The Divine Comedy to a high budget high quality movie.

ESL here, what would have been the more natural way?

Gen X ignored again, with which we are okay though.

Howard Mitla is having a panic attack.

Counterpoint: dictators that died in their beds because of course they couldn’t be prosecuted under their own regime and have them undergo fair trial. Bonus points if their victims are still alive so they can get some closure. Spain’s Franco comes to mind.

You have (normally) 4 fingers with 3 phalanxes each, plus a fifth one (the thumb) to point at each one of those phalanxes.

But frankly no idea.

We also use the article for personal names, might as well be a cat or dog.

Probably every single European bridge called “Devil’s Bridge” has a story about how he was tricked into making it in one single night and then denied his prize because

• they made a rooster sing before dawn because the contract specified that as the deadline
• they made an animal cross the bridge first because the first soul was to be taken per contract
• they bully him into giving it up with some divine intercession.

Enter three or four of those on Google and the rest will pop everywhere in different lengths and combinations.

I swear a new F word gets added to that list every time I see it.

So far I’ve seen friend, flock, flop, flail, funster, fib…

yt-dlp can download from several other sites, including porn ones.

Ah, shit, I liked nim :(

OMG I just learned that there are also bik, kazh, and gutch.

And no Janet!

Starting a line with one or more hash symbols translates to a header format in certain apps.

Same in Spain: mucha mierda.

Which of the Swiss cheeses is the one that people call “Swiss cheese”?

For me The Name of the Rose is a real masterpiece. I enjoyed The Prague Cemetery as much as Foucault’s Pendulum but I’d personally put Baudolino before those two.

Edit: this was a reply for @ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz, for some reason I keep pressing the wrong reply arrow on the Voyager app.

Umberto Eco.