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@MerriamWebster Scampi specifically refers to Nephrops norvegicus, which only a fool would describe as a 'shrimp'. For shame!

Sometimes when we borrow words from other languages, English can become delightfully redundant. ‘Scampi’ means “shrimp” so ‘shrimp scampi’ is basically “shrimp shrimp.” Sahara Desert = Desert Desert chai tea = tea tea naan bread = bread bread ahi tuna = tuna tuna

@OdohertyI64991 Open the fuckin bypass, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in hell?

If ever a line of vehicles deserved a strafing run...

@TwinkTheory The Hite Report is 50 years old this year...

Is the New York Times ok?

@mboudry They can even start easy, with a naturalistic depiction of brahmins abducting and raping lower-caste women and nobody noticing or caring at all.

Can we agree, from now on, that every "progressive" art critic who raves about skateboarding nuns, burning Bibles, lesbian popes, and cunnilingus on a fluorescent crucifix should slip just one tiny cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed into their review? Not even enjoying fellatio from 9-year-old Aishah or something, but feel free. And shall we likewise agree that every "progressive" opera director who bravely storms the ramparts of religious "patriarchy" should include, just once, a masturbating woman in a chador on stage? One little page of the Quran set alight? One gangbang on a crescent moon? Let's see how much "courage" they have left to "shake the patriarch to its foundations". (This is a review of the new performence of the opera Sancta by Paul Hindemith. The reviewer is almost cumming from so much "rebellion": "You just want to take off your clothes, jump onto the stage with them, and liberate yourself with this rowdy bunch.")

@cronenbabe There are to be supernatural elements, so Florence Pugh's character will open her legs and ghosts will come out. Hopefully.

who's ready for 2 years of discourse about Emerald Fennell's Basic Instinct only for it to be a boring remake devoid of any eroticism

@ruth_deyermond This is absolute Foucault: proclaiming ultimate sovereign authority over an entire civilisation while disclaiming agency in the same breath. Things 'will finally end' but who is ending them? Power as both an invisibility and an inevitability. He's never heard of Foucault though.

Will Trump try to commit genocide? Won't he? Apparently "we will find out tonight". It's war as US reality TV (to a degree beyond anything Baudrillard imagined). Every hour Trump is allowed to go on posting this stuff while being president does further irreparable harm to the US.

The president of the United States is now threatening to commit genocide.

@JC_1901 @bildredax @fitzfromdublin If it has 10x the population it should also have 10x the funeral directors, so the point is moot.

@KennethFitzsi15 @bildredax @fitzfromdublin Britain has 10x the population of Ireland despite being only 3.5x larger. I imagine that’s why.

The “euros don’t recover or bury bodies” tweet is funny in part because one of the biggest differences between Ireland and the UK is we’re a funerary culture and they’re not. I only mention it because it shows there isn’t a single European cultural attitude around anything so

@nguyenhdi Thirst by Park Chan-wook is an amusing take on Zola's Thérèse Raquin

Fellas! What are the best East Asian adaptations of Western classics? I've seen: Japan: "Ran" from "King Lear", "Throne of Blood" from "Macbeth", "Arashi ga oka" from Wuthering Heights" South Korea: "Untold Scandal" from "Dangerous Liaisons" China: "The Banquet" from "Hamlet"

@bildredax @fitzfromdublin How about running the system in such a way that you're only waiting longer than a fortnight in genuinely exceptional cases, like is done in NI and RoI?

@KennethFitzsi15 @fitzfromdublin That’s the earliest everyone had an opening. What are they supposed to do? Reschedule?

@NewtonEmerson Revealingly vindictive? Perhaps for its time, these days the movement would be proscribed in the first week and its members would lose everything to POCA.

This 2011 BBC report is a fascinating postscript to the 2000 fuel protests - a under-appreciated landmark in British politics. The government was beaten but came back with a revealingly vindictive revenge.

@jokers_tailor The best part: that was written from the Europa hotel...

I still prefer her earlier work.

@wilhelmscreamin Little Malarianets

i think the effective altruists should bring back naming their kids after virtues, like the puritans. where's little charity, industry, and means-to-an-end?

@ollyrobot Other engineers have to get out of their chairs to do things. That's a hugely underrated factor because you rarely meet an intelligent person who isn't somewhat lazy. If John Carmack had to bust the fast inverse square root out on a lathe or something, would he have?

what if everything is computer not because computer is the edge of the technology frontier but because computer is actually fairly easy relative to, like, making binoculars better

@kyotocosmology Nah they're just shit design. I'm not stopping the fun to read your naff epistolary novella that you've split into 28 parts and hidden around the place, and I can't hear the voice actor mumbling the same lines over the screech of splicers or whatever I'm fighting. It doesn't work

Game Writing Advice is so bluesky BUT!!! I've played a bunch of games recently that think the player is intrinsically interested in text & audio logs. No!! If you want ppl to read or listen you need to hook them like if you were writing a short story or a poem

@vikdeadgens I remember watching that on TV when I was about 9 and it blowing me away. Written by the same chap who wrote The Lion in Winter!

The 70s saw another theatrical Robin Hood film, 1976's Robin and Marian, which opens with an aged Robin Hood and Little John complicit in a pointless massacre of children and elderly ordered by a demented Richard the Lionheart.

@AlexKeava @bobo_circus That's the one! It throws you into the middle of an epic, very much worth your time.

@KennethFitzsi15 @bobo_circus I’ll put him on my list, I’ve seen people talk about Malazan before, is that what you’d recommend?

It's beyond me why anyone still gives this doughy Mormon heifer the time of day. He's spent 15 years turning sci-fi / fantasy readers into powerscaling bimbos and still finds the time to lob backhanded compliments at his betters. Disgusting stuff!

@DamCou Plot twist: it's Maduro

Poor Marco.

@AlexKeava @bobo_circus I've read his SF which is good, but not his fantasy. Might I suggest Steven Erickson?

@KennethFitzsi15 @bobo_circus Tbh I’ve just been getting into fantasy over the last year or two so I’m not familiar with him. Good choice? Have you read his stuff?

@AlexKeava @bobo_circus Realistically it will probably be Daniel Abraham (aka half of James SA Corey), who has proven he can write at that scale and depth several times over and has worked quite a lot with Martin.

@KennethFitzsi15 @bobo_circus The plot is wayyy to complex for Abercrombie to do it justice imo, I love him and think he’d be able to do the characters really well, but I think he’d be out of his depth tying everything together