Halp my post is being subjected to unsolicited literary criticism

so i don't need to pay the licence fee to hear them call me slurs on the radio.

This is gross... and feels like it's moving in some sort of sphere adjacent to sexual harassment?! Why would you show a gay Jewish man holding hands with a far right homophobe, with a serious history of antisemitism?

My cat when I am in the bath: My sole ambition in life is to sit with you and yet you submerge yourself such that we cannot be united - DON'T scritch my ears like you don't know what you've done. My cat when I am on the sofa: I'm going to my bed by the radiator now, see ya later zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Israel is bombarding, literally bombarding, two Middle East capitals, Beirut and Tehran, killing 100s of civilians, and yet the US and UK media continue to portray Iran as the threat to the region. Israel has nukes, but Iran is the nuclear threat. We live in Orwellian times.

Having your key skill being competence with a particular subscription service is nightmarish levels of lock in and future abusability.

The immediate beneficiaries of it don't like when you try to change it or talk about why it's unsustainable and unjust. Have you considered the extremely effective time-honoured method of bringing about change "never trying to do anything about it or even literally ever mentioning it?"

Someone driving to a restaurant to meet friends for dinner with no possible means of knowing whether the lycra-wearing cyclists on road bikes who they're about to close pass are, in fact, commuting: Cyclists are so entitled causing a nuisance to other road users just for their own leisure activity.

Just had to tell someone that I am now literally twice as old as I was when I used to sing a band which has relieved me of any continuing notion that I am quite young and hip actually.

*Drew Carey voice* Welcome to Whose Lane Is It Anyway where everything's made up and the facts don't matter. That's right, the facts are like a painted bike lane.

🍻 Oh aye de dy de dy de dy de dy de dy de dy Oh I was out there drivin' To parking that was free And ev'rywhere saw cyclists wearing black I couldn't see I rolled up to a stop sign A cyclist didn't stop Of course I didn't either but I'm raging fit to drop Oh aye de dy de dy de dy de dy de dy de dy 🍻

If you're worried about Bluesky being an echo chamber, just say a driver nearly killed you while you were cycling on road & wait for several people to pitch up to tell you that it's your fault, that you were probably mowing down pedestrians at the time, & that they're only sorry the driver missed.

I saw a production of The Taming of the Shrew that took it seriously rather than playing it for laughs and while I wouldn't necessarily use the word "enjoy," it was one of the most impactful pieces of theatre I've ever seen.

Appreciate the clarity

*Drew Carey voice* Welcome to Whose Lane Is It Anyway where everything's made up and the facts don't matter. That's right, the facts are like a painted bike lane.

Tried to send an email to someone in another department and somehow ended up sending it to everyone in my department including my boss and myself and not the person I intended to send it to which feels like the professional email equivalent of calling the teacher Mum.

“Almost all the 165 people killed in the attack were girls aged between seven and 12, according to local officials. There were around 170 girls at the school in southern Iran’s Minab at the time.“ A double-tap strike on little girls at school.

It's funny how when you express negative feelings towards drivers, a few of them show up and are like "I don't like you saying bad things about drivers and also a driver could kill you."

"Don't care" I reply, carrying on with my life's work of informing the author of every post on the Blue Sky social media site of the exact degree of interest which their musings have piqued within my empty, empty soul.

really tired of conversations about how we need to get people to spend more time offline that don't acknowledge that one of the reasons people ARE online is their access needs aren't being met in physical spaces. This is especially true for queer people and disabled people.

You would think it would be self-evident that the burden of responsibility should lie with the person operating more than a tonne of machinery at speed and yet here we are.

"It's not fair to make generalisations about drivers" - someone who is about to demonstrate that they are the living embodiment of your worst generalisations about drivers

Once again seeing drivers complain that it is simply impossible for them to drive safely around pedestrians and cyclists at night, to which the obvious solution is that cars shouldn't be on the road after dark.

Convinced that the Venn diagram of people saying there is never any excuse for cyclists breaking the law and people saying their car has to be capable of doing 100mph over the speed limit in case they need to avoid an accident is a circle.

Drivers: Drivers are extremely safe and law-abiding at all times even though the speed limit is far too low and they could be trusted to travel at the speed of sound, especially at night. Also drivers: You were riding a BIKE? On a ROAD? Are you trying to make me KILL you?

it's funny how fast criticism of "virtue signaling" degenerated into just despising virtue outright

There are at least three separate conversations about "dunks" - each for a different definition of "dunk(s)" - going on on my tl and I'm going to need you all to start explaining which one you mean in brackets for me, the protagonist of reality.

Nut-stashing Squirrels, welcome to @thewaroncars.bsky.social

The way that drivers will straight up tell you that they cannot safely control their vehicles which pose a deadly threat to others and it clearly does not even cross their mind that perhaps it is them who should not be on the road.

You know what actually used to be really good for finding an overview of the available literature on a subject that you could then read in more detail? The search function. Until AI fucked it up.

The Access to Work Scheme is designed to help people with disabilities work - travel, equipment etc Not only does Citizens Advice say people are facing significant delays in reimbursement but now this.. #Disability

6 years of work on an extremely moderate plan to mitigate car traffic. But some car owners from around the country didn't like that idea and said so in a "consultation," so now it'll be just more and more of this. I guess the people in charge don't want anyone to want to move here. Who would?

Embarrassingly, the task that I have been loudly alleging is "impossible" to complete within the allocated time turns out to be entirely achievable, even if I stop for a coffee and a wee and a cuddle with my cat in the middle, so long as I attempt it after taking my ADHD meds.

If you put Pete Hegseth's press conferences in a movie in which he was the proudly and overtly evil villain of a wildly unsubtle dystopia, he'd still be far too on the nose.

Drivers complaining about having to pay for public and active transport is like ordering all the most expensive items on the menu, refusing to share it, splitting the bill and then complaining about having to pay for everyone else's meal of one serving of breadsticks.

Doomscrolling is the weaponization of literacy

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.

Steam community: “Can we play as a male character?” Me (indie dev in this economy): “Best I can do is sentient tofu.”

I actually don't have words as to how angry I am. Wonder what happened in these countries that people on student visas in the UK found themselves needing to apply for asylum instead of going home post 2021. UK Labour are heartless bastards & apparently have bo idea whats happening in the world.

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing. Persephone: Thank you. Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

Why are Liverpool like this.

The same graph but showing the difference between how far you can cycle in 13 minutes and how far you can cycle in an infinite amount of time if you get to one of the bike crossing lights in Gateshead that, as far as I can tell, literally never turns green.

As I was made to wait 2.5 minutes to cross a road this morning, let's again do the maths simple.ghost.io/lets-do-the-...

I think it's very common for people to say, "Well, the city is doing the best they can!" And that may be true, but that effort is pretty meaningless for the person in a wheelchair who can't leave their house or make it to work. Now is the perfect time to have conversations about future improvements.

I met this literal glamour puss when I was out on delivery as a postal worker.

The best cat I’ve encountered in the wild. Biking through the forest on the Chehalis Western Trail near Olympia, WA and hit the brakes to say hi, expecting the cat to run off like usual. This orange beauty ran to me and hopped up on my bike without asking, and was incredibly soft, purring, and ❤️

This is James Felis Cattus III, Esq., aka Jimmy, sleepy in my lap while watching a movie he didn’t find compelling.

My mum: You can't say "I bet they yell at customer service workers" about anyone you get vaguely bad vibes from. (I can and I will.)

Here's Howard watching me sleep