Getting worried because I’m five chapters into The Mercy of Gods and so far the astringent count is zero

Absolutely need to see what’s going on with the body and limbs behind here

Ok but what has the International Silkworm Genome Consortium done lately?

Who else got that 22mm stroke length and anti-vibe technology?

How dull. I was posting a about books

We need to arrange a Greg hunt

Uh, I’m also requesting that, for the same reasons

One sure thing in life is that if you have tradespeople at your house they *will* be playing Triple M, and Triple M *will* be playing exactly the same songs they were playing when you last had tradespeople at your house 18 months ago

How much are my taxes putting in Sarina Russo’s pockets for an 11.7% success rate?

The Safety House program was discontinued after it was revealed that this guy was in the flight logs

The real story is the mass non-binary abstention

I’m opposed to the social media age ban but having seen some of the content that exists on Roblox I do think it should be banned for all ages

I found out that Dick Cheney died from the grim reaper claw machine meme

Ok this race is looking *a lot* closer than many were expecting

[Explaining the Virginia governor's race to an American] ok so imagine a spanberger

Finally decided to give New Outlook a go and within about 5 minutes discover that it doesn't let you drag and drop email attachments into your browser window so I guess it's back to Old Outlook

Visitors

Sun Tzu’s The Secret Life of Pets

Thinking about getting really into GTA5 on the PS3

Yeah but they never really lived up to the promise of their first album

It seems to me that the Switch 2 has about two games that aren't just 'Switch 1 Game: Switch 2 Edition'

They should let you play Mass Effect as the giant alien squid thing

synchronicity

imo the ATO should devote less time to digging up 15 year old minor tax debts and more time to reducing ol' burgotastic's HECS debt by 20 per cent

I've been reading this very slowly (about 1 hour a week during kids sports training) and while I was expecting to see some parallels, I wasn't expecting it to read like play-by-play of the current era.

Still can’t decide if the “she’s not Zohran’s actual aunty” thing is the world’s most desperate, disingenuous attack, or the result of its proponents having never spoken to a non-white (non-Anglo let’s be real) person in their lives

Not a day goes by you don’t learn something about Americans that makes you a little bit sick

Facebook showing me allegations of "curry fraud" in a TooGoodToGo group

Surely a realistic zombie game wouldn’t have zombies in it, on account of them not being real

Watching the highlights of the first two Spurs games, upgrading my opinion to “we need to dissect him for science”

Putting the semen in Norsemen

Has anyone ever been more thoroughly owned?

Cloverfield is an allegory for what if a giant monster attacked New York

Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow is a dramatic retelling of The Klaxons' 2006 alt-rock single of the same name

There’s a quite often a lot of talk about the various insidious ways the New York Times steers political and social commentary, but not nearly enough of it focuses on how often the NYT Crossword makes reference to eating eels

According to Wikipedia, the Delian League, the loose alliance of Greek city-states during the Peloponnesian War, included a faction of unknown origin called the Grynches, which I imagine is a bit like the Ents coming to the aid of Rohan

They should make particle accelerators but for things bigger than particles. A 50km subterranean loop for firing, like, puppies at each other at an appreciable fraction of the speed of light

Ok but how many whole CFOs is that?

Good to know, thanks Marianne!

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

I've been wanting to buy Max's book for a little while now and this week had enough money to justify it. Went to his site and gave an undignified guffaw when I saw this special edition cover

Unbelievable that Adventure Time never won the Emmy for Most Realistic Depiction of a Linesman's Test Phone In A Children's Animated Series

Kinda tangential but I spoke to someone a while ago who rented their house to Nicola Charles after they moved interstate, and they said she absolutely trashed the place. Like, 'livestock in the bedrooms' level of trashed the place.

Buy my tshirt

As a millennial, every so often I think about how most of the important milestones of my cognitive development took place in an environment heavy with the by-products of the constant combustion of leaded fuels.

A bargain at twice the price

Australians who decry Halloween as creeping Americanisation of our culture are just allergic to fun and/or jealous of my pumpkin carving skills

My “We can have a little kings, as a treat” rally has been a devastating failure in the face of massive counter-protests

Watching my robot vacuum trying and failing to traverse the 1.5cm step up from the floorboard hallway to the tiled bathroom, while not doing a thing to help, tells me all I need to know about how I’d go with the old Voight-Kampff machine