prer4ph

to write as if civilisation had not collapsed

@addmeoncomputer this but with grok

messaging a plural system out of the blue and going “JUST to be clear I have never raped ANY pf you” and watching the confusion and terror unfold

@BenABrittain Demi-paradise.

The British isles in the summer sun is the closest we can get to heaven on earth

don't know who needs to hear it but the Annie / Richard X EP Endless Vacation is very good, kind of 'feel-good hit of the summer' stuff shot through with yearning, lovely stuff.

@MythoYookay 'Historical Contributor' would make a great twitter account name.

People are rightly mocking this for the idea of a '4chan account', but to be fair, you can get IP-banned from 4chan. It's just that it would be for posting a nipple, not this.

@LeoKearse >skit sketch, you yank.

I know Saturday Night Live UK has its detractors. But I'd like to see another UK comedy show have the balls to mock both Liz Truss and "young people who don't vote Green" in its opening skit.

@qualiascript Q: How do you feel, Your Highness, about living such a privileged life only because of an accident of birth? A (sniffily): Birth is no accident. ^deep learnings contained within this quip for the attentive.

the veil of ignorance argument is literally incoherent. in order for it to be wrong, it would need to be a proposition that is able to be false the idea of having your genetics, environment and individual traits completely swapped while still "being you" is nonsensical

@mishapathy the first step is to re-file those needs as 'nice-to-haves'

This is sort of embarrassing, but how do single people meet their physical contact needs?

@our_decay partner

Business terms that could conceivably have romantic double meanings: -tender offer -comfort letter -promissory note

@BIMBOSATTVA_ play Link's Awakening

I'm taking a break from working since everyone has been saying I've been working too much so now I'm laying in bed doomscrollimg trying to find a YouTube video to watch Should I play BoTW for the first time tomorrow? I've never been a Nintendo person, but I'm being forced

@iconoclast502 damn

i met a guy about 10 years ago who showed me his story draft about an absolute sicko, a proto gooner. the narrator of the story described his activities as a "lonely orgy", a phrase which has stuck with me consistently

@SAINTD00R @zeeteefs great songs though

@zeeteefs That entire movie was such a mistake to show to children. Every single kid who dies, does so in such a scary and tramatic way for a kid to see. I remember being scared of that entire movie and never wanted to watch it just because of the fat kid getting sucked into the tube

blueberry inflation fetish is lowk funny as hell to me because it's the only one that you can immediately tell the exact movie scene they watched in their formative years

Timely reminder of when this guy reviewed that guy... Iggy Pop on Gibbon's Decline and Fall (Classics Ireland, 1995): Caesar Lives by Iggy Pop In 1982, horrified by the meanness, tedium and depravity of my existence as I toured the American South playing rock and roll music and going crazy in public, I purchased an abridged copy of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Dero Saunders, Penguin). The grandeur of the subject appealed to me, as did the cameo illustration of Edward Gibbon, the author, on the front cover. He looked like a heavy dude. Being in a political business, I had long made a habit of reading biographies of wilful characters — Hitler, Churchill, MacArthur, Brando — with large profiles, and I also enjoyed books on war and political intrigue, as I could relate the action to my own situation in the music business, which is not about music at all, but is a kind of religion-rental. I would read with pleasure around 4 am, with my drugs and whisky in cheap motels, savouring the clash of beliefs, personalities and values, played out on antiquity’s stage by crowds of the vulgar, led by huge archetypal characters. And that was the end of that. Or so I thought. Eleven years later I stood in a dilapidated but elegant room in a rotting mansion in New Orleans, and listened as a piece of music strange to my ears pulled me back to ancient Rome and called forth those ghosts to merge in hilarious, bilious pretence with the Schwartzkopfs, Schwartzeneggers and Sheratons of modern American money and muscle myth. Out of me poured information I had no idea I ever knew, let alone retained, in an extemporaneous soliloquy I called ‘Caesar’. When I listened back, it made me laugh my ass off because it was so true. America is Rome. Of course, why shouldn’t it be? All of Western life and institutions today are traceable to the Romans and their world. We are all Roman children for better or worse. The best part of this experience came after the fact — my wife gave me a beautiful edition in three volumes of the magnificent original unabridged Decline and Fall, and since then the pleasure and profit have been all mine as I enjoy the wonderful language, organization and scope of this masterwork. Here are just some of the ways I benefit: I feel a great comfort and relief knowing that there were others who lived and died and thought and fought so long ago; I feel less tyrannized by the present day. I learn much about the way our society really works, because the system-origins — military, religious, political, colonial, agricultural, financial — are all there to be scrutinized in their infancy. I have gained perspective. The language in which the book is written is rich and complete, as the language of today is not. I find out how little I know. I am inspired by the will and erudition which enabled Gibbon to complete a work of twenty-odd years. The guy stuck with things. I urge anyone who wants life on earth to really come alive for them to enjoy the beautiful ancestral ancient world.

Kraftwerk rly missed a trick not calling an album K-Pop

@Oszillate youtube.com/watch?v=oOMTcS…

Arpeggiators are the heart of good music, all else is commentary

if taste was important in tech we’d all be using amigas rn

>be me, opsec master >download file >download .sig (from same webpage) >verify file with signature (with command from same webpage) >check command output (against gibberish from same webpage) >lgtm unhackable security god, n00bs don't even try me.

all good songwriters are jews

@Agaeddaboi @puppy_fawn777 @AlasdairKenned1 @Kuuhaku3993 this guy is my kinda guy

@puppy_fawn777 @AlasdairKenned1 @prer4ph @Kuuhaku3993 It did use to be knife, and knight As in knai-fuh and knai-tuh Or in older english kni-fe and kni-cht, the ch here sounded more like a german ch like in the word Knecht (cognate btw) than the ch in charm

I don't get why English speakers struggle so much with the "tsu" sound. It's literally the same as in the word "sports". It's not like they pronounce it "spors" like how they say "soonami"

@Makii47 @Kuuhaku3993 not with that attitude

@Kuuhaku3993 Ts is not a consonant cluster found at the beginning of english words