Is there any point in meditating the achiness and joint pain I'm getting with covid, if it's bearable? I can take paracetamol and celecoxib, which might work, you never know. Do they do anything else useful, reduce inflammation or something? Because I can probably wait this out, I've had far worse.

I can vouch for Daisy and for what's been happening here. Daisy is a talented creator and often gives his time and expertise to help others. If you can spare a few dollars/pounds/Triganic Pu to make a bad person continue to leave them alone, you're doing good for audiodrama and for a fellow human

Sod, I've got covid. Possibly from the vet who visited on Tuesday, I've let them know. Robin is negative and has gone off to his flat with the cat, the Pluslife and some antihistamines. I've necked down extra antihistamines, Co-Q10 and omega 3, and left a message for my endocrinologist.

When Jeeves first arrives at Bertie Wooster's home he says he was "sent by the agency". He never says WHAT agency. It's not a staffing agency, it's a secret govt dept that exists to preserve the status quo by preventing the critically daft upper class from shenaniganing themselves to the guillotine

ok confession time I’ve been in the ICU for most of the last week & I’m struggling so so so hard the doctor has suggested I get a dog to help me, but I cannot afford the cost of a hypoallergenic dog, let alone the cost of a service dog do we think this is even worth the attempt to fundraise? y/n

Oh my god please stop associating bigotry with health Do you want to be better than her or not

Plus a tiresome "will they, won't they" between Shagrat and Gorbag.

That's right, you guessed it: a remake of The Office set in the offices of the Nazgul in Minas Morgul. Nine mortal kings and their secretaries (and Gladys in charge of the copy room and Chester the mail guy and Trevor--god, I hate that guy--Trevor from HR), all trying to be promoted to Witch-King.

I'm sure that The Office sequel about the newspaper will be fun, but am I alone in wanting something a little different? A different kind of workplace comedy? One with a little higher stakes, one that's maybe a little darker, where the humor is a bit more cutting and boss is actually bad?

A copy of my birth certificate is in the lockbox of trusted friends because I am a disorganized flake, but having these things at multiple addresses seems increasingly necessary.

Thinking about that Chicago apartment building. Everyone got their apartments tossed as well, and this is how you can become functionally undocumented. How does somebody who lost their paperwork this time prove they're who they say next time?

Anyway in my Mad Scientist Scenario, the EXTRA funny thing would be that you never get to see the lab or the disaster Like, every time he just shows up and is like "Uh, one very large very dirty martini please" and he's like. Smoking. Or still on fire. Or has creatures clinging to his shirt.

Okay this would be very very funny and sharp and I wish I could either write it somehow, or star in it as the lightly-alcoholic mad scientist hero with a chip on his shoulder against Starfleet HQ (coming to the bar/lounge directly after lab disasters every time)

Now with full alt text, credit to @robinjohnson.bsky.social, and a photo of the poet himself.

Well, that headline is certainly a historic first.

I'm sorry, I tried not to

Uncaffeinated thought of the moment: I don’t want a lavender marriage, I want a lavender FWB arrangement where the benefits part is having a straight-passing dude on standby to go talk to mechanics and plumbers for me so I don’t get the special Little Lady pricing.

I'm still hunting. Been a while since I reminded you all so...hello! Please let me live with you(or with someone you know). I'd really really like to be settled before Christmas so I'm starting to get a wee bit nervous now #SpéirGhorm #SpéirGorm

I have a theory that Spock's human mum was autistic as fuck, which is why she got on with Vulcans.

This has got to me a bit today so here we go. No Rebecca we can't have a calm discussion for the way forward when one side's intention is to eliminate us, secondly the heat is coming from one side, it's the side accusing trans people of being paedophiles, rapists, cheats and predators. 1/26

The whole skill of "debate" is the ability to rhetorically argue and defend a position *regardless* of what's right or wrong. Conflating it with a method of arriving at the truth is dishonest from the get-go

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

aargh journalists you do not get to say "Many experts are sceptical" in the face of this bullshit, you say "This is not true". You are at a rare point, maybe a few years every century, where your willingness to doing your actual job would be crucial and heroic, and you're blowing it

The problem is that Autism and ADHD continue to be defined and framed around how much difficult is for the parents, not the quality of life of the individual.

I took this photo of our ridiculous animal, but only Robin could do it justice in the alt text.

With alt text.

I grew up under Section 28 in England. It was terrible.

Can screen readers deal with tables? Alt:

For the first time in *years*, we’re having real conversations about leaving this country. Make no mistake, this is privilege, many cannot just up and leave. But I just cannot justify why I live in America anymore. We’re not wanted or safe. I’m not reactionary, but I think I’ve reached my limit.

LOOK AT THIS FUCKING CAT

I’m a Paleontologist Here’s the most important tip I can give you: Pick a favorite dinosaur and learn two facts about it Why? Because sooner or later, you’ll meet a child with a dinosaur book (or an obsession) You’ll ask about their favorite They’ll tell you why And then, you’ll share yours 🧪 🧵

you are SUPPOSED to be able to trust the news! you are supposed to be able to trust public officials! none of us are supposed to make sifting through every piece of data we consume to test its veracity our full time job!

I don’t have a solution for the fact that virtually all our large scale mainstream media and tech are in the hands of billionaires who basically come in two flavors: “Fascist”, or “Fascist But Put a Monocle On Him So He Looks Fancy and Smart”, but it is a scary world to live in

Putting it out into the world that I would love to be put in touch with a musicologist knowledgeable in 17thc English Music. I’m doing a project and I’m interested in the relationship the Separatist Puritans had with music, and what music came with them to the American colonies Thanks!

This. Also please stop equating evil with mental illness.

And an all too relatable one. 😫

He laughed at the violence People are laughing at him getting shot. None of this is civilized behavior.

It’s only taken a century or so, but would you look at that, some badass women have invented a better solution to the speculum (which is essentially a torture device). www.brightvibes.com/lilium-specu...

Do it. Search your name. Take their money. It’s yours anyway.

Oh yes I will be writing an essay about how the SNW episode “Four and a Half Vulcans” is wildly offensive and normalizing race science that was mainstream and popular in United States in the 1850s Like Disco called this shit terrorism What the fuck is this regressive bullshit

We managed a walk in the Meadows with the squeakling again! She rode on @robinjohnson.bsky.social's shoulder on the way out, then meandered around in all directions to come home. It's so great being able to go for walks again now I'm on low dose naltrexone, though I overdid it a bit the other week.

If anybody wants to help mitigate the cost of a garden pizza with extra cheese... ko-fi.com/karidru

Sums it up.

This is the thing. I'm not someone who has ever voted for Labour, but I am someone who should be persuadable to vote for them. I'm not sure which of Lib Dem or Green I'm going to vote for next time, but I know I'm *not* voting for a party that's made it illegal for half my friends to exist in public

See ya later, alligator In a while, crocodile Sayonara, tuatara Off you sod, pygopod Full throttle, axolotl Nos vemos mañana, iguana Time you trotted, lanthanotid No laggin', Komodo dragon Scoot, newt

Clinically Vulnerable people must not be forgotten. Covid vaccines protect both individuals and NHS services for everyone. We urgently need to reach 10k. Please help! #KeepCovidBoosters 2/ petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I was told, "We don't have to mask any more," twice, in a hostile tone, by the nurses at the diabetes clinic in Edinburgh on Thursday. A friend and I had both rung in advance to request clinicians wear masks. (The endo did.) The nurses handle a lot of my care, and I'm now worried they'll resent me.

For the love of g-d when you go to get vaccinated wear a mask. There are ppl who know themselves to be extremely vulnerable to viral infections who are literally putting off getting the Covid vax they need because busy drugstores full of unmasked faces is too much of a covid exposure risk for them.

Anti-vaxxers aren’t questioning the science, they’re questioning who deserves to live

I love how fairy tale witches were kinda used to scare women re the perils of non-conformity, meanwhile it’s like, (1) you get to live alone in the forest (2) everyone is afraid of you (3) you spend your day making delicious soup or, in reality, beer that you can use to profit off the men (4) cats.