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David M Willis! SPX table F2 @damnyouwillis.bsky.social

still upset that 9cl is the only reason i even know that "slattern" is a word that exists

aug 10, 2025, 1:40 pm • 46 0

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Jean Cabot @prairiehamster.bsky.social

I don't need to get into why I use it regularly, but it's also the name of a monster in Pacific Rim which led to my gf going 'this? You mean THIS?' with a gif.

aug 10, 2025, 1:42 pm • 4 0 • view
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Positronic Brain @positronicbrain.usrobots.org

Yep, that's where I heard it too. Let's see if they mention Raiju and Scunner tomorrow!

aug 10, 2025, 1:52 pm • 2 0 • view
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Cassius335 @cassius335.bsky.social

Sounds like someone's headmaster.

aug 10, 2025, 4:01 pm • 0 0 • view
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Brigid Keely She/Her @brigid.bsky.social

That's just proof that you aren't his target audience (an arrogant know-it-all that read dictionaries for fun during down times in class in grade school).

aug 10, 2025, 10:49 pm • 0 0 • view
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An Anonymous User @anocelittle.bsky.social

Oh Brooke and his Word A Day calendar….

aug 10, 2025, 1:46 pm • 2 0 • view
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org

it's a word if you're a Victorian moralist

aug 10, 2025, 1:48 pm • 3 0 • view
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David M Willis! SPX table F2 @damnyouwillis.bsky.social

fine, a word that existed

aug 10, 2025, 1:59 pm • 2 0 • view
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Matthew R Francis @bowlerhatscience.org

this is also the guy who loves the word "wedlock", which to me always sounds like something bad that happens to your old car

aug 10, 2025, 2:00 pm • 2 0 • view
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Hideo Kojima's JEPH STRANDING @ass.golf

brooke's thesaurus pages mysteriously stuck together

aug 10, 2025, 1:43 pm • 25 0 • view
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Andy "S" Mason @andysdrawings.co.uk

Dude does go back to that well a lot, huh ..... Ironically

aug 11, 2025, 6:42 am • 0 0 • view
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A Monster Most Prosperous @aprosperousmonster.bsky.social

It was Neal Adams for me (Hey comics fans: if you wish 9CL was less about sex and legs and more about Batman and the Hollow Earth conspiracy, check out "Batman: Odyssey"! It somehow makes just as much sense!)

Dr Slattern makes his first appearance
aug 10, 2025, 2:43 pm • 1 0 • view