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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 24/07/2026

“From an unwillingness to confess how much her intimacy with Mr. Darcy had been overrated, Elizabeth had never yet answered Mrs. Gardiner's long letter—“ Elizabeth continues to feel so universal by, ironically, the granularity of her characterization.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 23/07/2026

“—and Elizabeth, agitated and confused, rather knew that she was happy, than felt herself to be so.” OOOOOHHH-kay at the risk of over-identifying with the heroine, this sentiment hit me like an errant dodgeball to the face.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026

“When I wrote that letter,” replied Darcy, “I believed myself perfectly calm and cool; but I am since convinced that it was written in a dreadful bitterness of spirit.” There are legions of guys on message boards and in people’s replies who need to have this hot-iron branded onto their asses.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 21/07/2026

I, too, want to be in a place in my life where I can decline to have a conversation if the vibes in the general environment are not to my taste. That’s a bit of a power move.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/07/2026

The letter ends with Mrs Gardiner remarking that she needs to stop writing and attend to her children, which I imagine feels more urgent after spending any amount of time trying to reason with Lydia

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/07/2026

Sometimes when the stakes are appropriate, a judgmental nature digivolves into a discerning mind.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/07/2026

'They met several times, for there was much to be discussed. Wickham, of course, wanted more than he could get, but at length was reduced to be reasonable.’ Give Darcy a gun.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 16/07/2026

I swear to god, Jane and Bingley live in a completely separate dimension populated entirely by Precious Moments figurines.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 15/07/2026

It is a little funny that when disaster strikes, Mr Bennet will be moved to action and Mrs Bennet becomes withdrawn, like a geomagnetic reversal of despair.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 14/07/2026

For all that it’s incredibly funny and silly and sweepingly romantic in parts, Pride and Prejudice is about a wolf in the pasture. I’m gonna be thinking about this forever.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 14/07/2026

This book is so complicated. I feel like I get a lot of cultural osmosis about it being a romance, and the romance is very memorable, but this whole thing is about a whole network of families navigating a Missing Stair abuser conundrum.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/07/2026

The fantasy, the dream, of a man who loves you well enough to try again, to adjust his own behavior, after taking the effort to imagine what might have broken your heart so as to cut him so deeply when he tried to grasp its jagged edges before 😭😭😭😭😭

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/07/2026

My one observation is that I think this chapter hits SUPER hard because hardly anything happens in the preceding chapters, and EVERYTHING happens in this one. Austen accustoms you to one pace and then suddenly ramps it up, which imparts that breathless feeling. Austen is a damn genius.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 12/07/2026

Hot take, but I kinda think Mr Bennet sees himself in LYDIA, and that’s why he’s so resigned about his kid’s bad behavior!!! Sure he and Elizabeth love books and being snarky assholes, but Elizabeth is part of his ideal self, and Lydia is his indiscreet and impetuous youth.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 10/07/2026

Okay so I’m seeing a pattern here. Darcy intervened to stop the elopement of Georgiana and Wickham, so he stopped that disaster. Satisfied in knowing that was the right thing to do in that situation, he went and did it again with Bingley. He’s a hammer guy who found a hammer he really liked 😭😭😭

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 07/07/2026

The book says Colonel Fitzwilliam is not hot, but I think the book is wrong.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 22/06/2026

God, the party is finally over. The entire Bennet clan is just. The worst. I am not convinced Jane Austen likes any of these people, but she’s empathetic enough to write them to make us care.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 22/06/2026

Mr Bennet is useless

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 19/06/2026

Half this book has me like, “Wow what an astute observation of human social dynamics, how lovely,” and the other half is just biting me my thumb and internally screaming.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 18/06/2026

God, Mr Collins being just achingly obsequious about some relative of Catherine de Bourgh is a lot. This man is always driving a dump truck full of cringe and backing it right up on the reader.

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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 17/06/2026

She has an unpleasant time dancing with Mr Collins, who spent a lot of time “apologizing instead of attending,” and if that isn’t the sharpest and basically perennial critique of human behavior ever, expressing a regret and never adjusting.

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Orcish Librarian @bibliovoreorc.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I wish I could remember who wrote this, to credit them properly, but a decade ago on The Bad App someone remarked that the common thread connecting toxic masculinity and toxic fandom is the mistaken belief that loving something means you own that thing, and our world makes me think about that daily.

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Organization for Transformative Works @transformativeworks.org · 24/08/2026

#AO3 Tag Wranglers have canonized some new "No Fandom" additional tags and revised subtag and metatag relationships of existing "No Fandom" canonical tags. Check out the latest news post for details: otw-news.org/2p8e8mae

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Cincinnati Zoo @cincinnatizoo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Martini the fennec fox kit has started making daily appearances outside of her nest box!

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 18/12/2025

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

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RedScharlach @redscharlach.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower

The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

COMING SOON: AI + Guy™

6 Panel Comic

Panel 1:
A Purple Dude and a Green Dude in an electronics shop. The Purple Dude is holding a box containing a new laptop.
Purple Dude: You’re all set. Here’s your new AI laptop and your guy.
Green Dude: My what?

Panel 2:
A severe looking Red Dude in cap and shades has appeared behind Green Dude.
Purple Dude: Your guy. Every new AI laptop comes with a guy.

Panel 3:
Green Dude is back at home. We see him through the window working at his new laptop.

Panel 4:
Interior of kitchen. Green Dude continues to work at his laptop. The Red Dude is standing next to him.

Panel 5:
Close up of laptop screen. Green Dude is about to turn off the AI features.

Panel 6:
Red Dude produces a gun and presses it to Green Dude’s temple. He hisses: Don’t you fucking dare.

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Tom Hulme @tomhulme.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

I heard a story about a female academic giving a paper at the IHR who, after receiving a long and aggressive question from a senior male professor, simply leaned back with her hands behind her head and replied “Oh, do fuck off.”

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Mike Wasson @mikewasson.net · 23/11/2025

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 11/11/2025

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

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Strong Language @stronglang.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

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Screenshot from Reddit page r/PetsWithButtons, user Pamlwell:
My cat has started to use “vacuum” as a curse word.
Basically the title. | gave him a “vacuum” button because the vacuum is stressful for him and I wanted to be able to clearly communicate that the
vacuum was going to happen and let him know “vacuum all done.” He definitely knows what it means because when the vacuum is running he
will push “vacuum” repeatedly and also add “nervous” in there too. But now he has started spamming vacuum after I tell him no, like he is using it as a curse word. For example, he will ask for “snackie” when we JUST got done with
snackie and I will say “snackie all done" and then he will go spam the vacuum button. Yeah, ok bud, I hear you loud and clear that you feel "vacuum" about “snackie all done.” Or he snuck a lick from the end of my spicy curry dish (I did not authorize this, | looked away for ONE second), I could tell he regretted this (spicy), and then he went and pressed “snackie vacuum.” Yeah, ok bud, that snackie made your mouth feel “vacuum”.
I don’t know what I'm asking really, just commiserating. I guess maybe he needs a "mad" button?

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I can’t wait for historical meme study to become a thing. Like, once people who engage in the study won’t possibly have been alive long enough to understand them firsthand.

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 31/12/2024

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

Screencap showing the jump from Oct 4 to 15

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 17/11/2025

this is very neat and also, opportunity for UNESCO to do the funniest possible thing

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Hot Mulled Karen @sinisternails1.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

And yet medicine just seems to think we’re men with honk-a honk-a potential

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meg | planner girlie (ungendered) season @lazulisong.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

"I guess this is happening" -- every stock dog I've ever met

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meg | planner girlie (ungendered) season @lazulisong.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Tam: www.bbc.com/news/article... meg: So that's where dropbears came from Tam: I love that we made dropbears up to freak people out and then actual nature turns out to have come up with something similar but worse. meg: You dared Australia and it was like "bet"

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Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia

Scientists say the crocodiles hunted like leopards by climbing trees and killing prey below.

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SeasonalPun @pixelfish.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

You know what emergent tech of the last decade actually works well, and was adopted by millions? 3D printing. It’s great! So many applications. But also nobody is sneering at you for not having or utilizing 3D printing. Nobody is trying to sneak a 3D printer into your garage without your consent

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 14/07/2025

Apropos of recent discussion about urban heat islands and trees, I saw a cool thing in a plaza in Warsaw. They had the usual street trees, but instead of confining them in a small square concrete box, they had put an artistic pattern of small holes in the sidewalk around them, filled with gravel.

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Hipster Vampire Amy @lasrina.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Every so often we achieve Max Relax.

A corgi curled in an apostrophe shape in a little fuzzy bed, resting her chin on the side of the bed, with her ears flat in an expression of total relaxation.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 07/07/2025

Art is inefficient. Care is inefficient. Joy is inefficient. Humanity is inefficient. Don't let them take that away.

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Stephen Henry @stephenhenry.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Exeter, pursued by a bear

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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Apparently Date Everything! has almost as many words (1.2 million) as Baldur’s Gate 3 (1.5 million). FULLY VOICED. We are truly in the golden age of video games, no generative AI required.

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

my accountant doesnt know but my barber does and i feel like there is some kind of important life metaphor trotting in there but i am not sure what

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