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Not a Douglas Adams quote, but I've just started rereading the Expanse books and I stumbled across what must surely be a little homage:

Four Short Songs. (Live at Up the Creek)

The Welsh have a monster on their flag.

Put a Dalek on the banknotes.

Fuck no. Absolutely not. Cut disability benefits but give tax dodgers a get out of jail free card?

And we go over to Windsor Davies for his reaction to this story, any thoughts Windsor?

"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by"

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

Andorra is situated between France and Spain, in what I like to call the Pyreneeum.

The troubles

I still think about this a lot.

Hey everybody! It's spring time!

A golden retriever looking appealingly up towards the camera against a background of green lawn. He's been practicing this look fir 13 years and it never fails.

Huxley would like to remind you that he has never ever been naughty and, by the way, can he have a biscuit? 🥰🙏
#SundayHuxley

Asked my Amazon echo to play John Cage and the bloody thing just ignored me for nearly five minutes.

Three panel comic of two people talking. Text reads: WE INVENTED A ROBOT THAT ANSWERS QUESTIONS WE JUST HAVE TO FEED IT 10 BABY GIRAFFES A DAY BUT IT ANSWERS THE QUESTIONS CORRECTLY? OH MY GOODNESS, NO. NO NO NO NO NO

This comic is sublime
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This is Albie. He was so touched by his family singing happy birthday in his native language that he didn't notice the cupcakes with his face on them. 13/10 hbd Albie #SeniorPupSaturday (TT: _sallyv)

Not seen: A farmer with a boat and a bag of grain scrumpling up his plans and throwing them away in a tearful fit of defeated pique

My photo shows a museum display with colourful Minoan pottery cups arranged on three clear shelves, one above the other. These cups, known as Kamares Ware, are from Phaistos, Crete. They were made in palace workshops, c. 1800-1700 BC. The cups range in shape and size from conic and cylindrical cups (top and middle shelves) to hemispherical and carinated shaped cups (bottom shelf). They are decorated with multi-coloured geometric motifs; with spirals and swirls painted in red and white pigment on black.

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups!

They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made during the Bronze Age some 3,800 years ago!

Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me

#Archaeology

A sign with information about a play, that says a gun is shown but not fired

I'm calling Chekhov

Todd @ Why are we bothering with the Strait of Hormuz when we could simply do this? Explain it to me like I'm 5. Canal RIOS 508 MOUNTAIN HARD AND BIG, WATER NO UP. MANY MANY DIG DIG.

In the 1950s London Transport published booklets with the aim of encouraging people to get out and explore the city. and to “Make the most of your public transport”. The one on Christopher Wren is explored in my post at alondoninheritance.com/london-churc...

Man’s ‘disbelief’ after five-year quest for rare book ends in local Oxfam shop Paul Dixon had trawled bookshops and specialist sellers across the UK, and had even contacted shops on the island of Iona

This is so fun!

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Thanks to @vennart666.bsky.social for introducing me to the unique moves of Luigi Primo, the pizza throwing wrestler

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was “your piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in.
That’s Horatio of 3:1.

Sadiq Khan takes swing at London golf courses in affordable homes plan Car parks also on hit list as City Hall draws up plans for 880,000 new homes

"our main target is golf courses"

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I just ordered a so-called ‘All Day Breakfast’ and finished it in well under half an hour. How do these fraudsters sleep at night.

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

Portsmouth Facts #1 - Andrew O'Neill YouTube video by Andrew O'Neill

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Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit