Simon Petrie (he/him)

Your fear is fully justified, it occupies the entire column width

"This could have been an email." Aragorn whispers. "He ALWAYS pulls this shit in 'Any Other Business" Boromir replies, quietly. "It's why Faramir marked himself as busy when the invite went out."

It's not overly hot at the moment but it is, as the Revernd Spooner would have it, fuggy as all muck

The hottest anyone has ever looked in a movie

*sobs in Antipodean*

As I have previously observed, no-context Bluesky is the best Bluesky

The missing word in the otherwise excellent alt text is 'cats', as in 'black cats flying out'

What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us, Charlie Brown

Today @thespinoff.bsky.social: a conversation between Jo Randerson and @pipadam.bsky.social about "Audition" that was first published in 2023, upon the novel's release: thespinoff.co.nz/culture/23-0...

Roses are red, That water’s not clear;

"average person knows 3 guitar chords" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person knows 0 guitar chords. Guitar Georg, who doesn't want to make it cry or sing and knows all the chords, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

it took four hours and emails across three agencies to determine if a simple, polite email invitation was legitimate, in case you're wondering whether AI has improved efficiency in my field

Alt text: reproduction of a GARM cover by Tove Jansson, a 1-panel cartoon showing five singly occupied rowboats rowing away, on a deeply undulating sea, from a sinking swastika. Cover date is 'Nov.', no year; year is 1944 according to the site tovejansson.com/gallery/tove...

Ruin a song lyric with an added letter: I know this mulch is true

This website simulates the effects of colorblindness on color schemes; I've used it to pick palettes that can still be distinguished by brightness and saturation: davidmathlogic.com/colorblind/

So the position of press secretary is held to a higher standard than that of the presidency (which, these days, of course, is nothing new)

All these people who are anti-AI don't care that AI is vital for my job, which is not knowing how many 'b's there are in 'blueberry'

add 'for Tax Purposes' to a movie: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians for Tax Purposes

At a zoo conference for research and some people are worried about AI (avian influenza) while others are considering using AI (artificial insemination)

The Men Who Stare At Goats For Tax Purposes

Brilliant work by @mackinnonart.bsky.social

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

I do not ever want to hear about a public execution in Texas, unless it is this song from 1965 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW1J...

we received a flyer in the mail which asks "Are you disaster ready?" and I don't think a more 2026 question is possible

No-context BlueSky is often the best BlueSky

I named my dog "Nature" because he abhors the vacuum.

RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.

That time someone dumped a toy house on the cemetery wall and, when I crouched a bit, some ✨ Hollywood Magic ✨ occurred.

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Old Man and the Sea Squirt

Ruin a book by adding a word: The Booty Call of Cthulhu

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

LLMs are a blight on society, & sloppers should be pilloried & pelted with rotten fruit, veg, & eggs, but I wish people would stop claiming, as Wilson does here, that em-dashes are a 'tell' for AI prose. Bloke unironically uses three of the things in his own article. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

never the wrong time for this classic

Just like the Taliban.

What am I the Duke of, if not Earl?

Fun fact: An 'opacifier' is a small biomedical device developed in 1763, to soothe and ensure the visibility of infants. However, modern babies are so seldom born with transparency that the original spelling is now seen as archaic, and many cheaper models now omit the important secondary function.

I found a Rarity-83 word worth 94 pts in OUTLIER. EAGLE EYES · 870 points · 10 rare words. Only 29 players have ever found it in all of Outlier. 4 finds no one else found today. OUTLIER: the daily word hunt where the rarest words win. Can you beat me? playoutlier.com/s/5XQSPK

Amirite tho

You too could be like Jacob (ie excellent and reading something from my list of 75 great but neglected books): causticcovercritic.blogspot.com/2020/02/75-e...

Secret Ingredient - Gator Days