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So, Darcy and I started watching The Boroughs. It's basically Stranger Things but with old people instead of kids. Not important.

What I want to talk about is one of the actors (not an old people) - his name is Seth Numrich and he looks uncannily like James Marsters.



It is distracting. I want to bleach his hair & see how he does with a London accent...

ETA: Something's up with Squidge images, had to re-upload.

Really interesting dissection of para-social relationships

Diary Of A CEO Responded To My Takedown. I Wasn't Ready For This


From the description:

This video is about why our brains can't tell the difference [between someone we have only met online and someone we know IRL], and what that same wiring does to a man that 50 million people are watching.

It started because I wanted to take the Mickey. Then I read the research, and the piss-take died in my hands.

I feel like I have barely kept up with anything. /o\ The start of the academic year is always the WORST, and now it's finally gone quiet my brain's decided that it needs a rest and refuses to engage.

But, here are are two nice things.

Autumn here in the UK has been slow in arriving, although this week it finally got cold and the leaves are turning pretty colours and beginning to fall. In the Faroes, however, autumn is a less pumpkin spice lattes and more Wrap Up The Weather Is Horrible. My mother sent me this, filmed earlier this week:



Also autumn has brought another Eivør album:



Enjoy. <3