"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry." -- Nick Clegg #AI #aicon #exploitation #bigtech

Tolkien was always adamant that "The Lord of the Rings" wasn't about his traumatic experiences in WW1 but... come on. Come on. Come on, John. Come on, John Ronald Reuel. Come on, J. R. R. Come on, friend. Come on, man. Come on, T-dog. Come on, guy. Come on, bud. Come on.

lrt sometimes i see people say they don’t know what to comment on fics so they don’t leave any, but a very simple "loved this!" goes SUCH a long way!!!!

Today I saw someone toot, in dismay, people are posting their everyday life to Mastodon when they could simply buy a diary for $1.99. I can't stop thinking about this. What if this is all they have? What if they're isolated with or without people in their life? What if the only kind word they […]

The "gender is the same thing as sex and it's defined by chromosomes" people start to short-circuit with black smoke coming out of their ears when you refer to boats using male pronouns.

Dear Labour Party - you don't neutralise the threat from Reform by adopting their policies or talking points. You do it by reducing inequality. Fascism doesn't flourish if people feel they're fairly recompensed, equally treated, well-fed and well-housed and their jobs are safe. So be more Labour.

I don’t normally highlight news like this, but this megachurch pastor who today pled guilty to sexually abusing a 12 year old served on Trump’s “evangelical advisory board.” https://apnews.com/article/texas-megachurch-pastor-sexual-abuse-oklahoma-0ca16aa31d9d8e5a810d1e1e3483dce4

This satirical blog post really illustrates the problem with a lot of technical writing. Amazing technical writing is so good and then everything else reads like this https://anniemueller.com/posts/how-i-a-non-developer-read-the-tutorial-you-a-developer-wrote-for-me-a-beginner

Yesterday was @semanticist’s and my 22nd wedding anniversary. I think there’s a particular lovely joy in acknowledging that at heart we are just two weird little people who do our best to make each other happy as much as possible. We grow together, like two trees planted in different soil which […]

I think my favourite counselling sessions sometimes are the ones where we just end up talking about stuff, like this time we spent about half the session talking cookware and organising my kitchen. Nothing heavy, just nice practical discussions that will help make things easier for me! Good times!

I’ve been watching Till the End of the Moon and I love it! Our male lead has the WORST childhood I’ve ever seen in a cdrama so far! And the FL & ML have actual romantic chemistry, delicious, finally some good fucking food!

gosh darned rootin tootin cutiepies #junzhe #WordOfHonor

Sad news. Maru, the internet’s most beloved cat, is gone at 18 years old. We watched his videos for most of his life. He was a unique treasure and most certainly not an ordinary cat. #maru http://youtube.com/post/UgkxzuNkLoPL5e4nSTqR1zIdfP5pX2nV6NGT?si=mL-Pnw6fdKZWSjyn

If they keep holding each other like this I’m going to think they’re in love or something #WordOfHonor

i'm running an exchange on ao3 for ships with 10 tags or less! nominations are open! https://blorbo.social/@fandomcalendar/115084513874498563 #fanfiction #fanart #fanevent

Watching Legend of Zanghai, on episode 11 at the moment, and wow, the gay subtext in this is hardly subtext at all. Shipping Miss Xiang/8th Young Master so much! Their backstory is wonderful! And as for Zang Hai/Zhifu, it’s very much “two bros, chilling in a herbal bath, getting closer and […]

Zhou Zishu then: “Who wants to die with you??? 😤” Zhou Zishu now: #WordOfHonor

I participated in SCIENCE today! I’m taking part in a long-term study of health and so I went in to get my height/weight, blood pressure, and blood samples taken. It’s a good feeling!

I'm so sorry to do this and please only help if you can: the Air Canada strike has played merry hell with my current travel and my credit card is maxed out as a result, while I'm stuck overseas. If you can spare a couple of dollars it would really help me out. www.paypal.com/paypalme/mar...

I’m probably laughing harder at this than it deserves. But, still… 😂 #caturday

Me when I first started watching Cdramas: Aww, a wedding episode! They’re gonna get married and live happily ever after and it’ll be so cute, I’m super excited! Me now, watching a Cdrama: A wedding episode! Imma get the popcorn ready, this is gonna be tragedy and angst, let’s go! *evil cackles […]

"as someone who has always loved the stories" as if literally millions of people haven't had to give up this series that meant a lot to them, because it is now ideologically radioactive. Boo hoo you love the stories, tell that to trans people getting their deathly hallows tattoos covered.

Gastroenteritis AND bagpipes, what a horrible day to be alive.

I think I’ve got gastroenteritis. It’s the actual worst.

i will always side with sex workers and smut creators and you should too. kill the puritanical pearl-clutching brainworm raising a stink about respectability and optics. it is a backdoor fascists will use to sneak their way into your sympathies. porn is good, sex is normal, kink is human. grow up.

Modern day SQX would ascend and be known as 'the young lord who spilled the tea'

"Protecting" the populace from depressing, ugly, & "confusing" art (& representing it as contagion) has been a feature of more than one authoritarian regime, and whether folks like Isabel realize it of not, they are siding with deeply anti-democratic ideas when they engage in this type of rhetoric.

Me: “I’m back in Scotland, yay Scotland, I’m home 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿” Everyone, literally everyone: “You were only away for 5 days!!” Me: “5 days too many!”

Did you know that fatness regularly polls as the most common implicit bias people have? do you know how many times i have said this and had people attack me for saying it? unlearn your fatphobia it IS a tool of fascism.

My polyshipper heart is getting so well fed by Song of the Moon right now! Some old dude: “[Main Character] only cares about Liu Shao and He Na, not the fate of the three realms!” Me, cackling: “And we love to see it!”

YouTube, please note, your algorithm SHOULD provide me with Kictor squeeing over #tgcf every time she uploads, and absolutely SHOULD NEVER show me the guy who posts nothing other than sneering rants about women who like smut and “fake Tolkien fans.” Squeeing: yes! Sneering: no! Get it? Good.

"Who Goes MAGA" by Mike Masnick is pretty good. "The Normie" is the one I worry most about; I have so. many. friends who have said just that kind of thing -- hell, my dad was a bit like that ! -- for me to be relaxed around the attitude. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/08/who-goes-maga/

I would prefer to live in less interesting times.

God, what a nightmare. I was supposed to have a root canal today. But 20 minutes ago, with virtually no warning, I got really sick and threw up. This sometimes happens but hasn’t happened for a while. Don’t know what caused it; I mostly threw up water. Hadn’t even eaten anything yet. Thing […]

Currently (re)watching Song of the Moon and I’m like 50% sighing over how pretty He Na is, and 50% eyerolling over how Angsty! and Dramatic! the love story of the two leads is. So angsty! So fOrBiDdEN! So full of Misunderstandings! But He Na is so pretty, it’s worth it!

This is why we told the limeys to go fuck themselves at the point of a gun. Any of it look familiar? #nokings

*Is this a Bluesky meme? This seems more like a Mastodon meme *Won't get much traction on Xtwitter

#china is cracking down on young women who write #danmei & #haitang « They’ve flourished as uniquely female spaces, though they centre male protagonists. In a culture where female sexual desire is routinely policed, danmei became a creative outlet - a space where women can write about female […]

. @semanticist and I have started watching #ironheart and it’s good! The third episode was absolutely gripping. Love a hero who does all the wrong things for what she thinks are the right reasons. (Also, I ship both Riri/Natalie and Parker/John so hard. Such good ships!)

AI is now screwing up the way the names of Scottish towns are pronounced. Levin is not pronounced “Leavin’” but the AI voice #scotfail are using thinks it is!

Looking at everyone's movie lists, the one thing we can universally agree on is that MAD MAX: FURY ROAD was an absolute banger.

Very unusual to see our cats sitting this close together! Apparently, they have needs which I must supply.

The existence of top surgery and bottom surgery implies the existence of up surgery, down surgery, strange surgery and charm surgery

Once again, Socks is trying to crawl inside my actual clothing because he thinks it’s a blanket!

[Details about vomit] Huh. Random vomiting. What the fuck. It had undigested food in it that I don’t recall eating. Like sort of a leafy substance. I checked the ingredients of the food I ate last night and it did not contain leaves. So weird! I feel okay now. I suspect it was either GERD or […]

Had a dream that I was back in my old job circa 2011. I was returning from sick leave but didn’t get the judgement, faux concern, and push towards PIPs from my manager that I recall happening IRL. Instead I got a welcome back, real happiness that I was better, a sense that I was valued and had […]

Hey, ever notice how people in power ~HATE~ collective activism: protests, unions, solidarity movements, etc.? And that they'd much rather you act individually and "politely"? There's a reason. Collective action *works* and individual politeness DOES NOT. It's not complicated. #solidarity […]

Insisting that everyone should have a clear, recognizable and unchangeable gender only makes sense if you want to treat people of different genders differently. Which you clearly shouldn't.