Luca

Top tip:

It's the perfect time to pay for that porn and blame it on a bank glitch

Yeah, sure, but can Claude have an affair with its PhD advisor?

I come from the future.

A left-of-center Democrat administration will take a scalp or two, but otherwise issue a string of pardons in exchange of a functioning Congress.

You mean this one? 😜

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Writing a formal email

Italian:
Am I using the correct formality? is it consistent throughout? This subjunctive doesn't sound right. What's the correct salutation? can I use a colloquialism to refer to a car?

English:
Haven't written "go f yourself". Send.

This is the way.

The English language.

As a native speaker of Italian and Spanish, becoming functionally fluent In English is an order of magnitude easier. Don't know if it's "the" best, but it's a damned good lingua franca.

"You" working for both formal and informal comms is ♥️

The whole world steered into death and hopelessness by old men raised by asshole fathers, fighting their small-dick energy by ordering rocket launches left and right.

I want a world steered by people whose dream is a world where they can sit back and read fiction on weekends.

Guys, I am *tired*
Ever since I've been an adult, all I can remember is some iteration of

"Middle East country hates Israel; hardliner Israeli PM launches preemptive attack; Iranian proxies retaliate against Israel & US; US retaliates; shit escalates

oh, it's another recession!"

Friend of mine is dual US-UK citizen, moved to UK 4 years ago.

He's a teacher in an area of the country with a lot of trouble hiring and retaining teachers.

He's unable to bring his wife from the US because he doesn't earn enough. As a teacher.

Nursery didn't want mine coming in as Winnie Pooh

What's wrong with wearing nothing but a red t-shirt?

I can visually taste the whipped cream 😋

I'll admit to paying €18 for a Negroni in Venice in 2019.

It was carnival, I had a glorious costume, I was at Florian.

The drink was good, and *stiff*

In hindsight, I'd probably need to spend more in London for an equivalent volume of alcohol. And I wouldn't get a bowl of peanuts and olives.

I'm elated and I don't even like the Green Party

This is the fourth winter under missiles and bombs, in darkness and cold. And once again fascist Russia has failed to break Ukraine, no matter what it tried.

Our focus on elite depravity shouldn’t distract us from the extent of mass public-level moral decay. There’s an army of little Kristi Noems out there.

I went and found a representation of me whenever Farage speaks

Someone tell me again how a war between anti-racists and disability advocates is going to help topple the white patriarchy?

There was always a personality type that couldn't just, say, plant a garden. They had to start shouting to everyone they met that "we need to bring back gardening!" and insist all other hobbies were inferior and worthless.

Social media allowed those people to totally take over the discourse.

Feeling quite patriotic. This is what equality under the law is meant to look like.

There used to be a ton of right-leaning artists, poets, writers etc. This kind of person doesn't really exist anymore because all right wing energy is aimed at asserting the intrinsic superiority of this or that arbitrary genetic group on a podcast

Won't be a revelation to anyone but the reason all the worst people on the right are pivoting to talking about race and culture rather than immigration is so they can keep banging the drum even as net migration figures fall (UK) and even reverse (US).

This is the next step and it always was.

Screenshot of Tommy Ten Names, claiming he's afraid and fleeing the UK.

Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?

Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.

Alright, I want to be buried wearing a whole wheel of Parmigiano Reggiano as a hat.

Like a delicious, aged, Po Valley shtreimel

I think what Golding got right is that the boys he writes about are old enough to not be innocent (they know of hurt, they know of in-out groups), but also not old enough to know better.

Death cult update

No Barry Gardiner!?

The International Olympic Committee must be sooooooooo proud of themselves now.

A bunch of arrogant, soulless red-tapists and bothsideists.

US Congress in these hearings is playing chess against pigeons:

They shit all over the board, knock down the pieces, and strut off like they checkmated you.

And you're there, wondering why the pigeon didn't follow the rules.

Every time you post here, I pause my scrolling 👌