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As a fan of 1) dumb British newspaper stories 2) data feeds that run departure boards 3) working out how to get trains out of Kings Cross with seconds to spare Enjoyed Sunday Times printing a big read commissioned to find passenger outrage which found zero outrage. www.thetimes.com/article/3dcf...

Check. Mate.

Is it gilded cage or gelded cage, I can never remember

Final pangram attempt felt like it.

Bloody hell when I opened the curtains and looked out the window this morning there were barely any clouds overhead, just some sort of gigantic fireball hovering in the far distance. What could it mean?

I’ve done the maths and I reckon I could probably live off kimchi chicken burgers.

For anyone that can read Greek… this 😂

incredible exchange, @marisakabas.bsky.social

Nearby asteroids shirking their duty.

Will that asteroid ever strike Earth?

It shouldn’t be this hard to find bonito flakes.

Your outie names their layers

Upsetting that you can’t have lead AND lead even though they’re completely different words.

JD Vance is so nauseatingly unlikeable that he’s literally dragging down the AfD’s approval rating

Der Planet erwärmt sich, die Menschen erkalten.

Sat at a bookstore café. On a school day. Such truancy.

I have work to do, dammit!!! But this thread is killing me.

What you will have noticed is that this rain right here? It raineth every damn day. (Cue world’s tiniest viola.)

Do grandads not teach kids to tie proper knots anymore? No wonder the world is falling apart. www.scientificamerican.com/article/whic...

God, remembering when everyone I knew was hating on Rawls for being an apologist for the soft-bellied centrism of the status quo. Quo me, Johnny! Please quo me.

An apology to John Rawls. I couldn’t really understand why he was so obsessed with the importance of stability as a political value. But now I do.