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As somebody from Florida now living in Oxford, 32C is dangerously hot when virtually no houses and very few public buildings have aircon and almost all of them are masonry built and designed to retain heat, you cannot be comparing hot weather here to heat in a place EQUIPPED for it, come tf on

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Not a statement about the weather, but: It is deeply weird that, whenever humans go outside, right there in the sky there's an unthinkably huge ball of nuclear fire so blazing hot it can burn our skin from millions of miles away, and we're just casually habituated to this terrifying cosmic horror.

submitted 14 hours ago • 17 comments

Not a statement about the weather, but: It is deeply weird that, whenever humans go outside, right there in the sky there's an unthinkably huge ball of nuclear fire so blazing hot it can burn our skin from millions of miles away, and we're just casually habituated to this terrifying cosmic horror.

submitted 14 hours ago • 17 comments

The kid is now watching Lucy, a film so profoundly stupid I have trouble remembering that Alex Garland didn't write it.

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Several reposts in my timeline saying things like "Batman Returns is the best Batman film, end of", and I hadn't realised there were so many people who didn't watch The Lego Batman Movie.

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I remember the exile of the last monarch of Iran, in that "the Shah of Iran" occupies the same space in my head as "the Prime Minister, Mr Callaghan" as someone who was often mentioned on the radio while I was doing important stuff with Lego.

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US equivalent of that Fry and Laurie sketch with the lawyer addressing the judge as "m'love".

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Just remembered I can mute entire threads if they're annoying me. What a time to be alive.

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Current public discourse around both Doctor Who and Bluesky consists of people pointing at something I enjoy and think is fine and asking "Why does this suck so much?" Then their friends suggest adding more fascism so it'll be more appealing to hateful people.

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I like not this news. Bring me some other news.

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In my experience, the more relaxed and at ease I am, the easier it is to be creative and playful and come up with tons of great ideas. When I feel scared/upset/unsafe, my creative muscles tense up just as much as my physical muscles, and it's MUCH harder to write!

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People who abstained from voting to decriminalise abortion: -Wes Streeting (health secretary) -Bridget Phillipson (women and equalities minister) -Rosie Duffield (top feminist and woman defender)

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A Night at the Opera is such a great album. 'My song is about how much I love my wife'/'Mine's about how much I love my car'/'Mine's about time dilation'/(pause)/'Mine's about a murderer who ... (a 5 minute multimedia presentation takes place) ... finally escapes thanks to demonic intervention'.

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Not convinced by the "everyone's favourite time-travelling bigamist" bit.

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"I understand your point completely. You asked about Shakespeare's play Cardenio, and instead of explaining that none of its text survives, I painstakingly faked a 17th-century folio, had it authenticated by experts and sold it to you for £50million. That was not a helpful response to your request."

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Struggled humanfully to the end of Death Valley, but it's absolute pants. The co-leads are doing their utmost to rescue it, but it's some of the poorest writing I've seen on British TV this decade. I can only assume people comparing it with Ludwig have been huffing pure ChatGPT.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Bloomsday

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No, never mind, [REDACTED]'s perfectly entitled to block me, that's how Bluesky works. I've blocked people for mildly irritating me before.

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So much of the “promise” of AI right now is saving time creating. Let me say it from my chest: all I want is to spend more time creating. I’m not making content. I’m engaging in my vocation, my calling, my literal reason for existing.

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So, Wikipedia and IMDB give completely different names to the individual episodes of (the original, UK) Queer as Folk. There are no individual titles on the DVD. Would I be right in guessing both lists are made up by fans to fill a gap? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_a... www.imdb.com/title/tt0185...

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I'm fully expecting the "Cats are actually aliens from the planet Europa, what do you mean its a moon, I'm talking about the planet" theory of that woman I met in Oxford once to go mainstream any day now.

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I've just noticed... In Lux, the Doctor predicts regretfully that, when he leaves Lizzie, Hassan and Robin, they'll "blink out of existence". But they've learned from watching Dictor Who. And their favourite story is Blink -- "a story where you're not allowed to blink." Which they don't.

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We are going to bullshit ourselves into pogroms and fascism because our governments are terrified of our utterly poisonous media outlets, who can bounce them into doing more or less anything just by threatening to start shenanigans on them and to never let up.

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I've just noticed... In Lux, the Doctor predicts regretfully that, when he leaves Lizzie, Hassan and Robin, they'll "blink out of existence". But they've learned from watching Dictor Who. And their favourite story is Blink -- "a story where you're not allowed to blink." Which they don't.

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Might be time to reinstate the "No news after 10pm" rule I adopted during the lockdown era.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Andor Characters and Their Counterparts in ‘Allo ‘Allo 1. Dedra Meero and Private Helga Geerhart.

submitted 6 days ago • 23 comments

Vampires as the sexless final stage in the human lifecycle, this metamorphosis occurring only when a specific hormonal change has been triggered. Being highly incentivised to preserve the population as a food source, their existence promotes human survival and confers an evolutionary advantage.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I've got a joke about Achilles and Patroclus, but it needs a straight man.

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I have a joke about Midas and Oedipus. It's motherfucking gold!

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Modern retelling of Sweeney Todd where he's a liposuctionist and doesn't need to kill anybody.

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"Can't wait for the author's next book!" -- Joseph Smith

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