commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant)
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We live in cretinous times, and the cretins would appear to be winning. Join the resistance and read a book.
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Right now, teams are providing care close to the front lines in Ukraine, running a trauma center in Afghanistan, and distributing water in Sudan.
Now more than ever, you can make a difference. https://bit.ly/48r7y79 #GivingTuesday
Now more than ever, you can make a difference. https://bit.ly/48r7y79 #GivingTuesday
December 1, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Right now, teams are providing care close to the front lines in Ukraine, running a trauma center in Afghanistan, and distributing water in Sudan.
Now more than ever, you can make a difference. https://bit.ly/48r7y79 #GivingTuesday
Now more than ever, you can make a difference. https://bit.ly/48r7y79 #GivingTuesday
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Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
December 1, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Your annual reminder that the most revealing difference between Irish and Scottish Gaelic is definitely in the words for December: Mí na Nollag (Month of Christmas) in Ireland, and An Dubhlachd (the Blackness) in Scotland. So once again may I wish you all a lovely Blackness.
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The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
November 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.
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This 🧵 makes for very sobering reading
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This 🧵 makes for very sobering reading
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Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
November 29, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
Download it for free here… www.worldofmoose.com/pages/2025-b...
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Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
November 29, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Wow - this guy must be really, REALLY bad with money if an extra £208 per month will “ruin” his retirement.
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
Let’s take a look at his situation based on what he told the @Telegraph
Because this does NOT add up!
No, this is not a “poor pensioner” scrabbling around for pennies…
🧵1/9
The antilibrary needs feeding too.
My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
Lots more here: www.theguardian.com/books/series/tom-gauld-s-cultural-cartoons
November 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
The antilibrary needs feeding too.
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maybe next time
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 PM
maybe next time
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More on this fabulous film in our wonderful #LindsayAnderson Archive. "See Your City" in a unique and unforgettable way!
November 28, 2025 at 4:30 PM
More on this fabulous film in our wonderful #LindsayAnderson Archive. "See Your City" in a unique and unforgettable way!
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#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
November 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
#Rewilding One of the cartoons in my new book 'Physics for Cats'. Available now in good bookshops an online nowwww.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2
Lindsay Anderson and Shelagh Delaney's 1967 short, The White Bus, is currently available for free on Prime. It's credited as being from 1979 but don't let that fool you. Devised as both allegory and satire, it's curious how much of it still feels relevant to the noise of the 21st Century.
New Backlisted! A Taste of Honey, and what Shelagh Delaney did next 🎈 with @davehaslam.bsky.social @britfilmmelanie.bsky.social @unamccormack.bsky.social and me. @backlisted.bsky.social
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/245...
www.backlisted.fm/episodes/245...
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Christmas on the BBC
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Festive self-flagellation at the BBC: the Stephen Collins cartoon
Traitors, distractions, inertia, manipulation … it’s all on the schedule this Christmas
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Christmas on the BBC
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘Twas frymblal, and the Fexcectorn
AUC Totalbottl on Line Scoree.
Runctitional was the bottleneck
And Remech N FS-1 NC.
AUC Totalbottl on Line Scoree.
Runctitional was the bottleneck
And Remech N FS-1 NC.
"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
‘Twas frymblal, and the Fexcectorn
AUC Totalbottl on Line Scoree.
Runctitional was the bottleneck
And Remech N FS-1 NC.
AUC Totalbottl on Line Scoree.
Runctitional was the bottleneck
And Remech N FS-1 NC.
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Remembering the classic, from Sellar and Yeatman.
November 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Remembering the classic, from Sellar and Yeatman.
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Bad Manners
The Creatures
Paul Simon
Goldfrapp
The Beach Boys
Bad Manners
The Creatures
Paul Simon
Goldfrapp
The Beach Boys
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Ultravox
BB King
Jethro Tull
Whitesnake
OMD
Ultravox
BB King
Jethro Tull
Whitesnake
OMD
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Tom Jones
Mud
Showaddywaddy
Beth Rowley
The Rolling Stones
Tom Jones
Mud
Showaddywaddy
Beth Rowley
The Rolling Stones
November 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen.
Bad Manners
The Creatures
Paul Simon
Goldfrapp
The Beach Boys
Bad Manners
The Creatures
Paul Simon
Goldfrapp
The Beach Boys
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This is alarming, as @nature has one of the best statements on gen AI I’ve ever seen.
Here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This is alarming, as @nature has one of the best statements on gen AI I’ve ever seen.
Here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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One of the absolute highlights of my trip to Ingolstadt in September was seeing the exhibition ´Ansichtssache’ (a matter of perspective) at the German Medical History Museum. It showed the knitted anatomy of Katharina Sabernig, and I can’t say how much I loved it!
November 27, 2025 at 8:10 PM
One of the absolute highlights of my trip to Ingolstadt in September was seeing the exhibition ´Ansichtssache’ (a matter of perspective) at the German Medical History Museum. It showed the knitted anatomy of Katharina Sabernig, and I can’t say how much I loved it!
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
Scotland proving yet again that we're no better than our neighbours when it comes to this crap. Shameful.
Scottish school cancels Christmas play which sympathised with Syrian child refugees after ‘racist and abusive’ messages targeting staff 👇🏴
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Scottish school cancels Christmas play after ‘racist and abusive’ messages
Show at Cauldeen primary school in Inverness had included a scene explaining hardship faced by Syrian refugees
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Scotland proving yet again that we're no better than our neighbours when it comes to this crap. Shameful.
Hang on, I'm no boomer and I'm an inveterate ellipsis-user. I'm not even sorry ...
‘My mother’s use of ellipses doesn’t reveal a pattern or convey a tone. She’ll “. . .” in good times and bad. Excited, pensive, disappointed or otherwise.’
Madeline Cash on the Boomer generation’s love of ellipses.
granta.com/connecting-t...
Madeline Cash on the Boomer generation’s love of ellipses.
granta.com/connecting-t...
Connecting the Dots | Madeline Cash | Granta
‘There’s an extensive online discourse on the Baby Boomer generation’s penchant for ellipses. “OK . . .” “Thanks . . .” “See you next week . . .”’
granta.com
November 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Hang on, I'm no boomer and I'm an inveterate ellipsis-user. I'm not even sorry ...
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this comic is 2 years old and needs to be updated due to technological advances; a modern AI girlfriend would tell him to k*ll himself
November 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
this comic is 2 years old and needs to be updated due to technological advances; a modern AI girlfriend would tell him to k*ll himself
Has Austria ever thought of doing this for Eurovision? They'd clean up.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Has Austria ever thought of doing this for Eurovision? They'd clean up.
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I too sometimes feel inadequate and a bit pathetic. Then I read another book and it goes away. I've never tried just going out and smashing up the world, seems a terribly inefficient way to quell those feelings.
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I too sometimes feel inadequate and a bit pathetic. Then I read another book and it goes away. I've never tried just going out and smashing up the world, seems a terribly inefficient way to quell those feelings.
🧵 The grim replies to @happytoast.co.uk in this thread, so many creative and hard-working people suddenly shut out by AI from earning even a modest living... Are we actually ready for the devastating tsunami of unemployment that's about to crash over us? ...
While I'm not quite at the point of losing my house, the harm ai has done to my animation work income is huge, like 80% gone and it makes me wonder how many freelance artists and animators ARE losing everything while billionaire con men continue to rake it in.
November 24, 2025 at 4:31 PM
🧵 The grim replies to @happytoast.co.uk in this thread, so many creative and hard-working people suddenly shut out by AI from earning even a modest living... Are we actually ready for the devastating tsunami of unemployment that's about to crash over us? ...
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‘Many make a large fortune, who remain underbred and pathetically stupid to the last.’
“Idleness so called, which does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognised in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class, has as good a right to state its position as industry itself.”
—“An Apology for Idlers”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1877)
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69825
—“An Apology for Idlers”
Robert Louis Stevenson (1877)
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69825
November 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
‘Many make a large fortune, who remain underbred and pathetically stupid to the last.’