“He’d enjoyed Coconut Surprise. You cracked it open and, hey, there was coconut inside. That was the kind of surprise he liked.” - Rincewind
Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett
@Luxe_Boxx@_nomadic_soul He's so super smart that he thinks being linked to the incel group means 'he's an incel'. He is linked to the group, they are his people, they are who he farms for influence. His defensiveness really made him look an idiot.
"if I pronounce a word wrong, it's because I learned it by reading," I say through tears as my wife's step son roundly mocks me for saying "The Wizard of Ounce"
When I adopted my cat, he had spent the first months of his life as a foster kitten in a house full of dogs. 3 years later, and he still barks. Just wanted to show everyone this
Volunteering as a “substitution” for paid employment is, more often than not, exploitation. I’ve been saying it for years. Stories like this are a stark reminder that we need to think very carefully before encouraging disabled jobseekers into voluntary roles.
Lots of people today hypothesising a huge apocalyptic event that will kill billions, destroy all infrastructure, destroy the ability to make bicycle parts for years, but lush healthy meadows full of fat healthy horses will be unaffected.