Man, I loved that series.

IKNORITE?

I listen to Sarah Steel’s podcast “Let’s Talk About Sects”, and hoo boy is the patriarchy a constant theme, no matter what religious tradition they stem from.

If you were a road, what kind of road would you be?

I figured that the assumed entitlement to the attention/obsessive nitpicking of a female literary figure was not a sign of egalitarianism and universal respect.

Which reminds me…did I ever tell you my kids’ idea for who was going to kill the Witch-King of Angmar? I read them LOTR when they were still young.

Their solution to “no living man” was zombie Boromir.

You are looking pretty good for being either dead or destroyed, gotta say.

Maybe it’s a bot launched by Bluesky to sell people on trusting the “rude” label.

People write in different styles in different contexts. Writing style, including both punctuation and grammar, is like speech: you talk differently to your gran than you do to your mates. (Technical term: code-switching).
Twitter isn’t literary fiction. JCO wrote in a Twitter, not novelistic, style.

Last answer, not for you after the accusation of bad faith (“stop pretending”) but for the genuinely curious.
A semicolon doesn’t mean “and”. It means “This sentence is complete. What follows could be its own sentence, but I am linking them for other reasons.” So it’s not “and and”. It’s “. And”

People write in different styles in different contexts. Writing style, including both punctuation and grammar, is like speech: you talk differently to your gran than you do to your mates. (Technical term: code-switching).
Twitter isn’t literary fiction. JCO wrote in a Twitter, not novelistic, style.

Prescriptivists, whatcha gonna do.

I’m currently obsessed with bobbin lace. The bobbins in question are little wooden or bone things, 10-15 cm long, and some of them are exquisite.

Oh, no.
Sometimes Essex or Sussex is easier.

Yeah, but you had the best imposter syndrome slide in there too.

The doctor is likely to just buddy-tape it. You could use medical tape, tho.

Unfortunately, in had to try it to give weight to my opinion when discussing it with others innately professional sphere. “It sucks” weighs less than “I’ve tried it and it sucks.”

Rabbits in Amsterdam?

Apart from Nijntje (known elsewhere as Miffy because no one inflicted a word with two j’s on foreigners), rabbits are in no way special to Amsterdam.

And those rabbits aren’t Nijntje.