#WritersCoffeeClub Sep 21 What can a reader know to be true about you from your work?
One can be a Rome nerd without being a war dad.
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Mercurius Goldstein
@MercG@mindly.social
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#WritersCoffeeClub Sep. 20: Share an analogy that really stuck with you.
I love calling knees ‘leg elbows’ and elbows ‘arm knees’.
#WritersCoffeeClub 22 Sept: What's the latest in the writing process you've found a mistake?
Lady Spencer: Piers Morgan called, says it’s urgent.
If not Antichrist, why Antichrist shaped?
Ed Sheeran frantically trying to book Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
Hard to believe a guy who gets his military ideas from Hollywood movies is losing a war to the inventors of chess.
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@texttheater@mastodon.social
Excuse me, but a recipe is 3,000 words of turgid nostalgia interspersed with pop-up ads and increasingly shrill demands for your email address, whereas this appears to be a clear and concise set of procedural instructions for making brownies.
Dear every YouTuber,
If you record your Opinion Video in your car and it’s not about the car, I ain’t watch sorry not sorry.
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@amyfallon@aus.social
Just as Tony Abbott did, they’ll find out what happens when the dog catches the car it’s been chasing.
What if told you asylum-seekers who aren’t good at soccer deserve the same protection as asylum-seekers who are good at soccer.
#auspol
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@Daojoan
Thank you, and delighted to hear jade roller guy was only $800 down.
Signed, guy who switched to meaningful work 17 years ago and am thankful every exhausting, difficult, frustrating af day.
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@Daojoan@mastodon.social
Yep love your work but not feeling this one at all.
There was no golden age of people calmly and agreeably disagreeing. There are no sunlit uplands where rational adults will once again maintain their coolth.
Buddha, Marcus Aurelius, Jesus of Nazareth et.al. preached what they preached because of the pressing and urgent problem that all around them everywhere everyone was constantly and forevermore losing their shit.
Hi 👋 I’m Muad’Dib, you might know me from such films as Dune, Dune Harder, and Dune 3: The Dunening.
In the week that WWIII likely began Australian media’s two biggest news stories are ‘Jackie O quits!’ and ‘Aggro guy dies!’
16 hours rest / 6 hours recreation / 2 hours demanding treats n scritches
Cats are fully and forever Unionized!
Like and subscribe for members-only invitation to my sky burial
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@sdarlington@mas.to
Oh given the techbro context it’s best not to think too hard about what ‘marry early’ means to them.
@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party
Why did they call it a negroni instead of Satan’s cordial?
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@chicating
He’s a picture of manly vitality, everybody is saying it, you’re hearing it more and more.
In the 2000 Sydney Olympics my mother-in-law was one of a great many volunteer bus drivers and had a Nigerian athletic team to get to the Olympic stadium but she’s not from Sydney and didn’t know her way around Sydney and took them the wrong way over the Harbour Bridge away from Homebush and wore out the clutch on the bus and they were late to the athletics and there was some other transport problem involving a basketball team so anyway those were things that happened.
If you like salad dressing you’re gonna love salad undressing
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Citizens in NSW don’t like genocide Premier and there’s nothing you can do to stop them protesting, eat shit.
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@georgetakei@universeodon.com
Oh puh-lease: “I’m really sorry I mowed down all those pedestrians in my SUV, it really keeps me up at night, anyway I’ve done a lot of reflection on my driving when can I have the keys back?”
@scalzi
Cash? Where we’re going, we won’t need cash (I am a business genius)
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@ketanjoshi.co
Have you really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
You’ll all be sorry when I’m fey moose
Don’t you mean famous?
I said what I said
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@skyguided@cathode.church
Pro tip: watch thru the very last 30 seconds you won’t regret.
When good kerning is flirting
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@ZachWeinersmith
I would prepare by giving the people who say this sort of thing a swirly and then stuff them into a locker.