Martyn Wendell Jones

Imagine being mad that your daughter is a genius

I'm starting to think we're living in a dystopian parody, a cross between SOUTHLAND TALES and BRAZIL with a dash of HER and THE TERMINATOR. Buckle up, things are going to get weird. www.thebulwark.com/p/every-day-...

was the grink there

i work with words for a living, so I am biased, but I really think we've got to bring back words. really useful if you imbue them with meaning and arrange them properly!

No, There Was No ‘Imminent Threat’ From Iran Team Trump shows that words made to mean everything will cease to mean anything.

If "one day" and "eventually" are "imminent," then words have no meaning. At least not to this administration.

New from @saletan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4b8J1oR

Oldest son told us this morning he had a nightmare where a wolf was stalking him and trying to eat him but he realized it was a dream and that he had the power to end it so even though he was terrified he lay down and let the wolf eat him (!) in order to wake up. Some kind of terrible lesson in this

just one more demeaning nihilistic provocation in an endless series of them

Hand it me

And if that doesn't work, we can always force more of our mutual friends to get married! It is always an option!!

I never got a lot of clarity on the nature of the latter’s business because he didn’t talk about it with me much (possibly because he ended up having a pretty mixed record of success in that area…)

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

Aubrey is a first-class guy for whom I have enormous respect—consistently so intelligent, forthright, and generous, a true poster’s poster (complimentary)

Trump Puts Noem Down Like a Dog Her tenure—with its illegal deportations, immigrant pain, and killings of U.S. citizens—ends this month.

"A big part of Noem’s legacy also will be her alleged corruption: her use of government planes for personal purposes, her abuse of her staff, her unprecedented choice to live in housing usually reserved for the commandant of the Coast Guard—the list goes on."
www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-puts...

One was a small-scale farmer in eastern Ohio; the other started his adult life as a member of the Dutch resistance and after the war went into business

Auspicious!

Close head-on view of a beautiful pug dog standing on a tiled floor just inside the doorway to a kitchen. The fur around his face is starting to go grey. Because of the angle, he sort of looks like just a head on two legs, full of wisdom and hunger.

Happy 10th birthday to our pet gremlin, Mr. Bingley

She was very gracious

The story my wife likes to tell about this story is that the first time I tried to tell it to someone else, I said I sold the shoes to Celine Dion

While working at Hudson’s Bay on Bloor Street (RIP) just before closing one night, I sold around eight pairs of shoes to Shania Twain. They were all display models, so I spent the last several minutes of our interaction straining for nonchalance while prying staples out of the stickered soles

all week tbh

Bluesky's media setting for autoplaying videos and gifs, with the checkbox un-checked

"It appears to be a compound fracture"

This is a good point. They do seem to operate as though they have entered into a secret association to oppose me and my interests. And together they have a monopoly on certain kinds of motion. Perhaps I should open an antitrust investigation

Reaching is for squares. Remaining still is for pine rectangles.

I'll grow out of it when flowers and trees start growing out of me

yeah, I'm about that FIRE lifestyle – my joints often Fail Independently and cause me to Retire from physical activity Early

have evidently reached an age where before doing things that involve reaching, putting, stowing, hoisting, throwing, gesturing, etc. I need to collect permission slips from my rotator cuffs

If anyone is friends with any Georgian air traffic controllers, buy them a nice bottle of wine. As guardians of pretty much the only narrow gap still available between Europe and Asia that avoids both Iran, the Gulf, Ukraine and Russia, they are under some substantial pressure.

I've been taking it my WHOLE LIFE [ba-dum-psh]

one more friendly fire incident like this and this Kuwaiti pilot could become this war's first fighter ace