This is beautiful writing about what happens when strangers on the internet narrativise you, based on 30 seconds of video 👇

Me? Oh, I'm just ruminating on the fact that this SHEPHERD'S PIE will be easily the most expensive meal we've cooked this month. Please ignore the molotov cocktails I'm prepping in the next room. I'm sure I'll calm down again in due course.

Naming the "Ableism" list so that a screen reader pronounces it "Four bee ell three one ess em", 10/10 bit

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 2d ago

Okay but why are you doing it in leetspeak

Cannot express enough the speed at which I would turn the game off, put down the controller and immediately sell the console.

GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Microsoft has patented an "ad-credit" system to display adverts and announcements during PC and Xbox game sessions without disrupting gameplay www.gamesindustry.biz/microsoft-fi...

Not that I've had an off-kilter evening of emotional ups and downs or anything... but it's 2:30 in the A M here, I'm far from asleep, and my brain is busy composing a song titled, "Oh we're all going to party when he carps it."

This is absolutely true. Centrist politicians have essentially fetishised "tough choices" into being an end in itself. If you don't have to throw someone under the bus to achieve some broader strategic goal (even if you're not certain what that goal is), it's not grown-up politics.

steviebaby🫡@steviebaby.bsky.social · 7d ago

i really think democratic politicians are all just addicted to making compromises. they can't get enough! they would broker a compromise between jeffrey dahmer and his victim to let dahmer eat just a forearm

Fuck all of this shit, I'm going to live harder.

dang, new cat all pissed. this is not the face of an animal who is pleased to have been discovered.

"If I just bought all my stuff from myself I could charge me a billion dollars and I'd be a trillionaire. I am very smart."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Trump: "If we stopped trading with every country that we have a deficit with -- which is most of them, and which would be very easy to do -- we would make at least $1.5 trillion a year."

The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour

My (35M) support acts (43M, 29M, 37M, 24M) have unionised!

This is just a spectacular unintentional self-own

Same as UK. “we might get a Reform government” trans people already have a Reform government.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2w ago

Cis lib: no, no, no. You don't get it. You have to vote for the transphobic Democrat because otherwise bad policies would affect ME and not just you.

sorry i can’t vaccinate my dog, i’m worried he’ll get autism. and that would make it so much harder for him to get a job so he can move out and get his own apartment??? i’m just worried about the economy mostly, now my whole family has rabies which we are treating with horse dewormer.

One of the more insidious phrasings I've seen with the Dems/trans rights discourse lately is the idea that trans people are being greedy and demanding a "maximalist" approach to trans rights. No, you cannot call the state of rights American trans people had as recently as 2023 "maximalist," sorry.

An AI flyer is a brown M&M test. If your event or business is cutting corners by using an AI flyer, where else are you cutting corners? What else are you cheating out on? Why should I be bothered to go somewhere you couldn't be bothered to promote with a little of your own personality?

The inside of this is extremely Crimes Against Sewing, and I'll be shedding loose threads from here to York, but IT'S FINISHED!

Just passed CRISPS SCAFFOLDING SOLUTION on the bus. Sounds like a terrible idea

This jigsaw is pants. (old jeans are becoming a corset belt)

God have mercy, an old friend of mine was one of Orr’s students who had quit his PhD and can only speak about it now

I have set up a fundraiser with RNLI, with the plans to do a fundraising stream later this month. It's not going to fix everything, but it will be a small and functionally useful "fuck you" to some of the worst pricks in town.

A lot to be said about this, but one thing that stands out immediately is how the far right understands safety not as something owed to everyone but as something controlled and distributed through hierarchy. Whose safety matters, and the ways in which it matters, is contingent on their place in it.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 3w ago

A detail missing from The Times story… the woman who took the photo shared it to a Facebook group called ‘South east patriots’.

For this week’s #OliveArtClub please make art based on this Tigger melon. All skill levels and mediums welcome, special hello to absolute beginners or restarting artists. No AI. Feel free to share or sell any human-made art. I took the photo (and grew the melon)

THUSLY several years into the process you are surrounded by things that you made but you can't remember how you made them or where the ideas even came from and it's like you're an actual wizard. A perpetually astonished and confused but very happy wizard, with your collection of beautiful objects.

Crafting is great because you get an idea for a thing and then you simply... make the thing ...which doesn't turn out at all how you pictured it ...but you can see where you went wrong ...so you figure out how to improve ...and get sidetracked by other things you could make ...and you make those

Yes yes yes, and I say this as someone who would typically be classed as an introvert. You know how I got this way? Being consistently told (by men who pretended to care about me) that almost every contribution of mine wasn't welcome, wasn't funny, showed them up in some way... it all adds up.

Keezy Young🌼@keezyyoung.bsky.social · 3w ago

just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't happen lmao. annoyed at this pervasive idea that extroverts (especially talkative people with ADHD, and especially people who aren't "supposed" to be loud, like for example women) are never punished for it

just stop oil protesters got five years in jail for *planning* to do this to the M25.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 3w ago

Masked protesters block access at Port of Dover

This the same day as a gang of masked fascists descend on Dover after decades of radicalisation directly from Farage. This *is* the fascism. This is what it looks like. The ‘risk of fascism’ is in the rear view mirror.