Honey, you mean HUNKULES

I'd like to formally thank the people of the UK and Ireland today for their rhyming prowess and forcing the Royal Mint to turn off replies to this tweet in RECORD time lmfao

And last but not least, the pièce de resistance that inspired about 90% of the hidden replies:

For anyone wondering, it was in fact meant to be "sovereign on a sovereign" 🤦

Ach no, give it to the Irish, they win

여어- 히싸씨부리 （ ɔ̸ᴉʇɐ͟N͞さんのツイート ）

“NAFTER NOON!”

Every. Time. Every single time. I always get so delighted by this picture set. And I always forget what it’s followed up by. And then I see the “NAFTER NOON!” and absolutely lose it. I’m so glad this post exists.

i wish there were more than 24 hours in a day and beverages were $1 and growing up didn’t hurt so much

okay but saying “i wish i had known you sooner” — like the love in my heart is growing so big and fast for you that i wish i had the opportunity to have you way earlier by my side, because i want to love you longer than i can do now. my love for you reaches my past and makes a place for you.

First snow

We gotta start taking "child having an absolute meltdown in public" not just as a circumstance to be compassionate about, but as the valuable opportunity it is.

I personally like to close my eyes and pretend I'm the one who's screaming.

Scream for us all, little nugget.

Every time a child screams or cries out of nowhere I intentionally say “me too” or “couldn’t have said it better myself” or something similar before the parent can try to apologize.

OUR MELTDOWN

fuck it we ball? im sobbing

fuck it we bawl

* jeanette winterson, oranges are not the only fruit

[Transcript: “Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. (1990: 165)” /End transcript.]

plate: MOUSEGRL

Customer: I'm a girl and i love mice

DMV: THE CRAZY THING ABOUT THIS IS THAT IT TOOK ONE SINGLE WORD TO TURN IT HORNY. COULDA BEEN A NORMAL CUTE LICENSE PLATE. COULDA TAKEN THE HIGH ROAD & CONJURED A DELIGHTFUL IMAGE OF A MOUSE DRIVING A LITTLE CAR. BUT YOU HAD TO SAY "MOUSEGIRL" AND NOT "MOUSE." DON'T PRETEND THIS ISN'T WHAT'S GOING ON EITHER I KNOW THE SCORE I KNOW WHAT'S UP. I'M FAMILIAR WITH THIS SORT OF SEMANTIC TRICK. YOU WANT TO FUCK DOWN ON AN ANIME GIRL WITH CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF A RODENT AND EVERYONE'S GOTTA KNOW.

Verdict: DENIED

losing 8tracks did irreparable damage to our society

i love rechecking my friends' pronouns five times just in case i accidentally called them deadname mcslurrington

everyone shut up and look at this

do you ever read the bio of someone who blocked you and just know EXACTLY why they blocked you ?

This story is pretty amazing.  The area was literally a dumping ground for people littering and tossing their trash on the sidewalks.  One resident, who had done is best to clean up the area only to have it trashed again and again, got so tired of this that he came up with the clever idea of putting up a small Buddha statue and turning it into a shrine.

Some of his neighbors and the area’s visitors, being predominantly Asian (south, southeast & east), had mostly grown up in cultures where shrines to Buddha were kept clean and presentable…so they stopped littering their trash all over, and actually started picking up other’s trash for some distance all around the little Buddha statue…and eventually turned it into the charming, well-tended edifice in the image above.

…That being said, this is another example of how you talk about a thing–and its corollary, how you treat a thing–changing how other people view a thing.

Oh, and the guy who initially decided to do this thing?  Not a Buddhist, but he believed a statue of Buddha was fairly neutral politically, but was still an image of veneration for a wide swath of the community.  Since the original statue was affixed to the traffic median, a statue of Guanyin (Buddhist goddess of compassion) has been added, as well as the shrine itself being built.

Some neighbors did complain to the city about early morning noise from worshippers gathering and praying at the shrine, but there was so much opposition to the idea of removing the statue that the Oakland city council has permanently tabled the idea of its removal as “undergoing further consideration”…since 2014.

Also, the worshippers call it Dharma Temple…which is a great way to remember that dharma and kharma are all about following the rules that better the world so as to avoid getting into trouble…such as the rules about no littering.

“It certainly wasn’t meant to skirt anything, but it wasn’t driven by COVID in particular. It was just kind of the way the scene was written. It’s the delight of connecting up that moment, when you come back to it halfway through, with the moment from the beginning was kind of the idea of it. I felt like having Blanc be gay and have a partner just felt like a very natural thing coming out of the first movie. I feel like in general, if you think about Poirot, for example, getting glimpses of the detective’s life outside of the scope of the case is interesting. But I don’t know that I can ever see the movies being more about that. The whole thing is kind of about the mystery itself.”

— Rian Johnson on why Benoit Blanc doesn’t appear onscreen with his lover in Glass Onion