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Calum Brough
@calumbroughingham.bsky.social
(He/Him) Dilletante and biology enthusiast. I do bits and bobs of writing and editing and some autism advocacy. Fairly Gay.
It's probably the same reason these people don't season the skinless chicken and rice: it needs to be miserable or it doesn't count
November 27, 2025 at 9:45 PM
I was finally about to download duck duck go, and wouldn't you know it? New AI button.
November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Reposted by Calum Brough
Home Alone (1990)
November 25, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Hey now, Scrooge was pro taxes paying for services!
November 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Jesus Christ, Americans really need to learn the distinction between a medium and a format.
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Same thing here. Hell, I even went easier on the highest income, still got a 9bn surplus. Turns out, it's really easy to do if you go for the corporations etc
November 26, 2025 at 12:18 PM
My response to "person first" is to point out that "I am gay, I don't have homosexuality"
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Looking at the replies (and my own reaction to OP) I think a big part of the lack of "buzz" around ereaders compared with eg tablets is that you basically buy a decent ereader once and it lasts a decade. Most books still get released as ebooks
November 25, 2025 at 6:17 AM
Hey! That's not true at all.

The parentified *older* children do all that stuff.
November 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
I prefer the part after the foreign language cast credits, where Russell Crowe appears and says "Frankie, did you really think you were the only one?" and then we see a single bandaged wrapped hand
November 24, 2025 at 1:15 PM
That line about Charisma Carpenter
😙🤌
November 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
"why did the dumb owl not get laid?"
"Because he lacked the wit to woo!"
-Colin Firth, Pride and Prejudice (1998)
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This is very much like Freud being all "you know how everyone wants to fuck their mother with a cigar?"
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
You can also often find first edition hardbacks of harry potter 4-7 in charity shops. One I saw had a shelf with four orders of the phoenix.
November 21, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I don't know how much of a thing this was in America, but the sheer *amount* of copies of 50 shades being donated to charity shops *at the height of popularity* was *insane*. People were buying the books, possibly even mostly finishing them, and then immediately getting rid
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"you have some dark souls? *I* have Dark Souls Too! How many Dark Souls, three?"
November 20, 2025 at 6:04 PM