felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 13/10/2026From another part of this thread 131 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Never a bad time to remember this Tweet 0101 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Yeah I did a double-take at that! 010 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I should preface this by saying I have no problem at all with Giancarlo's horny Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic. But yeah it's not just this picture. 417813 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026But crashes are less likely on motorways, even at speed. In 2024 (the data I'm looking at) a *total* of 91 people died in motorway crashes compared to roughly 1500 on other road types. 210 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Here's one my son and I made a few years ago. We thought it was pretty funny but it went down like a lead balloon. 1121 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026He's literally corrected the record - more than a year ago. separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2025/04/angl... 200 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Fascinatingly literal translation from Czech here (would usually be labelled "pull") 000 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Poster shared a picture of study materials their child got at school. Here's the most relevant pic. 110 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Say what you like but that site is definitely absolutely sane 051 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Photographed in Prague a few weeks ago. 082 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Hiya Womble! A long-forgotten-about preorder showed up - the Natasha Pulley's latest, The Salt King - so I've just made a start on that. 171 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Some more data points. Ngram viewer ain't what it used to be but still, some notable trends visible. "Rooves" apparently increasing but still vanishingly rare compared to "roofs", but note also the shift from "hoofs" to "hooves". Definite article included to disambiguate the noun. 020 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Close encounter with the real Blackadder yesterday 000 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026No gif but I couldn't count how many times I've seen Goncharov. 010 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Important note that's elided in the Guardian report: most negative impacts (especially emissions) result from the "organic" part, not the "free range" part. It's really not clear that organic is especially relevant to welfare (& given medication, possibly negatively so). 030 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Oh my god! I just saw the pics she shared from the shoot (it's how they shot the scenes with the Laestrygonians, apparently). 324024 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Everyone is mocking but I don't think it's justified. The woke version has clearly crashed and burned - a flop for the ages - and like it or not, the rightwing alternative movie-making machine churns out hit after hit. 131 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 16/07/2026I can't see that logo without thinking of the famous DK tape! I used to pirate so much as a youth. Now I refuse to stream & though I'm digital-only, I buy everything - if I can. Bizarrely it's often impossible, with big labels geofencing digital purchases. 080 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 12/07/2026Morning Womble! I'm partway through Adrian Tchaikovsky's Green City Wars. So far I don't think it's one of his best (I even set it aside and read something else in the interim) but I'm hopeful it'll pick up. Or maybe it's just me. 1112 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Yes, this is indeed all the fingers 000 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Afternoon Womble! I'm on VE Schwab's The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, having finished Bury Our Bones In the Midnight Soil yesterday. Both were saved recommendations from the Womble weekend reading poll. It's becoming a pattern. ;) 341 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/07/2026This Anthony Browne picture book based on Koko and his kitten was a favourite when my kids were small. 120 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 30/06/2026I know designers who use subtext and they're all cowards #pride 000 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Morning Womble! The Malevolent Eight by Seb Castell. It's the daringly named sequel to the Malevolent Seven, which I think was recommended here last week & which turned out to be good, silly fun. 031 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Ah - a commission for a magazine cover. Still undeniably cursed but at least it makes sense this way. 001 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Oh good lord. I went to see if it's available in Audible here (most of VES's books are geo locked) and I see we now get an AI summary of the book cover précis in case *book lovers* can't maintain concentration through 12 lines of text. I hate it. 130 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Morning, Womble! I've just started The Faithless, by C L Clark (of this parish), having finished its predecessor last night. A mix of empire, romance, magic, bad decisions, betrayals and war crimes. I still can't decide how I feel about it all, tbh, but... well, I did move straight on to the sequel. 021 0
felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 21/06/2026Good morning. It's been too hot so I slept on the balcony. Downside is being woken at 4.30. Upside is being woken at 4.30. 000 0
![The book description from Audible with a two-line "summarized by AI" box at the top.
What it's about
A woman cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets lives for 300 years - until someone finally remembers her name.
Summarized by Al
Summary
"[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten... Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners' attention and their heart strings." -Booklist
In the vein of The Time Traveler's Wife and Life After Life, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab's genre-defying tour de force.
A Life No One Will Remember. A Story You Will Never Forget.
France, 1714: in a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-and is cursed to be... (Image cropped here)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qurvvxh2anxpn3xsip2543aa/bafkreiay5usmxpyyftbg3m3yk72xgipo76cvlx63kbn7w4hvvrekmkwqtq)
