Maisie
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Here for pre-/early modern history/tech/history-of-/early music/landscapes/trivia/cats/squirrels/monkeys/to be entertained. Civility fetish.
Ok if I saw it among other rugs, I would not think "this one looks harmless"
The Tasselled Wobbegong is a master of disguise that can eat a fish almost as big as itself in one gulp. It's classified as a shark, but when it lays on the sea floor it looks like a harmless rug if you manage to see it. But with powerful jaws and sharp teeth they are no fish to mess with.
December 9, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Ok if I saw it among other rugs, I would not think "this one looks harmless"
I'd envisaged being a driver as working out not that much cheaper than train travel once I'd added up petrol+tax+insurance etc. but... it's still vastly cheaper to drive everywhere. And that's kind of disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I'd envisaged being a driver as working out not that much cheaper than train travel once I'd added up petrol+tax+insurance etc. but... it's still vastly cheaper to drive everywhere. And that's kind of disgusting.
People talk about Citizen Kane/2001: A Space Odyssey etc as films they need to pretend to have seen but for me it's Ace in the Hole. I feel like every month I meet someone who starts talking to me about Ace in the Hole and how it's an interesting/prescient/cynical view of our media landscape/ wtvr
December 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
People talk about Citizen Kane/2001: A Space Odyssey etc as films they need to pretend to have seen but for me it's Ace in the Hole. I feel like every month I meet someone who starts talking to me about Ace in the Hole and how it's an interesting/prescient/cynical view of our media landscape/ wtvr
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-toxic-... this is kind of terrifying. Do we need to... ban chess, until we can figure out what's going on?
The Toxic Pursuit of Greatness in Chess (w/ Brin-Jonathan Butler) | The Chris Hedges Report
Author and journalist Brin-Jonathan Butler chronicles the disturbing history of chess’ greatest players and those obsessed with the game.
chrishedges.substack.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
chrishedges.substack.com/p/the-toxic-... this is kind of terrifying. Do we need to... ban chess, until we can figure out what's going on?
Will die on this hill
Die Hard is a movie.
December 6, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Will die on this hill
I'm not entirely sure of the point of this painful deep dive into whether or to what extent Farage is racist. Libs, I think that's why the right like him, you know
December 6, 2025 at 10:12 AM
I'm not entirely sure of the point of this painful deep dive into whether or to what extent Farage is racist. Libs, I think that's why the right like him, you know
Druids' advent party. That's the longest I've ever spent talking about the holy grail at a buffet table.
December 5, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Druids' advent party. That's the longest I've ever spent talking about the holy grail at a buffet table.
He manages to denigrate care work, migrants and reveal his solipsism all at once. Heaven forfend a child, elderly parent or ill partner ever needs his help. I hope people are paying attention.
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
He manages to denigrate care work, migrants and reveal his solipsism all at once. Heaven forfend a child, elderly parent or ill partner ever needs his help. I hope people are paying attention.
I still don't know of anyone who has bought a book from Daunt Books and don't believe anyone ever has and I think the totes are just issued to women under 35 whose parents meet a minimum income threshold
December 5, 2025 at 9:49 AM
I still don't know of anyone who has bought a book from Daunt Books and don't believe anyone ever has and I think the totes are just issued to women under 35 whose parents meet a minimum income threshold
Gosh this is me post-covid pneumonia
December 4, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Gosh this is me post-covid pneumonia
share.google/JK8BzrEP0ipP... you can tell from every incidental detail in this outrageous story that the deli owner cannot cook
I called my recipe book Sabzi – vegetables. But the name was trademarked. And my legal ordeal began
The granting of patents and trademarks to foods and words from the global south is part of a long colonial grab. It’s time to realise we share what we cook, and what we call it
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December 4, 2025 at 9:56 PM
share.google/JK8BzrEP0ipP... you can tell from every incidental detail in this outrageous story that the deli owner cannot cook
I think you have to have worked in a kitchen to fully appreciate the hilarity of all the Lifetime Xmas bollocks movies being about chefs
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I think you have to have worked in a kitchen to fully appreciate the hilarity of all the Lifetime Xmas bollocks movies being about chefs
Adding to small list of things very estranged exes decide to contact me to discuss: Bryan Johnson's girlfriend announcement video
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Adding to small list of things very estranged exes decide to contact me to discuss: Bryan Johnson's girlfriend announcement video
Why does it feel like this guy will have a very outsize contribution towards the acceleration of our extinction in *whatever* form it might take
December 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Why does it feel like this guy will have a very outsize contribution towards the acceleration of our extinction in *whatever* form it might take
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As we enter the Yuletide season, this is my annual reminder to all of you that Ted Kotcheff’s WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) is a Christmas film.
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
As we enter the Yuletide season, this is my annual reminder to all of you that Ted Kotcheff’s WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) is a Christmas film.
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This is a real tweet from the Secretary of Defense (Secretary of War?). We live in a simulation.
December 2, 2025 at 12:52 AM
This is a real tweet from the Secretary of Defense (Secretary of War?). We live in a simulation.
The BlackFriday goblins have failed spectacularly this year. No purchases whatsoever. It's all supplements and VPNs that grind my laptop to a halt. I want exciting things, heavily discounted musical instruments, chocolate, robots, fancy clothing, sparkly things, I'm over here, take my money
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The BlackFriday goblins have failed spectacularly this year. No purchases whatsoever. It's all supplements and VPNs that grind my laptop to a halt. I want exciting things, heavily discounted musical instruments, chocolate, robots, fancy clothing, sparkly things, I'm over here, take my money
Ok, things are bad for the rest of us but I feel great for this fungus --Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability : ScienceAlert share.google/6Y0ZqNsVHAvp...
Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability
The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other forms of life have not only move...
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December 1, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Ok, things are bad for the rest of us but I feel great for this fungus --Chernobyl Fungus Appears to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability : ScienceAlert share.google/6Y0ZqNsVHAvp...
Well look, if you get involved in silly stuff
November 30, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Well look, if you get involved in silly stuff
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Towel-holder, oak, with two grotesque heads, Northern Germany, c. 1520-25.
The catalogue notes: "An inventory of Thomas Cromwell's possessions of 1527 mentions that his parlour, adjoining the kitchen, contained 'An image of a fole to hold a towel, painted.'" (V&AMuseum)
The catalogue notes: "An inventory of Thomas Cromwell's possessions of 1527 mentions that his parlour, adjoining the kitchen, contained 'An image of a fole to hold a towel, painted.'" (V&AMuseum)
November 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Towel-holder, oak, with two grotesque heads, Northern Germany, c. 1520-25.
The catalogue notes: "An inventory of Thomas Cromwell's possessions of 1527 mentions that his parlour, adjoining the kitchen, contained 'An image of a fole to hold a towel, painted.'" (V&AMuseum)
The catalogue notes: "An inventory of Thomas Cromwell's possessions of 1527 mentions that his parlour, adjoining the kitchen, contained 'An image of a fole to hold a towel, painted.'" (V&AMuseum)
There was a guy at my uncle's funeral today in an ushanka whom nobody really knew and even he didn't seem to know how or if he knew my uncle. "I just have a funeral sort of personality"
November 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
There was a guy at my uncle's funeral today in an ushanka whom nobody really knew and even he didn't seem to know how or if he knew my uncle. "I just have a funeral sort of personality"
Ok I used to compress it; I learned this *in Italy* (though I understand now that I was mistaught) and I have a scar from a moka explosion. I had to have bloody *shrapnel* removed. Lucia is right. share.google/L1jrIoi4wWxL...
You be the judge: should my partner stop compressing the coffee in the moka pot?
Hamad thinks his method enhances the flavour. Lucia says he’s breaking all the sacred rules. Who needs to wake up and smell the coffee?
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November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Ok I used to compress it; I learned this *in Italy* (though I understand now that I was mistaught) and I have a scar from a moka explosion. I had to have bloody *shrapnel* removed. Lucia is right. share.google/L1jrIoi4wWxL...
Pic of a Viennese café from a 60s cookbook: wot do you call the newspaper tree? Does it have a name?
November 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Pic of a Viennese café from a 60s cookbook: wot do you call the newspaper tree? Does it have a name?
As a gone-Youtube-native, dipping a toe into trad TV every few months/years is always distressing in exactly the same way: everything feels painfully slow, aesthetically homogenous, overbearing, didactic, intensely patronising. See: Civilisations
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 AM
As a gone-Youtube-native, dipping a toe into trad TV every few months/years is always distressing in exactly the same way: everything feels painfully slow, aesthetically homogenous, overbearing, didactic, intensely patronising. See: Civilisations
This is one of vanishingly few issues I've had a complete 180 on through listening and talking to lots of people. In an ideal world, where nobody profits from anyone's misery and we're not at the mercy of a web of corrupt, careless forces, yes. But in this one- no.
Let this short thread radicalize you.
Normand Meunier is a Canadian man with quadriplegia who accessed MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) after being left for 96 hours on a stretcher in the ER.
His requests for a specialized mattress were denied.
He wasn't turned regularly.
He developed bed sores so bad, he opted to end his life.
His requests for a specialized mattress were denied.
He wasn't turned regularly.
He developed bed sores so bad, he opted to end his life.
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is one of vanishingly few issues I've had a complete 180 on through listening and talking to lots of people. In an ideal world, where nobody profits from anyone's misery and we're not at the mercy of a web of corrupt, careless forces, yes. But in this one- no.