heat pumps are wild, man. they're basically thermodynamic bait and switch

Had a good talk with my partner about how to survive the coming years and possibly decades with all the shit that's going on while preserving our values, and how to do so from a place of solidarity and loving one's neighbour. I hope we all make it with our souls intact.

[casually referring to your dominatrix down at the pub] Sorry lads, got to get back to the ol' balls-in-chains

entomology, the study of ents

I don't need a therapist, I already know that every way in which I'm broken can be traced back to one of two reasons: capitalism, and my mother

@anarchiv I don't have any diazepam, but maybe this will help a bit.

Als am 9. April 1940 im Zuge von "Unternehmen Weserübung" der deutsche Kreuzer Blücher im Oslofjord von einer norwegischen Torpedobatterie versenkt wurde, hatte das Marineorchester Noten dabei, die vor kurzem aus den unteren Decks geborgen wurden. Man wollte das Königreich Norwegen mit "Grieg, nicht Krieg" überzeugen, sich der faschistischen Sache anzuschließen. Soweit die Theorie. So ganz dahinter stand man wohl nicht, wie der brutale Überfall zeigte, aber der lächerliche Slogan ist wirklich einen Absatz in den Geschichtsbüchern wert.

"Excuse me, I was just wondering - was that Turkish you were speaking?""Yeah! How did you recognise that?""I grew up in Germany."It's funny how every Turk anywhere will understand how that is a sufficient explanation

One of these "got a Metallica song stuck in my head for no reason whatsoever" days#WurlitzerSyndrome

We're fast approaching "sunrise seamlessly gliding over into sunset" season here

Nerd love, the gift that keeps on giving

One thing we can learn from the Soviet Union is you can in fact get a whole lot of shit done with just a crew of perpetually shitfaced folks playing pranks on each other all day long and generally having an absolute blast

war booty (armoured butt)

meat & greed

Poll time?

Had The Talk* with my partner last weekend*when I finally mentioned that "I know far more about Warhammer 40k fluff than I'm comfortable admitting"

"Cargo cult masculinity" is a concept that really feels useful for explaining what a lot of the grifters exploiting the insecurities of young men are up to. A kind of masculinity reduced to empty signifiers devoid of context

@anarchiv fedi is not about the 1500 mutuals you never talk to. It's about talking nonsene with the same four or five weirdos every time you log on

If I was running a straight edge club it would have a sign at the entrance that read "Abandon all dope, ye who enter here"

funny that it's called carrion when it typically doesn't