I need regular access to a bathroom and a fridge, but as of tonight I have niether of those things. Can you share this story and chip in 5$? Honestly even $1 really helps. Please tell a friend, thank you so much. Patreon.com/wordglass Paypal.me/wordglass CashaApp/Venmo wordglass 2/3
This is the disease for which I research and advocate: #MECFS. Even mild presentation is life-changing, and this is what severe looks like. People are surprised so many of us were athletes. They want to believe this can only happen to people who were already unwell. www.bbc.com/sport/athlet...
Beth Dobbin: British Olympic sprinter in bed for 22 hours a day after ME diagnosis
Beth Dobbin ran for Great Britain at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021. Five years on, she is largely bedbound after being diagnosed with ME, a devastating illness for which there is no cure.
bbc.com
Back in MY day we got mad and wrote a 100,000 word fix it fic. Fandom these days is SOFT I TELL YOU they would never survive the things I have seen
David (he/him)@dkbell0.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's not that the story was poorly written (it wasn't). It's that they feel entitled to have their specific fan fiction be recognized as official storyline, and when that didn't happen, they got all up in their feels instead of going to therapy about it.
every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
Hey. Labour MPs. And other MPs, too. Are you on your way to the Commons for the Courts and Tribunals Bill? Grab a coffee. Come over here. And pay attention. 👇🏼
In Titanic, Billy Zane refers to someone as a moron, a word that was only coined that year, and was very unlikely to be in widespread use, even by posh villains.
Daniel@deargodwhaat.bsky.social · last wk.Prompts a fun question: whats the most niche historical inaccuracy in a piece of work that annoys you Not like 'oh they were referring to the wrong king' , more 'they had the wrong king on a banknote in one scene'
There will be a lot of equivocating about all the times search warrants have been executed on members of Congress for corruption investigations and the like, and it can't be stressed enough in how many ways HSI raiding Ilhan Omar is extremely not like that.
I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.
Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2w agoWe’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
It's true, there's no precedent in French history (nor, uh, at the Bastille) for popular protest or property destruction. Great point. No one tell history-buff & self-styled francophile Thomas about Gustave Courbet & the Vendôme Column. He might short-circuit & issue another Open Letter
Its kinda wild seeing corporate management just obliterating the gates that keep them relevant ; namely the assurance that customers are getting quality products made with all the resources and institutional knowledge a corporation entails
WIRED@wired.com · 2w agoMore than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
I just took a nap and had a dream and it was that meeting where the Fellowship of the Ring was being formed and they did the "you have my sword, and my bow" bit and then I was pushed up to talk but I didn't have a weapon so I said "and my unwarranted confidence of a white man" and then I woke up.
You Have My Sword
ALT: You Have My Sword
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YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s
Brian Blessed’s birthday is an excuse to share one of the greatest paragraphs in any memoir ever.
Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played
Who doesn't love a good spreadsheet error. Especially when it informs policy. Wonderful.
Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error
Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data
theguardian.com
Ha! I'm delighted! After I found out, with some tedious work, how to type Ea-nāṣir in cuneiform (𒂍𒀀𒈾𒍢𒅕), I put it into the search bar of 🦆🦆🚶and someone did the work on the search engine to understand it!
thank you for saying this because it's one of those things that's so. obvious. that it feels hard to even make myself spell it out. because i feel steadily more fucking insane every time someone acts like this is not an incredibly basic truth. Abusers Can Lie About Things. They Can Just Lie
Blackavar@blackavar-inle.bsky.social · 3w ago
Suella Braverman too proud for benefits... Went to university for free Studied in Europe using the heavily subsidised Erasmus program Claimed ALL her rent, energy, council tax bills for at least 5 years Millions of pounds in expenses claims She just doesn't call them benefits
1) "... the medical aspects of the illness are on the whole better understood by sick people than by their doctors..." In this new paper, philosopher Chloé De Canson details how the ME/CFS community shares and produces scientific knowledge.
Pls read my books - they take place in my homeland, Texas, where they are challenged & it makes me sad for Lipan readers who want to see characters like them.
Kate Tuttle@katekilla.bsky.social · 2w agoIt's Banned Books Week. Please read widely and bravely.
regressive men are so dismissive of women as human beings, we’re still just Flighty Man Accessories
Marty Lederman@martylederman.bsky.social · 3w agoSamuel Alito: We won't overturn Obergefell because it's engendered reliance interests. Jan Crawford: Well, many people had organized their lives around Roe v. Wade. Alito: No, they didn't. Women merely had an "abstract" interest in "ideas about the kind of society that they were going to live in."
