My hot date for the night is completely uninterested in this YouTube music video session.

This day 10 years ago Teresa Mannion was telling us not to make unnecessary journeys as Storm Desmond hit.

If Skarsgård was in Mean Girls: "I'm not like a regular dom. I'm a cool dom." #pillion #domcom

Babe, wake up, new estimates of UK railway station usage just dropped! April 2024-March 2025 dataportal.orr.gov.uk/statistics/u...

some captchas are particularly humiliating is the fact that I’m searching for “elphaba sex cardigan” not proof enough that I’m not a robot for you, google do I also have to click on two pictures of a bus

We're boarding to the dulcet tones of the Dolly and Kenny Christmas Album. It's been real, Midwest! Next stop, Blighty :)

Spent an afternoon in Lakeview, Chicago before my flight home. If I ever move back to the US, that'll be on top of my list of places to start the next phase of life. *or whatever nearby neighbourhood I'm not priced out of.

Mom and Dad have put on "Ride Like The Wind" by Christopher Cross to accompany their first coffee. Truly, their musical taste never evolved past 1979.

Ratings of Wicked: For Good! Me: B+ My mom: A+ Being able to watch it with mom: A+ Jonathan Bailey sans shirt: A+

Me at the toddler goods store shopping for my 18-month-old niece: "cute, stuffed octopus!" Me now: how the f*** do I wrap an octopus?!

#NYTXW 30 Nov - 21:39. 🐽🐽🐽 Stephan Pastis will be pleased.

Queer-coded transit news: the M train is taking over some of the F train’s service and the F train is taking some of the M train’s service. So, put simply, F to M and M to F.

I jokingly told my dad that Wicked is "The Sapphic Adventures of Oz", then had to explain to him what "sapphic" means. ☠️

A week ago, I was swimming in the ocean. Now I'm girding my loins for the first of a few rounds of shovelling snow.

Expecting nine to fourteen inches of white stuff tomorrow, and that's not just because of Sniffies being surprisingly busy in my hometown. 🌨️ ❄️ ☃️

Observations from heading home for Thanksgiving, a thread: 1) There are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and Brian Urlacher advertising hair restoration on the highway along O'Hare.

📅 #OnThisDay in 2003 (22 years ago): Concorde made its last-ever flight, departing London's Heathrow Airport and landing in Bristol, England. #OTD

My feelings upon leaving Portugal today. Artist: Maurizio Cattelan Seen at Serravles Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto

Is there gas in the car? Yes there's gas in the car! I think the people down the hall know who you are.

The tavern I'm at in Porto has just played "Waterloo" and "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" in quick succession at full volume. Do they want a sing-along bar? Because that's how you get a sing-along bar!

Major fan of this relaxed and spontaneous Tess Daly energy. #strictly

Piscinas naturais @ Porto Moniz today.

Those of you who also watched the 1991 ESC, delirious in lockdown, will understand why I was drawn to this pizzeria.

I'm not sure that a bossa nova version of Jamiroquai's "Space Cowboy" is something anyone needs, but it is what this hotel has decided we should hear.

Woman at the laundromat, pointing at my one pair of colorful briefs amongst a pile of black trunks: "Are these yours?!" ☠️

🎶 You used to call me on your shell phone 🎶

Incredible mineral collection at Monte Palace. If you showed up to "chill" in Vauxhall carrying that quartz on top, I'm sure the hosts would be very excited!

Peacocking @ Monte Palace. #peacock #bird #birdcontent #proudasapeacock

"Welcome to Matias", indeed.

Calçada portuguesa (Portuguese pavement) is a style of mosaic small stone paving common in Portugal, dating to the 19th century. Common designs include geometric motifs and designs evoking the sea. It is also slippery AF when wet. #portugal #paving #mosaic #calcada

At the hospital and a chap just asked someone if Endoscopy was at the main entrance. Was dying to chip in with, "Not necessarily."

Now playing on the bus to the end of the world (Vamus Algarve line 47): "American Idiot" by Green Day, preceded by "Bed Chem" by Sabrina Carpenter.

I walk up to a counter with a bottle of wine named Euphoria. Me: "Loreen's favourite wine." Clerk: "O que ? 🤔"

Heard "Dopamine" in the wild for the first time. It's growing on me.

The cafe just started playing "The Fate of Ophelia", so it's time to start walking again.

We need an American Polanski. Put that way, it sounds like a sausage restaurant somewhere west of the Kennedy in Chicago...

Me in public: My headphones:

Well, Bar TR3S was fun. Lots of fun. It also was not this abomination, which was on a street that made me feel very "Smithers with strippers.gif".

A cool dude on a wall in Lisbon. #streetart #lisboa #lisbon

So far, the few Portuguese words I know have not been very useful: Saudade, Ai Coraco, Grito, and Deslocado. I did just see Telemoveis on a vape shop sign, so that's something.

Trek mostly complete - the final Lisbon-Lagos leg is planned for Sunday - but recap the adventure here!

Oreouroboros

If the Prescott memo is true, and there is a secret cabal of LGBTQ+ journalists stopping any negative stories about trans people being published or aired at BBC News, then, I have to say, they’re doing a really fucking shit job of that.

Welcome to #TekknoTrain2025, my rail journey from Bristol, England to Lagos, Portugal. Inspired by @politicanimal.bsky.social's threads, I'll take you every train of the way. This will set no speed records, but should be a nice case study in joining up fragmented rail systems for a fun journey.

Taking a rare-for-me bus through Broadmead this morning. I'm struck by the presence of a Greggs seemingly every 100 metres. I completely lost my appetite for Greggs about a year ago and haven't missed a thing.

On this Edmund Fitzgerald Day, fellas, it's too rough to feed you.

The Zohran sign generator is pretty neat. homes.luddy.indiana.edu/ccshan/for/f...

absolutely obsessed with "I'm La Voix and I'm just doing this now!" being a core part of the show. #scd #strictly

"Not enough swivel." DRINK! #strictly

Me, flirting.