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Chinese translator in Shanghai, etc.
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i shit you not, i just looked this up: Twitch Plays Pokemon got the second badge in about 50 hours

the sea has a one in one out role regarding American fighter planes

wanna see the worst possible phrase you could use to sell a pair of shoes

You know when someone opens a creaky old castle door in a cartoon and like a million bats fly out directly into their face? That’s what opening a Reach website feels like

I don’t even care about ‘doing numbers’ any more I just wanna keep updated on what old friends and acquaintances are doing. I wish there was a social network that could provide that

As I was saying about people wanting to abandon an increasingly unusable internet: futurism.com/neoscope/you...

The BBC burned through an almost incredible amount of goodwill with the people who naturally support it because it's run by people who think right wing newspaper editors are legitimate human beings and immigrants aren't.

#TheFarSide by Gary Larson || est. #comic publication: 1986-88 || series run: 1979-95 & 2017-23

#TheFarSide by Gary Larson || est. #comic publication: 1986-88 || series run: 1979-95 & 2017-23

#TheFarSide by Gary Larson || est. #comic publication: 1984-86 || series run: 1979-95 & 2017-23

#TheFarSide by Gary Larson || est. #comic publication: 1986-88 || series run: 1979-95 & 2017-23

#TheFarSide by Gary Larson || est. #comic publication: 1980-83 || series run: 1979-95 & 2017-23

#TheFarSide by Gary Larson || est. #comic publication: 1980-83 || series run: 1979-95 & 2017-23

#TheFarSide by Gary Larson || est. #comic publication: 1986-88 || series run: 1979-95 & 2017-23

Why are they reporting it like it's a paramilitary coup?

Again, I cannot express how little I expected someone would usurp my position as "guy who takes ketamine in the company of a president".

Picking up my mother-in-law at the airport so I get to ride Shanghai’s favourite boondoggle

in 1989 a British man, Tim Berners-Lee, invented the World Wide Web. it is now commonly accepted to have been a grave error of judgement. truly, he is one of History's Greatest Monsters.

The Mountain Goats - Getting into Knives [2020]

Shall I be plain? I wish the bastards dead

happy birthday to Deirdre Skye, leader of Gaia's Stepdaughters, canonically born today, May 28, 2025.

its kinda bad that they allowed a Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas type situation in government

Find someone who loves you as much as the mainstream media loves hyping the far right

It's wild to see the UK media pretending to be amazed that a Royal Marine would simply panic, lose his cool, and mow down a crowd of innocent civilians.

Can you imagine how annoying it would be for the person who designed this to read some coke addled fail son “journalist” shout ‘woke’ at it like some fucking senile circus monkey

it's fine, I just... I didn't think he would be Chinese

*walking around the red room retrograde ejaculating* that porno you like has come back in style

"To understand who is in control, observe who you are not allowed to criticize." -Voltaire

old ads used to be so cool. baffling lie. four kinds of typesetting. ends in a demand

now we know what happens if you tie someone with Alzheimer’s to a chair strapped with explosives

Important thread.

incredible scenes to try and be transphobic when your target market is goths? goths??

truly just a shameful era. how fucking pathetic www.reuters.com/world/us/rub...

Britain has no idea - in terms of its self-image, not economists obviously - what economy it actually has One of my favourite facts to point out is: at over £8bn annually, the *videogames industry* is more than twice as valuable to the UK economy as fishing and steel combined.

Sci-fi view of The Future: We'll all have flying cars and holidaying on Mars! Disease will be fixed with a quick blast from a Star Trek thingy! The Actual Future:

Anyone paying attention to actual online radicalisation knows it is exactly these guys, the totally incandescently furious maniacs of the suburbs, who have been pressure cooking their own brains online.

I don’t feel like we’ve acknowledged how funny it is that there’s a whole family of French chefs called “Roux” it’s like if an English chef was called Martin Paste

It’s the month before 9/11 and life is still simple. You’re with your friends, all dressed up in Corelli costumes, waiting in a long line for opening night of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. Later you’ll hit Denny’s for a late night Grand Slam, then play Captain Corelli’s Mandolin 3 on PS2 till morning

the walls are closing in, elon. two hundred pending court cases, elon