Bouba's Delivery Service

In which I talk about Sir Ian Hamilton, Oswald Spengler, feminism, American train-car conductors and hotel clerks, Prime Minister Saionji Kinmochi, the Hibiya Park riots, the Russo-Japanese War, Guilty Gear, Assassin's Creed: Shadows, femboy erasure, and the perennial quest for a woke-free Japan.

The founder named it that because he thought it would be funny if Japanese customers had trouble pronouncing it.

Sliding doors will do it!

I wonder how many people saw this and started clenching

A rectangular wood piece hung with thread, with a formline design on it. The design depicts an armadillo head with its tongue stuck out.

ANTEATER 🐜❤️ #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

And I have rewritten all 4 kinds of drug songs to be about tea.

He sounds absolutely insufferable.

And frankly, second-class intellects would be a real upgrade.

Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscope slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Very few people Karen quite as well as male German tourists.

Convincing Karl May that eating habaneros raw is how cowboys prove themselves would destroy the German High Command in the same way as opening the Ark Of The Covenant in the Wolfschanze.

Remember that a large part of that was destroying spice-bearing trees to control the market

And I thought I was being clever and funny by calling Laurence Fox the Sidekick's Sidekick.

If "Ghosts" is the one I'm thinking of, it's a perfectly decent Quirky Sitcom.

Why is everyone so goddamn stupid these days?

6 black 6D dice, gold letters, and a little scorpion exoskeleton embedded inside each one

I made Scorp Dice! For my game-loving younger brother's birthday. Very pleased with how they turned out.

(no scorpions were harmed in the creation of these, I carefully poke through pine bark to find their old molted exoskeletons) 🐡

Oh yes, the truck one!

I thought you meant Just Stop Oil for a moment!

On a related subject, can we PLEASE get some of those Georgian Restaurants That Are Almost Certainly A Front For Something here in the Netherlands?

I vehemently object to my nearest khinkali hookup being in the Hague, and at "works at the embassy and is expensing this" prices.

To be fair, whomst among us did not enjoy the defragger back in the day?

Did you TELL the symptom checker that you're female?

Anyone who's remotely surprised that most of the polled Brits wanted Cute Furry Animals On Money has got to be a Russian bot.

Where Duolingo falls down: how I learned to speak Welsh with my mother The long read: Once violently defended from extinction, Welsh is still a part of daily life. By learning my family’s language, I hoped to join their conversation

I'm not Welsh, but this article made me incredibly emotional in a way I can't quite put my finger on. What a beautiful piece of writing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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You can get that if you want

Speedy-Juice as a Service

Hand-spun wool and linen clothes can be pretty great, and also have to be because anyone outside the contemporary 1% will own like eight shirts in their entire lifespan.

Autistic woman worried her mugs have realised she has a favourite An autistic woman is facing an ethical dilemma over her preference for drinking out of one particular mug, it has been revealed. Lottie Fitzgerald, 35, from Southsea, has developed a strong…

Lottie Fitzgerald, 35, from Southsea, has developed a strong attachment to a blue studio pottery mug she was given last Christmas. She reports that she is beginning to feel intensely anxious about the effect on other mugs that she owns.