I‘m finally watching Shymalan‘s ‚Servant‘ - nice to see Ruper Grint, soused on wine, as the voice of wisdom

There’s a Bacchus joke in there somewhere

I have this amazing ability to look very batshit whenever I travel for work
Completely bewildered; an omnishambles

Finally getting to this; mostly curious about the Renaissance period

When a YouTube video claims to be about "untranslatable" words in a foreign language, I expect them to be truly untranslatable, just crackling white noise that defies all comprehension by foreign brains

“There is a large graveyard filled with my enemies.

I do not wish to add to it, but will if given no choice.

Those who pick fights with me do so at their own peril, but maybe this is their lucky day...”

I‘ve made a mild career pivot and I can’t tell if it was an utterly bonkers idea

Why do hostels contain entitled people? It’s a hostel

Weekend energy

My latest excellent find is ‚Man Without a Face‘ by Markus Wolf. For over 30 years, Wolf headed the the Hauptverwaltung Aufklärung

This feels like selectively clinging to favourite friends, as we all sail on our lifeboats

Not enough harmless cranks on this website yet. Too much relatively thoughtful high quality content. This place won't supplant Twitter until it has a proper daily delivery mechanism for wildly unhinged main characters, business therapists and the like.

There's something I find rather nice about how the Czech words for 'to meet' (potkat/setkat) are built on the root for 'to weave', tkát

It feels like a nice metaphor – meetings are weavings together

Marching into the cop shop with the Ark of the Covenant tucked under my arm and threatening to open the lid

Here we are again.