actors - Love U […]

This week, I have mostly been listening to...... post-punk. And Halestorm.

Me: I'm getting better at saying 'no' to things. Also me: I have agreed to go axe throwing in the sensory hell unit because I didn't want to disappoint my friends 🫠

(You either get why I’m sharing this today or…) https://youtu.be/Sp9An5OcdE4

Bel and Dari (Ontario, Canada) are VERY INTERESTED in their human's tuna salad. So interested that they're expressing their profound desire in song and poke. #cats #cat #CatNews #catsofmastodon#CatNews#cat#catsttps://cat-news.news/

A short ad hoc playlist, in case Tuesday doesn't come 😅 #rapture #playlist Spanish Love Songs - Rapture Chaser https://song.link/gb/i/1685738003 HIM - Our Diabolikal Rapture https://song.link/gb/i/1488012360 CHVRCHES - Bitter End https://song.link/gb/i/1590088654 Deftones - Rapture […]

Go Go Beckham (GBA, 2002) must be the most weirdly competent celebrity license game ever. It looks like a 2025 indie hit. The screenshot montage is direct from the publisher, because they’re still showing it off in their portfolio to this day […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

#silentsunday #fungi #mushrooms

One of those days where having a corporeal form is a pita (I slept on my arm funny and it hurts).

#thesundaystarter Nation of Language - Silhouette https://song.link/gb/i/1802059615 🖤

#boardgames played this afternoon: Things in Rings, Quacks of Quedlinburg (Alchemist expansion), Flip 7, Citadels, A Fake Artist Goes To New York.

I've finished way fewer books than normal so far this month. Hopefully my week off will fix this 🫤

#bookchallenge #bookstodon here, have all my 20 women writers in one post cos I'm lazy 😁 no order! 1. Kate Atkinson 2. Maggie Stiefvater 3. Nina Allan 4. Becky Chambers 5. Daisy Johnson 6. Elizabeth Jane Howard 7. Natasha Pulley 8. Martha Wells 9. Emily St John Mandel 10. Carmen Maria Machado […]

Rather sure I need a new mattress, but getting one feels a bit like giving up hope on leaving this house and this single bed behind any time soon, hmm.