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🤦‍♀️ The Bell Centre... bbc.com/travel/article…

well, isn't the future special. nytimes.com/2023/12/13/opi…

@james_blue_cat Sean Michaels byseanmichaels.com it's lovely if you're looking for some bells and whistles ideas

I think I have to start watching My Hero Academia. Massive congrats to #CocoGauff , the future of tennis. #USOpen2023 CHAMPION

Popping in long enough to share this Gazette article about the amazing @swanmichaels and his latest novel tinyurl.com/28fs8foo

So Tweetdeck is behind a paywall now. It's like " A Landlord's Guide to Driving Out the Tenants"

Yikes!

TLDR: the new SAAQ system is still borked.

Our dear friend @davidjalmond has written Sue's obituary for The Guardian, and it's beautiful. The memorial he mentions will take place at University Hall, Shakespeare Street, Nottingham on the afternoon of November 5th. Details to follow. All welcome. theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…

@davidsim Right! It was huge. I remember an English prof devoting an entire lecture to it- Gogol, Melville, Balzac, Dostoevsky and of course Dickins. Plenty others but memory fades.

What ever happened to spontaneous combustion? It was all we talked about in the 70s.

@davidsim peculiar 😉

I’ve had a song going round and round my brain for days. Well, I say “a song” but I don’t know the words, so I keep singing: “Something familiar, something or other, something, yes, something something, comedy tonight.”

I want to create/coin the word “paraletheia” to describe the feeling you get when you meet online friends in-person for the first time. Social media, starting a new job remotely, dating apps, etc.—This is a uniquely 21st century phenomenon. Para = beyond/alongside Aletheia = disclosure of what’s real and true So paraletheia would mean something like “that which is parallel to yet beyond what you already know is real [about a person].” You can learn about someone (exhaustively) just through their socials and by chatting virtually, but there’s nothing that imitates the feeling of being inches away from their face irl. That’s why even when you feel like you know everything about someone you befriended online, things FEEL different when you meet them for the first time. Their scents, body language, height, fidgets, etc. all contribute to your overall impression of who they really are. @MerriamWebster how do I coin a word?

Sorry we want to be paid properly for the TV shows and films we make for you.

For those that didn't watch the press conference, one of the AMPTP's "reasonable" and "historic" offers was to be able to pay actors once to be scanned as background then owned to be used indefinitely, on any number of projects, as a digital asset, for no further pay.

Quebec too

Lost in the wilds of the Eastern Townships of Quebec, I discovered Brasserie 11 Comtés, a microbrewery in Cookshire-Eaton. All the ingredients are from Quebec. Ordered a very delicious wild-yeast beer fermented in wood: Horizon des Événements. What an unexpected treat!

So Canada cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

Aside from the whole "ditch icky billionaire's toy for another icky billionaire's toy"

Here's the thing. I don't have this bird ap on my phone so unless the new sewing ap adds desktop I'm not touching it. #Threads