davidseaver.bsky.social
Not a product made of mechanically recovered and processed meat.
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I wasn't aware that Aardman had a domestic interiors line.
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When you said you'd ordered some salty licorice, I assumed you were talking about the flavor, but I guess other interpretations may apply.
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Having worked in graphic design, I can't help thinking that this is perhaps less of a mistake, more of a designer seeing if anyone on the client end notices, and what they can get away with.
Hint: never piss off your designers.
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I'm sure you have a VERY stern note ready to send.
That'll teach 'em.
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Sensible. I've been following @joeldongsteen.bsky.social to keep a dick-joke baseline.
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Soundcheck for Friday the Thirteenth?
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Only after Chuck writes a really stern letter to the DHS.
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My partner, a patent attorney, and like me, rather over the required age, also got one of these.
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I get a similar effect with the fasteners in my rebuilt knees. Fun.
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I saw some genius in the 80s wearing a wallet that looked like a shoulder holster. All leather. Even looked like it had all the adjustment bits an actual holster would have. All he needed was a big target on his shirt.
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"Though the Philistines may jostle, you will rank as an apostle
in the high aesthetic band,
If you walk down Piccadilly with a poppy or a lily
in your medieval hand."
Patience (Gilbert & Sullivan)
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Risky, given how LAPD and the Sheriff's Department treat anyone who looks homeless. Like sleeping on the ground and wearing camo...
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I tend to think of folklore as leaning much more on the culture it originates in. We don't need to ask why trolls are wicked, or why kings set impossible tasks. Those are just baked into the nature of trolls and kings.
Fantasy usually has at least some explanation. Eventually. In the third volume.
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Meanwhile, Eric uses a Magic Marker to redact the screen.
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Did they run out of Greek letters already?
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Has anyone heard from Miller yet? I'm hoping Knob-feratu decides he has to impress Don as well as get his own back by shanking Musk.
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At this rate, I'd expect that by sometime Sunday early afternoon, Elmo will ram a Cybertruck through Mag-A-Lardo's gates and through the buildings while higher than hell and screaming incoherently.
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Yeah, observationally, the whole nazi/authoritarian tendency toward pedophilia is much more than a plot point from old Andrew Vachss novels.
The usual theory is that the inadequate types who gravitate that way politically can't easily form healthy relationships with other adults.
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I'm sorta hoping that even if this is all kayfabe between them, there's still the possibility of someone in one camp or the other hearing "Will nobody rid me of this turbulent priest?" And we all know how that went.
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Also, the rather wonderful Dr. Justin Sledge's Esoterica channel on YouTube has an entire playlist on Dee:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2meS...
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Not my turf, but DuQuette seems accessible from the few times I've read him. I know one or two people who know him, and his rep is generally good: archive.org/details/lon-...
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Watching British and European cars burn up on the roadside used to be a lot more common here in California in the 70s, 80s and early 90s, but that mostly seems to have been due to the engineers back then not thinking about how hot the road is when it's over 40ºC in the shade.
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I had a couple of different classmates named "Ai" back in the day. I wonder how they're dealing with this.
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Sensual Pomegranates sounds like a vintage 4AD release from around 1987.
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The world has plenty of life coaches, but just think of all the vampires in need of a good undeath coach.
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Apparently, a certain acronym can now also stand for "Target Always Chickens Out."
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When I walk to the park to work out in the early morning, there is a crow that, these past several weeks, appears along a couple of specific blocks, and follows me, cawing and swooping past my head, from perch to perch.
I feel like a goth Disney princess.
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If that "Chinga Tu Pelo" beer is still available, it would be a suitable pairing.
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Since we lived in the UK on and off when I was growing up, I can remember at least some British kid's TV of that era. It was like experiencing a hallucination but with a lower production budget.
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But with multiple nuns comes the need to add checking for mistakes, which can accumulate due to sister-matic error.
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"But if we examine the average banana's diameter and compare it with the typical human outer ear..."
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Just up the road from me. It's been almost fully restored.
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I was up in the Santa Cruz Mountains a few weeks ago, and a sign at the park entrance requested that hikers report badger sightings for a survey.
Not one badger.
On the other hand, they were about to close that area for a mountain lion census, and happily I missed those too.
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Yep, but I spent some of my growing years in London, and am also a bit of a fan of Peter O'Donnell, so I may not be a perfect index.
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- The Cybertruck lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, spinning its wheels trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping.
- What do you mean, I'm not helping?
- I mean: you're not helping! Why is that, Leon?
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I sometimes imagine "Scenario" as a character from a Shakespeare comedy. "Prithee truss thy points, good Scenario, and come along." It just always worked for my tiny brain.
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It's bare, but for a doll of old-fashioned appearance, sitting in the middle of the floor.
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Some days there's nothing so cheery as a fire.
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When I was a club bouncer in the late 80s, it simply meant "eject from the premises" and could be either for the night or forever. No violence implied, unless the person in question started swinging.
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Jesus saves, but only Satan does home delivery.
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The Eagle Comic in the UK had cutaways as a regular feature.
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Sho Kosugi's is one of those names, like Sybil Danning, that lets you know that you're in for a very specific kind of 80s movie. A bad 80s movie, but sort of compelling in that junk food kind of way. The microwave burritos of cinema.
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What if instead you mix holy water in a neutral dispersant like food-grade 100% ethanol? That way you can get a good area effect.
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Happy birthday!
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Yep. Back in the 80s, I had a nice 3M silicone half-mask with cartridges for paint VOCs and particulates. Also worked for airbrushing large amounts of acrylic paints, too.
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Makes me think of a Hopper painting, probably because of the lighting and colors. Cool.
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I'm still miffed about Brisco County, Jr. to be honest.