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Recipes with high return on investment

I'm looking for dishes where the taste, appearance or "wow factor" is much more than the effort, time or money put into the dish. For the purposes of this question, there are no other restrictions.
posted by NotLost to Ask MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 4:18 PM
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If only your economy room included an escape pod

Little Workshop is an award-winning French studio specializing in high-quality immersive 3D experiences for the web. Their portfolio contains many charming and fun projects you can try out yourself, including endless city generator Infinitown, cute procedural dungeon crawler Keep Out!, pulsing geometric music visualizer TRACK, and Arde Madrid, a multi-scene recreation of Ava Gardner's home in Francoist Spain. Their latest and most ambitious project: EQUINOX, a slick, stylized adventure game set in a failing starship in deep space, complete with a full soundtrack and voice acting in a mobile-friendly interface. Read the case study on their website, or check out their other projects (including the dearly-departed Mozilla MMORPG BrowserQuest).
posted by Rhaomi to MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 9:57 AM
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It’s peculiar, in the sense that words are supposed to mean something

The Caesar’s mission creep toward absurdity began long before the tequila and the fava beans. In fact, it has been going on for decades—first slowly, then quickly, swept along by and reflective of many of the biggest shifts in American dining. from Something Weird Is Happening With Caesar Salads [The Atlantic; ungated]
posted by chavenet to MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 1:53 AM
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“members of the Voyager flight team celebrate”

NASA’s Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Engineering Updates to Earth reports NASA. After pinpointing the issue with the space probe, the mission team have devised a workaround. Previously, previouslier, many more previouslies.
posted by Kattullus to MetaFilter at Apr-22-24 at 12:24 PM
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H5N1 bird flu is spreading to mammals, killing huge numbers.

H5N1 bird flu has begun spreading between mammals, leaving coastlines dotted with the bodies of birds, seals, and sea lions. Agriculture increases human- animal contact. On the bright side, the human history of infection with other flu viruses may confer some resistance to H5N1. (Gift NYT article)
posted by Sleeper to MetaFilter at Apr-22-24 at 12:09 PM
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Ukraine war heading into third summer

As Congress has finally passed the Ukraine aid bill, hope is returning to the frontline, where Ukrainian troops are increasingly struggling to hold out against a numerically superior Russian force that also has a lot more ammunition to spend. This post has some status updates and commentary on the war at present.
posted by Harald74 to MetaFilter at Apr-22-24 at 6:32 AM
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10 Years of Jeremy Parish's Works Projects

Jeremy Parish, dedicated game journalist and Retronaut, and creator of design deep dives, has been covering Gameboy (1989, gaiden), Game Boy Color (1998), Game Boy Advance (2001), NES (1985, 1986, 1987, 1998, 1999, gaiden), SNES (1991, extra, gaiden), N64 (1996), Sega, Virtual Boy and Metroidvania games now for ten years! His terrific and scholarly videos don't get nearly the views that much less worthy series get, so please give them a try if you have any interest in this area.
posted by JHarris to MetaFilter at Apr-22-24 at 1:08 AM
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Willie Nelson Outlaw Tour 2024

Willie Nelson Outlaw Tour 2024

I would have posted this to IRL if I knew how. Considering the principals and the age of some, this presents a last chance opportunity to see them. And as someone here I've already notified said about the front row tickets, those are stupid cheap prices.

Indeed, indeed.
posted by y2karl to MetaFilter at Apr-21-24 at 1:29 PM
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Vicky Osterweil on the muddled anti-politics of contemporary movies

Image without metaphor in Dune 2: Because in 2024, I don't find it hard to believe that people are incredibly excited by the vision of an anti-colonial guerilla movement driven by Islamic faith defeating a massive and technologically dominant empire... I do find it hard to believe that more people in 2024 aren't outraged that Dune Part Two literally features a talking embryo.

Civil War, a piece of radical-centrist, middle brow bothsideism is not only sure to be the most successful film he has made, it is also by some margin the worst. But to my pleasant surprise, it's not a completely terrible and evil film. It is just a deeply mediocre one.
posted by spamandkimchi to MetaFilter at Apr-21-24 at 12:53 PM
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By Amun, it's full of stars

Enclosed within its rugged mud brick walls the temple precincts at Dendera seem to be an island left untouched by time. Particularly in the early hours of the morning, when foxes roam around the ruins of the birth house or venture down the steep stairs leading to the Sacred Lake. Stepping into the actual temple is like entering an ancient time machine, especially if you look up to the recently cleaned astronomical ceiling. This is a vast cosmos filled with stars, hour-goddesses and zodiac signs, many of which are personified by weird creatures like snakes walking on long legs and birds with human arms and jackal heads. On the columns just below the ceiling you encounter the mysterious gaze of the patron deity of the temple: Hathor.

It might not have the iconic status of Giza or the Valley of the Kings, but the Dendera temple complex north of Luxor boasts some of the most superbly-preserved ancient Egyptian art known, ranging from early Roman times back to the Middle Kingdom period over 4,000 years ago. Most breathtaking is the ceiling of the temple's grand pronaos, which is richly decorated with intricate astrological iconography. But you don't have to travel to Egypt to see it -- thanks to photographer and programmer José María Barrera [site], you can now peruse an ultra-HD scan of the fully-restored masterpiece in a slick zoomable scroller. Overwhelmed? See the captions in this gallery for a deep-dive into the symbolism, or click inside for even more.
posted by Rhaomi to MetaFilter at Apr-21-24 at 9:52 AM
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Movies with very competent protagonists - difficulty level: no violence.

I am in the mood for a movie or series with an ultra-competent, good-at-their-job protagonist. Difficulty level: no violence, gore, or grave injustice (not even injustice that's overcome in the end). I have seen this question but I'm looking for more and slightly different examples.
posted by M. to Ask MetaFilter at Apr-21-24 at 5:40 AM
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Negative Space - animation

Negative Space - "a short film by Ru Kuwahata and Max Porter, was nominated for a 2018 Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film."
posted by pracowity to MetaFilter at Apr-21-24 at 4:37 AM
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Unwanted Sound

Implicit in the art of noise is a promise of resistance. For millennia, music has been a medium of control; noise, it follows, is a liberation. from What is Noise? by Alex Ross [The New Yorker; ungated]
posted by chavenet to MetaFilter at Apr-21-24 at 12:04 AM
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Unwanted Sound

My Mother, the Narcissist, Now with Dementia!

This is probably the first in what may be a long series of questions. My mother (bipolar, narcissist) has been diagnosed with dementia. This is, of course, rather complicated. The simple question, this time, is: What respite care is available for my sister and my mother's husband, and how do we access it?
posted by MuChao to Ask MetaFilter at Apr-20-24 at 3:50 PM
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Not quite Mathematic!

Over on gRubiks.com, they've come up with an interesting puzzle solving guide:

If you have an old scrambled [Rubik's] cube just lying around the house, if you’re trying to learn how to solve it on your own and just need a “reset”, if you're looking for algorithms for patterns, or even if you just want to impress your friends—this solver is perfect for you.

Just take your scrambled Rubik's Cube, place it in front of you, and color the squares on the screen as you see them on your cube. Then press "solve", and it will walk you through the solution.
posted by not_on_display to MetaFilter at Apr-20-24 at 12:50 PM
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In the future these will be funny stories

It’s 2008. Though a San Francisco resident, I crave “Girl in New York” stories. Felicity Porter, Lena Dunham, Eileen Myles—in books and TV shows, I’ve watched them come of age in their frothy version of Brooklyn. As a black man, I have to tell myself this fascination isn’t me idolizing whiteness. No, this must be, like Venus Xtravanganza before me, a rational envy for those society deems valuable. A desire to chase my dreams through a maze of hangovers and strange lovers and suffer mere embarrassment for my mistakes. It seems I’ve found another such fantasy in this Reagan-era relic about itinerant artists—provided I steal it. Bohemian behavior for a bohemian book. So, Slaves in hand, I keep walking. from The Time I Stole Tama Janowitz’s Slaves of New York and Couldn’t Stop Reading It by Elwin Cotman
posted by chavenet to MetaFilter at Apr-20-24 at 12:17 AM
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The Life and Death of Hollywood

"The writers are losing out. The middle layer of craftsmen are losing out. The top end of the talent are making more money than they ever have, but the nuts-and-bolts people who make the industry go round are losing out dramatically.” (slHarper's)
posted by Kitteh to MetaFilter at Apr-19-24 at 7:11 AM
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The Life and Death of Hollywood

☆彡 ☆彡 ☆彡 ☆彡 It was like fireworks. ☆彡 ☆彡 ☆彡

It is the late 1800s. You are an innovative fireworks manufacturer in Yokohama, Japan, with an increasingly international audience (including, on at least one occasion, Ulysses S. Grant). But how to demonstrate to your worldwide customers what, exactly, you have on offer? Introducing the beautifully minimalist Hirayama Fireworks' Illustrated Catalog of Night Bomb Shells.
posted by nobody to MetaFilter at Apr-19-24 at 5:33 AM
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"Greetings, citizen! Are you getting enough oxygen?"

Adult Swim is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Space Ghost: Coast To Coast by showing all the episodes in no particular order on YouTube right this very moment. Relive the early days of Cartoon Network's dimwitted dadaist superhero insanity, or become enthralled for the first time.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta to MetaFilter at Apr-18-24 at 8:45 PM
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“I still wanted to help. But I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.”

The Deaths of Effective Altruism [archive] by Leif Wenar is a critical assessment of the effective altruism movement, taking in Sam Bankman-Fried and billionaires, Peter Singer and other philosophers, and GiveWell and the wider network of charities working off effective altruistic ideas.
posted by Kattullus to MetaFilter at Apr-18-24 at 8:11 AM
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How easily & cavalierly the works of decades & centuries are demolished

It seems there is only one model for today’s ‘man of action’, and that is Shock and Awe. Overwhelming force deployed suddenly and overwhelmingly. A theatrical performance with no audience as such, only a houseful of victims. The lions eat the circus and then tweet about it. Ask no questions, tell only lies, and double down, triple down, quadruple down. The ineffably stupid ‘move fast and break things’ that has so much to answer for in our time. Our new ‘Innovation Hub’ has an asinine three-word slogan: ‘Grow Ignite Disrupt’. It would make just as much sense to have ‘Paper Scissors Stone’ for a motto. And rather more to have ‘Smash Grab Run’. from In Florida by Michael Hofmann [London Review of Books] [CW: DeSantis]
posted by chavenet to MetaFilter at Apr-18-24 at 12:35 AM
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Pie

'on the Tories' (slyt. 1:00)
posted by clavdivs to MetaFilter at Apr-17-24 at 8:55 PM
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Cake!

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Real or Cake? [37s, CW]
posted by hippybear to MetaFilter at Apr-17-24 at 7:56 PM
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and we'll all go together

Jacob Collier, Laufey and dodie perform a stunning rendition of the Scottish/Irish folk song "Wild Mountain Thyme" together with the National Symphony Orchestra and some delightful audience participation, for the series Next at the Kennedy Center, in an episode presented by Ben Folds.
posted by yasaman to MetaFilter at Apr-17-24 at 2:09 PM
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and we'll all go together

"so many tech demos end up hiding an ugly truth deep down"

Amazon Go, "a new kind of corner store," that company's futuristic storefront where you installed an app on your phone, and could shop for things just by picking them up off of shelves and walking out the door with them, is being shut down. Some random internet person called "Matt Haughey" described his experience with the store, and how it wasn't nearly as magical as it seemed: as it turned out it was a kind of technological sleight-of-hand, instead of using RFIDs and weight-sensing shelves and other techno-devices, they just had a whole lot of people watching cameras. Another random person on Mastodon points out the whole-lot-of-people part was probably a bunch of subsistence contractors in other countries. A third random person notes, even doing that, the store concept couldn't be made to work. Meanwhile the important gigantic hovering electronic head of Jeff Bezos floats above us all, unmoving but watching, silently.
posted by JHarris to MetaFilter at Apr-17-24 at 1:24 PM
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Tom Francis makes an entrance at the Olivier Awards show

Great video of Tom Francis singing "Sunset Boulevard" as he makes his way into the Royal Albert Hall for the 2024 Olivier Awards show.
posted by Czjewel to MetaFilter at Apr-17-24 at 2:24 AM
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The entire world also tells young people that their lives don’t matter and, as a general rule, people in their 60’s have more power than kids. I was a lifeguard for many years and had versions of this scenario play out several times. Always an older woman complaining that young people are annoying them. I completely side with you: there is no right to not get wet while you’re already almost completely wet. I know many won’t agree with that but I still feel that way 30+ years later as a woman...
posted by scantee to Ask MetaFilter at Apr-15-24 at 10:00 AM
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Also, it is important to keep in mind that many of the claims of supposedly uncontrolled anti-Semitism on the Columbia campus are being made by Elise Stefanik, who is literally a supporter of Great Replacement theory, literally, and so if you think she actually cares about anti-Semitism on campus, as opposed to a general agenda of breaking the independence of universities, destroying free speech, and cowing liberals, you probably should not be allowed to cross the street without someone holding...
posted by praemunire to MetaFilter at Apr-22-24 at 9:26 AM
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<Moe Szyslak voice> You know what I blame this on the shutdown of? Reader. </Moe Szyslak voice>...
posted by Kattullus to MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 12:27 PM
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How do I evaluate the risk?

In 2023 there wasn't a single fatal accident, anywhere in the world, involving any make or model of jet aircraft.

A rational process of risk management should focus on (a) the car ride to and from the airport, and (b) any roads you have to cross on foot....
posted by Klipspringer to Ask MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 11:49 AM
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I am going to take this opportunity to express a minor pet peeve of mine, the thoughtless hyperbole that is saying "no one" does, or is, something, when the fact is that relatively few people do/are it. In this case "no one" obscures the fact that millions of books are sold, just not by many authors. It is true that it's rhetorically appropriate, and by saying this I don't mean anything against dis_integration. It just bothers me, in a craw-sticking kind of way. I've seen...
posted by JHarris to MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 5:29 AM
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Yes - that's the reason book contracts are set up like they are....
posted by NotMyselfRightNow to MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 4:30 AM
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I hate doing the "is any of this new?" schtick, but is any of this new? Readers seem to like leaning into narratives where we remind ourselves how special we are; we can all be the elite readers who devour a couple hundred books a year but articles like this still let people who count reading as a virtue feel special. A lot of the article is on distribution. There are a lot of books published; 10% of books seem to sell more than 300k copies (which seems a much higher proportion than...
posted by mark k to MetaFilter at Apr-22-24 at 9:53 PM
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Large portions of this article were debunked, a year ago, by Lincoln Michel....
posted by Happy Dave to MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 12:33 AM
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I mean, actually it's not peculiar; what is peculiar and straight up "invention of tradition" stuff is the belief that there are pure, unchanging recipes handed on since the dawn of time, especially for widely eaten foods. If you tell me that su filindeu has been made the same way for hundreds of years, I'll believe you, but if you tell me that the spaghetti and meatballs of 1950s Minneapolis are the same as the spaghetti and meatballs of today, I won't. The article even admits...
posted by Frowner to MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 6:41 AM
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I'm not sure why we should be depressed that few titles sell more than half a million books a year. That's a lot of books. The numbers from Kristen McLean, quoted above, are very interesting, but as she points out, a) it's just US figures; b) it's just frontlist books, i.e. those published in the last year; c) it's just major publishers; d) it's just print books; e) it doesn't include direct sales from publishers or authors. I've sold about 50,000 books, over 12 years. It's not quite...
posted by zompist to MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 1:54 AM
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Also presenting direct quotes from CEOs trying to avoid the scrutiny of anti-monopoly legislation by claiming 'wow yeah we hardly make any money of course this merger is legit and in everyone's interests' as evidence that nobody buys books is... an interesting conclusion....
posted by Happy Dave to MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 12:35 AM
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Large portions of this article were debunked, a year ago, by Lincoln Michel....
posted by Happy Dave to MetaFilter at Apr-23-24 at 12:33 AM
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If this is a difference of cultural expectations and customs around new-baby visits, can you just explicitly frame it that way for your mom? It's weird to treat it as though your wife's preferences were the natural or default kind while your mom's model is culture-bound. Could you say to your mom some subset of the following: --I know you're eager to help, but in the white culture my wife is from, breastfeeding is very high-status and they're afraid that if anybody holds the baby for too...
posted by Bardolph to Ask MetaFilter at Apr-22-24 at 12:19 PM
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Gordion Knott The claim that campus antisemitism is overblown despite concrete instances of hate speech and violence is itself antisemitic. It feeds off of the stereotype that Jews are cunning, devious, and unscrupulous, and will use both legal and illegal strategems to foment strife and disorder and gain the upper hand. That's a hell of a catch 22 you've just created there. It's not QUITE as good as the Christian presuppositonalist line of sophistry, but it's pretty close. The problem is...
posted by sotonohito to MetaFilter at Apr-22-24 at 9:54 AM
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I try to say "I'd love to troubleshoot that with you" any time I'm tempted to say "I don't know what your problem is, because it works fine for me." I'm an academic librarian, and a recurring complaint of my colleagues is that we'll be demonstrating something in front of a class, and the instructor will interrupt to say "Don't show them that, it doesn't work." Really often, in these kinds of situations, it's user error, but I don't ever want to say...
posted by Jeanne to Ask MetaFilter at Apr-16-24 at 6:34 AM
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I saw Dylan on 1988 at the inaugural concert at the Gorge. I went with a couple of women from work. We booked a motel room together -- an awkward experience all around that turned out to be. I suggested an early start. They demured, expecting a leisurely ride on a two lane black top. Which turned out to be an eleven mile traffic jam moving at the pace of an overweight dachsund. At cruising speed. Had to park a quarter mile away. Our frontrow seats -- I stood in line for hours! -- missed Tracy...
posted by y2karl to MetaFilter at Apr-21-24 at 5:11 PM
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Think that was GE Smith. Whom I also despise for his mugging. GG Allin would have likely been a very different show, (more flying feces and such). Which might have made for a better show, but......
posted by Windopaene to MetaFilter at Apr-21-24 at 5:27 PM
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On lead guitar was the insufferably smug G.G. Alin insufferably mugging throughout as he did when he was in the Saturday Night Live band. Either you mean G.E. Smith or you saw the most interesting show in rock history....
posted by Horace Rumpole to MetaFilter at Apr-21-24 at 5:28 PM
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So, I lived in Austin for a bit. And my mom came to visit, and we ended up in the Little City on Congress, near the capitol, and my mom had her back to the windows, and I said “Mom? Don’t be alarmed, but, if you turn around, you’ll see Willie Nelson riding a horse down Congress.”...
posted by GenjiandProust to MetaFilter at Apr-21-24 at 6:58 PM
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It feeds off of the stereotype that Jews are cunning, devious, and unscrupulous, (a) I think it's primarily Christian Evangelicals who see Jewish people as crash test dummies for their apocalypse and would-be American fascists who think Jewish people provide a great stick to beat (other) liberals with, or both, primarily engaging in fabrications/exaggerations/bad-faith interpretations in this instance (where they are fabrications/exaggerations/bad-faith interpretations, I would never say...
posted by praemunire to MetaFilter at Apr-22-24 at 9:37 AM
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Recipes with high return on investment

If only your economy room included an escape pod

It’s peculiar, in the sense that words are supposed to mean something

“members of the Voyager flight team celebrate”

H5N1 bird flu is spreading to mammals, killing huge numbers.

Ukraine war heading into third summer

10 Years of Jeremy Parish's Works Projects

Willie Nelson Outlaw Tour 2024

Vicky Osterweil on the muddled anti-politics of contemporary movies

By Amun, it's full of stars

Movies with very competent protagonists - difficulty level: no violence.

Negative Space - animation

Unwanted Sound

Unwanted Sound

My Mother, the Narcissist, Now with Dementia!

Not quite Mathematic!

In the future these will be funny stories

See also Arkell v. Pressdram

The Life and Death of Hollywood

The Life and Death of Hollywood

☆彡 ☆彡 ☆彡 ☆彡 It was like fireworks. ☆彡 ☆彡 ☆彡

"Greetings, citizen! Are you getting enough oxygen?"

“I still wanted to help. But I didn’t know what the hell I was doing.”

How easily & cavalierly the works of decades & centuries are demolished

Pie

Cake!

and we'll all go together

and we'll all go together

"so many tech demos end up hiding an ugly truth deep down"

Tom Francis makes an entrance at the Olivier Awards show

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