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I just found a haiku I wrote last year: "The sun is shining I'm supposed to be writing Documentation" It's not even sunny today so things have definitely gone downhill.
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At a gig yesterday - Supersonic festival in Birmingham - one of the bands said “gently caress the tories”, but got a bigger cheer for “and gently caress Keir Starmer”
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Sep 4, 2023 19:14
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keep punching joe posted:I dunno, papillons or chihuahuas or something else that's small and weak. My clueless lap dog Pomeranian (see my av) still has a prey drive. And also tries to get all up in other dog’s faces because they’re bigger than her and she wants to scare them off.
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Sep 11, 2023 12:49
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loving terrible news, sending best wishes to you and his family and friends. He always seemed so friendly and thoughtful.
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Sep 12, 2023 21:41
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Brendan Rodgers posted:We need to reclaim pink, it being a girls colour in the west is so weird. Back in Punjab a pink turban and shirt is perfectly masculine, you can get straight-married in a completely pink outfit and noone will bat an eye. That’s a fantastic outfit  I love that pastel pink. In fact I painted my hallway that colour.
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Sep 13, 2023 18:48
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Microplastics posted:I'm always unreasonably excited when the Antichrist club in London does a cyberpunk night You don’t have to wait for nights with that specific theme. You could wear them to any event! E: I will actually be going to Antichrist this month. No idea what the theme is. Gonna wear mesh and fishnet regardless.
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Sep 13, 2023 23:28
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Monica Bellucci posted:I could be wrong but as far as I know pink was THE manly colour for 100s of years, at least in Christendom, because of knights. This doesn’t sound right, blood stains in fabric generally end up brown rather than pink (oxidation)
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Sep 14, 2023 18:04
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fuctifino posted:He was constantly playing with his penis from the outside of his jeans. His hand was constantly rubbing his crotch area. Over time he faded the crotch of every pair of jeans white. My first boyfriend proudly told me that his favourite jeans had a big (deliberate?) hole in the pocket, so he could secretly touch himself all the time
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Sep 15, 2023 23:21
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Angepain posted:He’s known this was coming for a long time and he’s spent recent years preparing this new anti-msm persona to prepare for it. This seems rather generous to Brand, years of planning? I didn’t think he was the scheming type
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Sep 16, 2023 11:16
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Mebh posted:Thanks to the poster who pointed out covid jabs are now available. Congrats on the vaccinations! I'm "not currently able to book an appointment"  . My husband has covid right now, which has already upset my birthday celebrations last weekend, and will ruin his birthday celebrations this weekend. At least he doesn't have a severe case.Congrats on your pretty chilli harvest too 
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Sep 20, 2023 15:04
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grobbo posted:Does anyone have any alternative recs for good, in-depth arts & entertainment writing and essaywork that's regularly updating? It doesn't need to be high-falutin' / should ideally be less staid than the TLS, but I'd like it to be interesting. My favourite blog, Asking the Wrong Questions. She writes about film, TV, and books, with some really great (and politically/morally sound) analysis. Updates semi-regularly. NB her reviews generally contain spoilers. Her most recent post was a discussion of tech billionaires in sci-fi.
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Sep 21, 2023 11:39
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forkboy84 posted:Is anyone from UKMT going to watch the Black Sabbath ballet in Brum? Opens today & runs until 21st October apparently. I believe Richard Thomas who was involved with Jerry Springer The Opera is involved It sold out before I found out about it
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Sep 28, 2023 10:57
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I started making fun of ULEZ crazies to my parents the other weekend, forgetting until halfway through that they believe in 15 min cities lockdown control nonsense also. Luckily they got distracted by seeing a squirrel
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Sep 30, 2023 10:47
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Crystal Thenis posted:you aren’t winning anybody over to the left boys Yes, everyone on the internet is a “boy”  nice bit of sexism to add to the pile
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Sep 30, 2023 17:48
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Jakabite posted:What do you all eat for breakfast? I’m on bacon sarnies this week but it varies between that, cereal, pate and some sort of chutney on toast, and protein, banana and peanut butter smoothie. Variety is the spice of life and all. Im open to new ideas Greek yogurt, low sugar granola and fruit. Or baked beans on toast. Or scrambled eggs on toast.
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Oct 5, 2023 11:56
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OzyMandrill posted:Ian Banks, my favourite is the Algebraist, and that's not a culture one. Its a bit heavy at the start too, takes a good 1/3rd before it really kicks off, but the least half is worth the buildup imo. I reread The Algebraist recently! Love the Dwellers. A whole civilisation built on trolling each other and other species. Revelation Space I remember mainly for the tension building throughout most of the book, proper page-turner.
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Oct 8, 2023 17:33
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Z the IVth posted:House of Suns is another interesting Reynolds work despite being softer than Revelation Space. The timescale goes literally off the charts. Just bought for Kindle, thanks! I'll start on it once I've finished Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian. I love McCarthy, his writing is so beautiful and evocative. But drat this book is hard-going. Unrelentingly grim and violent. Not good bedtime or mealtime reading!
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Oct 8, 2023 18:07
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Guavanaut posted:I still need to see the Henrietta Lacks statue in Bristol, which was installed as a direct reaction to the handwringing about the racism man statue that got removed by being chucked in the proper channel. That’s cool, if a somewhat random choice for Bristol. No Black UK women to make a statue of? Still, one statue is better than no statues. I worked with HeLa cells when I was a cell biologist. Those things are a mess. Poor her
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Oct 11, 2023 16:08
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Tesseraction posted:Oh I did mention I was playing it and another goon said it was the reason they adopted a Pomeranian. Yeah it's a really good game and Jowd's theme is a banger. That was me. Still kinda regret not naming her Missile (she’s named Ace after the One Piece character instead). I really want to replay it now! e: here she is in a box 
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Oct 12, 2023 10:59
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Guavanaut posted:Maximum respect for Britain's first Asian rockstar and most powerful Bi. Powerful yes, not that large.
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Oct 13, 2023 11:46
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Tigey posted:I initially thought he was drawing on a paper map with a fountain pen. I have never got one of his references
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Oct 16, 2023 12:07
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Congrats Jakabite 
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Oct 17, 2023 17:00
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Oh, that's what the 'Men die, beasts die' line is from. It also crops up in Helvegen which is absolutely spinechilling performed live: I saw Wardruna perform this at Hellfest last year. It’s even more powerful while tripping. I finally got round to writing a will shortly afterwards so I wrote that Helvegen should be played at my funeral  . (Ideally alongside Type O Negative - Everything Dies but I didn’t add that bit)
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Oct 25, 2023 16:32
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I just saw a profile on dating app Feeld which had no text, only one picture of a pin badge-style Princess Di in army uniform, holding a baby, with “free Palestine” underneath. It was magnificent and I wish I’d got a screenshot
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Nov 3, 2023 03:45
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First time my dog heard fireworks she was unfortunately off lead on Brighton beach. She legged it, running for her life as far as she was concerned. Me and equally unfit husband couldn’t keep up but luckily there were no roads to cross and some random strangers caught her. Second time she heard fireworks she tried to hide in a bin in the garden, shaking. We gave her a lot of tinned tuna and she isn’t much bothered these days  E: 254 is a “lazy caterer number” 
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Nov 6, 2023 10:01
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Mebh posted:Animal torture Uhh, spoiler that maybe?!
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Nov 6, 2023 13:02
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Just Another Lurker posted:I enjoyed the first few but then stopped after number five, huh... that was nine years ago. lol Last one I read was the 9th book, The Labyrinth Index, 5 years ago. I appreciate that Stross significantly moved the story and setting along throughout the series, but unsurprisingly approaching cosmic horror makes things increasingly grimdark. Not so much my thing. I bounced off the spin-off series within a few pages. E: looks like he didn’t know what to do with the main story line after The Labyrinth Index! The most recent 3 novels are the spin-off trilogy. killerwhat fucked around with this message at 13:00 on Nov 8, 2023 |
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Nov 8, 2023 12:54
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I was on holiday recently and saw this artwork. It's called "Surprise with the Glare" by Takao Tsuchida. I think the face looks like Wes Streeting  
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Nov 20, 2023 18:32
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/DachshundColin/status/1728046746138222681 Wtaf This is way more shocking than not knowing the price of bread or whatever. Freakish
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Nov 24, 2023 16:14
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:The first tip to getting the good pain drugs is to be male. Being male isn’t a guarantee apparently. My brother recently had heart valve replacement surgery and was only given paracetamol for the first two days.
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Tesseraction posted:I told my GP that I'm drinking myself to sleep because none of the other medications worked and he prescribed me melatonin, which people can just buy in the US. Iirc you can also buy melatonin off UK online chemists if you promise it’s definitely for narcolepsy.
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