matthew du plessis
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Everything is epilogue now.
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I hope they don't introduce pinned posts here.
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Eight questions for the interested and interesting: Jacqueline Nyathi - Currency News
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Eight questions for the interested and interesting: Jacqueline Nyathi
Jacqueline Nyathi of the ‘Harare Review of Books’ on reading, making, solitude and the magic of an app called Obsidian.
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January 26, 2026 at 8:39 AM
Eight questions for the interested and interesting: Jacqueline Nyathi - Currency News
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ATTENTION: Wyna Liu, please join Bluesky so we can offer our tributes to the cut of your jib. Please and thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 6:40 AM
ATTENTION: Wyna Liu, please join Bluesky so we can offer our tributes to the cut of your jib. Please and thank you.
*laughs maniacally in currency exchangese*
January 22, 2026 at 12:59 PM
*laughs maniacally in currency exchangese*
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Remove me from this list
January 19, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Remove me from this list
Who is this vile slugwort Stourton is interviewing on R4?
January 19, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Who is this vile slugwort Stourton is interviewing on R4?
I know there are privacy issues with it but if it wasn’t for Trucaller I would have had to field 14 calls from spammers and robots today already. And it’s only just gone 11 o’clock.
Maybe I should change my number. My luck, I’d get one that’s recycled from someone who was on even more spam lists.
Maybe I should change my number. My luck, I’d get one that’s recycled from someone who was on even more spam lists.
January 19, 2026 at 9:16 AM
I know there are privacy issues with it but if it wasn’t for Trucaller I would have had to field 14 calls from spammers and robots today already. And it’s only just gone 11 o’clock.
Maybe I should change my number. My luck, I’d get one that’s recycled from someone who was on even more spam lists.
Maybe I should change my number. My luck, I’d get one that’s recycled from someone who was on even more spam lists.
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I genuinely hope Planthony is having a good day today
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
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Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 18, 2026 at 12:21 PM
I genuinely hope Planthony is having a good day today
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Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
X has stopped working
X has stopped working
www.independent.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 4:16 PM
Roses are red
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
Nazis are lurking
Beware of them here because
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I'll say it again: watching Robert Jenrick do "cunning politics" is like watching a toddler hide behind a cushion.
"Where's Robert gone? THERE HE IS! Oh no! Where is he? THERE HE IS!"
"Where's Robert gone? THERE HE IS! Oh no! Where is he? THERE HE IS!"
January 15, 2026 at 12:18 PM
I'll say it again: watching Robert Jenrick do "cunning politics" is like watching a toddler hide behind a cushion.
"Where's Robert gone? THERE HE IS! Oh no! Where is he? THERE HE IS!"
"Where's Robert gone? THERE HE IS! Oh no! Where is he? THERE HE IS!"
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My favourite situational urban myth, at least until I remember some others, is the one where two Cambridge dons are walking down the street and one is overheard saying to the other, "and ninthly...."
January 15, 2026 at 8:10 AM
My favourite situational urban myth, at least until I remember some others, is the one where two Cambridge dons are walking down the street and one is overheard saying to the other, "and ninthly...."
Wait so he’s going to invade polar land?
January 14, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Wait so he’s going to invade polar land?
Where has the northern hemisphere been on plaids this winter? In or out? I wouldn’t mind a grungy last hurrah before my next birthday, after which I am due to be issued a straggly cardigan, two string vests and a mismatched pair of slippers.
January 14, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Where has the northern hemisphere been on plaids this winter? In or out? I wouldn’t mind a grungy last hurrah before my next birthday, after which I am due to be issued a straggly cardigan, two string vests and a mismatched pair of slippers.
Tech bros and VCs are hilarious. Remember that one time a bunch of them decided their company’s official motto should be ‘Don’t be evil’?
a man with a mustache is wearing a plaid shirt while sitting in front of a sign .
ALT: a man with a mustache is wearing a plaid shirt while sitting in front of a sign .
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January 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Tech bros and VCs are hilarious. Remember that one time a bunch of them decided their company’s official motto should be ‘Don’t be evil’?
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This one I disagree with. One of life's great pleasures is watching Italians being livid over minor changes to recipes, all of which were merely invented, some very recently (Carbonara? 1940s). It's a culture war with zero consequence; given the current state of the world we all need a bit of that.
Italians need to stop getting so pissy about even the slightest changes to their traditional recipes. If I want to use Parmesan instead of Pecorino in my Carbonara I will do. Pancetta too. Where even sells Guanciale anyway? It's still Carbonara either way.
January 13, 2026 at 1:15 PM
This one I disagree with. One of life's great pleasures is watching Italians being livid over minor changes to recipes, all of which were merely invented, some very recently (Carbonara? 1940s). It's a culture war with zero consequence; given the current state of the world we all need a bit of that.
Seasons pass. Civilizations rise and fall. There is nothing constant in this world. Except Peter Molyneux.
'Masters of Albion Is the Culmination of My Life's Work' — Peter Molyneux's Final God Game Has a Release Date and a New Trailer - IGN
Veteran video game developer Peter Molyneux has announced a release date for what’s described as his final god game: Masters of Albion.
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January 13, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Seasons pass. Civilizations rise and fall. There is nothing constant in this world. Except Peter Molyneux.
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They’re setting a trunk atop two vast legs of stone bro you gotta see it, gonna last forever
stepped outside for a vibe check and saw a beast fuckin hauling ass towards Bethlehem
January 12, 2026 at 8:10 PM
They’re setting a trunk atop two vast legs of stone bro you gotta see it, gonna last forever
Getting all Man in the High Castle thar yonder innit
January 12, 2026 at 12:25 PM
Getting all Man in the High Castle thar yonder innit
I do have a name, you know.
Astronomers baffled by 'mysterious disruptor' with a mass of 1 million suns and a black hole for a heart
"This is a structure we've never seen before, so it could be a new class of dark object."
www.space.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:04 PM
I do have a name, you know.
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On a bit of a wuxia trip at the moment so have been down a medieval Chinese history rabbit hole and my god the period from the end of the Tang Dynasty, through the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and into the Song Dynasty was peak af.
January 6, 2026 at 11:00 AM
On a bit of a wuxia trip at the moment so have been down a medieval Chinese history rabbit hole and my god the period from the end of the Tang Dynasty, through the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and into the Song Dynasty was peak af.