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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 5h

“Do you know whether they’ve sold the prize dildo that was hanging up in the window? The one that looks like it came off some kind of horse-dragon?”

“What, the one as big as me?” returned the boy.

“What a delightful boy!” said Scrooge.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 5h

Interesting! That name looks like it should mean 'the laws of work' and I associate it with chairs that are good for your back, but define it as 'the study of the relationship between workers and their environment' and a whole lot of things open up:

Ergonomics, also known as human factors or human factors engineering (HFE), is the application of psychological and physiological principles to the engineering and design of products, processes, and systems. Primary goals of human factors engineering are to reduce human error, increase productivity and system availability, and enhance safety, health and comfort with a specific focus on the interaction between the human and equipment.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 17h

I doubt it's unhinged, but The Name of the Doctor obliterates and makes meaningless everything about the Ninth, and all out of snarky spite because Christopher Eccleston wouldn't come back, which he'd said from the beginning he wouldn't do.

it's pathetic and petty, both in-universe and out-.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 17h

come on, Legionnaires', do your thing

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 17h

DO YOU NEED ART?!?!?

(yes you doooooooo)

Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 17h

all of the old prints are just $8 🔥 10% off orders over $30 paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/category/pri...

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

Now imagining Greek 'rabbis' bending all of their attention to discrepancies between Homer, Hesiod, and the rest, in order to produce a pagan Talmud that contains an explanation for everything.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

As @arrscott.bsky.social says, continuity is a child's obsession.

As a kid, I wanted Greek mythology to "make sense." Variants of myths, nevermind outright contradictions, made me crazy. As an adult, I find the differences telling.

Shame so much theology is built on a need for continuity.

R. Scott Rogers @arrscott.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve increasingly come to believe this! As a child I was obsessed with continuity in the books & comics I enjoyed, but now I just want the story in front of me right now to grab me.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

Others have already mentioned the Japanese in Mexico, but I can't not repost one of my all-time favorites.

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones, et al breaking their own brains by running their mouths day after day without having anything to say

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

George do love a bit of toast

Chris and his farmily of forever friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 2d

My birthday toast run with donkey George

JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

Why else is he holding up two fingers?

JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 1d

Is it donkey testicles?

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 2d

well, America only has like three or four lawyers, so most odd-numbered days it's JY's turn to explain law to the newspapers

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 3d

The Trump ceasefire deal is the Biden ceasefire deal Trump begged Bibi not to accept in 2024 because it would've hurt Trump's chances of winning the election and I wish this was the first time a GOP candidate for president won by meddling in American foreign policy.

See: Nixon '68 and Reagan '80.

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 2d

riding in the car when my son (3.5) said “i have something silly to tell you. roll up the windows so nobody hears” and then he told us a clown is coming to our house. to live with us forever

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JayAllTheEms @jayalltheems.bsky.social · 2d

this is what hobbits, dwarves, Gandalf, and Middle Earth look like. hunnert percent, end of.

Bronze Age Babies @bronzeagebabies.bsky.social · 2d

Rankin/Bass - 1977’s The Hobbit, adapted for television.

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Colin Smith @colinsmith.bsky.social · 2d

1975: Harlan Ellison visits Michael Moorcock in London. The Englishman sits Ellison in front of the TV when Dr Who comes on & insists Ellison “be quiet & just watch”. By the late 1970s,Ellison is such a fan of Dr Who that he’s taunting US scifi fans with declarations of its superiority over US fare.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 2d

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...