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There should be a Bandcamp for ebooks

Bumless Padraig and Machine-Shitter Pierre are both outliers and should not have been included in this survey

if my phone doesn't stop telling me there's an update available i'm gonna go die in the woods!!! i know about the update i'm BUSY

Imagining stream coming out of a tech bro's ears watching this lovely little video. Here's a human using inspiration, experience, techniques and materials to create an image

when I first met french people I thought they were super clever, but it turned out they just learned the names of various literary devices in school (which is a good thing)

Imagine being an Oracle skeptic back in Delphi and having to listen to everyone else being like: "The lady said the fumes are inauspicious! I asked if the fumes were sentient and she said they said yeah, they are!"

I agree with Lincoln. But separately, sometimes you do have an English teacher who is a full-on waling imbecile and that is a very difficult position for a student who already understands the basic idea of themes...

smartFridge being a real cunt about the meter of your magnet poems

This is the main problem with corrupting aesthetic novels. I first read A Rebours 14 years ago and since then I have been relentlessly encrusting live tortoises so they match my furnishings, not realising until now that such a thing was cruel. Ban these books

adobe AI doesn't have functions tailored to my needs such as: "I see you're staring at a PDF: do you want to absent-mindedly doodle with the highlight tool to make Isaac Bashevis Singer looks a bit like Shrek?"

finally, Des Esseintes getting cancelled on Bluesky

It's so funny when they market like a certain chocolate bar as "sophisticated treat for elegant ladies" or "angry truck bar for hard builders"

frenemies you don't really know very well are called frequaintences

Proof that life is a videogame with loading screens between sections