Archie Valparaiso
@archiev.bsky.social
Gracelessly aging* writer, copy editor and translator. Curator of #SaveOurSubs. Based on the Continong.
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* No "e" after the "g", eh. Glad we've got that cleared up.
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* No "e" after the "g", eh. Glad we've got that cleared up.
The best of it certainly is. And that makes sense, I suppose, because Spain produces four times more every year than either Italy or Greece, hence why the countryside in the southern third of the country looks like this:
November 1, 2025 at 2:06 PM
The best of it certainly is. And that makes sense, I suppose, because Spain produces four times more every year than either Italy or Greece, hence why the countryside in the southern third of the country looks like this:
The top of my timeline *right this very instant* includes this, "news" that I doubt even heavily politicised New Yorkers can bring themselves to give much of a shit about.
October 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
The top of my timeline *right this very instant* includes this, "news" that I doubt even heavily politicised New Yorkers can bring themselves to give much of a shit about.
The Nonce, and Future King.
October 22, 2025 at 9:42 AM
The Nonce, and Future King.
Contrary to popular belief because of the battle, Cape Trafalgar isn't wild and rocky at all. It barely even qualifies as a cape; it's just a little promontory with golden beaches on either side of it and gently rolling lowlands behind it. It's usually warm and sunny in October (22ºC right now).
October 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Contrary to popular belief because of the battle, Cape Trafalgar isn't wild and rocky at all. It barely even qualifies as a cape; it's just a little promontory with golden beaches on either side of it and gently rolling lowlands behind it. It's usually warm and sunny in October (22ºC right now).
Ob-Ese-Di, Ob-Ese-Da
Flabby Road
etc., etc.
Flabby Road
etc., etc.
October 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Ob-Ese-Di, Ob-Ese-Da
Flabby Road
etc., etc.
Flabby Road
etc., etc.
Egon Schiele says, "Hold mein bier."
October 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Egon Schiele says, "Hold mein bier."
DUNE: WORMY McWORMFACE
July 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
DUNE: WORMY McWORMFACE
Interesting casting concept: Give the job of playing Bruce Springsteen in an upcoming biopic to a guy who once came fourth in a Barry Manilow lookalike contest.
June 19, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Interesting casting concept: Give the job of playing Bruce Springsteen in an upcoming biopic to a guy who once came fourth in a Barry Manilow lookalike contest.
Way to go, US government vetting! (He was killed in eastern Ukraine two months after his mother was appointed to sit at the spooks' top table.)
April 26, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Way to go, US government vetting! (He was killed in eastern Ukraine two months after his mother was appointed to sit at the spooks' top table.)
This herbert doesn't even get how capital letters work and you expect him to understand trade tariffs?
April 13, 2025 at 1:21 PM
This herbert doesn't even get how capital letters work and you expect him to understand trade tariffs?
Aunque tal vez no ese poquiito de originalidad.
April 2, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Aunque tal vez no ese poquiito de originalidad.
"Rock on, Tommeh!"
February 28, 2025 at 11:33 AM
"Rock on, Tommeh!"
If you're not bound by an obligation, you're "exempt", but if you're excluded from a right or benefit, as here, you're "disqualified". #SaveOurSubs
February 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
If you're not bound by an obligation, you're "exempt", but if you're excluded from a right or benefit, as here, you're "disqualified". #SaveOurSubs
I imagine it's fake, but hell it was fast.
December 9, 2024 at 7:23 PM
I imagine it's fake, but hell it was fast.
An album released the year I was born
November 25, 2024 at 10:43 PM
An album released the year I was born
Pre-Germany, definitely. Here's the 1st edition of Beethoven's "Fidelio" (1805). Fraktur was still in common use for street signs in German towns until relatively recently. I assume the neo-Nazis now drool over it because it was the house font of the rabidly antisemitic rag Der Stürmer in the '30s.
October 28, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Pre-Germany, definitely. Here's the 1st edition of Beethoven's "Fidelio" (1805). Fraktur was still in common use for street signs in German towns until relatively recently. I assume the neo-Nazis now drool over it because it was the house font of the rabidly antisemitic rag Der Stürmer in the '30s.
Suspended compounds - AKA "hung-over hyphens" - are ugly at the best of times. While barely acceptable when it's the second element that's repeated (as in "short- and long-term plans"), they're an arch, "look at me!" embarrassment when applied to the first, as here. #SaveOurSubs
September 17, 2024 at 9:02 AM
Suspended compounds - AKA "hung-over hyphens" - are ugly at the best of times. While barely acceptable when it's the second element that's repeated (as in "short- and long-term plans"), they're an arch, "look at me!" embarrassment when applied to the first, as here. #SaveOurSubs
