Most of the major newspapers (this is from a UK perspective but I’d imagine they’re accessible in other places) have a live news page for big developing news stories - the BBC site is probably a good unbiased-ish one

https://youtu.be/JUO7LvDnCPA

I’m a big fan of -ussy as a suffix, especially when it’s wildly unsuitable for the purpose

It’s utterly ruined ales describing themselves as “citrussy”

Hold the newsreader’s nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

To use another from the very late 1900s

The years start comin’ and they don’t stop comin’

An’t

First baby in space yeah, it was a post-Soviet prestige thing

Random thought that I, a fellow 33’er, had yesterday - Sputnik was launched in 1957, 34 years before I was, I’m almost as old as the space age was when I was born

Enjoy!

I kept reading “tessellated”

His coming was foretold on the ancient tablet

I’m in love with the shape of soup

Shot somehow ricochets off the wall, kills stormtrooper, redshirt dies of surprise

You ever drink Baileys from a shoe?

Something janky about the wheels, smells like AI…

Road distances are in miles, speed in mph, heights in feet & inches, anything else is a hot mess generally trending towards metric the younger you are (or if you’re in STEM)

ETA: there was a dumb plan a couple years ago to “reintroduce” imperial measurements after Brexit, mainly aimed at food shops, ignoring the fact that the EU never prevented anyone using them, and then the govt quietly dropped it in December lawl

Antitrust (2001)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_(film)

Bhhaaa the French

First computer in about '99, which I’d “built” (I was 8, so I mostly just watched while my dad’s friend built it and occasionally let me plug some wires in)

First phone, Nokia 3310 in 2003, with a Simpsons case, I think I’ve got it in a box somewhere…

Was about to say the same thing - just annoying it’s not all available online in the UK