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Do. Not. Disturb. The. Mysterious. Ancient. Rune-inscribed. Skull-adorned. Ring. Found. In. The. Idyllic. Countryside. Seriously, there's a whole book about this. And movies. Long ones!

I tried rotating my genome but I grew a tail.

I often have to explain how my public speaking bits don’t at all sound like one of Hitlers speeches. It’s a common problem of a successful communicator.

Lol ah shit A former government official uses an unofficial alternative to unapproved third-party app with hardcoded environment variables to discuss military strategy reads like a satirical tech headline on @theonion.com

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As of today the winners of the Premier League form a Fibonacci sequence. Nature is beautiful.

In 6 months time: Liz Truss frustrated as Reform UK economic expert because for some reason they always announce the exact opposite of what she advised.

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

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For some reason the light in my hotel room kept coming on in the night

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

You can do anything in Gaza or the West Bank as long as your press release about the atrocities end with "to pressure Hamas into releasing hostages".

I've been playing a Star Realms League from boardgamegeek for the last year or so. After 5 seasons in the bottom half of the bottom league I'm currently 12-3 with 5 games to go. Not sure I'm mentally ready for promotion.

we're thrilled to share that we've started the year with a new addition to our team! he's extremely smart, capable, charming, persuasive, and boasts a wealth of museum experience

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space. Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK Led By Donkeys is 100% funded by small donations.

A West Brom player, he joined in Jamuary and has impressed already. #wba

This is class

There's a weird magical thinking that goes "there's a group of people incurring a social cost in order to be economically productive, cutting this cost will have no other economic impact, I am very smart." It's historically associated with the right, but the centre left is all too susceptible to it.

A Polish friend of mine learned the only 2 facts about swans any Brit knows, then confused them and, gloriously, *forgot they were about swans*, so one day she told me: "Did you know that the Queen is the only person in England allowed to break your arm?"

Scientists disprove the existence of an average shoe size. No mean feet.

I need a browser plugin that censors the word "pizza" on days that I'm fasting. I need artificial willpower support.

This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds

A photo you'd use as an album cover

Nine years since we lost the great Terry Pratchett and I don't think Bluesky's seen the A'Tuin our lead sculptor @snuurg.bsky.social built and sold to the man Himself. Jo made this for a college project and brought it to a book signing; Terry liked it so much he asked to buy it on the spot.

Oh, can you?

Figure skating world championships were considered to be for men only until 1902, when Madge Syers showed up and took home silver and the ISU went "whooooops guess we need to segregate them." It happened again in 1992 Olympic skeet shooting: Zhang Shan took gold and then they segregated the event.

We've just seen the matinee of this, absolutely amazing. 10/10 if you're of the generation that grew up with them. www.comedy.co.uk/online/video...

I asked Alexa what food to eat with diarrhoea and it advised me not to use diarrhoea as a condiment.

The next time someone calls a reporter "biased" or an activist — especially someone who is a woman, a person of color, LGBTQ+, an immigrant, and/or disabled — ask them to articulate the difference between bias and expertise: longreads.com/2018/03/29/i...

I’ve just been sent this What have I done