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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

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 10h

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 10h

a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is making a surprised face .

Alt: a man in a tuxedo and bow tie is making a surprised face .

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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 11h

My strange affectation is tudbright
The a sigh that is faintly lugudbright
Ous when you ask whavie
All my friends in Milngavie
Suspect that I come from Kirkcudbright.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 11h

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 14h

Be the reason they start searching bags for googly eyes at the entrance to your local zoo.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 15h

Omar Yaghi, the new Nobel Laureate, was born to a Palestinian refugee family.

NPR @npr.org · 20h

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said. n.pr/4nOvwQs

Research on metal-organic frameworks gets the chemistry Nobel Prize

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi will share the prize. Their structures can "capture carbon dioxide, store toxic gases or catalyse chemical reactions," the committee said.

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 15h

There was that one time I tweeted about a dream where I made the Grange Hill sausage trend on twitter and Richard Osman retweeted it and that caused the Grange Hill sausage to trend on twitter and yeah that was a weird day

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 1d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 17h

If you happen to run into him, do tell him I loved him from afar [at least, from the lighting board] for a week when he was playing Rosalind 😍

Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 19h

O boniment is *good*

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

Boxes also work on bobcats

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 21h

Books are... clutter?

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a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls .

Alt: a close up of a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls. It's looking shifty

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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 22h

Interviewer: no, I meant do you have any questions about the job?

Me: so, what do you think of my time machine?

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 22h

I'd express it as "solve all the world's problems at a stroke".

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 1d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 23h

As I recall according to Popehat, under common law assault is basically making someone afraid you're going to hit them and battery is hitting them, but under different jurisdictions it gets more complicated

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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 1d

Hey! Lots more fun here now.

Original versions of the title images from Cheers: UPDATED.

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Where nobody knows your name...

Tracing the anonymous faces at the start of Cheers.

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 2d

Date for your diaries:
Friday 10th October
9am (gmt): The Nobel Committee announces the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
9.01am (gmt): War declared on Norway

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Marktech @marktech.bsky.social · 1d

A good reason why they're not close: you're utterly dependent on which venues want your show, and which dates they have free. (Secondly, nobody wants to split the audience. Some contracts try to forbid a show playing nearby venues within a specified period.)

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 2d

This is the maddest tour I've ever seen in my life. It seems like he's doing more gigs than there are days in the year.

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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 2d

Politician struggling with Britain's intractable problems? This one neat trick will enable you to see easy solutions for everything: simply lose the election! My SKETCH of Tory conference.
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