Saw The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari last night in a bar screening. Despite being sat only three rows back, I had to keep leaning to one side to read the subtitles so can now confidently declare whoever decided subtitles should be at the bottom of the screen and not at the top of the screen was an idiot

There's a shiny purple SUV parked in our street, just in case anyone was wondering where the fricking Joker was

Girl who has only seen one Ray Dennis Steckler film, watching 'Rat Pfink a Boo Boo': Getting a lot of 'The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!?' vibes from this.

Hi, I'm incompetent/negligent hospital staff during my birth, almost jumping over a railing as a kid not knowing that it was around a shaft from an underground carpark and a six(?) storey drop, a Landrover spinning out of control, and across all three lanes, as it passed me on the motorway one night

Chuck Wendig@chuckwendig.bsky.social · 6d ago

Introduce yourself as what almost killed you: "Hi, I'm the possum that died in your family well!"

Just saw some amazon reviews of a book by a friend, one of which included this gem: "Not written in American English, so some words aren't familiar. Wouldn't recommend."

The majority of the writing around dating apps being heteronormative means you get stuff like this, talking about how most men don't make much effort with their app profiles and there's nothing to really make use of when sending the first message www.independent.co.uk/life-style/b...

Bumble has stopped making women message men first – and I know why

The dating app has axed the female-initiated messaging feature that set it apart from its competitors. Helen Coffey digs into why putting the power – and responsibility – into women’s hands was always...

independent.co.uk

I used to run a back alley castration business. Well, I say back alley, it was more of a cul-de-sac.

What photo editors are y'all using on android phones? Don't need anything swanky; just need a good collage function, that allows me to set the orientation, position and size of each sector of the collage rather than having only a couple of pre-set options

Why did they call it Oblique Strategies and not Brian Uno?

Finally going to have my first Garden Cinema experience tomorrow, for The Swimmer, as hosted by the very lovely Zodiac Film Club

*looks at all the lesbians in knee-length jorts* When they said be gay, do crime, I don't think they meant crimes against fashion

*Mark E Smith voice* 🎵 Gothy alt baddies in hot weather

New EHRC guidance to forbid random women, when they stop suddenly on the pavement, to say "sorry darling" to the trans woman whom they caused to almost walk into them by their aforementioned sudden stop. The code stipulates that they must instead deliver said trans woman a death stare and sneer

So, am I going to wake up tomorrow as a law breaker/rule bender/some other level of non-complying naughty person? I'm assuming that that is where we find ourselves

Peach, orange and raspberry-flavour Twister Freezes. You can thank me later

I was about to turn 31 when I first started to even deal with being trans, was almost 38 when I transitioned full time, and was probably mid-30s when it was basically a case of "everywhere accept at work"

Hannah Who@notablyuncool.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you have transitioned later in life, please know how deeply you are needed here. Your story is the exact proof someone else needs to finally take their first step.

If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.

Food $200 Data $150 Rent $800 Peanut butter $3,600 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

Can't wait for the "M&S is selling crotchless knickers to trans women" crossover outrage

Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚@barrynorton.bsky.social · 3w ago

"We go to Marks and Spencer to feel safe, not to wander through a red-light district." It's a DISGRACE!

Have decided that today is the day for the annual car boot sale-esque experience of looking for the gems amongst all the junk and go to the RA's summer exhibition

Things friends say to you when you're clothes shopping and when you're seeing someone: "is this not just another slightly different of the same top as usual?"

JK Rowling funding her trans exterminationist campaigns by selling children's books to liberals 🤝 the NYT funding their trans exterminationist campaigns by selling puzzle games and recipes to liberals (and also for both, cis people will get really upset at trans people asking them not to)

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️@mady.cat · 3w ago

In other words, NYT is increasingly becoming a gaming and recipe company, with revenue from that business helping subsidize the higher costs of their journalism (which has been weaponized in favor of trans genocide). They depend on liberals not caring enough to boycott them.

This is exactly how I felt when Patti Smith bought him on to play with her for the last song of her encore at the Palladium last year. It wasn't exciting or cool; it was "get this abusive piece of shit out of my sight, and you've just tainted what had been until this point a fantastic gig"

Stacy King@stacyking.com · 4w ago

The framing of this as "crashing" frustrates me, because this was absolutely a stunt arranged through & with the support of Comic Con, probably to avoid the protests & pushback if people had known about it in advance. It's not a fun perk for fans, it's stealth marketing of a domestic abuser.

they've turned the dinosaurs gay

Lia@liadanmakes.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Homosaurus (homosaurus.org), an international LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary, is recruiting! I'm a member of the English Term Development Committee, and we anticipate reaching out to applicants in September. Application here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Almost doesn't count as loads of you fancy him on screen anyway but Ben Whishaw is hotter in real life (I've not met him but I have sat near him a couple of times). He's ridiculously charismatic in a way that doesn't come through camera. The dude literally radiates

Jeremy Dauber@jeremydauber.bsky.social · 4w ago

Random question: what celebrity have you met in real life who was dramatically better looking than ypu thought they were based on on screen appearance?

Screengrabbing Gail's post to help limit the audience for reasons but... appeared prominently in a video seen by possibly every TERF in the country and, should any of them have been bothered to go to a modicum of effort, was probably fairly easily doxable at the time. That was some weird ass shit

An out-of-date reference that hits or misses entirely based on how you're pronouncing Mbaye, as I have my finger on the pulse of 2026

Bjorn Grainger@bjorngrainger.bsky.social · 4w ago

Probably huge cope on my part, but hoping the Garnacho loan means we are still in the market for a permanent speedy winger. We need a bigger squad for CL football, and maybe this allows us to bed in a younger, less-experienced player without putting too much pressure on them (Mbaye?)

Rewatched James Gladstone's Rollercoaster at the weekend, and now convinced that George Segal as Harry Calder was André Villas-Boas's style icon

On the 5th August, the EHRC's Code of Practice becomes statutory guidance. It will make life even harder for many trans & non-binary people. It's unworkable & harmful. The Good Law Project is challenging & wants to hear from people affected by these exclusions. goodlawproject.org/discriminato...

‘Discriminatory’ and ‘unworkable’ trans guidance to come into force | Good Law Project

The equalities minister has ordered the government’s harmful code of practice will apply from 5 August – we’re pushing back

goodlawproject.org

If I see a The Lair of the White Worm meme, I'm sharing a The Lair of the White Worm meme 🐍 Happy Wyrd Wednesday!