The Financial Times is the pre-eminent British bourgeois rag, and the City of London is a common & apropos metonym for the haute bourgeoisie.

Fediverse graybeards always knew how Bluesky (and Threads) would play out. We know multi-billionaire Jack Dorsey belongs to the big club that you ain’t in.

There’s the smoot, though not everyone finds 5‘ 7” to be an exemplary height for a man.
They can get off my lawn.

The reason I don’t have tattoos is that, even though intellectually I know that I’m not going to live forever, at some level I still think I’m going to live forever, and I just can’t commit to Vanessa or anyone or anything else for that long.

OTOH I’m not going to bat for the International Caucasian Court.

In case anyone’s curious of this analogy’s origin:

📺 Story from North America

It’s the same data Amazon and most e-tailers collect. The difference between Temu and Amazon is Jeff Bezos attended Trump’s inauguration, while Temu is a competitor based in China, which the US considers its greatest enemy.

Now what I saw next was completely unexpected: my email is sent out in plain text.

Yeah, that’s how email has always worked. Even if you go out of your way to use Proton, PGP, or S/MIME, your metadata is still in plaintext.

Reporter: [REDACTED]
Reason: Thread [sic] to safety

i’m tired, boss

We hold these truths to be inconvenient.

I disapprove of your costume, but I will defend to the death your right to wear it.

^{fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck}

I hadn’t thought of Flashdance in decades.

With a score by Giorgio Moroder, and with ingenious costumes that are utterly au courant, Flashdance contains such dynamic dance scenes that it’s a pity there’s a story here to bog them down.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Gs4Jw_ePI

I guess you could say some Celtic nations but not all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_nations

See also:

Carrots (and corn) have come in a variety of colors since time immemorial.

This reminded me of the venerable (27 years young!) halfbakery.

Yet more examples of splitting. In the span of weeks, BE was promoted to golden god of truth & righteousness, and Cuba demoted to capitalist pigs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idealization_and_devaluation