Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Name a non-LOTR character who could resist the one ring. 010
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Name a TV show you're certain no-one remembers but you. (BTW, I can still sing parts of the theme tune.) 110
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Post you in another country. Me, in Rome with @quarkmcmalus.bsky.social and his lovely wife, September 2025. 020
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 29/12/2025Anyone here know Chinese spices well? These seed pods (?) were in my beef stew. The chef is from the Chongqing area and the dish definitely tasted Szechuan, but I have never seen these, and the wait staff didn't know its name. 000
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 25/12/2025Without intending to, I had managed to avoid hearing "Wonderful Christmastime" until coming down for breakfast this morning at my hotel. And then, bam. Merry Christmas, everyone! 020
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 27/11/2025My neighborhood this morning. Contrary to what many seem to believe, it doesn't actually snow in Prague that often -- so it's nice to enjoy it while it lasts. 040
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Even by Ezra Klein standards, this is incredibly stupid and attempts to rewrite a history we all lived through as recently as earlier this week. 010
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 26/06/2025The greying of the political classes is *not* a new trend, but it's just getting worse over time. 010
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 12/04/2025Leaving Edinburgh this evening, so making the most of the lovely weather to have fish and chips on the beach. 010
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 26/03/2025"Right in front of my salad" lady will return in Avengers Doomsday. 010
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 12/03/2025If you see this, post a photo from your device, no explanation. 010
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 03/03/2025If I'd been Michael Grade in 1985, I probably would have tried to cancel the show, as well. 000
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 24/01/2025If you see this quote with a bridge from your gallery. 110
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 25/12/2024Signed up for a spa treatment at the hotel because they were open today and my mom was recovering from her trip, so I had time. Ended up getting a Hammam treatment which involved a hot shirtless dude giving me a foam massage. Merry Christmas! (Photo for reference, only) 011
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 20/12/2024Meanwhile, I have finally cracked the code of brewing a cup of tea that tastes very similar to Constant Comment, or at least my memory thereof. (We don't have Bigelow teas here.) 110
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Searching for "drinks" in my photos, decided to post the most deranged result... 010
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Today's advent calendar goodies -- a Ceylon black tea and a Christmas Cookie scented candle from Yankee Candle. 010
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 17/09/2024Huh, didn't realize I was quite such an early adopter. 000
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 14/09/2024Standing amidst the ruins of the ancient agora in the town of Kos, listening to the cicadas whose music would have permeated the air when the buildings were new. In places like this, the ancient world feels so tantalizingly close. 000
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 09/09/2024Having a lot of issues with the package holiday I'm on. Everything is being sorted thanks to the excellent hotel staff, fortunately, and I am trying to just enjoy the view. When this is the view, it's pretty easy. 110
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 10/07/2024Oh the notion that the correct answer lies in some sort of middle ground between the "Left" and the "Right" -- how privileged and out of touch do you need to be to still believe that in 2024. 1519
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 26/04/2024Listening to an episode of the BBC's excellent podcast "In Our Time" about the Finnish epic The Kalavala. Turns out, the MST3K classic "The Day the Earth Froze," based on the epic, is a pretty accurate representation of the source material. 1122
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 08/04/2024If you see this, post a picture from your phone, but don't explain it. 010
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 02/04/2024Yes, they di. And then proceeded to occupy much of the territory they liberated, installing repressive puppet regimes. It's been 80 years since then and a lot has happened. Russia apologists need to stop waving the flag of "They fought the Nazis" the same way America apologists do. 000
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 27/02/2024Anyone want to guess why this post with almost no engagement from an account with almost no followers was in my "Discover" tab? Whatever algorithm is generating those options has clearly being exploited, as seems to be inevitably the case with social media. 000
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 17/11/2023No one who has ever read P&P or met a finance bro could actually think this. 110
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 28/09/2023A towering actor, and one of the finest guest stars Doctor Who has ever had. RIP. 040
Erik @sjcaustenite.bsky.social · 30/07/2023Relatively early in my comic reading period, I read this issue with this truly incredible editor's note... 110
