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The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudo-world that can only be looked at.

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Ritualised Funerary Customs Among Mus Musculus in Richmond: a Review of the Physical Evidence - Daniel Bristow-Bailey, Journal of Rodent Archaeology, 2024

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Steve Baker has the supreme confidence of a man who only owns 3 books.

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I should leave the curtains open in case a benevolent sniper happens to see my head

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Dreamt that the Italy team included a 25,000 year old man (who the commentator understatedly referred to as ‘a legend’), Father Christmas, Rolf Harris, and a vampire. They still lost.

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That dude in the cheese shop has been doing political cheese-themed jokes for a few years now. He should be writing for the Beano.

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Yeah I know, it's sad. I work in education, which seems to be one of the last bastions of tie-wearing. Much of the City of London is depressingly business-casual these days though.

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My top tip for buying ties in London is to check out any charity shops you spot. Tie-wearing has collapsed among UK professionals in recent years, meaning that charity shops often have a selection of very nice ties for a fiver or less. I've found ties from Liberty, New and Lingwood, etc.

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I remember this, because it made me realise that the perameters of what television could be were a whole lot broader than I'd previously imagined. Absolutely insane stuff, 10/10.

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It was the boba tea all along. Something in the bobafication process awakened a long-forgotten god from its eons-long slumber, the bobas transubstantiating into the glistening spawn of a faceless, gibbering tentacle-demon. And our kids were slurping that stuff up as fast as they could get it.

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DADDY what is this guy's origin story I bet it's pretty messed up.

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Some doing words aren’t enough on their own so that’s why we have to adverbs to them.

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some words whose first letters are described by the rest of the word. no, you’re bored on a Saturday afternoon A bridged B looped C lipped D ark(side) O void P lumped S curvy U nturned W angled

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This is my working assumption tbh. Enjoy your relatively chill, ad-free microblogging experince while it lasts.

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No, he's Zelda's Monster. Zelda was the scientist who created him.

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You're the second person to mention that so I might have to check it out.

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I'm currently wiring a story set almost entirely on the District Line between Richmond and Barons Court. I'm wondering if there's any other District Line fiction I should be aware of?

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sometimes writing feels like a lot of folks telling you, hey, i don't like your stuff, i would prefer it if you did it the way i like it specifically, and you saying oh yeah, for sure for sure, and then doing the same thing you were doing anyway even harder like you never heard what they said

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When it started to become apparent that I was going to be very tall, my mum asked my grandmother if my grandfather had been tall, too. She answered 'I'm not sure, dear. I only saw him lying down'.

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You know I was actually thinking of you; I was thinking "maybe I could find a small press to publish a collection of my short stories, like the 'Sports and Social' guy". Definitely going to self-puvlish this one, though.

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Self-puvlishing is basically just self-publishing, except you do your own proofreading, too.

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How is this in any sense true? People are buying millions of books. Most of them are rubbish, true, but that's a different problem.

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I don't think anyone else will want to publish it (apart from anything else, it's about 10,000 words long, which is an awkward length) so I might self-puvlish it as a zine.

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I'm writing a story about a guy who meets an ex-girlfriend from twenty years back on a train, and as they talk it turns out that since they last met there's also been a sort of alien invasion.

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I went away (uninstalled the app) for a bit but now I'm back. Is this place still Nerd Twitter?

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Larry Niven, "Inside-Out Jail", pub. Analog Science Fact and Fiction, 1961.

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Somebody put this online, so I'm linking it here.

This is the piece (well, one of two) that made me a good writer, that turned me from someone who felt like a fraud to someone who knew where the ground was and that he was standing on it:

ditchwalk.com/docs/theme-a...

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It is our duty to post the most absurd, unintelligible nonsense we can, to poison the well. Shitposting as a revolutionary act.

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Let me tell you about this Guy who was really into Dune 2... Dune 2 others as you would have them Dune 2 you. Please open your Bibles at Matthew Chapter 7.

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My graphic-designer dad had one in exactly the same place as mine - his was from a rotting rapidograph, mine was a dip pen.

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He meant "gangsters", I think. Crime is still completely unregulated.

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Joshua W. Cotter's avatar Joshua W. Cotter @joshuawcotter.bsky.social
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My name is Josh, I’m an illustrator and cartoonist. Stubbornly independent, mostly to my own detriment but I prefer the creative control. Very much against generative AI. Art > Product.

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Marshall Ryan Maresca's avatar Marshall Ryan Maresca @mrmaresca.com
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This should help y’all out.

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BLUESKY NO LONGER REQUIRES INVITE CODES, SO…WELCOME, FRIENDLESS LOSERS!

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