janthie.bsky.social
Amateur bread baker, cat botherer, book addict, non-pro writer.
In my former working life: freelance translator, copywriter and journalist, pub cook, and one of seven night managers in a Dutch hotel for the homeless.
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Well, why not?
(It's not less unlikely than my steampunk channelling.)
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I was curious/bored enough to look at the page(?) of this person.
The 'teen self-disgust vibe' is quite remarkable - but not something I need, so yes, I blocked the sad sack.
Let's just hope 'emo incelhood' will not catch on.
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He'd have remembered; the earth would have bitten him.
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Congratulations!
That's awesome - and I guess, so are you?
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You're in the kitchen, and you're looking for the rice
If you won't call me, I'll just set fire to your mice
If your phone drowned on you, I won't think twice
Don't fuck up drying out the telephone
Don't fuck up drying out the telephone
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Yes, such a well-tempered man, our PK.
I think you're right though; it was just my silly brain envisioning Dick at the head of a temperance movement.
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More of a snooze fest here.
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I have such a bad memory for numbers that once, when I was still in my twenties, I'd forgotten the number of the place I'd lived for 2 years within a week of moving out of there.
As if my brain refused to store more than one phone number at a time.
So that's the one thing I like about mobiles.
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It depends what you do with it, I'd think.
Each love story can become a 'Stand by your man' or a 'Jane Eyre' or Rodin's 'Kiss'.
So a space opera could be great SF (though lots probably are more Dick-ish, so to speak).
Mind you, I think it's simply a matter of taste that decides what is 'good'.
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True - and someone once gave a (vaguely!) relevant writing tip, which also applies to editing: Stop at a point/moment that you're on a high, so that you will look forward to continuing the next day.
I'm a read-in-bed addict, so I know the can't-keep-eyes-open feeling.
It's a bad one.
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How was it?
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I have followed you on every platform and you have so many followers here too.
Please use Alt Text (and possibly change things in your settings that you can't post without. That has helped me and my lousy memory hugely.)
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I'm not a Starmer fan, by the way. I never warmed to him and am still perplexed by how bad he is at a job he wanted for so long.
By all accounts he was quite competent in the jobs he had before he entered politics but since he became PM he's been as useful as a garden gnome in a brothel.
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What realistic alternative does he have though?
Speak truth to power sounds noble but when that power can shit on you from any height he chooses, that does not sound attractive.
I wouldn't know what to do in his position; I'm just happy my ambition never went higher than write decent stories.
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Interesting. I didn't know you can do that.
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Oh my (I give up: I don't know what to put here)... but you are in for so many insanely weird and great surprises.
I'm actually a bit jealous now.
What a ride this series is - and it will only get better and better.
As they used to say: You ain't seen nothing yet.....
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Are you exorcising your exorcising phobia?
A single man in possession of a phobia, must be in want of a podcast?
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I remember liking it a lot, but I can't say I remember much of it.
That's not meant as criticism; not all art needs to change your world.
Enjoying the experience of watching or reading or listening to something is not a trivial thing.
(Also, what's not world-changing for one may be for another.)
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I don't think Philip K. Dick would agree.
I suppose most SF (that isn't a western in disguise*) is about our present expectations of the future: our dreams and fears and, yes, most certainly hopes.
*Sam Lundwall wrote that lots of SF writers replaced Colts with lasers and 'Indians' with aliens.
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Ah, I still remember one from almost 50 years back, in a James Bond film.
The Dutch translation (here in English) was:
'I'm going to see my shoemaker'
The original:
'I'm going to see my bookmaker'
So, Book begot Boot.
*Original something along the lines of:
'Ik moet nog langs de schoenmaker'.
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Oops, sorry, I have their proofer.
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I use mine a lot.
You'll get used to it quickly enough.
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Great.
Now I have Tears for Fears in my head:
'Kevin Costner wants to save the world'.
(You are indeed a master of horror.)
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Ears are the chef's (or the Bread God's) kiss but I've ended up with quite a few Van Goghs and they still tasted excellent.
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Interesting - so a crumb shot, please, when it's time for surgery?
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I won't name their names here - but: Yeah.
Make that: Yes please!
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Looking good.
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As was this...
'My position in the family was that of a suitcase to the traveler. Half of the time it’s an unholy burden, but when you see it thundering back down the luggage chute, you could weep with relief. I was deeply loved, and I was never left behind.'
... and so many other moments!
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What a ride; I laughed, and had tears in my eyes, along the way.
Thank you for posting it here!
'Someone made a fruitcake with marzipan icing. In Ireland, when a woman makes a fruitcake, there’s no turning back. We were fucked.'
Perfect.
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It was a very quick photo shoot, helped by the fact that I already know I'm crap at taking selfies, so I wasn't out there freezing my arse off till I got a good shot.
I took five within seconds and went back inside to look at them. I chose the least worse pic and that was that.
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The thing with people like Trump and other racist shits is that they are very good at pretending/believing that this chain around their neck is a gold & diamond necklace.
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This Oliver Burkeman column is interesting:
ckarchive.com/b/4zuvhehpp2...
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I'm pretty sure I won't.
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As the internet cliché goes, that's not a bug.
Anti-abortion laws aren't 'pro life', they are part of the worldwide, millennia-old terror campaign against women.
These freaks don't give a damn how many women get killed; as long as they can control women, they're fine with any 'collateral damage'.
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A kissing cousin of Eliot's 'Humankind cannot bear very much reality'?
It's not that long ago, in evolutionary terms, that we had people who went from village to village, to entertain us with songs & stories and some news.
Now we have the internet.
Small wonder our minds & souls cannot cope.
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Fine but why do we, who left the place ages ago because of this shit, have to look over your shoulder?
As someone else posted here a while ago: People who post their Twitter pics etc here are like those who push something bad-smelling under your nose and say, 'Bad smell, huh?'
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I am happy to admit I expected to be unimpressed but found I agreed with most all of it, in principle.
How the university, and he, as Chancellor, will evolve from here is uncertain - and they will not be the sole masters of their own fate - but this was promising, I think.