Noël Darling

@decemberrising.bsky.social

I don’t know, I just work here.

Literally had no idea who Rod Liddle was- but man the UK responses to his demise are eloquent, witty, dry-humoured poetry with incredible snap to them. Imagine someone so reviled that the world found out about him through his trending passing. Brilliantly done UK. 👏😂

150,000 marched yesterday in London for trans rights. Opened the Sky News app. Scrolled and scrolled. Nothing. BBC News app. Nothing. Guardian app. Nothing. This is what actual silencing looks like.

#intrusivebookidea premise: FBI is tasked to watch regular people who are really just “Left.” While watching the mirror-phone they obv. have… they fall in love with this girl who is just, moderately smart, & plays Spelling Bee from the NYT ridiculously well, but also quirky in the words that…

Pro tip: Let your least “Do it for the plot” friend take over decision making in your more yolo type actions. This will save you lots of of stupid consequences for stupid decisions. I will not be expounding on that.

We need to talk more about age limits in government service, from Congress to the Supreme Court. These are people with generous pensions. At some point, they need to know when it’s time to go. Too many refuse. Maybe it’s time to make it law.

#ladygateguard Guy that works at the store came up to me for the first time ever- said “Hi, I’m ___, Can I have your number?” I literally paused, and was like, why? I thought he might be a manager or something? Nope. Just wanted to chat. Literally my first time seeing him. Is he watching me? 🫥🤮

currently reading a whole bunch of petitions and editorials from black americans of the revolutionary era and it is so striking (and frankly inspiring) to see how the ink wasn't even dry on the declaration before black americans were demanding that the patriots live up to their stated ideals

So Scientific American did an article on the hydrogen peroxide they added to the algae pool… Turns out the “expert” they got to weigh in has a bachelor in Sports Management and is named Tim. Tim has some ‘splaining to do