Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Somewhat related: my dad would refer to an upstairs cupboard as 'the gloryhole', which made my then gf's (now wife) eyes come out on stalks when he suggested she put something there, out of the way 0161
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"Why does {team} have a Muslim supporters group?" is an example of a self answering question, surely? 1280
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 21/09/2026* flashbacks to the "'Zombie' by The Cranberries is about a spooky monster" discourse * 020
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The are different in that everyone seems to dislike Altman, but no one seems to likes Amodei 010
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026I was asked by a senior manager about the nonsense going around last week. The first draft started "do you know what a cultic mileu is"... 010
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Very ahistorical, I am sure, but at the time time it read like posters on fan forum shipping their preferred couples 000
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Not sure how intentional it is, but Phaedrus picking at an argument he has with Aeschylus during Plato's Symposium I found "very funny" when I first read it. precis: Achilles was the hottest of all the Greeks and definitely the 'eromenos' of Patroclus. Anyone who says otherwise is delusional 110
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026I panicked for a moment when I flicked over to the second image and immediately saw Ursula Le Guin before reading the heading 010
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 08/09/2026You would think journalists wouldn't have to be told: you shouldn't "great bunch of lads" the fash. Yet here we are 2240
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 02/08/2026They are only like Odysseus in the sense that they deserve to be trapped in a cave with Polyphemus 000
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 02/08/2026seconded ! (in fact, as a degenerate playing cards collector, I would probably get more than one!) 030
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026she _is_ being arch there, I won't disagree. The original poem is very effecting on this point. This is Wilson reading the passage of Argus recognising Odysseus. It is not the reading of a woman ignorant of the value of animal companionship. www.youtube.com/shorts/fC-sB...youtube.comOdysseus reunites with his dog, ArgosYouTube video by International Poetry Forum 000
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It is a real "telling on yourself" moment. I am sure that Fauci is not totally unimpeachable (who is?), but they can't conceive of someone doing their best in difficult circumstances and not simply acting in their own venal interest 010
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026She is also not out of step with other classicists, from what I have seen, either. 010
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026the scope has doubtlessly increased since then. now they they also lay flowers and hire pop groups - those sneaky bastards 140
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 13/07/2026The explanation I have seen is that it is this Home Office group: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researc... That's not to suggest they have a point - it is clearly still nonsense on stiltsen.wikipedia.orgResearch, Information and Communications Unit - Wikipedia 120
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Its true, I can't talk to people in other parts of the country without their seething emnity of our 3.1% growth coming out 010
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I think this is very much the case. Which leads me to very strange position: should we hope he wins? 010
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 27/06/2026A (free) smoked brisket taco. Open borders never sounded so terrifying 000
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 16/06/2026don't mess with fairies, they hid that sword for a reason 040
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 14/06/2026As a mancunian, I'll agree with the "especially by older guys". Also, I feel like I am more likely to hear it in certain parts of the city. I did have a manager (from the south) who felt she was being patronised by a colleague calling her love. But he called everyone love (he was an arse though) 050
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Clifton's a great banjo player, but has some squiffy views. He's done a great version of Woody Guthrie's "All you fascists...", as well as one about Ruby Ridge... 000
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 11/06/2026In a similar vein, I am very much a fan of the Slay the Spire 2 placeholder art 16310
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I like the Tony Wilson answer "I'm not bothered about the second city tag, we'll let Birmingham and London fight it out between themselves" 121
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 18/05/2026The average Brit never eats tripe, Ashton Jeff who eats it everyday for breakfast , lunch and dinner is an outlier who should not have been counted 030
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 16/05/2026I like that they incorporated the international dialing code into the outfit 010
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I occasionally remember he claimed it was "long-term decisions for a brighter future", and I get annoyed all over again 000
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 05/05/2026He clarified a day later he was only interested in Christian refugees though: www.theguardian.com/politics/201...theguardian.comNigel Farage rows back on call to grant asylum to Syrian refugeesUkip leader appears to have modified his position by suggesting UK should offer shelter only to some Christians fleeing violence 000
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 29/03/2026Objecting to the Archbishop of Cantebury seeing themself as a successor to Thomas Beckett seems an odd thing for a Catholic to do 090
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 23/03/2026I would have thought there was an example of prior art in this instance 030
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 16/03/2026"All this stuff in 1910s and 1920s like with Freud..." As a catholic I find this all very funny 001
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 13/03/2026A bunch of people who don't realise that websites like retractionwatch.com existretractionwatch.comRetraction WatchTracking retractions as a window into the scientific process 000
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026It is great wish-casting - the more you think about it, the more it makes sense 010
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Love this so much. Especially because my sister's dream casting of Odysseus is Jason Mantzoukas. Which tbf, would be great and wish Christopher Nolan thought the same way 260
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 26/02/2026I somehow came away from that article feeling much less sympathetic than I did before 000
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 22/02/2026I love things like this. There is also this that was posted to YouTube recently in a similar vein "how far back can you understand northern English" youtu.be/90Zqn9_OQAw?...youtu.beHow Far Back Can You Understand Northern English?YouTube video by Simon Roper 000
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 15/02/2026I was in France when the queen died, my very gracious host commiserated. I explained "I'm Irish! I'm a republican!", then I panicked "but not an Irish Republican". She probably thought I was mad or overcome by grief 1150
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 12/01/2026"child sex abuse material" is perfectly legible on a first read. I accept "CSAM" is not, so I will try not to abbreviate until we are all up to speed 010
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Dissolving the people and electing another, for the social media age 000
Evert @xenmonkey.bsky.social · 01/12/2025Nor not maintain a strong interest and views on whoever currently has the top job (As a former member of both) 010
