Ian Racey
@ianracey.bsky.social
Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio: “I try to be brief, but I become unintelligible.”—Horace
He/him
He/him
IT’S HAPPENING! IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING!
The Flavor of 2026 Is Bold and Unexpected—and About to Be Everywhere, According to McCormick
Global spice company McCormick just revealed it's Flavor of the Year, along with it's annual Flavor Forecast report. Here's what to look out for on restaurant menus, grocery stores, and in your own ki...
www.marthastewart.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
IT’S HAPPENING! IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING!
I’m there when my mother is given a cognitive examination every three months. It’s incredibly easy, and the reason most people aren’t given it is because there’s no reason to give it unless it’s already clear you’re senile. No matter how poorly she does, my mother is always told she did very well.
He is not well.
If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
If someone’s grandpa posted this on Facebook, the family would be discussing assisted living by dinner.
December 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I’m there when my mother is given a cognitive examination every three months. It’s incredibly easy, and the reason most people aren’t given it is because there’s no reason to give it unless it’s already clear you’re senile. No matter how poorly she does, my mother is always told she did very well.
Just announced: creation of new FIFA Sexiest Man Alive award, first annual prize to be given at whatever FIFA event Donald Trump next attends. No word yet on who the inaugural winner might be.
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Just announced: creation of new FIFA Sexiest Man Alive award, first annual prize to be given at whatever FIFA event Donald Trump next attends. No word yet on who the inaugural winner might be.
Keeping my fingers crossed for a group of England, Scotland, Australia and New Zealand, which is as possible as any other eligible combination.
December 5, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Keeping my fingers crossed for a group of England, Scotland, Australia and New Zealand, which is as possible as any other eligible combination.
“International Stutter Awareness Day” says Colin Murray. Mate the problem with my stutter is that I feel like everyone’s already aware of it.
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“International Stutter Awareness Day” says Colin Murray. Mate the problem with my stutter is that I feel like everyone’s already aware of it.
Exxon, words have meanings, and if you have five different grades of car wash, you cannot have “Ultimate Wash” be the FOURTH grade.
September 19, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Exxon, words have meanings, and if you have five different grades of car wash, you cannot have “Ultimate Wash” be the FOURTH grade.
Phew, I’m juuuuust fat enough for the Covid vax.
FDA is authorizing anybody with a risk factor from this list to receive the vaccines, as well as anybody 65+.
August 27, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Phew, I’m juuuuust fat enough for the Covid vax.
Is there a major American movie franchise that comes anywhere close to being as Oedipal as Back to the Future?
August 9, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Is there a major American movie franchise that comes anywhere close to being as Oedipal as Back to the Future?
This is one of my favourite items I’ve so far written for this project. It’s a 100% faithful restatement of Washington’s words as quoted in the replies.
11 JULY 1775, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: George Washington’s general orders for the day instruct soldiers to bring their snacks with them when going on watch rather than using their lack of snacks as an excuse to abandon their posts: founders.archives.gov/documents/Wa...
Founders Online: General Orders, 11 July 1775
General Orders, 11 July 1775
founders.archives.gov
July 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is one of my favourite items I’ve so far written for this project. It’s a 100% faithful restatement of Washington’s words as quoted in the replies.
There were so many previews before our showing of The Phoenician Scheme that one movie got two previews. We’d seen so many new adverts since they’d advertised Megan 2.0 to us that they needed to advertise it to us again because we’d forgot it existed.
June 22, 2025 at 3:34 PM
There were so many previews before our showing of The Phoenician Scheme that one movie got two previews. We’d seen so many new adverts since they’d advertised Megan 2.0 to us that they needed to advertise it to us again because we’d forgot it existed.
When you laugh out loud in the middle of leading a review for the AP Macroeconomics exam, because you get an email from your daughter in the next classroom, in the middle of her own review for the AP World History exam.
May 8, 2025 at 12:50 AM
When you laugh out loud in the middle of leading a review for the AP Macroeconomics exam, because you get an email from your daughter in the next classroom, in the middle of her own review for the AP World History exam.
For the most part I am on team “if an occupation gets an appreciation week, the public should just pay that occupation more,” but one of my students gave me this today because it’s her last day (she’s a senior), and you know what? I do currently feel appreciated.
May 6, 2025 at 9:59 AM
For the most part I am on team “if an occupation gets an appreciation week, the public should just pay that occupation more,” but one of my students gave me this today because it’s her last day (she’s a senior), and you know what? I do currently feel appreciated.
Why are Spurs wearing a change strip against a team who wear red? And why on earth do Spurs have a change strip that would be impossible to wear against a team who wear white—especially a team who wear white and punctuate it with blue?
April 27, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Why are Spurs wearing a change strip against a team who wear red? And why on earth do Spurs have a change strip that would be impossible to wear against a team who wear white—especially a team who wear white and punctuate it with blue?
Just saw a Steve the Fish video on TikTok that had the lyrics translated into English at the bottom, except it translated “et des jambes” as “and chocolates.”
Yes. He is orange, he has arms and chocolates.
Yes. He is orange, he has arms and chocolates.
April 13, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Just saw a Steve the Fish video on TikTok that had the lyrics translated into English at the bottom, except it translated “et des jambes” as “and chocolates.”
Yes. He is orange, he has arms and chocolates.
Yes. He is orange, he has arms and chocolates.
Coolest dog ever driving the car next to us right now.
March 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Coolest dog ever driving the car next to us right now.
Not the reaction I’d have expected but okay.
March 6, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Not the reaction I’d have expected but okay.
Guys my lesson plan was set in December, but hand to God, the lesson I’m teaching for the next two days in Macroeconomics is about how tariffs are an immediate way to kneecap your economic growth.
March 4, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Guys my lesson plan was set in December, but hand to God, the lesson I’m teaching for the next two days in Macroeconomics is about how tariffs are an immediate way to kneecap your economic growth.
Watching Swallows and Amazons with Lisa, and I'm explaining to her that the entirety of a state education in Britain is reading this and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, so that we learn:
March 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Watching Swallows and Amazons with Lisa, and I'm explaining to her that the entirety of a state education in Britain is reading this and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, so that we learn:
250 years ago: Horace Walpole talking about the power of right-wing propaganda to brainwash people so that they are actually applauding the government crashing their own economy by painting it as punishing their trading partners. (Hozza is talking about the New England Trade & Fisheries Bill.)
15 FEBRUARY 1775, LONDON: “The war with our colonies, which is now declared, is a proof of how much influence jargon has on human actions,” Horace Walpole writes to his friend, the British minister to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. “A war on our own trade is popular!”
February 16, 2025 at 12:54 PM
250 years ago: Horace Walpole talking about the power of right-wing propaganda to brainwash people so that they are actually applauding the government crashing their own economy by painting it as punishing their trading partners. (Hozza is talking about the New England Trade & Fisheries Bill.)
My favourite thing about fresh snowfall is when it happens at night and the night sky is so much brighter than usual, before any of it has been ploughed or cleared away.
February 12, 2025 at 2:04 AM
My favourite thing about fresh snowfall is when it happens at night and the night sky is so much brighter than usual, before any of it has been ploughed or cleared away.
The challenger on today’s Countdown has the most stentorian voice I have ever heard. Just sitting there naturally talking and sounding like Charles Dance at his most Shakespearean and being better at it than Charles Dance would be.
February 11, 2025 at 12:40 AM
The challenger on today’s Countdown has the most stentorian voice I have ever heard. Just sitting there naturally talking and sounding like Charles Dance at his most Shakespearean and being better at it than Charles Dance would be.
… Why are Arsenal wearing white?
January 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
… Why are Arsenal wearing white?
Know I’m watching too much UK TV when I know six of the eight contestants in this week’s Celebrity Pointless.
January 11, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Know I’m watching too much UK TV when I know six of the eight contestants in this week’s Celebrity Pointless.
We are now literal DAYS past the point where, when I get the daily notification that school is closed tomorrow, my honest reaction is a quiet “That can’t be right,” and I go to the actual school website to check before letting the kids know.
January 9, 2025 at 12:06 AM
We are now literal DAYS past the point where, when I get the daily notification that school is closed tomorrow, my honest reaction is a quiet “That can’t be right,” and I go to the actual school website to check before letting the kids know.