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We're just a couple years from the Ruthkanda forever kid being able to confirm or deny the story publicly.

I wouldn't say that coprolite is my favourite fossil, but it's a solid number two

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I love a classical reference as much as anyone, but I can't support an audiobook of the Odyssey narrated by Οὔτις

You've experienced your last Jimi Hendrix

Marc Bloch hell yeah

Okay, I know I've been obsessed with Ulysses to an unseemly degree, but hear me out. Roughly in order of appearance: Kermit plays Stephen Dedalus. He can play younger than his age, and he's the natural for the frustrated artist whose dreams are bigger than his means.

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The Battle of Algaes

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Garffeld

All this time wasted on reflecting pool this and algae that, I fear that Trump has lost sight of what really matters to Americans: the Ballroom.

Warhammer 40k: Dark Heresy. With a thick stack of randomly generated characters so we don't have downtime after I kill them or they execute each other. Players: a mix of my friends from gaming and improv, plus Henry Cavill.

I've been trying to figure out a way to describe what makes Bloomsday in Dublin so special, and I've come up with: It's like a Star Trek convention, except instead of Star Trek it's about a difficult book, and if the Enterprise were a real life city with centuries of history you could visit.

Happy Bloomsday from Dublin!

Turns out Howth rhymes with oath, not mouth, so I wasted my time figuring out the best wording for a Howth Head joke.

At an event in Dalkey. Showed up early to see if I could find the Dalkey Archive. No dice! Flann O'Brien's a liar and you can tell him I said so.

God has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

Unlike its neighbors, Butt Bridge doesn't seem to have a sign or plaque on any of its four corners. Still, it was a nice night for a stroll along the Liffey.

I have so far seen two pairs portraying Miss Douce and Miss Kennedy at Bloomsday events, but they were in truth gold by gold and bronze by silver

This real life equine athlete was immortalized in Ulysses, where he has the distinction of being both a running joke and a throwaway gag.

In honor of his achievement I move we award him the title of Hostis Humani Generis

Overheard: The big church? It's big on the inside, yeah.

Going out to the Martello Tower at Sandycove today. Won't be getting the full Stephen Dedalus experience though because I took a shower.

Because the only thing he said was "cocaine? Cocaine?" I wasn't sure if he was looking to buy, sell, or cadge. From the vibe in that part of Temple Bar I'm sure he succeeded within 15 minutes.

Shirley Manson drag act performing at the General Mills executive retreat: I'm only happy eating grains

And today, on the centenary of Gaudí's death (10 June 1926), the central tower is to be inaugurated (it was actually topped out on 20 Feb)

The first two seasons of 30 Rock were already excellent, but I think there's a noticeable level up in Season 3.

I've seen high frequency sound used as a weapon against people with superpowers recently (Stranger Things, The Boys, etc.) and I think it makes sense as a trope because the point of enhanced humans is that they are supposed to be like us, but better, and that also describes dogs.

Back in the 90's the ground-breaking popular turn-based historical strategy game was Panzer General. You had to wait for the sequel, Allied General, to play as the allies, and after a few General games (Pacific, Star, Fantasy) the sequels were just Panzer (though later versions had allied campaigns.

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I've said it before and I will say it again: the hated 'administrative state' -- and much of what is disparagingly and dismissively referred to as 'big government' -- is a Chesterton's Fence

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Kind of wild that we've managed, as a country, to Do Gender in such a way that competence has become female-coded at the same time that being "Low T" is considered prima facie disqualifying for leadership by half the country. Seems, uh, bad.

When it is time for the rabbits of the city to gather in assembly, they see portents in the sky. The language of these messages varies from tribe to tribe; one rabbit might see a dragon face in sunset, another a crane in the stars. But the interpretation will be consistent:

My lyft driver has somehow tuned in to the exact wuss rock radio station my mom would listen to sometimes in the car when I was too young to leave alone for extended periods and she had errands around town. Uncanny.

I read your book, and I have to admit your prose has a comparable effect to some parts of Joyce's Ulysses... ... specifically, Eumaeus.

Songs whose titles sound like they might be sequels to other songs, but are not: a list to be updated when more occur to me. Here Comes Your Man (Pixies) -> Waiting For the Man (Velvet Underground) Cities in Dust (Siouxsie and the Banshees) -> Tiny Cities Made of Ashes (Modest Mouse)

Some dreams are good, some are bad, some are boring, some are frightening, but the best dreams are ones where you explore impossible houses whose rooms and corridors stretch on as far as you can delve, revealing new curiosities at every turn. Or flying, I guess.

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I think you could make a good dark comedy in the vein of Midsommar or Wicker Man where the pagan community is just a bunch of normal folks who like Maypoles and nature spirits but the outsider thinks he's actually in Wicker Man or Midsommar situation and becomes increasingly paranoid and dangerous.

Use of generative AI in the arts sucks (I am not interested in debating this point, if you disagree you can ignore this), but it makes ersartz 'creation' easy, so the communities around most art forms are already drowning in AI-gen slop. It seems to me the safest art from AI right now is improv.

There’s a guy, great king, incredible king. Prester John. Scepter made of emeralds. Descended from the Maggie. Sent me a letter, beautiful letter, tears in his eyes. Begged me to let him help open the strait, big strong guy. I’m giving Iran 24 hours to comply or, Prester John, I might tell him yes.

This must go so hard if you're a fucking idiot

Tomorrow!

5 bucks says this is how Jr. found out

Thinking about doing some light cos cosplay for Bloomsday. First choice would be a brown Macintosh (for the Man in the); easier option is Stephen's French Quarter hat. Not about to pack a full indigo suit for Boylan. And everyone and their brother will be doing eyepatch Joyce, I assume.