Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026The Nimbys of Piddington is surely a now-lost Dickens work that was originally destined for serialisation. 110
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I've got dinner in the oven and it smells so good I'm ridiculously proud of myself, even though, for all I know, it might taste awful. 030
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Sooooo . . . this reviewer hasn't seen Murphy's stuff before, I'm thinking? 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 16/09/2026“How many of you, I asked the people in my class, which of you want to give your lives and be writers? . . . And then I tried to tell them what the choice must mean: You can’t be anything else. You must go at your life with a broadax.” -Annie Dillard, Holy the Firm 010
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026@thebulwark.com presents the best description of the West's AI situation I've yet seen. 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Has anyone ever seen Harlan Coben and Stanley Tucci in the same room together? 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Can an American explain this to me? What does deploying the military have to do with bonds? Or is daddy just blithering again? 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Not a lot of people know this, but *Gone in 60 Seconds* was about me and my dinner. 010
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Why can NO-ONE on TV or in movies make the Sign of the Cross correctly? Like, not one? It's not that hard. 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I...may have left my hand in the massage machine too long. 130
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Pretty much all you need to know about the US is contained in the fact that Chesty Puller was one of their most decorated Marines and not, in fact, an adult film actor. 110
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I edit material of all sorts, written at all different levels of skill, but some days it just all seems like this. 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Ah, Florida. The deformed organ of generation of the United States. (via Morning Brew.) 032
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Do you know there's no journey? We're arriving and departing all the time. -Weller, "Bowie" This is correct in every way. For God's sake, stop calling every damned thing a journey. 120
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Dear Some Men, WHY ARE YOU SO IRREDEEMABLY GROSS? WHY? I WANT TO KNOW. 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Watching the first episode of Westies and wondering why there's a bagpiper at the funeral of an Irishman. 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 17/07/2026A lovely trio of kittenheads for your delectation. 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 16/07/2026If you think your work "troubles" or "disrupts" something, it almost certainly doesn't. 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If I had said to my long-dead father, "Last night I watched the England-Mexico World Cup match on my phone," he would have said, "I understand all those words separately...." 010
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 05/07/2026There are actresses named Crosby Fitzgerald and Skywalker Hughes, ffs. 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026A Happy Canada Day to anyone who marks it. You may also choose to view this as a sort of New Year's Day, as it marks the beginning of the second half of 2026. Either/any way, may your day be a good one. 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Just got an email from an English friend that literally contains the words "How the devil are you? 111
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 25/05/2026@nytimes.com So even *you* can't use prepositions correctly anymore? This "to" should obviously be "for". 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 20/05/2026@thedailybeast.bsky.social Your email for The Swamp doesn't work. How does one contact them? 100
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 12/05/2026"Children, today we're going to explore the phrase 'self own'." 010
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 02/05/2026It was the best of times for irony, it was the worst of times for irony. 010
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The very sight of Steven Cheung makes me recoil, and I'm usually pretty okay with revolting-looking people. 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 25/04/2026Just been speaking with an experienced architect, and it turns out building a city on rock and roll is neither safe nor legal. 010
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Pick your fifth Ninja Turtle: Isambard Kingdom Brunello 121
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Me, ordering breakfast from a local joint infamous for its terrible coffee: "They moved locations a few years ago--I'm sure they got a fancy new coffeemaker!" Me, drinking their coffee: "They did not." 010
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Those of us of an older vintage can recall a time when we couldn't even envision a senior political administrator of any nation using a word like "suck," well ... anywhere. Are all of these American apparatchiks fifth-graders like their boss? Pretty sure Canada will survive this devastating burn. 120
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 15/04/2026An episode of American Dad features an ad for a product called Beer Water and I'm like, isn't that just American beer? 020
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 14/04/2026From @joannacoles.bsky.social: David [Rothkopf] explains that "it’s not that [Trump's] playing 4D chess; it’s that he’s eating the pieces." 110
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 13/04/2026Not my pic, but I saw a yellow-bellied sapsucker in our birch this morning, and it looked much like this. 010
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 09/04/2026My husband actually likes orange Jello, if you're wondering what sort of weirdo I married. 000
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Why do American shows set in the present day still have characters named Hank? 010
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 20/03/2026Imagine being a grown-ass woman named Taylor Frankie Paul. 010
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 18/03/2026The upcoming CPAC is to be held at a place called the Gaylord Texan Resort and Convention Center and I just love that for it. 120
Madam Lachesis @drkeleditor.bsky.social · 15/03/2026Peter Theil seems to be made of malice and nothing else. He doesn't even pretend to have one redeeming feature. 333
