Extraordinary juxtaposition of paragraphs here. Hilary Cass just scratching her head and wondering how anyone could think that the "single-sex spaces issue" has anything to do with the children, while her acolytes are "sensitively explaining" to trans kids what toilets they're required to use

I wish I could just bring her here

Hate it when people say "so and so is in the Epstein files" and it turns out that they just got mentioned in a news article he got forwarded to him or something. Can we not do that

Folks, I was just alerted to the existence of this book, I am going to purchase it immediately and I highly encourage you to do the same www.bloomsbury.com/us/scatman-j...

I've never thought much of Valentine's Day. I was raised to think it was bullshit, and I celebrated when partnered mostly out of a sense of obligation, although I always enjoy any opportunity to be Big Romantic. For many years, I haven't had a reason to even note its passing, much less celebrate.

Tired of people being pointlessly shitty to each other

When she gets like this I just get stars in my eyes

My maternal grandmother's paternal grandfather was born in Québec, as were his parents. He was almost certainly provably a citizen, which means... hmm

It would be easier to endure the burdens I have to bear if the reasons for so many of them weren't pointless, stupid, and/or evil

Kind of funny that in a single year both the World Series and Super Bowl have been games that even someone as indifferent to sports as I could have a rooting interest in (Blue Jays due to girlfriend, Seahawks due to basic human decency)

This is much funnier if you read it in Meowth's voice

Think I need a bang trim

Sir Thomas More and his family. Fantastic study for (alas!) now lost painting by Hans Holbein. So unusual as a family portrait, but then, this family was unusual too. Today is Thomas More's day.

Miss her so much I could scream

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

@anitmata.bsky.social bait

Feeling kind of crummy last couple days. Activating fake it til you make it mode

Gamelan is a genre of music that hasn't been very common in video game soundtracks, but was a major presence in Kena: Bridge of Spirits (2021, highly recommended), made in collaboration with the ensemble group Gamelan Çudamani from Bali. youtu.be/HDgk1u8q3KM?...

I remember when my dad heard the soundtrack for Secret of Mana and was very excited to teach me about Indonesian Gamelan music. (The boss theme above is a high energy techno remix of that character's theme song, which is very clearly Gamelan inspired.) youtu.be/wIBiMU6cGew?...

I wanted to listen to the Trance Kuja theme and I typed "trans kuja" and well. I mean. @noralenderbe.bsky.social I thought you might find that funny. But also this theme rules. Uematsu dug up one of his best old tracks and gave it the epic big boss King Crimson treatment.

Listening to the Contra Hard Corps OST now and it just kind of blows my mind that they were able to do stuff like this with the Genesis chipset. I was a SNES kid myself but my goodness www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfTT...

Listening to some very important music You wanna piece of me boy? You wanna piece of me boy? You wanna piece of me boyyyyyyyyyy? Aaaaaah that's the stuff

This is an impossible question but I went through my music collection until I said "oh yes. yes that one". It's not that long of a title but whatever

'90s kids will love this

[takes notes]

RIP my girlfriend

Godbro's Law: As a conflict on Bluesky continues, the probability that both sides will begin to characterize their opposition as callous, oafish "bros" approaches 1

I was talking to @mrbtx.bsky.social about the guns from the Baz Luhrmann Romeo + Juliet with like "sword" and "dagger" engraved on them, and I called them "Kingdom Hearts ass guns" (see below). Then I said "what if Mickey just pulled out an M16 with an M26-MASS and it had KEYBLADE engraved on it"

Enjoying this brief period between laserings where I only have to do a light shave every couple of days. Also this hair color really is going the distance. My roots are a solid inch and a half at this point but the color itself is still very blue

In a sea of honey A sky of honey Keep us close to your hearts So if the skies stay dark We may live on in Comets and stars

Transphobia exists in the state it does because elon musk hates his daughter and dumped a ton of money into it like,,,hundreds of millions to tens of billions and the mumsnet founder was married to John ‘British’ News Journalism for 2 decades also a bunch of rw influencers are clearly chasers

Tonight other dumb napkin cartoon…

I've been trying to get back into the habit of cooking by prepping one (1) thing I can then eat thru the week with a little assembly. What I've been doing is poaching chicken & then adding beans+seasoning to the resulting broth. Then I heat that up over some crusty bread w/ pecorino. Rustic but good

My self-treatment for Very Clever Boy syndrome: 1. forgetting everything 2. becoming stupid and 3. not being a boy any more

up to shenanigans

Fourier lowkey cooked with his transform

This has come up many times in response to "Epstein files" releases, so I'm saying this generally: the FBI tipline regularly receives outlandish claims of horrific crimes committed by famous people. The fact that some famous people really do commit horrific crimes doesn't mean those tips are true.

Woke up because it’s cold and my dog is cuddling with me so aggressively she just bodyslammed into my stomach and powerbombed me awake. Not a problem of course because I would let her shoot me with a gun if she wanted

Sometimes I wish you could mute *concepts* not just words

sorry but your argument is invalid because i sleep in a big bed with my wife

<me laughing until I cann't breathe> Marcy: What about it

The canned cheese: it's good, folks

it brings me no joy to confirm this, but @proptermalone.bsky.social is correct and Washington State University makes a good cheese

I hope that taking care of myself and feeling more secure and comfortable will also help me feel less isolated. Recently I've been in that "alone even in a crowd" state of mind. Alienated, abstracted, a stranger to all. It's an exhausting way to be, and hard to dig my way out of it.

You may have heard of Enheduanna, the princess, priestess, and poet who is also the earliest named author in history. Well, a tiny broken artefact made of lapis lazuli preserves the name of Ilum-pālil, her hairdresser. It is a fragmentary cylinder seal, excavated from a tomb in the city of Ur.

“you can't hurt my feelings—i smoke methamphetamine drug” is how I’m going to respond to every attack from now on

this is such a fav of mine. another fun thing it talks about is that lots of english lit survey classes go in chronological order and start w/beowulf, but beowulf was almost wholly unknown to english speakers before the 19th century and had no real literary influence before then

recently learned about “dek bass”, a sound system culture in rural West Bengal, using cassette decks and homemade systems, and it’s remarkable because 1) the music and equipment are sick and 2) the DJ always looks like he’s being briefed on a national security issue

A very narrow observation about a common claim: at the time ICE was created, the average person basically just saw it as a new name for "INS", the enforcement arm of which people were very familiar with due to famous photos like the Elian Gonzalez raid (see below, CW: gun pointed at child).