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Doug, Persisting

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · Dec 15

He’s getting a cat
To kill in a way
Dependent on quantum
Atomic decay
Schrödinger is coming to town

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 1h

A bottle of cement? Risky

Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 3h

I’m in way over my head here

Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 3h

Just call me Mr Three out of Five

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 3h

Like most media, it’s fine. What happened to things just being fine?

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 6h

That’s never a disaster!

Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 7h

I speak adequate French and pretty good German; what else could I fit into that brain capacity if I could just delete them? Johnny Mnemonic was a prophet

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 7h

The healthy scepticism> political disillusionment> conspiracy theories about vaccines> conspiracy theories about everything else > believing in actual magic pipeline is flowing at 100% capacity and only ever growing

Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 7h

True, and that’s what it’s for. But using like we are here, to set a file to hidden, is like using a combine harvester to edge your lawn

Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 7h

On my training course, going through Powershell commands to amend files and directories that take at least five times longer than just doing it with a mouse in Explorer

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 8h

It is a thing though, that ‘good’ literature is often linked in the public mind with Updike/Roth/Heller/Wolfe - just look at the books for sale in the 2 for £10 section at HMV, forming the definition of literature for first year undergrads with the same fifty Great Men’s books since the mid-90’s

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 8h

One food I can't not eat: fresh crusty bread and butter. I am a whore for fresh crusty bread and butter

One film i will always watch if I stumble across it on telly: Any Moore/Dalton-era Bond

One song I will always get up and dance to: Trash by Suede

Fourfoot @fourfoot.bsky.social · 9h

One food I can't not eat - Roast Chicken dinner.

One film I will always watch if I stumble across it on telly - Jaws

One song I will always get up and dance to - Such A Feeling by Bizarre Inc.

The Unfinished @theunfinished.bsky.social · 11h

I’ll cheer this up with one food I can’t not eat, no matter how hungry I am, one film I will always watch when I stumble across it on telly and one song I have to get up and dance to.

Pizza. God, I love pizza.

Jaws. I’ve had some pointless late nights just because I’ve flicked onto ITV4.

Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 8h

This shit sticks out a mile. The second I see someone with that face in that setup I know, ‘This is an ad’ and I skip it immediately

Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 9h

That’s @robpalk.bsky.social, you don’t fool me

Nat Cassidy @natcassidy.bsky.social · 2d

This photo of Robert Bloch is the most writer photo to have ever writer photo’d. It is Pure Writer Photo.

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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 11h

The really, really great writers hardly ever featured writers in their works. Dickens, Homer, Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Chaucer, etc*. The most tedious novelist is the one that imagines their way into the world of a novelist from Brooklyn or Oxford**

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 10h

I have a special loathing for this novel’s spiritual twin, the novel about the literature professor who wants to shag his female students

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 10h

Orwell’s fiction is no better than fine, and pretty poorly written

Almost all of the Great Men of 20th Century American Literature just churned out overwritten slop about hating their wives. Stop reading it

Shakespeare would be baffled by how revered he is today, he never thought he was great

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 10h

Lethally strong Frappe really is the national drink of Greece

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 10h

‘Paul Burrell’s in your knicker drawer right now, you majesty’

Matinee Mode @matineemode.bsky.social · 14h

I need to know what Bob Hoskins said to Princess Diana in front of Roger Rabbit at the London premiere of WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (1988).

Bob Hoskins meets Princess Diana as a full size Roger Rabbit costumed character stands next to them.

Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 12h

Kids can learn up to five simultaneously when they’re little. As adults it’s harder, but you still can. Immersion and practice are the only effective ways to learn, and they get rusty if you don’t use them. But four is manageable by anyone

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Don't Fret. It Adores You @seed-corn-thoughts.bsky.social · 22h

Like, yes to all of this, but also the person being quoted here is just fucking wrong. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos aren't evil because the pneuma of sin manifested in their soul at birth- they're pathetic, insecure people who were never shown real love and try to use money and power as substitutes.

Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 1d

I totally get the sentiment and I can only speak to my own experience, but all I've been hearing as a writer for the past 10 years or so is that creating villains with any nuance is at best So Over and at worst running interference for real-life fascists.

Kayleigh McKee, Cheerer for the Dolls ⏬️ AnimeUSA! @ghaspey.bsky.social · 1d

I'll say it: I think its rly annoying and frankly amateurish that writers are constantly told their villains must be understandable or have sympathetic motivation to be interesting or realistic when all our big villains irl are in fact rich, stupid, selfish, trickster dillweeds and always have been

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 21h

I was watching it idly ten-odd (?) years ago, and it was as the Hunters were chasing a contestant through someone’s house and I thought ‘Wait a minute, Channel 4 just burst in and smashed up the place? With a camera crew and rugby tackles? For a TV show?’ and from that moment on the spell was broken

Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 21h

I read a Reddit post from a former contestant, and it’s all fake. The ‘ANPR hits’ are just the OB crew texting the producers where they are. The CCTV and traffic cams are all mockups, they’re not allowed anywhere near the real data because that’d be illegal. Even most Hunter footage is b-roll

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 1d

I’m rockin’ round the clock m8

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Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 1d

UPDATE: the plumber cancelled

Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 4d

Got a plumber coming on Monday, but I notice he has all his messages set to vanish after 24 hours, so now all I find is the memory of a promise of a plumber and a leaking shower that is still very, very real

Doug, Persisting @dasmunch.bsky.social · 1d

Three here too (full caffeine)

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