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vaxxed?

I've just reviewed my 52nd Sticky Toffee Pudding. But what did it get out of 10?

Absolutely aghast at the idea of someone reading everything else in the Guardian but not reading the best part of the Guardian

This is true of most people in general prior to about 1700 or so

weird medieval guys pub quiz in london in the next two months!!!!!!! you heard it here first!

Let's compare the average "leisure time" that someone has in 2026 to someone in 1926, 1826, and 1726. Who do you think comes out ahead?

Often a person believes himself to be so wise
and believes to gain highest fame thereby,
when the juice of the grapes has affected him negatively. 
The next one believes that he is so rich
that even the emperor might not be an equal to him. 
The third appears like an extremely hungry horse,
so no one can push enough of fresh or rotten food into the ever open mouth. 
The fourth one screams cries over his heavy sins,
and his heart is passionately in flames out of deep repentance
for strange reasons that no one can comprehend. The fifth one desires to do unchaste actions,
to which he is dedicated day and night,
once he has become addicted to the power of wine. The sixth has a miserable practice: He condemns the soul through [false] oaths so that she will be entirely exhausted when facing God.

The seventh is ready to fight, he growls like a dog held by a chain and who barks all the time; its round head is ready for a fight. The eighth becomes so happy out of drunkenness that he is ready to sell his honor, property, wife, and children; the evilness of drunkenness shows in him. The ninth helplessly becomes crazy, everything that he knows, sees, or hears, he presents openly to everyone. The tenth fights against sleep. The eleventh sings wild songs and screams totally uninhibited both in the evening and in the morning. The twelfth becomes so drunk from heavy drinking that he feels the alcohol already at the top portion of his throat and voluntarily pays a tribute to the innkeeper.

15th century poem by Oswald von Wolkenstein listing the 12 types of drunkard

Who can reply: anyone, nobody, people who can be normal about it.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

new podcast ep (and subtle cover design flex)

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I love to make posts that are profoundly inaccessible unless you’ve listened to an as-yet-unreleased podcast episode

Headlines from 1250 AD:

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

London bus sign reading “buse”

Y’all mind if I catch the

Photo of a fairly generic modern bathroom with a shower/tub combo, a toilet, a sink, a mirror, and a demonic entity coming out of the mirror

What could go wrong using AI to help stage a few listing photos?

Think how much time you’d have if you had no hobbies or interests at all!!!!

This is, and bear in mind I can't bear sport, an extremely stupid take.

“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

image text: The Turks bear well fatigue and a hard life: they are not incommoded, as I have witnessed, during the whole journey, by sleeping on the ground like animals. They are of a gay, cheerful humour, and willingly sing songs of the heroic deeds of their ancestors. Any one, therefore, who wishes to live with them must not be grave or melancholy, but always have a smiling countenance. They are also men of probity, and charitable toward éach other. I have often observed, that should a poor person pass by when they are eating, they would invite him to partake of their meal, which is a thing we never do.

Reading the travel diaries of Bertrandon de Broquiere (1400-1459 AD), one of the first white boys to say Inshallah

I’d sincerely be interested to read an article where someone explains how they think AI made them a better artist or writer! That’s what OpenAI etc are promising, but the evidence on the ground doesn’t suggest anything of the sort

Paraphrasing ManCarryingThing here but it’s telling that boosters of AI in art almost never present the books (or “paintings” or whatever) AI writes as the end in itself. It’s always a means to make money, either selling the books or seminars

New Muppet Show is a joyful delight. Sabrina Carpenter truly Gets the Muppet vibe in a way i can’t imagine every future guest nailing. Either way - come on man give me more! I want to watch the pig be mean to the frog!!

For the record I’ve been sitting on this *terrible* joke for 2 months

Hey Cameron Winter, can you explain the basic relationship between Christianisation and state building in early medieval Northern Europe?

“I went around the corner to see if spring was there.”

“Did you find it?” asked Toad.

“No,” said Frog. “There was only an old worm asleep on a tree stump.”

I know it wasn't everyone's cup of tea but I watched Kimmy Schmidt a few times and laughed out loud every single time at the episode where Mikey, trying to convince his co-workers on the construction site that he wasn't gay, followed the advice of "spray painting a hot chick on his truck"

Something something Heated Rivalry

Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of thine own actions

Always thinking about Bernard Shaw’s description of Joan of Arc

My favourite holiday song:

I’ll Be Home For Quiz Mice by Grand Foyer

you might be wondering "who goes to see the avatars?" it's me, i go to see the avatars. i love that shit.