I backed a board game last year from club crochet which has the option of crafting dinosaur pieces instead of using the cardboard ones. It finally arrived this week (along with one part of the crochet materials addon I chose) so I have been making amigurumi dinosaurs! #lavarun #clubcrochet

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Hopefully for Stefan's sake the number of mistakes were first week nerves, as there were a few nice moments of footwork. #scd

Some attempts at cha-cha straight legs from Harry, top half of the body needed a bit more work to get the latin movement. #scd

So far, Chris did something that was at least more or less identifiable as 'supposed to be a samba' but didn't seem like he was really 'hearing' the music. Alex could have been a lot smoother but for week 1 pretty good. #scd

approximately three hundred of you have sent me this and you know what? Sure. I’ve got time today. Put 40 bulbs of garlic in my pasta, coming right up

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

You will never guess where this is going.

The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.

“I’m not sure I want to give way to the right” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

The British Media Arresting someone for wearing Palestine T-shirt: Good Arresting someone for inciting violence against a trans person: Bad Ok…got it.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

So many people supremely relaxed about inciting people to violence - and strangely none of them with a skin colour or gender or immigration status which makes them routine targets of violent people.

People are melting down at a Tribune article about CHSD 230 considering adding Arabic to its language learning electives. I wasted time in the comments, which I normally avoid doing since it's useless and awful, but it led to possibly the funniest thing anybody's ever said to me about France.

BAN THIS FILTH

There is no route out of fascism that involves sacrificing the vulnerable. All that does is tell the fascists that we're willing to turn on each other for the illusion of safety.

Understatement of the fucking year right here.

I just a couple weeks ago had my 2nd MMR dose as the standard schedule when I was a toddler only included 1. If like me you were born in the 80s check with your GP, you may also be under-vaccinated (and the NHS is more than happy to give you the missing dose!)

From a ten-year-old Facebook post: The thing people tend to misunderstand about Spider-Man’s credo is that it’s scalable. With any power comes concomitant responsibility. Peter Parker didn’t need spider-powers to trip the burglar at the TV station. Almost anyone could have done it.

I like this campaign, though we could maybe talk about beefing it up a bit, ideally with summary execution for a first offence.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? I have at least a chance at making it out... might end up temporarily damaged in the process, but...

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

I was completely sincere when I'd say "the gaps in the backstory are you to fill in with your fanfic. If I leave no gaps, where will your WHITE COLLAR crossover go?"

Day-to-day I only carry San Marino, and would never leave the house with more than Leichtenstein.

www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.

The "oh you won't compromise and abandon [marginalized group]? enjoy the nazi takeover!" argument rings pretty fucking false when you consider that the horrors of a nazi takeover begin with the abandonment of marginalized groups.

the youth yearn for livejournal and dreamwidth

One of those science stories that makes you go WHAT IN THE FU- until you read beyond the first four words. Sounds disgusting, but kind of amazing, too

Personally I hope we find out that what Gollum was doing while wandering about looking for the ring was either solving a series of cozy murders (Precious We Wrotes) or performing in an incompetent hobbit amateur dramatic troupe (The Ring that Goes Wrong)

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

It's been a week. I went into work an hour late this morning and still have nearly 2 hours of flexitime credit to 'spend' next week...

I wrote to M&S about the stupid lingerie department story - confirms nobody offered a bra fitting to a teenage girl. The Telegraph and JK can (always) do one.

This is an attempt to remove trans people from public life and no other spin on it should be accepted.

Using the Greenwich Meridian as my E/W 'zero' point (which for where I live now is... basically bang on) - Furthest I've been: E: Rotorua, New Zealand W: Vancouver, Canada N: Tampere, Finland S: Queenstown, New Zealand Had to do some comparisons of map coordinates on some of these...

this is a typically fascinating piece from mic, about how a tall member of staff at M&S asking a customer if they need help turned into “a man pretending to be a woman attempted to assault a child!!!” based on… pretty much nothing?

Notably in here: "Sex Matters" now taking the position that even the "Men's" and "Women's" sections of a clothing retailer should be regarded as prescriptive "single sex spaces" where anyone they judge to be the "wrong" sex/gender should not be allowed.

A couple thousand years? Its been at least 150,000 years. Homo sapiens have been leveraging our collective strengths to lead to better outcomes for everyone for the entire existence of our species. Its literally what we evolved to do.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

Latest Strange New Worlds ep is... not subtle about the meta

Another Pride and Prejudice remake on the way and still no Muppets version. When will the world get the Miss Piggy as Mrs. Bennet we deserve

The theory of protecting young kids from seeing things online they aren't prepared for? Fine. The actual way this act goes about that? Just all wrong.

Reddit has officially blocked subreddits such as r/periods, r/stopsmoking, r/stopdrinking, and r/sexualassault for UK minors and anyone in the UK who is unwilling to submit their age/identity information. All in fear of violating the UK's Online Safety Act.

this is what beit hanoun looked like (from arabi21.com/story/155862...)

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. tomlehrersongs.com

Tom Lehrer.

Well I had planned to go see Fantastic Four at the cinema today but both of the trains I'd considered using to get there have been cancelled (major train problems in my area today) so I guess that's not happening (the next regular screening isn't for a couple more hours which is later than I like)