I saw a book in our local pizza joint, that I initially misread as “The London Flame Thrower Cookbook,” and thought I *must* have a copy of this book

It turns out the actual title was “The London Plane Flower & Cookbook” which doesn’t make any kind of sense until you learn there’s a restaurant called The London Plane

@fluque @bagder looks like that site is getting clobbered, but it’s been archived:

https://archive.is/Xfyni

@davidrevoy I did in fact see an ad for an AI powered “clever commode” this morning, so, it’s happening

@Npars01 @cstross And if it somehow manages to get built, it was despite Musk, not because of. They literally have to wall shit off from him in order to get things accomplished