tom h is ready for autumn @tomharris@mastodon.social

light of my life, fire of my loins, my sin, my soulja boy

just the most tawdry belief system possible

I can get behind semi-ironic spiritualism as an escape from crushing day-to-day realities, but I just can’t enjoy astrology, its aesthetically so bad

discovered that Billy Joel's Piano Man and Don McLean's American Pie are such powerful attractors that if you listen to one on youtube you get caught in a loop of just those two

very funny to me that the author of the 'sl' command that makes a steam locomotive chug across your terminal is an eminent Japanese computer scientist
http://www.tkl.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~toyoda/index_e.html

Getting a lot of ads from grammarly atm. I wonder how precise the targetting is? Hav eI been marked as "person interested in writing" or "person interested in writing AND person who's writing fucking sucks"?

it's just struck me that the name 'Ursula' means 'little bear'.

Some 4th century dude:
oh man I hope it's a boy, I'm going to call him "lover of christ's knowledge the magnificent". Oh it's a girl. "Little bear" then uWu

making the kid cool

Okay it's a slow evening so here's a game.

For the last year or so I've been keeping a 'commonplace book' a kind of literary scrapbook for interesting words or quotes or ideas or thoughts I've had while reading.

Here's a list of the items. Some are simple definitions or quotes, others are something else. Hit me with a number and I'll post the entry.

thrown out all my skinny jeans since I'm 31 and it's 2019

I wonder what jon tickle's up to?

@Gargron yo FYI media uploads are currently returning a 500 on dot social

absolutely baffled by american progressives logging on to defend the honour of megan markle. monarchy is still bad folks

god save me from the woke royals

pigtails curl under as a cow catcher

make eurostar trains like thomas the tank engine, but with greta's face