WordCubed

Shocked and appalled that Twitter still exists. They/he.

[WordCubed @WordCubed]

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents—except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets 1/2

[Grand Moff Snarkin, Bearified🐻 @N7IRL]

Challenge: Take the opening line of any book and add, "and then he plunged inside me."

[боря) 🚷 (OUTTA!!! hiatus) @borialover]

tf you mean denji is oregon level
#jjk #csm

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

This is incredibly funny and I hope @IChotiner has seen it. (Isaac Chotiner interviews the guy who runs The Lottery from Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery")

[thanksgiving michael @TM05___]

they all get along with the same energy as eating dinner with your parents who hate eachother

[Dan O'Brien @OtherDanOBrien]

MOB BOSS: Tony betrayed us
UNDERLING: Should I whack him off?
MB: Haha no, just whack him
U: Off?
MB: Off him, yes
U: Whack him off
MB: No

[Shasti @sh44sti]

never end it all because one day you are the cia’s most wanted and the next day you are shaking hands with the president of the united states…this also happened to big boss in metal gear solid

[Sid Prabhu @sidprabhu]

Human level intelligence achieved

[Samuel Hughes @SCP_Hughes]

The next problem will be familiar to some readers: the second staircase regulation, which requires that all tallish buildings have at least two staircases, eating up much of their floorplate. The fascinating thing about the second staircase rule is that the Government knew it was a bad regulation: the Government’s own cost-benefit analysis found that its costs are 294 times greater than its benefits. The entire system knew that it was introducing a rule with almost no safety value and huge economic costs, and it introduced it anyway. When the dust settles, it will be worth studying how this can possibly have happened, and what it tells us about the way England is governed.

(In fact, later research has shown that the Govt’s cost-benefit analysis was *too generous*, because it assumed that all floorspace lost to second staircases could be recovered by building higher – which of course is normally prevented by planning restrictions on height.)

Second staircase rules are particularly troublesome in conjunction with anti-corridor policies introduced by the GLA, apparently because GLA planners have a kind of aesthetic preference against corridors. Because of the second staircase rule, buildings need to have huge cores of massed staircases and lifts, but because of the absence of corridors, those cores cannot serve many apartments on each floor. This results in a large share of the overall building being made of largely useless cores, which is of course inefficient and value-destroying.

[mbg @gloless]

Girl just told me she ghosted me because I got too drunk and rode the mechanical bull 3 times on our first date

[Gale Na @poisonjr]

very funny that this was the only cultural export of ditty. no one really knew what to do on there and then this dropped and began an arms race

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

"I never thought voting to destroy the government would affect the extremely specific ways the government helps me."

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

It's kind of silly that the ivies have divinity schools. I'm aware universities were invented to train priests but it's today times and elite schools should only teach real things.

[gnatmaster @_natastrophe_]

fascism but without the psychic wound of world war one so guys have to find increasingly dumb things to claim as their formative trauma when they just live the same boring shitty lives as the rest of us and are mad that they won't get to die for the Volk

[khalid @phantom_khalid]

welcome to the struggle my italian brothers

[Dishpit @Dishpit]

in case you didn't know, this is how you're actually supposed to do software versioning

[Cheese For Everyone! @CheeseForEvery1]

My wife has kindly asked me to stop referring to the neutered male pets in our house as “my council of eunuchs”

[Barry R @MagnumPI242]

It’s worse than that mate. She’s deid.

[Alex @_alex_joshua]

Kay Granger's staff tweeting out how great they are while she's secretly in the dementia ward

[Ragıp Soylu @ragipsoylu]

LOL:

“I just learned that my PhD student, Assad Hassan, has become the new Foreign Minister of Syria. I was asking his Indonesian and Palestinian classmates why he hasn't been coming to class for the last two weeks.”

[hotdogs water @girlsbian_]

she's unironically doing the thing