Jamie Sullivan

@nise_yoshimi Sources within parliament suggest his boss music now includes Gregorian chanting in a leit motif of the main theme

BREAKING: Keir Starmer has turned red and started moving faster around the arena and has gained a new attack in which he spits fireballs

You buy a German anvil. It contains 83 moving parts and requires winding twice a day. It's forged from excellent steel, holds tolerances across all three striking faces to within three microns, includes a beautifully indexed horn-adjustment mechanism nobody asked for, and requires a proprietary 11-point spanner should you need to replace the rebound calibration bushing. It runs flawlessly for years, but one day it starts up in limp mode because the onboard anvil-management system detects that it's overdue for its 50,000-strike inspection. You search AliExpress for a Chinese anvil, and are presented with a multitude of offerings from such household-name brands as DUKXJYIBF, HDBTGMXI, AND UEJQIP. They're all priced to within a few pennies of each other, appear completely identical except for the nameplate, and obviously all came out of the same factory. You text your blacksmith friend to ask if they're legit. He tells you he got one like that from KIXJBU a few years ago, and that it's been great and a terrific deal. You thank him, but KIXJBU seems to have folded so you buy the one from UEJQIP. When it arrives, it feels suspiciously light. You scratch it and realize it's iron-plated aluminum. You buy an American anvil. It's five times the price of the competition, but it comes from a brand that your great-grandfather used to love. It comes boxed with a warranty registration postcard, twenty pages of safety instructions, assay certificate, and a regulatory slip which lists its FCC certification and ITAR registration. It looks just like your friend's KIXJBU. There's a "Made In China" sticker on the bottom. You buy a Russian anvil. It arrives coated in cosmoline, wrapped in newspaper from 1974, and weighing 40% more than advertised. The finish looks like it was machined with a shovel. The face is not flat, but somehow this does not matter. You drop it off a truck, accidentally leave it outside for six winters, and use it to straighten a bulldozer blade. It's fine. You buy a Swedish anvil. It comes flat-packed in a long cardboard box with cheerful Neo-Grotesk lettering and a line drawing of a smiling man assembling it with an Allen key. The instructions contain no words, only pictograms showing the anvil face, horn, waist, feet, and 112 identical-looking fasteners. Halfway through assembly, you discover that the pritchel hole was installed upside down, but only because you used peg B17 where you should have used peg B71. Once assembled, it is clean, stable, and works better than it has any right to. You immediately wonder whether you should have bought two. You buy a Japanese anvil. It arrives wrapped in rice paper inside a paulownia box, accompanied by a certificate bearing three generations of signatures and a photograph of the first production example being presented to the Emperor. The face has been hand-polished by a seventy-eight-year-old master whose family has made striking surfaces since the Muromachi period. You are given detailed instructions for oiling it with a cloth folded in a specific way. It is the most beautiful object you own. You never quite work up the nerve to strike it.

@KDJmedia1 Sterling was great. Will miss him.

Best thing you’ll watch today. And I say this as a die hard Mets fan. RIP to the great John Sterling.

@TaglesTopGuy Let’s be real, 99% of converts are actually this weird about the faith though

You can tell this is a Protestant convert because he considers fun sinful

@BarstoolHubbs He got that one

AARON JUDGE GOOD LORD x.com/BarnHasSpoken2…

@JomboyMedia @TalkinBaseball_ Yeah I think that’s kind of over the line. No need to insult or disrespect the other team. Celebrate the home run but leave the other team out of it.

Tossing the bat to the catcher is the biggest possible fuck you in baseball

@nise_yoshimi Attack on Titan is *basically* a mecha anime if you think about it

japanese people are human too. they're also playing too many video games and writing stories about what if a video game was a fantasy world and you could get laid in it. they don't even really make proper robot shows anymore

distinguishing between noble otaku and degenerate western "fandom" misses that today's otaku and fandom are the same thing, downstream of the genuinely creative culture of old-school nerds, whose influence happens to linger longer in japan. but not forever. fandom is inevitable

@missus_wormy It’s very…weird to look back on that but yeah. It felt like Obama, Trudeau, and Pope Francis were these shining lights at the end of the Bush era. Music was generally happy…50 cent, levels, Rachel black, Carly Rae, Coldplay…pop punk was still going strong. Man. Miss those days

It probably felt awesome to be a millennial who believed things were going to get better in 2008

@brunellaism This tweet is about me and I don’t like that

vampire weekend is about the rare guy who yearns for both

@halenhargreevs Zankoku na Tenshi no Teze

* MEN & MEN ONLY * Tell me a song by a woman you sing with your whole chest

@WANIGUNNSOU 新撰組青

最近アメリカの格好良い写真ばかり流れてきて悔しいんですが、銃に対抗するには刀しかないと思うので「火付盗賊改方」という日本の武士の格好をモダナイズドした装備の写真を置いておきたいと思います。

@g3m33 僕は戦国時代歴史が好き

ポルノ中毒かペドかロリコンかオルタナ右翼以外で、純粋に日本が好なアメリカ男性って存在する？

Dunkin’ testing 48 oz buckets of coffee in Mass. Here’s where to find it masslive.com/entertainment/…

.@JamesTalarico: The only minority destroying America is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Muslims are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are focused on the wrong 1%. Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Muslims aren't defunding our schools. Immigrants aren't cutting taxes for themselves and their rich friends. It’s the billionaires and their puppet politicians. The culture wars are a smokescreen. They want us looking left and right at our neighbors instead of looking up at them. The biggest divide in our politics is not left versus right, it’s top versus bottom.

@ThighNir BLAST THE RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES

Six hours, and we are knocking on Evil's door. SIX. #Helldivers2

@ThighNir @Somepieceofbred Behold! The majesty of the liberty we conjureth!

@Somepieceofbred Indeed it is

好样的 哈基米 @TermMaxFi

@mte2_5 @himechi_bbluv @rionn__oO @kurumi_marutake ロックオン🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

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