Went on a gorgeous 20 mile walk yesterday from Henley-on-Thames through the Chilterns to Chinnor. A light dusting of snow, red kites constantly wheeling overhead, beautiful sunshine - only hiccup was that my map told me Chinnor had a station to finish at. It is a heritage station for steam trains.

From me and mine to you and yours - have yourselves a merry little Christmas. x. 🎅

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

The evenings are getting shorter.

@glis.bsky.social Look what arrived from Italy!

The sampler menu at Bubala Soho is amazing - and kinda huge. But the real star was the company; love to @kittz.cool 💕

Making good on getting out of the flat now I'm retired - 60 miles walked so far this month!

Bah. Having finally got an ADHD prescription from an NHS specialist after _years_ of trying, I am now writing a goddamn Erowid-style trip report for the clinic because it looks a whole lot like lisdexamfetamine is Not For Me. (I have also spoken with NHS 111 - rest assured, there is no emergency.)

FREE AT LAST! If I've done my maths correctly, I am, as of this moment, retired. I'm hopeful that no longer living by someone else's schedule will be a huge burden lifted from me - but I'm keenly aware that now I have the opportunity to live as I see fit I need to actually _take_ it.

The marketing text on the back of this Tom Lehrer record is impeccable. Everywhere you look, a banger.

Apparently it’s 10 years today since I discovered that adding googly eyes to the tap on a wine box makes it look like Shaun the Sheep.

If you’re a Republican, and you’re not a Nazi, yes you are.

All political news these days sounds like a random event in Crusader Kings you only get if all of your stats are at 0

@jkass99.bsky.social @lionsledbydonkeys.bsky.social YouTube just vanished the majority of your videos? This is what I'm seeing as your Latest videos on YouTube GB (and also YouTube US via VPN):

LAUSD doing some good. The Right will absolutely shit themselves over this. www.cbs42.com/news/nationa...

@marthawells.com Murderbot Diaries gets a spot on Adam Savage's favourite things of 2024: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXR4...

My gingerbread for this year. Merry Christmas and happy Voyages to all!!

with thousands of people panicking over planes and stars in NJ i believe modern man has, through technology, finally completed his transition back to medieval peasant

This is the script I used to delete everything, and it worked great in Chrome: upriseri.com/fight-back-h... The new "any image or text you ever posted will be used for our gen AI" part of the Twitter TOS takes effect in two days.

If you're still online to go insane today, STAY ONLINE. If you stay online until 8pm, they HAVE to let you go insane.

this is an opportunity for me to post sigourney weaver in a three piece suit because we all need to see sigourney weaver in a three piece suit

Finally! news.northwestern.edu/stories/2024...

If you vote legally, he's going to jail.

@loweringthebar.bsky.social Nobody ever listens: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news...

this is like the time i got a new label maker

This has officially made my week

How many licks does it take to get to the center of a Cybertruck?

SUBERB OWL FACT owls have knees and can sit cross-legged

Yesterday I went for a 3 hour autism assessment. After 5 hours I came away with an ADHD diagnosis. The original purpose was to tease out which traits arose from my long-term depression and which were my baseline - but now I'm thinking it's just a huge arrow pointing at dopamine disregulation.

Before you say something mean about Henry Kissinger, take a breath and see if you can think of something meaner

@funranium.bsky.social Are there classes above Class 4? (Although, by Amazon classification rules, this is "<5mW".) www.clf.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Vulcan...