oh no I’m ruined 😂

"Foodbanks are at breaking point this winter.. [Trussell] expect to hand out an emergency food parcel every 10 seconds over the next 3 months" The UK has the sixth largest economy in the world #GMB

a fun alternative to Whamageddon I’ve noticed in the last couple of years is now the annual ‘who can get the furthest through December without cracking and turning their heating on’ discussions 🙃

best of luck, fellow players 👍

i see we're all continuing to participate in this tragic farce* that nobody asked for *monday

Good news.

god, listening to the ads on the radio is so depressing, almost every ad is just 'GAMBLE GAMBLE GAMBLE!! BINGO!!SCRATCHCARDS!!BETTING!! DESPERATE FOR MONEY?? THIS IS THE ONLY WAY!! TAKE UP GAMBLING TODAY!!' and the only other type of ad is 'Are you in crippling credit card debt? Call us today...'

I just don't need to know what the Telegraph has written about Dungeons & Dragons. It's a newspaper for people who are frightened of samosas.

When all the while, maybe - just maybe - the EHRC has dug its own grave with its hot mess of transphobic guidance, and this in turn is actually playing very nicely into the hands of the far right. I mean, there’s a more obvious story staring our mates at the guardian right in the face. 4/4

it’s very fun and charming to see the Americans shifting into Christmas Mode post-Thanksgiving on here, when across the pond we have been jingling ALL the way for a solid month already, and at least some of the way since the end of August tbh 😅

the cruel paradox of lemon & ginger tea being the only thing that makes me feel better when I've got a cold, and my deep and abiding loathing for lemon & ginger tea 🤧

Post your favourite Lord Of The Rings character. Wrong answers only.

I've been stuck at home ill and watching Pluribus because my friend let me in on their Apple TV family plan, and I would immediately 100% join the weird alien hivemind, I fear, sign me up no questions asked

genuinely on the list of posts that live in my mind - as the kids say - absolutely rent free right up there along with...

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen: - Joe Hisaishi - Hans Zimmer - Danny Elfman - Stardew Valley - Postmodern Jukebox

Got my Christmas tree up and I’m not even sorry ✨

HE FIXED IT!!! Just a blocked drain outside, blocking the condensation pipe, no new boiler needed!!! 🥳

Boiler repair guy is here and making a lot of shocked and horrified noises 😅

My sister and I have talked about this before - we think it might be why I’m more of a reader than she is, because when I read a book I see the story playing out in my mind’s eye, but she doesn’t! She says she mostly just like…hears the words in her head? Like someone is reading them to her? Weird

silver lining; I AM grateful the boiler broke when it was not yet actually freezing - it's cold as a witch's tit in here, but we're still juuuust in the positives this morning and it looks like it's not gonna dip below until tonight, fingers crossed the boiler guy coming round tomorrow can fix it 🤞

I’ve had a mild headache and weirdly stiff neck for 3 days now and, infuriatingly, literally every thing I type my symptoms into is like ‘yeah that’s a stress headache, classic example’ like noooo I need it to be fixable with a Pill of some kind please, there’s no pill to fix my entire life 😩

in the only good thing to happen this year, Cadbury has apparently replaced the Eclairs with weeny little Flake bars in the Miniature Heroes?? This box may be overpriced and shrinkflationed to all hell, but at least it’s 100% bangers now 😋

my boiler just packed in, because apparently life truly is just being repeatedly kicked in the head over and over again until I die

UK politics is insane to me because every time I tune in even 1% to keep appraised of what's happening there the headlines are all like "GOVERNMENT MAKES IT ILLEGAL TO WATCH KISSING VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE TO PROTECT WOMEN AND GIRLS" and then in tiny font underneath "NHS budget cut by 75% next year"

‘Career path’ lol ‘Choosing’ lmao Mum mentioned there was a Saturday job going at the library where she worked. It was the first job I’d had that didn’t make me consider walking in front of a bus every morning on the way in, so I wormed my way into a full-time job and I’ve been there ever since 🤷‍♀️

It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer… I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

Me, dispensing Sage Advice: "Sometimes in life, you forget to add the spinach into the pasta bake. And that's okay. Mistakes happen." My cat, uncomprehending, but presumably supportive: "mrrowp"

very irritating whenever anyone acts like a relative handful of incel nazi internet dwellers are representative of an entire generation. in reality when that generation see a more left-wing option on offer they flock to it

🎵 …couldn’t bescape if I bonted to 🎶

a chilly little circle of cat

every time I attempt to draw hiragana from memory (don’t even get me started on kanji) I imagine a sad little old Japanese man standing behind me and shaking his head in a disappointed fashion 😅

my phone blowing up this morning with everyone basically yelling the same thing and little videos of snow outside my friends and family members' homes and office windows, I love how snow instantly turns everyone into a big kid 😁

OH MY GOD ITS SNOWING

I've reached the 'swigging vodka directly from the bottle' stage of dealing with my landlord

I really wish chocolate and coffee hadn't gone up SO much in price, it feels so targeted, why couldn't cauliflower or something have doubled in price, why the only 2 things that make life worth living 😩

I think his accent got even accentier!

leasehold is like that 'isn't there somebody you forgot to ask?' meme, only instead of Jesus the somebody in question is a random landlord who lives miles away and has no reason to have anything to do with my home, and yet gets input and final say on literally everything under MY roof somehow

chatting to a contractor that I'm having to get in to do a rush job on my flat at great expense to please my landlord and he was like "yeah I got so sick of my landlord I gave up and now I live on a boat" and honestly I'm kinda tempted 😅

The Labour Party:

Making property owners pay a larger percentage in property tax on each subsequent house they buy would be rad. I'm thinking of that guy who said he owned 15,000 properties. At purchase #100 you'd just pay the full value of the house in taxes every year. This is actually a thing we could do, easy

Every time I hear a politician say that an issue is “dividing” this country they always then come down on the side of the right wing view of it. Just once I’d love to hear someone say “this issue is divisive, which is why I’m making the argument that kindness and compassion is important”

really speedrunning cathedrals this year - a couple of months after going to York Minster, I find myself in Ely!

eating a bacon mac & cheese scotch egg at Ely market - has science gone Too Far 🤔

now do the UK 😊😊😊

feels like we’ve almost managed to climate change our way out of the energy crisis - no one can afford to turn the heating on, but also we don’t need to because it’s fucking 17°C in November, great work everyone 👏

went to the zoo yesterday and honestly mood

I've been battling leasehold law for months, and finally (hopefully) have a new contract hashed out on my flat, but even I will admit that it is a *little* bit funny that technically if my landlord ever demands it of me, I do legally have to provide him with exactly one peppercorn

hate it when I yawn when I’m already horizontal in bed with my eyes closed 🙄 bitch, I already know I’m sleepy!! That’s why I’m here!!

the thing about working in a public service job is that you quickly find out that a MUCH higher percentage of people than you’d think are prone to like…really paranoid delusions