Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonBaleful Warrior of Death Who Kills @subtlethinker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Sometimes the arythmic click clack of the weaver's jaws, longer than my arm, begin to take on a cadence that in my most insensate episodes may be confused for language 061
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonBaleful Warrior of Death Who Kills @subtlethinker.bsky.social · 14/08/2026If I throw a stone into the chasm it distracts the weaver long enough for me to collect some of the discarded husks of its prior victims, many of which still contain enough biological material for me to eat, though it is often very tough and tastes poorly. 071
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonBaleful Warrior of Death Who Kills @subtlethinker.bsky.social · 11/08/2026They discover after my crucifixion that the massive doses of radiation with which I beamed the bus, using my mind, were actually healing 082
Reposted by Alfred, Lord Tennysonbrave hero @goodcraz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026plunder the whole tavern 042
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Practising my frowns in the looking-glass. 150
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Wife wants me to spend less time in the garage penning dirges 0133
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 08/08/2026I bethought me momentarily that the path was besentinelled by leaf-bereavèd larches... but twas phantasy. 0141
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Going gloomily twixt the cypresses. Phone on aeroplane mode. 090
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 07/08/2026He approached with Komodo-draconic inexorability the platter of defenceless soft cheeses 0223
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 07/08/2026*beshrouds self in tornadic cloud of anhungering locusts* 3393
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonFungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 11/04/2026My new AI app is an old log lying by the side of the path. You sit on the log and you watch the creek flow. 38313
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonFungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 24/11/2025Wow, thanks so much for showing me this "Art". Just what I needed - to be drawn more deeply into the World of Illusion. 213122
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 21/11/2025Disembark at Lille. You will be met on the platform by a man in a Tyrolean hunting jacket. Tell him only, "the mellow ouzel fluted in the elm," and no more. He will reply, "full thorly threpen throstills in the bankes," and conduct you to an estaminet where you are to await further instructions. 2252
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonFungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 20/11/2025All of these articles about how much it costs to raise a child fail to factor in the difficulties of only speaking Latin at home and having no non-Latin texts around to ensure they never learn any other language. 0222
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 20/11/2025another bit from Jünger, this bafflingly comprehensible description 0120
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonNaomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Yesterday there was a single giant fly in the house. This morning he came in my room, hovered slowly over my cup of juice, and then lowered himself in 7797
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonNaomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social · 19/11/2025Time to sit back with a cup of water and watch the posts scroll in… 514217
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 10/11/2025this is how Dryden opens his Essay of Dramatic Poesy. contemporary litcritters could learn a thing or two 080
Reposted by Alfred, Lord Tennysonfurby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Suggested: Why is the beast so rough? More about the beast's hour Where is the beast slouching toward? 27014
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonFungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 12/04/2025"STEM" is insufficient for a modern economy. We need to make it "STEAM" by adding Artifice, to ensure a supply of cunningly-wrought golden birds for the Emperor, that sing by an arrangement of valves. 016432
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonFungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Everybody thinks that it's their ideology that's going to rise from the ashes when society burns, but I do think that my particular ideology (weeping bitterly among ash heaps) really does have a good chance. 08213
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonFungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 23/08/2025Wife won't bring me an Invigorating Drop. "What does that mean", she says. "What are you talking about?" 311712
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonTarlton @tarlton.bsky.social · 09/07/2023A more true woods is reflected in the creek. I flip myself off from there 0293
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonTarlton @tarlton.bsky.social · 10/08/20231 day off the flute. I’m fiending so bad right now 1392
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonTarlton @tarlton.bsky.social · 26/09/2023Everyone watched my 4 minute yawn 0263
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonFungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 14/08/2025The toddler has generalised from my telling him that several things he wants to do today won't happen until Tuesday. He now comments on any unmet desire by sombrely saying "Tuesday". All earthly flaws now to be mended in the pleroma of Tuesday, the time of promise. 5554
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonFungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 02/12/2024The root of human foolishness is our fondness for Music. We are placated from infancy with artificial opiates of the tympanum, and so never heed the rhythms of Nature. 1337
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonJ HELL P @jlp.systems · 11/06/2025(Billy corgan voice) the world is an uncle 0292
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 11/06/2025I enter the time machine sheepishly, clutching a copy of Dawkins's The God Delusion; you open at random your Collected Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins and read, 'The world is charged with the grandeur of science.' 1110
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonVillein 🔒 @villein.bsky.social · 29/05/2025can't believe i had my dunce cap on backwards all day 0738
Reposted by Alfred, Lord Tennysonbalb @balb.bsky.social · 28/05/2025Remarkable that nephew literature once existed, that works like Rameau's Nephew and Wittgenstein's Nephew celebrated being an eccentric half-forgotten appendix to some intellectual personage. All over now of course. Due to the nuclear family 3476
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 28/05/2025At every trade school there's a compulsory course dedicated to the defilement of the domestic flora which the client has cultivated. The average roofer or builder will aim in the course of his career to behead thousands of nasturtiums, to leave no begonia unmolested 1505
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 27/05/2025bluesky posts = bluesky tweets = bleets = bleats. that's the official terminology. "I love bleating" 0160
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 26/05/2025And that there's yer great grandpappy Cletus. He split the river with his axe and subdued the hills so that they lay down forever bluely like sleeping foals. 0268
Reposted by Alfred, Lord Tennysonj @dyke.bsky.social · 19/05/2025pacing back and forth is like the freest hobby 1255
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonNaomi Elizabeth @naomielizabeth.bsky.social · 06/05/2025My one buddy Brian actually DID ask to be born, 2739
Reposted by Alfred, Lord Tennysonfurby hancock @furbyhancock.bsky.social · 21/05/2025(dogs barking at each other at the park) me: so do you know what they're talking about? my dog: idk. they're just barking 0676
Alfred, Lord Tennyson @hastifliche.bsky.social · 24/05/2025How much death are you allowed to threaten on here? 3280
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonTarlton @tarlton.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Being interviewed for Mud & Leaf magazine 1548
Reposted by Alfred, Lord Tennysonbalb @balb.bsky.social · 04/11/2024the teenage mutant ninja turtles reboot I'm watching has a much more leisurely feel. you sense that Manet, Degas, Renoir and Pissarro are up to their usual hijinx but we've long since lost any sense of them as subjects in the sprawling crowd scenes with intermingled colours 18816
Reposted by Alfred, Lord Tennysonsnub-nosed monk @smelting.bsky.social · 04/11/2024deep into military aircraft wikipedia to try to make a mediocre joke far out of my depth 5483
Reposted by Alfred, Lord TennysonFungocrat @fungocrat.bsky.social · 04/11/2024You can tell the quality of a culture by how it treats its comedians. If they are afforded the slightest iota of honour or respect, that culture will perish. 37611
Reposted by Alfred, Lord Tennysonbalb @balb.bsky.social · 29/06/2024I'd love to have a camel. some bactrian undulator loyally steering me over steppe or massif. gentle and affectionate but not without his moods. feel certain we'd have the respectful bond of steed and mount. I'll make do with this Suzuki Hayabusa Gen III Hyperbike however 313422
