sheldrake

Disembodied brain. Very old. Tadorna On Bluesky and Dreamwidth, sheldrake on AO3. Currently living at The Night Manager (now farmed out to my sideblob blueespressocup), previous address The Beatles (see you round the clubs).

[20th-centuryghost]

had a photo of a planet in my downloads folder i didn't recognize

until i opened it, and it was DUCKS

DUCK PLANET, BABEY !!!

[joy-and-whimsy-official]

Joy and whimsy detected! Duck Planet is joyful and whimsical 🦆

[yesornopolls]

do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Do you have any friends that are 4x your age or more?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 2 days 35 minutes

[loveridden1999]

person (non-practicing)

[97jag]

the lion does not concern itself with the real love life of its rpf ships

[byjove]

I love asking people how their parents met. You always get an interesting reply. My best friend’s parents met on the relatively new internet in 1999. My other friend’s parents met at Burger King when one was the manager and the other was a regular customer. My parents met at the beach because they were neighbors in their rental houses, mom was on a church trip and dad was getting blackout drunk every night with his friends next door.

Tell me how your parents met in the tags.

[hiddlestonspot]

Jennifer Lopez, Tom Hiddleston, Andrew Garfield, and Jaafar Jackson watching the Gentlemen's Singles Final at Wimbledon on July 12th, 2026

[escuerzoresucitado]

Pedestrian traffic lights

[ofchaosgoddess]

help I’m having ideas beyond my available free time

[nothereforthedrama]

help I'm having ideas beyond my available energy levels

[deelovesbooks]

alright y'all circle up☝️and everybody hands in 🫳 on the count of 3 we're all going to have a good day today, okay?

[anxietyproblem]

[penny-anna]

what the hell is going on

[penny-anna]

i believe in you Binface. you can do it. this could be your moment.

[penny-anna]

Please god it would be so funny

[penny-anna]

there is no downside to voting for Count Binface. its not taking away from other candidates bcos they aren't any and the more votes he gets the stupider Farage looks.

[penny-anna]

for people out of the loop:

Nigel Farage is the leader of Reform UK, a far right party who are currently in the process of a serious bid to become the UK government. they are just straight up evil.

Count Binface is an intergalactic space warrior with a bin on his head. he likes to run as a novelty candidate in general and mayoral elections. a big thing he likes to do is run as a candidate against the incumbent prime minister:

(Also pictured: Boris Johnson, Elmo)

Anyway, in brief:

Nigel Farage is currently in the midst of a big scandal about his finances

He has decided to deal with this by 1) making a show of nobly resigning from parliament and then 2) immediately running in the resulting by-election

He has stated that he is letting 'the people' judge his actions and implied that if he wins that will prove that he has been exonerated in the court of public opinion

His goal was presumably to get a big resounding win over the other parties, proving that The People still love him.

the other parties have thus far decided that this is a 'vanity election' and, well, there is one very easy way to ensure that he will not beat any of them, and that is simply not to play.

and as a result the only person who has so far confirmed they are running against him is Count Binface. no matter the outcome this makes Nigel Farage look like, u know, a fucking clown.

[penny-anna]

Ok I think some non Brits are confused about the nature of this election:

It is a by-election to determine who will be the new MP for Clacton. Only residents of Clacton get a vote. The rest of the UK will not be voting. It's the Clacton by-election.

[polyversity]

Count Binface has been using his platform to shred his odious opponent and it's almost as great as watching the interviewer struggle to keep a serious face.

I can't bear to hope that he might actually win, all depending on the people of Clacton.

Count Binface on BBC Morning Live. Full interview. 8th July 2026

[sandovers]

“…George and I both know this, but why does it distress him? We know that we come from the winds, and that we shall return to them; that all life is perhaps a know, a tangle, a blemish in the eternal smoothness. But why should this make us unhappy? Let us rather love one another, and work and rejoice. I don’t believe in this world-sorrow.”

Miss Honeychurch assented.

“Then make my boy think like us. Make him realize that by the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes—a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.”

E.M. Forster, A Room With A View

[theprofessional-amateur]

Author/illustrator Trung Le Nguyen has been live posting reading Pride and Prejudice for the first time on bluesky and just hit the first proposal. The replies are basically the sickos meme

Thread here

[theprofessional-amateur]

Incredible stuff happening. I want push notifications for every update. I hate push notifications.

[elodieunderglass]

I’ve been enjoying this, and left off here https://bsky.app/profile/trungles.com/post/3mqbhhpjoec2l

Trung Le Nguyen (@trungles.com)

God. Every chapter I’ve read recently has made me crave a cigarette. I don’t even smoke!!!

[apesoformythoughts]

“One of the poets, whose name I cannot recall, has a passage, which I am unable at the moment to remember, in one of his works, which for the time being has slipped my mind, which hits off admirably this age-old situation.”

— P.G. Wodehouse

[urgetocreate]

Andrea Calisi (Italian b.1968), The Bridge and the Blue Knight, 2026, Illustration

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

“i have of late lost all my mirth” should be a valid reason not to come in to work

[starrynet]

what’s your favorite ship?

titanic

hms terror

uss enterprise

ever given (the container ship that blocked the suez canal in 2021)

captain ahab’s whaling vessel

ship of theseus

battleship monopoly token

mclennon

Voting ended onJul 14