Progress, of sorts. I'm on the slog phase of the ATV book, about a quarter of the way through. Needs more maps.
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Jamie, just your average Merseyside-based foulmouthed slutty gay Welsh socialist vegetarian tattooed historian Green Party member with EDS. he/him. Smiling in the face of perversity. NSFW alt: @bearbehind.bsky.social
My Turkish (Kurdish? Cypriot? The mix of New Britons locally is so amazing I can't tell) delivery driver for my food tonight was so burly and sexy and cute I think I need a wank before I eat my dinner.
Any fellow armed services brats here? Do you have the same problems trying to remember which RAF/Army/Navy camp you were at when discussing childhood events? Being posted every 2 or 3 years was great, but it has fucked with my space-time location skills about my childhood.
Dr Jamiebear 🏳️🌈@jamiebear.uk · 23h ago(It might have been Coningsby though. I have lived in too many places to keep track any more. Discussions about my childhood with my mum all have a 15-minute intervals as we try, and fail, to work out where we were living at the time of the incident under discussion.)
No, I want my order to be sloppily thrown into a box as normal.
My dad was a "difficult person" who had many "extremes" and there was general rejoicing when he finally died, even from people who hadn't paid any attention to the words that fell out of his mouth for years. But he didn't have instant access to newspaper columns and the BBC's Today programme, so 🤷
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterdayApologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.
You didn't know your friend, who received a police caution for assaulting his pregnant girlfriend, was a wrong 'un? Okay, that's at least possible. You didn't know your friend, who wrote about being a paedophile in national publications, was a paedophile? Yeah, you see, now we have an issue.
Ben Goldacre is not good at even basic research. That certainly puts a spin on his books.
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · yesterdayApologies: I’m not online much, I haven't paid any attention to Rod Liddle for a long time, I didn't really know his extremes. I do now: I wouldn’t have posted if I'd known. I’ve seen death of difficult people up close (and its impact on others): that’s the only reason it was on my mind as an issue.
His reply was "Yes, you are cancer free, and you did indeed beat... the cancer." The nurse in the room maintained a neutral expression but her face went purple. It was lovely.
Dr Jamiebear 🏳️🌈@jamiebear.uk · yesterdayMy mum made a point of not swearing in front of me until I was over 16. But after that... oh boy. You can take the girl out of the valleys, but you can't take the valleys out of the girl. She shocked the cancer surgeon when given the all-clear by saying "Fucking hell! I beat the cunt!"
My language, which has never been on the polite side, has been particularly fucking sweary today. That's not just here: I've been effing and blinding at my computer (InDesign is a cunt of an app) and accidentally let a non-directed swear escape while just buying a bottle of wine earlier. Bollocks.
Google Alerts, previously useful, have recently been switched to being powered by their crappy AI. As well as dragging in unrelated alerts there's now an inaccurate summary appended to each one. "Transdiffusion posted about ITV in the 1940s." No we didn't. That's two separate posts mushed together.
30 years ago, the allies lesbian and gay people wanted and needed were the ones who actively didn't give a fuck. "They do [x] in bed!" I don't give a fuck. "They recruit others!" I don't give a fuck. "They are forbidden by [obscure bible passage]!" I don't give a fuck.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · yesterdayI feel like at least some of this self corrects when you stop giving yourself mental medals like "ally" and just act normal with other people who are in fact for the most part, also just normal people
Logopedia's editors, inbetween wanking and drooling, *love* to see a screencap with bad interlacing or a smudged print rendering of a TV logo, create an SVG of it and post it with speculative dates and a use-case as A RARE VARIANT!!1! when it's just a local newspaper throwing something together.
Dr Jamiebear 🏳️🌈@jamiebear.uk · yesterdayI'm not the first to find this, since the absurdly literal version on Logopedia is clearly based on it, but I feel better for knowing I've got primary evidence of how it looked for my throwaway use of it in the ATV Show Book print project thing.
Needed some evidence that the ATV-as-ABC logo from 22 September until 7 October 1955 logo that pops up now and again was not a mock. A last-ditch search for "Channel 9" on the BNA threw this up.
Listen up, everybody! A straight white man is concerned that we care deeply about other straight white men regardless of their views or criminal convictions! Take heed and be better, proles!
Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d agoSad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.
Oh good, we've got another pointless fucking argument brewing (about putting bins out, which is suddenly my job and mine alone after 28 years of whoever's nearest of a Monday night doing it). Think I'll just fuck off to bed instead.
Where were you when you heard Rod Liddle had died? I was looking at statistics showing that the average length of a human penis in the UK had very suddenly gone up by a whole 2.5cm.
Greedy train-leasing company Porterbrook has spent a tiny percentage of the huge profits it makes, for doing nothing, from passengers and taxpayers in order to rebrand in the face of GBR coming. This tripe would not be required if Labour had a damn'd spine.
Porterbrook branding | Hatched London
We rebranded Porterbrook around the power of partnership, creating a modern identity that supports innovation, Long Marston and the future of rail.
hatchedlondon.com
We really need to talk about how passionately I fancy Dan Jeannotte.
I'm afraid that the odds are that I'd also stand up, and start explaining what's so great about gay sex.
Sojourners@sojo.net · 2d ago"Evangelizing to a captive audience isn’t courageous; it’s cowardly." sojo.net/articles/opi...
It is forcing people to witness your kink. I think I would just start farting loudly if someone tried this. "I am filled with the spirit and it must come out."
Sojourners@sojo.net · 2d ago"Evangelizing to a captive audience isn’t courageous; it’s cowardly." sojo.net/articles/opi...
The Voyager photo of Earth and Carl Sagan's pale blue dot speech should be rammed down the throat of every single person on this planet until we, as a species, finally understand our place in the universe.
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
This, and the scrutiny of the bent practices of the party's leader, is one of the reasons that people who believe in FPTP "because it keeps the fash out of parliament" are wrong. Once in the system, they become subject to it and fall apart.
Richard Tice investigated by parliamentary standards watchdog
Reform's deputy leader is being investigated about an allegation he failed to declare an interest.
bbc.co.uk
So many years later, so very many years later, and articles about TV-am still get comments from people hoping that Anne Diamond will help them with consumer issues.
Walking around a food festival in the park when @valleyguitarist.bsky.social starts giggling at this WELL SHIT ALIEN PIZZA
Update: I have popped the joint back into alignment. Let the wanking commence.
Dr Jamiebear 🏳️🌈@jamiebear.uk · 3d agoI appear to have subluxated my right wrist putting the bins out.
