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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I love this. And 'decalomania' came from changing part of a term for an earlier fad! It's like if Britpop were called 'Popmania' because 'Beatlemania' was the word we used last time British pop had such a strong showing.

Merriam-Webster's etymology for 'decalomania', reading as follows: borrowed from French décalcomanie, from décalquer "to trace, transfer by tracing" (from dé- de- + calquer "to trace, copy") + -o- -o- + -manie -mania, after potichomanie "the art of imitating painted porcelain ware," earlier presumably "craze for vases imitating Chinese porcelain," compound with potiche "rounded or polygonal vase with a separate cover, originally one made in China" — more at calque

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Our neighbours are moving so we got to help look after their cat for a few weeks. It was great; he was a wonderful houseguest. They picked him up last week and we've been feeling very catless since. Shout out to Winnie - best visitor, pleasure to host, would catsit again.

Winnie, a calico tabby, asleep in a croissant pose in a sunbeam on the carpet.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You can really taste the souls.

A glass bottle containing a semitransparent liquid, labelled 'Cloudy Pair - A perfectly spiced afternoon soda made from the souls of many pairs.'

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The verses of Paul Simon's 'You Can Call Me Al' are about the limits of knowledge and certainty in a world at once bigger and more limited than we thought, while its chorus is about having an awkward conversation with a stranger.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

tired of this community infighting over whether it’s actually the great god Bi who’s dead

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I don't usually do this but I am going to complain - pettily. I am going to gripe and grumble and kvetch. I have been sick for ages in a hundred minor but irritating ways - just weeks of being more tired than I should be, and a bit lightheaded, and my back aching, and malaises assorted.

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Kivan @kivanbay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

#UrgentNeed #helpsky please help me avoid eviction and power shut off

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Analogue horror is OK, but I'm looking forward to digital horror (the same, but instead of VHS filters, it has interactive DVD menus and special features).

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

British trans girls be like 'Lillth, she/her, 12 months on Œ'.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Yeah, I'm a linguistic descriptivist. If I see a word that sucks, I describe how much it sucks!!!

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

I've created a new blog for my hemi-demi-semi-serious creative writing, including some interactive fictions I've created. You can read it here if you're desperately short of things to do of an evening: diptychwrites.tumblr.com

diptychwrites.tumblr.com

Diptych Writes

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

DID YOU KNOW: America is a country deeply devoted to capitalism. This is because 'bourgeois' and 'burger' share the same etymological roots.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

ART TIP: A good technique for figure drawing is to break people down into basic shapes. That way, they'll finally stop bothering you and you can focus on your figure drawing.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I've been seeing someone casually for a while. Today, I told them I wanted to be exclusive with them. They felt the same way! Unfortunately, that makes us mutually exclusive, so we can no longer be in the same place at the same time.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Flower Man, Flower Man With his heart in the sand Spins a web, any size Catches criminells like flies

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Went for an evening walk and met a huge, fluffy ginger cat with one big beautiful eye. They were sitting on a wall at face height, watching the world, and let me pat them. I feel like I met some sort of mythical being. And was blessed by them (got a nuzzle into my patting hand).

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I clipped out of reality and fell into an endless maze of false etymologies made out of initials. That's right. I was trapped in the Backronyms.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Y'know, we could put the whole GIF-pronunciation debate to bed if we decided to start calling them gee-eye-effs.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I don't know why people make such a fuss about Hamlet - it's just AI generated from a bunch of famous quotes.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

THEM: Do you want cream cheese on your bagel, or mascarpone? ME: (imagining an Ancient Roman gangster called 'Mars Capone') They got him on tithe evasion charges.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 26/07/2026

You say you want bread *and* roses? Idk sounds like treatlerism to me...

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

GENIE: You have one wish. ME: I wish that whenever anyone quotes or paraphrases someone, they do it in a mocking voice, no matter what - even if they're sharing an inspiring quote, or passing on an important message. GENIE: What? No. ME: You're thinking about it, though, right? GENIE: ...yeah.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

r/spookiestorys • 128 minutes ago Someone was living in a secret house in my room So I was in my dorm watching shows on this device my mom got me (I think it's called a teevee?), when I noticed a door I'd never noticed. A soft gasp escaped my lips as I opened it and saw a 3BD 2BA brick corner lot

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

what's the feminine form of 'Bruce'? Answer quickly need it for a joke URGENT

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Deltarune's Kris uses they/them pronouns to keep their true gender ambiguous and let the player project any gender identity they like onto them. Kris could be nonbinary, genderqueer, or even agender!

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

DID YOU KNOW: In the world of Fallen London, the island of Hunter's Keep is home to three sisters called Lucy, Phoebe and Cynthia. This is a reference to Failbetter Games forgetting the name of the third member of boygenius.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

I wanted to formally dip my toe into games writing, so I took a class. The concept was simple enough - write a story and then develop it different ways, including into some very basic games. I created a few pieces I thought were pretty OK, in an offbeat sort of way.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I hope, when you die, there's a stats screen that tells you, like, your point total and stuff. I don't expect mine will be very high but I hope I at least found some of the secrets.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The duck's on the neighbours' chimney-stack again.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Seems about right. I think my wokeness got brought down a little because I'm neutral on the number of crackheads on public transport. I don't know how many crackheads there are on public transport, so I don't know if there are too many or too few.

My Britmonkey 2020s Political Compass results, showing that I'm 91% Woke, 61% Neo-Luddite, 52% Doomer and 78% Davos.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I don't know anything about the circus show so I spent several days seeing a lot of fanart of one character coming out as trans and I thought 'oh, that's nice, good for her!' but I'm starting to see hints that what actually happened in the show is something bad and sad?

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

You know what's weird? How often 'prurient' is used to mean its exact opposite. It doesn't mean closed-minded, prudish or judgemental - it means salacious, lewd, and downright obscene! It's probably the mouthfeel. It's too compact a word for its meaning. ₚᵣᵤᵣᵢₑₙₜ.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

You know what I can't stand? Philosophical speculation about the existence of free will. It's impossible to determine for sure or even really define! It's pure angels-dancing-on-pins without practical applications or even anything interesting to say. When free will enters the discussion, I leave it.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Shaking with anger about something I absolutely can't do anything to resolve at 1 in the morning. And I have to be conscious and sensible in a few hours to haul my bones into the city for work. This sucks.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

My favourite part of a podcast is the first two-thirds where they get through a fifth of their subject while doing bits. My least favourite part is the final third where they rush through the final four-fifths while still doing the bits, but grumpily, like an overtired toddler.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Fallen London's mayoral elections saw candidates of all heights and widths. The Bishop of Southwark was large. The Implacable Detective was small. The Viscountess of the Viric Jungle was both large and small! But Madame Shoshana? She was medium-sized.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Submitted the final assessment of my latest writing class. No idea what to expect next, because I haven't heard from the guy running it for over two months. All the lectures have been pre-recorded ones by a different lecturer. There haven't been any tutorials. My last submission hasn't been graded.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

It's a phenomenon well-known among game designers that gamers will never look up. This is because there's never anything up there so there's no need for them to.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

'Twink Death Before Twink Dishonour' - Motto of the Special Twink Services

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

👹🔛👹 Dang signwriter did the i upside-down.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Reacting to someone's message with an emoji of the thing they're talking about is the equal and opposite version of seeing cows by the roadside and saying 'cows'.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Advocating for the area surrounding Dennis Railway Station to become an independent nation, solely so its inhabitants can call themselves Denizens (Dennis Citizens).

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I'm normally the last the speak ill of a respectable woman, but it must be said that your mother is so ignorant of contemporary accessibility standards, she thinks an ambulant cubicle is where a white-collar Rambler works.

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Noel's name is the start of his mum's name and then the start of his dad's name reversed. Which kind of suggests that his brother Liam is actually his half-brother by a woman named Amy??

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Al Kennedy @alkennedy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Proust Baking Company Recalls Thousands of Madeleines

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Diptych @diptych.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

@begaysolvecrimes.bsky.social Just started watching the new Maigret series and one of the first scenes is Maigret's wife talking about her progesterone injections. Damn near took me out.

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