We're all mad here.

There used to be a theme.  Who knows now?

[captain-price-returns]

he’s sitting in his discomfort and interrogating whether his actions were worth the consequences… a great many of u could take notes

[deltaomicronfive]

Ngl guys this entire saga and phenomenon stumbled upon is fucking frying me.

[doubleclutch]

FULL CIRCLE

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[disterbia]

[penny-anna]

Many great would I lie to you bits but I think Lee Mack and the producers actively punking Rob and David by pretending Lee was invited to the royal wedding is perhaps the funniest thing they have ever done

[penny-anna]

The only thing that might top it is when Victoria Coren Mitchell was on and they had David say he sometimes moves her bookmarks in her books when he's angry with her, seemingly in a willful attempt to sabotage their relationship

[penny-anna]

the great thing about this is the way it takes advantage of the fact that David, due to being the kind of person that he is, still takes the game seriously even after playing it for over a decade so when he's given something like this he will commit even with his real actual wife sitting next to him getting visibly annoyed

[sprinkledsalt]

I found this reddit thread on bluesky, and the comments are surprisingly a nice read (how can we really verify these comments are from actual tourists and they're being truthful? Eh, I guess we can't do that better than you can on any other reddit thread, but the comments are pretty overwhelmingly positive, so at least some of them are likely from real tourists expressing their real opinions)

Some friendly comments from Americans replying to the last one, too:

[cronenburger]

[dailyrothko]

And this post here shows there are a couple of different replies there of course were hundreds of replies. I even replied which I will now put here but besides making a joke about the famous quote, it was also Bloomsday

[tragedyprotagonist]

I'm forcing my sister to watch black sails and she hates flint (gates pushed her over the edge) so much lmfao. She says she doesn't give a fuck what his motivations are there's no way they could be good enough for her unless. and I quote. "he's doing it all for the gays or something"

[tragedyprotagonist]

well she found out what he's doing it all for

[shinraalpha]

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[ingridverse]

no pressure

[shinraalpha]

*some* pressure

[mockva]

Silver Swan Automaton… no motors, built in 1773 and still working perfectly. The Silver Swan is powered entirely by mainsprings and brass clockwork gears. Why did we stop creating such elegant engineering and beautiful pieces of art… timeless and built to last? Joseph Merlin also invented the roller skate 1760. To show them off, he skated into a fancy London ballroom while playing the violin. He sped out of control and crashed straight into a massive, mirror, destroying the violin and injuring himself.

[andro-t4t]

So cute

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[architecturealliance]

Catacombs of the great Byzantine Basilica of Hagios Demetrios of Thessaloniki (629-634 AD). It is part of the Palaeochristian and Byzantine Monuments of Thessaloniki on the list of World Heritage Sites by UNESCO

[rthwrms]

thinking about coptic mummy paintings and weeping

like. i know these people

[orphanedinstoryville]

These were produced from around the time of the Roman annexation of Egypt in the late 1st century BC to around the Christianization of the Roman Empire in the 3rd century CE.

They were a continuation of the Egyptian tradition of funerary masks but rather than sculpting them and making them of precious metals, they began painting these lifelike portraits.

It’s hotly debated whether this is an example of Greco-Roman realist style imposed on their subjects, or a home grown Egyptian development of their own ancient tradition. Those who say it’s more Egyptian than Roman point out that there’s no surviving paintings in the rest of the Roman Empire that were this realistic. Those who say it’s more Roman than Egyptian point out the arid climate left these portraits intact, and beleive the others in the rest of the empire were lost.

Personally I think you can call them Egyptian because these people, whether of Roman or ancient Egyptian descent, are still the ancestors of the modern Egyptians today.

Despite the realism you can see a slight exaggeration of the eyes, smoothing of the skin and inclusion of certain important objects around the subject’s head. It’s a pattern that would get more and more pronounced until it became the style of Byzantine iconography in the Orthodox Christian Church

[hellallamerican]

i need everyone to get into college football right now i am dying to talk about the texas tech situation. this is the kind of thing that will be referenced for the next 100 years. there will be documentaries and biopics about this.

[hellallamerican]

no one asked but here

texas tech's quartback, brendan sorsby, was investigated for sports gambling. i know sports betting is all the rage right now, but athletes themselves are not allowed to do it. it is Rule Number 1 and it is the highest priority rule for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), who governs all athletic programs at about 1,100 colleges in the US.

the invesitagetion of sorsby revealed that, not only did he place more than 9,000 sports bets when he himself was a collegiate athlete, but 40 of those bets were AGAINST HIS OWN TEAM when he was playing at indiana university. immediately, this threatens the integrity of the sport, and especially because indiana is the hottest team right now as the defending national champion.

the NCAA, which is largely a sham organization these days (they've truly lost their grasp and college athletics are the wild west now) actually enforced their Number 1 Rule and told sorsby his career is over, that he would never play college football again (and, subsequently, that he would never get drafted into the NFL because his college career was cut short).

well, because the NCAA is a husk of its former self, sorsby and texad tech immediately took this to court. MANY athletes have learned these past few seasons that if you can find a judge who's a fan of your team, you can get any NCAA ruling overturned. that's exactly what texas tech did. they filed a suit in Lubbock, where the university is located and where every judge is an alum of texas tech. so sorsby was granted an injunction and will now only be suspended for the first 2 games od the 2026 season (which are alwayd against no-name teams that will be destroyed regardless of who's suspended).

every other school in the country immediately went on the defensive because this is a very clear integretiy issue. so nebraska and georgia (sic em dawgs) released statements saying that all currently-scheduled competitions witb Texas Tech in ANY sport will be canceled and there will be no future schedulings. at least 3 of the major conferences (SEC, Big 10, Big 12) , who account for almost all division 1 sports teams in the country, are also in discussions about cancelling comtests. Texas Tech is part of the Big 12, and there is serious talk of all other teams in the conference shutting texas tech out.

now would probably be time where i say that texas tech is one of the wealthiest programs in college football becaise there is a single billionaire alumnus pouring money into the program with hopes of essentially buying a championship. so texas techs integrity has always been questionable. anyway, the university president put oit a statement that he doesnt care that sorseby violated regulation and that texas tech will sue any school that refuses to play them because it jeopardizes their championship prospects if they're umable to play any games.

this is all just startomg but its so juicy and delicious. the NCAA is going to crumble to dust if they cannot get this injunction overturned. schools like georgia and nebraska have plenty of money so a suit isnt necessarily a concern, but this will absolutely change college football forever. i cant stop reading about it.

[hellallamerican]

update on this: texas tech is claiming that every school who has/is considering cancelling all contests is "afraid" that texas tech is better than them. what's funny about this is that sorsby's stats are average. he is not good enough for this kind of protection. many schools who have already cancelled or are considering it have much better quarterbacks than sorsby. also, texas tech's head coach had said that it's actually ok that sorsby bet against his own team because it "its not murder or assault."

[hellallamerican]

the attorney general of texas has threatened to investigate the Big 12 conference if they sanction Texas Tech

[hellallamerican]

the claim is now that texas texh university just cares so much about brendan sorsbys mental health that they have to sue everyone who calls this an integrity violation. any other school who wouldnt defend an athlete that committed this violation "doesnt care about mental health"

[hellallamerican]

the Big 12 has officially filed a federal lawsuit against Texas Tech and the attorney general of texas. i havent read it yet so idk what exactly it's seeking, though i would imagine its seeking permission to sanction texas tech through a Big 12 supermajority (which theyll have no problem achieving, if the suit is won). the attorney generals dor kansas and oklahoma have issued statememts of suppkrt for the Big 12 and condemn the AG of texas. the Big 10, the last conference we were waiting to hear from, has elected not to take any action against texas tech. the SEC is still in talks for a conference-wide action, but georgia is holding firm on its individual ban against texas tech.

[hellallamerican]

HOT OFF THE PRESSES (as in 20 minutes old): brendan sorsby enters the NFL supplemental draft, a kind of marketplace for teams to pick up players who a) didnt get drafted in the main draft or b) declared after the main draft. this nullifies all lawsuits from the NCAA/big 12/texas tech, as sorsby is no longer a college athlete. it now remains to be seen if he'll be drafted or if he fucked himself over with his gambling.

[persephone-tearose]

Bleeding hearts by Lucien Gaillard - 1905