“Super Mario was based on an Italian man I saw die in an accident on a construction site. I thought to myself, ‘What if that man had been killed by a gorilla, rather than negligence?’ - Shigeru Miyamoto
Happy Mario day!
baker: i think you’d enjoy this courtesan loaf
me: i think you mean ‘artisan’
baker: i said what i said, breadfucker
Bryan Adams
Fists Ya Good 👀
iF tHe mArKeTs aRe tHaT sEnsiTivE, tHeY pRoBaBLY sHoULDn't bE oN tHe inTeRnEt!!!
Now feels like a good time to remember that Big Oil is the reason why we're still hooked on dirty, dangerous fossil fuels.
The industry's lies have essentially stolen a generation’s worth of time that we could have used to transition to cleaner, safer energy sources.
It’s time for accountability.
Labour and Reform spent the whole campaign trying to convince us she was a nouveau riche Cheshire landlord but it never occured to them to call her Flash Gorton—for that alone, they deserved to lose.
Krishnan Gurumurthy just used the term "Nepo-Ayatolla" on the news.
Cclegraph 'Cambridge has been infected by trans activism. We're launching a battle for women's rights'
Again, the business of British newspapers is in large part just recruiting and exploiting the most bizarre cranks you can find for your horrible, unrelenting reactionary projects. IIRC the one on the right here is the daughter of a Times arts columnist, who is also a committed Gender War wacko.
During a conversation earlier, where Tiny Niece was asking why there's a Batman, but a Batgirl- a man and child- and my sister was explaining that it's old fashioned, and I said it's men making us feel small, except I was sitting down:
Tiny Niece: BUT YOU ARE SMALL
Fair point, often.
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During a conversation earlier, where Tiny Niece was asking why there's a Batman, but a Batgirl- a man and child- and my sister was explaining that it's old fashioned, and I said it's men making us feel small, except I was sitting down:
Tiny Niece: BUT YOU ARE SMALL
Fair point, often.
My mother lives on the west hill. There is frequently different weather in the front and back gardens. Bizarre, brilliant place.
That’s Sme in the corner
A field of green, with a path running up, Tiny Niece, and buildings and everything else totally obscured by white
I still marvel at Hastings' many microclimates. The school run was blazing sunlight, whilst a mile or so down the road, the entire coastline and everything near it was ghost fog. Beautiful though.
The first time I heard it on the radio, I burst into tears.
The model of Sekhmet, the Egyptian Goddess I've been building from Polymer clay, with the head of a lioness and body of a woman on a throne. She still has no hands, but now she has fangs on her lower jaw
She's growing teeth.
Guys I hate to say this but the war that doesn’t make sense that happened for no reason isn’t going perfectly
42 fires in listed or significant buildings. That really is a lot.
Massive career pivot but respect.
To be left dead by attacks is the natural state of the Middle Easterner, while in the Western culture (also Israel somehow) being killed is a major taboo.
Four colourful sticks of rock (sweets) with the names of seaside towns inside
Roses are red,
But never buy rock,
In Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
wait so there’s a major oil crisis and they’re gonna fly seven reps to meet each other so they can diplomatically avoid saying that one of them caused this whole ass crisis single-handedly?
because that could be an email
I probably saw this from high up. Also, I knew an Olive Guppy Olivette who was in this show and she said one of the cast members was a dick.
Not a bad day to be living in a country that generates 99% of its energy via renewable resources.
"Cross-sex" hormones is a delibrately weaponized misnomer like biological sex IMO.
They are generally present in all sexes in different proportions.
They managed to keep the fact they were transphobic thugs out of the headline. Almost impressive.
I know I’ve got some Labour local gov’t types following me, so I want to say this clearly so that you can share it internally as appropriate: I will never again vote Labour while these policies, or Wes Streeting, are in place. I will not vote Labour at any level because of this.
a four-panel stick-figure cartoon panel one: three standing figures. from left to right, a guy wearing a necktie looking at his phone, an angry MAGA guy yelling FUCK YOUR FUCKIN POST FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU, and a rando just standing there like an NPC. panel two: the guy looking at his phone shows MAGA guy his hand, causing MAGA to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where fuckface once was. a green-bordered in-game message appears, reading "+2 Mental Health." now the rando is suddenly interested. panel three: as our man continues doom-scrolling, a sly grin on his face, the rando on the right puts on a punch-me face and snarls: "Typical lefty, blocking everyone who disagrees with-" panel four phone guy shows the hand to punch-me face, causing the rando to vanish. the word Block hangs in the air where that dickhead was. a green-bordered in-game message appears again, reading "+2 Mental Health."
Japanese onomatopoeia is very cute. My faves are ガブガブ (gabu gabu) gulping a drink ピューピュー (pyuu pyuu) strong wind ピーポー (piipoo) police car noise and the cartoonish ラブラブ— (raburabu) head over heels in love. Morning!
this is like
the thesis statement of our times
