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Hieronymous J Doom @hjdoom.bsky.social · 18m

At the mildly delirious stage of feeling ill where I'm idly wondering whether you could serve a battered sausage roll inside a giant Yorkshire pudding.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 6h

Well. Guess I’d better switch to a cloud provider that isn’t evi-

Ah. Right. Yes.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6h

Rishi Sunak’s twin appointments mean he will be advising rivals in the push for AI breakthroughs. on.ft.com/3KNw22e

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 2h

BRB reporting a murder.

Dr. Holly Walters @manigarm.bsky.social · 1d

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A Spirit Halloween costume called "Former Gifted Child." It's empty. Nothing included. When people ask, "What are you supposed to be?" Just Reply, "I was supposed to be a lot of things."

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah I basically just turned up to agree, because it does my head in.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 4h

Something I see all the time in tech is folks - usually men - who simply cannot grasp that it is possible to understand their perspective but still not agree with it. This seems to create a sort of bargain basement HAL9000 psychosis, or at least a good deal of shouting and trying to draw graphs.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 4h

Still, I’m sure the trains will be running on time…

Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 4h

Failure to ever examine my work and personal calendars side by side means that on Wednesday I have two hours between a sales pitch to a large financial institution and DM’ing a game of Goblin Quest.

Even for me etc etc

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 6h

Well. Guess I’d better switch to a cloud provider that isn’t evi-

Ah. Right. Yes.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6h

Rishi Sunak’s twin appointments mean he will be advising rivals in the push for AI breakthroughs. on.ft.com/3KNw22e

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 6h

I send my husband the sweetest texts when he’s away.

Text message reads:

“Miss you.

This is of course totally unrelated to the big spider I just had to deal with on my own 😇”

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 6h

It’s a rich full - piss boiling - world.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 6h

It would be daft for me to post even cryptically about the specific thing that’s boiled my piss this morning, so I’m getting it out of my system with this nth-order sub sub post bullshit you’re reading right now.

~shakes tiny impotent fist at an uncaring sky~

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 7h

I nearly ended that first post with “but go off” before remembering that something about it as an idiom sets my teeth on edge in a way nothing has since “mint” as a synonym for “good” in the nineties.

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Minor league b3tan bloke @rotatingwobblyhat.bsky.social · 7h

It’s pronounced Pri-mula if it’s a flower and Pree-mula if it’s a brand of squirty cheese.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 7h

Yeah. I remember Fowlers from way back when. What’s interesting is the lifting the “it’s” does in the MW post: ambiguously “is” (descriptive, if so by who etc) and “should be” (prescriptive, if so I want the juicy etymology). Well, that and the reactions.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 7h

I do wish you could choose where the image goes in a post. That little parenthetical coda would have worked much better after the screen grab.

I should probably have another coffee.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 7h

Uh huh…

(I’ve personally never even heard this usage in American English, but sure, let’s let people enjoy things, whatevs)

A page from Merriam Webster’s website, reading

“A Word on 'Descriptive' and 'Prescriptive' Defining
When it comes to words, we're the descriptive sort.
What to Know
Merriam-Webster is a descriptive dictionary in that it aims to describe and indicate how words are actually used by English speakers and writers. Generally, the descriptive approach to lexicography does not dictate how words should be used or set forth rules of "correctness," unlike the prescriptive approach.”

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 16h

Eh. You can only shame someone’s hypocrisy if they were engaging in good faith in the first place. The rest is comfort blanket crowing. And there’s value in comfort, just not a huge theory of change.

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 16h

I don’t know why I expect the exact same people who spat “social justice warrior” as an epithet of contempt to suddenly realise what opposing anti-fascism means and have a moment.

It really is the hope that gets you.

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Saoirse ☀️ @scratchcarddust.bsky.social · 23h

If you know basic kabbalah it's actually not too hard to make a golem out of a labubu. Don't recommend it though. They have a pre-existing body-dharma. As soon as they wake they run straight for the sea. V hard to counter. Lost the first one. No idea what it's doing out there. Moved like lightning.

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 19h

Thinking about Christmas presents for my wife. Does anyone know what it smells like?

A sign at the Westfield shopping centre. Reading “Please use the escalator by Prada”.

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 18h

Guillermo Del Toro is 61.
Here he is on the Weinsteins:

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River Side Casino @riversidecasino.bsky.social · 17h

Will the owner of the foul-mouthed parrot please come to the front desk. Our receptionist won’t stop crying.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17h

Designer: *through tears* please just tell me what you want, you can even ask to make it pop, I'll do anything

Me: It's too Mycenaean, redo it

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Roger @rogger.bsky.social · 17h

Well that was entirely charming. A lick hagiographic, maybe? But you go in knowing it’s a documentary about a beloved cult show made by the creator’s son, and honestly the indulgent reminiscences seem quite sincere.