Thanks to all the #relentlesslygay folks for never once wavering or negelecting your gay duty. http://t.co/VbG3tpkHPG pic.twitter.com/z1hBHJmX5Z
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) June 18, 2015
This is great. In four days she’s raised over $40,000 to further gay up her yard.
To be a lonely child in the world means creating your own fun, your own friends, your own magic.
I got the complete C&H for my birthday this year, I wholeheartedly agree with this: Calvin and Hobbes embodied the voice of the lonely child (it also makes me wonder if I’m still mostly a lonely child).
‘They abolished the Human Rights Act” sounds like the first sentence of an Aldous Huxley novel. The Conservatives actually campaigned on a manifesto pledge to get rid of human rights and people voted for it. As electoral choices go, it’s not far off choosing to be ruled by a dry, whispering voice taunting you from an antique mirror.
Here, in what may well be the final years of our civilisation, I would like to ask a question that has been worrying me for some time. What if David Cameron is a genius? A shrewd and malevolent psychopath who thinks two moves deeper into the game than any of his opponents? What if there sits in Downing Street today a modern-day Moriarty, living in a world where his schemes are only kept in check by the deductive brilliance of Harriet Harman? As Holmes would say, look at the evidence. Cameron has managed to set England against Scotland, Scotland against Labour. He has given his enemies the referendums they asked for, and won. He has left Nick Clegg looking like one of those terrified mouse faces that you find in an owl pellet. He has successfully pursued an agenda more radical than Thatcher’s with less popular support than John Major.
The person I'd be most surprised to meet in heaven? For a variety of reasons, probably Dracula.
— Tim Siedell (@badbanana) August 15, 2010
Thanks to @tcarmody for the reminder this tweet exists.
Pretty impressive slapstick trampoline routine.
(via Tastefully Offensive)
I’m surprised I’ve never thought about this before:
@MooseAllain I had a massive slapdown once from a neopagan online when I said English(Norse)-French(Roman) day names didn't seem to match up
— Peter McGladdery (@petermcgladdery) May 20, 2015
@MooseAllain Jeudi = Jupiter, Thursday = Thor. Mercredi=Mercury, Wednesday = Woden. I wondered why Jupiter & Woden not matched up together
— Peter McGladdery (@petermcgladdery) May 20, 2015
@MooseAllain …I then had a multi-tweet lesson in how gods in different pantheons could be associated by attributes not position…
— Peter McGladdery (@petermcgladdery) May 20, 2015
@MooseAllain (e.g. Mercury & Woden both diviners , Jupiter & Thor both Thunder)
— Peter McGladdery (@petermcgladdery) May 20, 2015
More on Odin/Mercury from Wikipedia:
Scholars have noted, most recently Anthony Birley, that Odin’s apparent identification with Mercury has little to do with Mercury’s classical role of being messenger of the gods, but appears to be due to Mercury’s role of psychopomp. Other contemporary evidence may also have led to the equation of Odin with Mercury; Odin, like Mercury, may have at this time already been pictured with a staff and hat, may have been considered a trader god, and the two may have been seen as parallel in their roles as wandering deities.
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