My eleven year old is explaining a game he was playing on the Xbox with his cousins earlier on which they had to stop some attacking boats. This is a relief given that they were screaming at one point “STOP THE BOATS!” and I thought we were about to have a stern conversation.

I used to have a terrible phobia that I was being followed by a clown but now I can look back and laugh.

"missed fucking bin day again"

i remember playing master of magic back in the 1990s and death knights were the most fearsome opponents because if you allowed them to close in and use their melee attack on any of your units, the game would instantly crash to dos

"The Cuomintang government has fled to Staten Island and has vowed to retake the mainland after it fell to Mamdanism"

so anyway, i went again today to rebook, halfway through one of the ladies working there just went "or we can just do it now if you've got ten minutes", and i know a laid-back pharmacy isn't the best combo but i love them regardless they know me there

you can tell i'm a software dev cos i automatically read the word "glib" as gee-lib there are other subtle signs too but that's definitely one

nem vagyok nagyon képben, az idei "jövőre nem lesz sziget" tényleg más, mint a szinte minden előző évi?

if you're wondering how my day has been going, let's just say i was looking forward to going down to the pharmacist's for a nice relaxing flu jab (it got cancelled cos they'd run out of vaccine)

D&D is becoming left-coded simply by virtue of being a communal activity.

what i'd like to see is this graph plotted against the actual "generosity" of the welfare system, which is more or less the mirror image

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now i want shire centaurs with flat caps

people always tell me dismissively that "oh, you're just preaching to the converted" but what the fuck else am i supposed to do as a parish vicar?

how can you not love susie dent

"Let The Bodies Hit The Floor" and "It's Raining Men" are differing accounts of the same event.

HALÁLTÖK (a nap szava)

my most old man-coded music opinion is that i get annoyed by charli xcx purely because that's not how roman numerals work

i wonder what jeremy hardy would say about labour these days

why does this remind me of this intro www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBUR...

historically speaking, being locked away in a castle by an english monarch hasn't played out well for royal princes so you know, there is hope

meanwhile back in england the big controversy was when a newly elected party leader was found to have done some shit tabloid article about using hypnotherapy to grow your boobs 12 years ago, for which he apologised must try harder, english politicians

once again i have some mandatory internal training but it's okay, i'll just half-arse it i'm good at half-arsing stuff like that, i practically wrote the book on it well, i say i wrote the book, it's a couple of bullet points in some text file

i've come to realise that rathergood dot com is my 2012 opening ceremony and i genuinely believe despite all evidence that the world was a better place when we were all just listening to looking for my leopard

my country did not spend the last 5000 years inventing some of the worst forms of discrimination the world has ever seen and some of the most unfair societal practices to ever exist so that Walter from Wisconsin could get the credit

i chose the wrong day to get into cyber

hmm

how mad is it that in england there's no law requiring restaurants to display their food hygiene rating

"we just want to revert brexit and rejoin the eu" not with that attitude, young sir

today on the bus there was a youth at the back listening to loud music and singing along to it there were three factors that saved the situation - he was listening to rapper's delight, which is objectively cool - he knew all the words - he did all this in the voice of fozzie bear

Today I learned that Neil Diamond originally tried to make it big under his real name of Neil Coal, but in the end had to change it due to immense pressure.

Top tip: Cheer up your garden library with some laurel and hardy annuals.

me: [watches the sumo from yesterday] commentator: "this is a real david vs goliath match up" "david": [weighs 300 pounds]

There are lies, damned lies and the "Keep me signed in" option.

A thing that I don't think the AI bros have considered: Even if folks don't care about the artistry of Game of Thrones, for instance - even if they were just watching 'the cool show with the dragons everyone's watching?' The important part of that is "everyone's watching." It was *social*. Shared.

and if western civilisation has brought us any unquestionable societal improvements, it was the invention of the sports direct mug

not everyone has to write a novel

oh, how i love romanian humour, they are the true masters of poking fun at yourselves www.timesnewroman.ro/monden/carta...

here's what i noticed recently though: while i no longer have the mental capacity to memorise phone numbers, i seem to have repurposed that space for remembering 6 digit numbers for 30 seconds

#MiniHungarianLanguageLesson: piresia belongs to the piresians "piréz" is a curious word, you will rarely hear it in conversations or see it written down but if you're an l1 speaker, you will instantly recognise it as demonym-shaped

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

smile all the time

big mood www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWY4...

outside it's yorkshire autumn but in here it's balkan summer

as many journalists are frantically googling "lászló krasznahorkai" today, i can't stop giggling because what i know and google doean't is that there's another guy with the same quite rare name: a lad who writes not-really-nobel-worthy lyrics for various hungarian goth bands

apropos of nothing, i just remembered back to my days at uni i studied software engineering because coding had been my hobby since i was 10, and now it's my job and ngl, it pays a pretty decent wage but when i was unemployed, i still wrote code every day cos it's what i like to do

eleven

i've got to know and meet loads of lovely people and my mind has been made up on the trans "issue"

on her majesty's secret bollocks

breaking bad not because i'm so cool or anything, i just thought i can't be arsed to invest so much time into something like that