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Let me have books about me that are fat. Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse. Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · Nov 26

Responses beginning "So..." very commonly fail the waffle test, and this is no exception; the simplest response is to discourage the behaviour by pointing this out and muting.

Tweet from Coolee Bravo @BravoCoolee -

Twitter the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted.
You can say "I like pancakes" and somebody will say "So you hate waffles?"
No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about

Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 5h

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI): "There's been public reporting that Jeffrey Epstein showed people photos of President Trump with half-naked young women. Do you know if the FBI found those photographs...? in their search of Jeffrey Epstein's safe or premises or otherwise?"

Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 7h

I sometimes think I'd be perfectly happy if they just had Charlotte Church, David Olusoga, Cat Burns, Jonathan Ross, and Nick Mohammed all hanging out in the castle and dumped the whole traitors thing, it just gets in the way

Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 7h

Oh, the ah undead element is abroad indeed, the dark creation of Henry Irving's business manager could hardly have a ah more appropriate stage than th- [is promptly murdered by the entire company]

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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 8h

Wow um that's a critical hit of a one-sentence review

Slate @slate.com · 9h

The new Tron is like if a Terminator movie wanted you to cheer for Skynet. slate.trib.al/XZ9iQq4

One of Our Oldest Sci-Fi Franchises Is Back. The New Movie Is Woefully Out of Step With Our Moment.

Every generation gets the Tron movie it deserves. That’s bad news for the new one.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 15h

We're ruining (or improving) Bond posters on @b3ta.com this week

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 10h

Last thing I saw before oblivion. From hell's heart I stab at thee

Briefly becoming eligible for the vole.wtf 1% club

Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 15h

Or even just click on the bio

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SMBC Comics @smbccomics.bsky.social · 3d

When biologists can't explain cubic wombat poop, why don't THEY call it a singularity?

COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/beyond
PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/c/ZachWeiner...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

2-panel SMBC comic update. The first panel has a narration box saying "Caveman" where two cavemen are looking out at the ocean. One says "us not know what on other side of ocean." The second panel has a narration box saying "Caveman Physicist" where the same caveman now says "Past ocean... Science breaks down. Is Ocean singularity" as the other caveman marvels.

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 18h

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · 18h

Just going to assume the next Kraftwerk album is called Dynamische Preisgestaltung, or something.

A screenshot, pinched from @stevejvickers.bsky.social, showing ludicrously high ticket prices for a Kraftwerk gig.

Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 18h

Worked with him once; never again. (I heard much later about his appalling childhood, and can well understand how he might have turned out that way; I can sympathise, but I wouldn't go near him again.)

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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 18h

*MARIA CORINA MACHADO WON NOBEL PEACE PRIZE

a man in a military uniform with a mustache is wearing a beret and making a funny face .

ALT: a man in a military uniform with a mustache is wearing a beret and making a funny face .

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 21h

Oh, happy "Yeet your printer off a fscking cliff" day to all who celebrate

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · Oct 27

teashoesandhair on tumblr:

"Stellar conversation on BBC Wales today"

Caller: I live in America now, since the '80s, but I'm visiting family in Wales this week, and I thought I'd ring in.
Host: Why did you move from Wales to America?
Caller: I actually moved because of a woman.
Host: Who's the lucky lady?
Caller: Margaret Thatcher.

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 1d

I'm of an age and nationality to have read the original Dr Dolittle books when I was a child, and I still remember my confusion that the Doctor would send his great friend the pig out to the butcher's to pick up some sausages

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 1d

I was hoping for more diacritics, tbh. (I know, I know, everyone's a diacritic.)

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 1d

The moment in every episode when Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart realises the latest alien menace is impervious to bullets.

Danny K @dannykpolitics.bsky.social · 4d

WATCH: ‘Portland Frog’ pepper balled by ICE agents

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 1d

I never really used to understand why anyone might be desperate to outlive someone else, but if by some remote chance I happen to drop dead before he does I'm going to be *so* pissed off

Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 1d

In my field, was there ever an award which wasn't coveted?

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Captain Howdy @captainhowdy.bsky.social · 1d

From this day in 2017.

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 1d

I'm not shelling out £0.99 to find out (do they think I'm made of money or something) but from the preview it's probably fair to say he might take a while to find his voice

read.amazon.co.uk/sample/B07D5...

Read a sample: “The Pothunters”

P. G. Wodehouse

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 1d

This passage reminded me: decades ago, The Times redesigned its Saturday media section with small woodcut-style illustrations heading each section. "Opera" showed a row of well-dressed blank-faced audience members, and in the section above a crowd of intent faces. Sadly, it disappeared very quickly.

An excerpt from the New Statesman review of "Other People's Music" by Alexandra Wilson

...of elitism. Elitist how? Is it the price? Tickets
to a Taylor Swift concert are more expensive
by an order of magnitude; the cheapest seats
at both Covent Garden and the ENO sell out
the fastest. And a ticket to watch touring

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 1d

Point down, leaning a bit so's it doesn't obstruct the whirly thing

Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 1d

Or at the very least my hard plastic spatula

Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 1d

a man says " you have my sword " in front of a blurred background

Alt: a man says "you have my sword" in front of a blurred background

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