"This is not an essay about psychogeography or being a flâneur, it is a question of what about settling somewhere is it that resists what is otherwise one of life’s great pleasures." @sylvswarren.bsky.social writes about familiar walks she describes as 'mizmazes. [via @thearsonista.bsky.social]

A lesser explored benefit of cultural expectations of femininity is being able to send your newly out trans friends luxury makeup so they can skip the whole dream matte mousse phase.

One of the oddest things about my favourite youtubers in general is that they will go dark for 13 months or so then drop a PhD level almost 5 h video on the most esoteric shit imaginable and I love it every time

Yesterday I went to the Kerry James Marshall exhibition at the Academy and I cannot remember a single artist exhibition that floored me as much for years

I would strangle RFKjr if I got a chance. Wealth and absolute stupidity in terms of medical matters is eugenics. He is a eugencist.

The compulsory harassment in the workplace training was due tomorrow and as an enby I died laughing at their "transition" graphic

The del toro Frankenstein is a goddamn masterpiece

can redwoock dick sports man who looks like a thumb let me date taylor for five minutes and get a good album again?

Wicker man, glass of wine, roasted pumpkin seeds - happy samhain all

Followed a girl around at my (ahem) all girls school like a lovesick puppy aged 13, but all girls feel like that? Never quite felt like a girl when puberty started. Cut off my first pubic hairs with scissors. Told my mum I think I liked girls as well at 14

Actually baffled, but I also grew up with unrelated Aunties (Indian edition) and unrelated Aunties (friends of my grandparents edition) - do Americans really not have non-familial Aunties?

@cinemashoebox.bsky.social I could see your DMs on preview, but unfortunately the UK government refuses to believe I am old, so I can't get them. You have my email, yes? If not, it's my standard username plus gmail dot com and unhinged is great

Does no-one remember where the term slash fic came from? Christ alive.

One of the things I love most about my colleagues is that we were collectively asked how the in-house AI slop machine could be used and we all simply said "no, that's stupid we will not do that" And management caved

I have no extra money this month and I have had ghost notifications from accounts that were either deleted or shadowbanned before I could promote them, so, if you do have some spare quid

'informed' my god is there ANY level of depravity to which this so-called state will not sink?

Sometimes the scale of animal exploitation just makes me stop and weep. It is such madness and I hate that people I know are good people deep down perpetuate it

*screams* okay, the word a lot of people are looking for is bimodal, not binary. Sex is bimodal AAAARGH

Why??? They both have outstanding bodies of work that are fascinating, what happens if you choose? The other disappears and you have a slightly worse world? Cool, cool cool

The Hague is too good for Netanyahu

LFG!!

When vystopia hits it really hits. Doing some community organising and a lot it on harm reduction and I want to shout you can make a massive level of harm reduction yourself but (stupid arguments that amount to basically I dont want to change)

How do you read The Night Watch and Monstrous Regiment and end up as a tory terf? Pissing on the poor media literacy strikes again

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*hitches up my drawers to wade into the Swiftcourse* Brat was good but made into a Kamala vibe album, actually romantic is a Trump diss song

Thinking about the Sandia laboratories "this is not a place of honour/we considered ourselves to be a powerful culture" and feeling strangely emotional

I actually want this to be the future of everyone who wants smart stuff. It's not smart, I am very cosy because I have a window open and can hear the wind and rain, yet can also be under a blanket on the sofa

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About last weekend….Grateful for being invited to speak at a great conference, being so cared for and for everyone’s enthusiasm for what I had to say! And all the rock art ❤️ #CampoLameiro

Omnivores will come into your DMs unprompted and then ask what do you eat and then they're just airfrying some frozen chicken nuggets on their feed

Turning on your wake up alarms after holiday is a hate crime

Osip Mandelstam's poem Tristia. That breathtaking first line: "I have mastered the art of saying goodbye."

After getting my hopeless minus eight minus six astigmatic eyes lasered fifteen years ago, I am back in the land of glasses-wearing, and oddly I feel more like myself

Sent what I would spend easily, everyone's threshold is different, but also every bit helps - if you can, you should (if you cannot, do not feel bad, the system fails us all)

Cites MIT study on decreasing cognitive function, stares at the University in disgust

Last snorkel of the trip and out beyond the headland saw a beautiful common octopus emerge from their rock, camouflage into the rocky bed, then jet forward and wrap around a rock before becoming green and grey mottled, wrapping their tentacles around it, followed by a court of wrasse and bream

Rima desperately needs help, and bluesky is making posts from this account inaccessible from notifications, please do donate or boost

Reading a book by Alexanderos Papadiamandis and the translation is so Irish it brings a sense of joy

Current state of the labour party, sir Keith can fuck right off and fuck off again

Reading Kostas Karyotakis and this resonated

Look, I like Món. But she is so wrong about LLMs, just don't interact with them, the theft climate crisis making you stupid machine is a say no situation, not a "I can fix him" thing

Come on unprecedented events, hurry up

I am so tired. Have been having conversations with people since the overlords refused voluntary and are now prevaricating and trying to force a ballot even though we are at a majority.

Can anyone explain why I see getting a tattoo as a fun little decision but putting a sticker on an item feels overwhelmingly permanent?

A grand free talk here

Join a union, if your company doesn't have a union make one (quietly at first), discuss salaries (some people will have been told its taboo, treat them gently), write to your MP, write to whoever you need to, register your discontent because I personally do not want to wield a shovel to dig graves

My MP gave a boilerplate response, I provide receipts be our public servants. Cunts. (Yes there is a typo on your and you're, I had to use my phone to screenshot, go away)

The Wicker Man. First watch, beguiled by Lord Summerisle and his idyll; fifth watch, reluctantly realising that Howie was right, and how totalitarian regimes can be wrapped in pretty paper but serve the richest above all else

like, at least monarchy has had several centuries of inbreeding, these are de novo idiots

I find it fundamentally offensive that our new tech overbro-lords are such idiots