Thank you for the rare opportunity to cite A.D. Godley's 'Motor Bus':

I saw this out of context and read it as a reference to literary agents. Seemed plausible (I've never had or known one). Took ages to realise it's actually about AI.

Happy juxtaposition:

Critical of themselves, each other, or the opposing team?

Honestly I'm not sure, but here's another:

3000

Someone's playing silly buggers at the free range egg farm.

The Hungarian fleet's epic voyage down the Danube, through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles and (if the Houthis play their part) via Gibraltar and the Cape to the Horn of Africa and ... ...with maybe a Fitzcarraldo episode out of Lake Balaton... @dreadships.bsky.social

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

You don't think he could be referring to Helen Lewis's book Difficult Women? Me neither. www.penguin.com.au/books/diffic...

I feel seen.

"[L]et me ... farewell all other cogitations." This is the best I've found. I don't know if it's what OED cites, but it seems verbish to me, though not conclusively so.

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence. Messrs. Browne and Sharpe, in their treatise on gearing, give the following rule for this increase in diameter.

I like the sly proviso in this paragraph from the Trump administration's National Security Strategy: "The resources required boil down to presidential diplomacy, which our great nation can embrace only with competent leadership."

Yes please!

Come on, this is a tribute to @coldwarsteve.bsky.social

The dismaying diet @secondmentions.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

Here it is in legal language, Rule 2 of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea

The blue post in the picture is a free DIY bike repair station outside our town hall, with hanger, air-line and captive tools. There's another near the museum.

Here's another mismatched blurb in the Kindle Daily Deal, or else @christianwolmar.bsky.social has (pardon the pun) a new line of work.

Not just the UK.

I get the Kindle Daily Deal email, UK version. Sometimes they spice up the blurbs.

Not pets, but happy little cats!

A mystifyingly high score, given what I clicked through to:

Edouard de Pomiane, in the age before home freezers and microwaves, wrote a book for French people who wanted to cook and eat a meal in their lunch breaks, with time to get from and to work. (Put some water to boil the instant you get home, before even removing your overcoat.)

Ian Jefferies's novel Thirteen Days is a good if disturbing read set in Palestine in 1948. The narrator is a disillusioned British R.E. sergeant who decides to help the Jews.