it's fascinating how we can easily deal with someone's publicly stated views being much nicer than their actions, but we totally lose our minds when it's the other way around

Chromosomes are biological. Hormones are biological. Anatomy is biological. Behaviour is biological. Reifying one of the many aspects of sex as the only true definition of ‘biological sex’ is a political statement that I refuse to endorse.

is sorloth his real name or is he just playing for norway as a side project to his black metal band?

this is your repeated reminder that hungary abolished school uniforms in 1990 to signal that we no longer live in a dictatorship

not for nothing do we say in software development that naming is not a science but an art

in high school i once bullshitted a 6 page essay in 45 minutes about the rime of the ancient mariner, armed with nothing but the lyrics of the iron maiden song

"good heavens man, and what is your act called?" "the thought leaders"

what irks me along similar lines is european-coded medieval fantasy ttrpg settings with a very much 17th century (and onwards) attitude to money and commerce

Remembering a heat wave a few years back where I watched a shirtless man come out of Tesco and tell a pint of milk to fuck off.

this works amazingly well in hungarian, it fits in very smoothly

Rounding up some translations of Count Binface that have been appearing in foreign press 🇷🇴 Romanian: Contele Tomberonez 🇫🇷 French: Comte Tête-de-Poubelle (bin-head, more accurate than bin-face) 🇮🇹 Italian: Conte Faccia-da-Bidone 🇪🇸 Spanish: "un hombre con un cubo de basura en la cabeza" (!) Cont...

i find it impossible to stop smiling when i hear this youtu.be/llSFPzxkPwc?...

"Don’t be calling him Fred or Archie, with all its cheeky but lovable working-class-scamp connotations, unless you really do have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill’s waiting for them to weigh in at Newton Abbot" youtu.be/E3IUXJbXbe0?...

Not saying that game was stolen from Egypt but it is now on display at museum in London.

i do feel a bit for newly minted usa soccer fans who may be a bit bewildered about what just happened tournament football isn't a game of stats, it's a game of narratives nobody's going to remember your xg or your pass completion rate you're only remembered by the role you played in the drama

i'm so gonna ask my wife to use this line for me next time i'll have overslept to work "peter ellis's office won't confirm if he's conscious"

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

i always love how everybody's suddenly a [x] expert online whenever [x] happens but now that it's one of my specialist subjects, football, it's even funnier

having listened to THAT harry kane interview, i feel very strongly now that from now on all post-match interviews must be conducted on helium

They tell me I’m uncultured, but I’ll always recognise a bit of Beethoven.

Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how much his ideas still apply to the world we're in now. 🧵/

i'm looking forward to job interviews where i have to prove my lack of competence with llms

death metal

the most bonkers part of the harry kane knighthood proposal is that it just makes you look extremely stupid if england crash out after this so at best you gain nothing (if england unexpectedly win the world cup, he would've been nominated anyway), and at worst it makes you a laughing stock

"Not ALL the single ladies" - Nuancé

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: objectification this story reminded me of a little linguistic parlour game called "automatikus tárgyeset" ("automatic accusative case") i don't know when it began but it's certainly been popularised recently by the webcomic Napirajz, and it goes like this:

“Why are men afraid of women?” “If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear,” Ged said. “Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.” “Are they ever taught to trust themselves?” Ged asked “No,” she said.

Tucked away in West Yorkshire is a hidden piece of transatlantic history perfect for the Fourth of July. The Triumphal Arch on the Parlington Estate in Aberford is Britain's only monument dedicated to American independence. Built in 1783 by the eccentric, whig-sympathising

hydration break

what a way to find out that i've been listening to @gregjenner.bsky.social's podcast so much that now that i'm watching the video version, his voice feels disconnected from the sight of his excellent curls

there is a whole genre of books that cover large swathes of human history from the angle of a single thing, like idk salt or national anthems and there definitely is a difference between quality of storytelling, and it does matter a creative way of organising even known facts can be enlightening

how do you define biggest, but probably sheffield

of course back in the day he used to be called saint pius twitter

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

Suetonius, in 60 AD, upon learning of Boudica

So, part 1 of the actual documentation for the #DOMAIINS book is done. Please RT and share. As I'm moving into the actual final stages of this project. Thank you everyone who has supported me so far, and next up... Book Block calculations and Book of Standards!

in tagalog, instead of saying “whatever happens happens” we say “bahala na si batman” which loosely translates to “let batman handle it” and i think that’s beautiful

white ship disaster (1120) [colorized]

hands up, which of you weirdos doesn't have a playlist of just weird al polkas? what is wrong with you?

it's easy to forget and increasingly difficult to believe how amazingly fresh, cool and revolutionary google was when it first appeared

it'd be funny if they ended up doing an oban youtu.be/L6QtigLJD_4

ultimate spoiler: i'm sitting on a dead quiet train and suddenly a voice behind me says in a calm and matter-of-factly tone: "what a goal"

with burnham bigging up devolution, i feel it's time to unfurl my flag BRING BACK DANELAW!

as we seem to have moved from aircon discourse to exonym discourse, here's something tangentially connected: sometimes you change names just to fit the host language's phonology, and that's perfectly fine

my all-time favourite

what a way of realising i am now that grizzled old dude

Reversed, wrong-headed, lied; unhinged, wrong-headed, deprived.

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: dog days "dog days" is one of my favourite english phrases, and personally i prefer it to its hungarian equivalent "kánikula" ultimately they both come from ancient rome ("canicula") where a period of extreme heat was associated with the rising of the dog star, sirius