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💾 byte wrangler | ☕ tea drinker | 🚆sometime traveller | 🎶🎭 caster of side-eye at 4'33" and regietheater

hanging out in the minuscule venn diagram intersection of linux, opera (not the browser) and WoT fans

#ClassicalMusic #Opera #Linux #Foss #Cycling #TheWheelOfTime #НетВойне
#nobot #noarchive

[Avatar image is a black & white owl on a branch. Credit: Nature Vectors by Vecteezy]
[Header image is an illustration of how to modulate from C Major to B# Major 🙃 Credit: Threatening Music Notation]

God love Margot Robbie..
BUT not as Catherine in this Emerald Fennell version (?!) of Wuthering Heights?!

Absolutely f'ing NOT?!?! Wtf? 👀

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fLCdIYShEQ

Merriam-Webster can add this entire film to their definition of sacrilege. That is all.

#WutheringHeights #Nope

"Wuthering Heights" | Official Trailer

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Not even 9.30 in the morning here yet, and it's already 33C (91.4F)!! FML 🫠💀

С Новым годом! И с лёгким паром 🎉😌

May the steam be with you in the New Year 🛁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VfKTZ-W83U

#IronyOfFate #NewYear2026

На Тихорецкую состав отправится (из кинофильма "Ирония судьбы, или С легким паром!")

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Apparently I can only finish one Robert Jordan book per year...

Sooo..will 2026 be the year when I finish Lord of Chaos..? 🤔
Let us see! 😅😂

Also I guess my TBR list may need a complete refresh at this point.. 🫣😅

#TheWheelOfTime #Books #2026

David Sedaris as Crumpet the Elf singing "Away in a Manger" à la Billie Holiday is absolute, uncanny perfection that will never get old 🎶🧑‍🎄😂

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/25/nx-s1-5656173/a-holiday-tradition-david-sedaris-reads-from-the-santaland-diaries

#SantalandDiaries #DavidSedaris #BillieHoliday

I'm on call for work during this year's Christmas hols, b/c of course I am 💀

So while I wait to get paged for a systems implosion, meanwhile I'm taking comforts where I can.. 😅

Currently playing in the Xmas line-up:
The famous "Dave Cooks the Turkey" story from The Vinyl Cafe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VmMUM0HW6E

You're welcome 🦃🎄

(Also: Vinyl Cafe >>> A Prairie Home Companion #sorrynotsorry 😏)

#VinylCafe #StuartMcLean

Dave Cooks the Turkey

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It's that time of year again!

To quote from the best Christmas movie ever: The Lion in Winter (1968) 🎄🏰🗡🛡

'Well, what shall we hang: the holly, or each other?'
-King Henry II

😏😂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX7zUuS4gxw&t=134

#LionInWinter #Plantagenets #Christmas #PeterOToole #KatharineHepburn

Lol, the air is so hot now that it's causing some of the building's smoke alarms to randomly go off 💀
Time to melt.. 🫠🌡️