[mentally scrolls back through the pages of the short story].

1st thought, of course, was "Well if you didn't like the premise of the Art Event, you didn't have to accept the invitation."

history really and boring, so instead she would recite from Le Bateau Ivre. My 2nd thought of course was "Hang about, did Poe ever explicitly state that the narrator / murderer is a guy, or is that something you projected into the text before complaining that the text lives down to expectations?"

A lifetime ago I went to an Art Event in London where various Artistes performed their interpretations of 'The Telltale Heart'.
Except for Kathy Ackers - holder of a Pseuds Corner Lifetime Achievement Award - who explained that Telltale Heart was about a man murdering another man, which is all 1/?

You're such a wet blanket.

The Frau Doktorin at left.

SPARTA!!!!

Someone has stolen my business plan of starting a nude parking-enforcement company called "The Topless Towers of Ilium".

A friend recognised the tree.

Let's not forget Philip K. Dick, another prophet of the Great Enshittification, with his doors that won't open because your subscription has expired.

That is certainly one message to send to the mugginses who voted for you. "Forget all that election-campaign bullshit - this isn't the job I wanted, it doesn't sound like fun and I'll have to work with other people. We'll see if I can be arsed staying there for the next few years."

They are paid by (or are hoping to be paid by) science fraudsters who hope that their own reputations can be restored if someone attacks their critics. SAVA, Raoult, papermills...
That is my interpretation, anyway - though I do look for the worst possible interpretation what with my own psychopathy.

Someone has misinformed you. That is not a tree from the Myrtaceae family. That is just a very large head of broccoli.

Seems a bit harsh to call @dereklowe.bsky.social a 'journalist' rather than "researcher who happens to blog in his spare time".

The use of Old Enochian script in Figures should be left to experts who know exactly which entity they are invoking.

I have some doubts about Figures 2 and 3 as well.

I love those south-coast baches.

That whole thread is hilarious. "Yes, so-and-so was a complete scoundrel, but he got TCM mainstreamed as a valid therapy in Canada, so he's *our* scoundrel."

That can't have been cheap.