One of my friends once called me pedantic, and I got to correct his pronunciation of it - he stressed the first syllable. One of the high points of my life.
One of my friends once called me pedantic, and I got to correct his pronunciation of it - he stressed the first syllable. One of the high points of my life.
Arctic prison, not gulag, honest
I’ve got planes and a chisel from late 1800s, some of the best tools I own. The steel of the blades is fantastic, and the feel of the handles after more than 100 years of being handled is fairly unique
You’re dead to me - history, different expert and comedian guest every week, very good
No Such Thing as a Fish - superb trivia show
Sci-Show Tangents - “lightly competitive science knowledge showcase”
A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail - science and math facts around a random topic from 3 very smart people
The Infinite Monkey Cage - science and comedy with Brian Cox and guests
Journey to the Microcosmos - interesting things in our microscopic world
If that’s not a reason to write your dates in a less unhinged format, I don’t know what is.
Why the fuck should somewhere as unstable as the US be allowed to veto EVERY OTHER COUNTRY in the UN?
Here in the uk we stopped subsidising private green energy a while ago, and it’s still worthwhile to install solar - we pay our energy supplier (one of a few privatised options) for the connection and infrastructure, and any power we use, and they pay us for the power we put back into the grid. Essentially, a portion of the money we earn from our power is kept by the utility company to cover infrastructure maintenance, and we still make money. I very much doubt that the base power generation or infrastructure costs in the us are so much higher as to stop it making money for homeowners without subsidies, unless (as I’d imagine) the local power generation is a monopoly, and they’re just trying to protect their profits. Solar became cheap enough to be genuinely profitable without subsidies here a few years back.
Massively. My first manoeuvre when I go in someone’s house is to look at their bookcase, and judge them accordingly.
Here’s my favourite car YouTube, awesome videos
The Nikon siteis less of a cookie nightmare, and arguably more interesting, but thanks for bringing this to my attention, the photos are stunning!
“And we specifically call this particularly entertaining sin the ol’ Vatican Reversal.”
If that doesn’t get a particularly gay sex act named after it, I’ll be disappointed.
Obviously it’s bullshit, but for anyone wondering why, exactly, this is bullshit, there’s an interesting recent article in the new statesman. I’ll link it later if I have time
Daphne Did It by Cleopatrick has been on repeat in my brain most of the time this week
“I threw that shit before I even walked in the room!” One of my other favourites is the pool hall fight, where the pump actually smacks the actor he’s fighting, and the guy loses his cool. Then there’s a swift, unplanned cut, and suddenly he’s fighting someone else entirely. It’s all those little pastiches of shoddy movie-making that you can miss, such a good movie!
Black Dynamite
Having tried to build a blocklist repeatedly, I’m suffering from this problem too. Standard app-store Memmy. Put it in the blocklist, restart the app, everything works as it should. Next time I open the app, blocklist it empty again
Mint, thanks. I wanted to block the yiff stuff, but I don’t know if I’ve blocked each community, and I’m damn well not searching for it to find out!
Thanks
Is it by smashing stuff together until they break something fundamental, and the universe goes dark?