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@LordWoolamaloo Tunnock's Caramel wafer for me. Remember my grandma having a jar of those delightfully toothsome confectionaries, and they still look and taste exactly as I remember.

A traditional delicacy of my ancient tribe #Tunnocks

This is why the Nazi rally at Madison Garden in 1939 avoided comedians—Too edgy.

Put the season in the books...but not before @HowieRose reflects on a wild ride.

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@mrphoenix I think that’s the joke. Giants live in the Addams Family world. Discussing the joke will inevitably kill it, but I think it has charm!

So: giant sculpture, and behind a screen a giant woman is getting undressed. Is the joke that she’s so big it’s actually a life-size sculpture? Or is there something else I’m not seeing? I’m over complicating this, aren’t I? 2\2

Just been enjoying ‘Monster Rally’, a collection of cartoons by Charles Addams. Two favourites: Morticia Addams writing a letter to Gomez, and “George! George! Drop the keys!” One cartoon I didn’t quite get, maybe I’m overthinking it - 1\2

I better go superviral for this...

And if your reply to this is, "Why don't you focus on Trump?", here's the answer: The Democrats already have the votes of people who find Trump repellent. The votes they need are from people who are open to voting for a Democrat, but who don't think Biden is up to the job. Those people exist. We can see them: x.com/jonfavs/status…

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.

Thousands of books have been banned in U.S. schools – & it’s getting worse. Join @PENamerica @UABookBans & @writersguildinitiative on Oct. 7 for the Banned Books Week Day of Action and share your favorite banned book with the hashtags #LetFreedomRead & #BannedBooksWeek.

@ROCHEG Awww yeah. Thought of you when I saw that. That leaving’s gonna get me down.

@stephenbetts bbc.co.uk/news/entertain… Leaving leaving leaving…

A clutch double play. A walk-off hit by pitch. Two Gary calls for the price of one. 🎙️

A ball is happening at the gas station where O’Shae Sibley was killed.

@vectorpark “Now I am become X, destroyer of brands” - think that would be a timely meme

4 of 5 stars to The Twyford Code by Janice Hallett goodreads.com/review/show/56…

@brianclegg @emma_darwin Ah, yes, that would make sense. The language stuff was a little bit tangential to the article, I guess. Probably wanted to keep it as simple as possible.

@stephenbetts @emma_darwin I didn’t, but interesting! Going on what the book says, the language roots/routes are more complicated than the Guardian article suggests.

Coincidentally saw this just after reading Is This a Question? which is reviewed here: brianclegg.blogspot.com/2023/06/review… (HT to @emma_darwin for pointing out the 'hundred' diagram) - this kind of thing is why the book is fascinating: jakubmarian.com/evolution-of-h…

i think some people have been so wildly rewarded through black swan predictions that they get caught in revolutionary, big-shift thinking and forget that things such as social and political outcomes are more constrained by institutions

@natmetcalfe So bad.

Proof that Prometheus is a worthless movie.

4 of 5 stars to The Maintenance of Headway by mills-magnus goodreads.com/review/show/55…

Five Borough Bike Tour!