👇 More to my disconnect with the winter Olympics. Elite sport is amazing, but surely the aim is mass participation? We want everyone fit and healthy and happy. Rather than a few well-funded posh kids travelling the globe.

Cool, I'll get to that, but first I'm gonna take off my helmet and prod this alien goo to see how it reacts...

Sometimes I get a little upset when I live in a collapsing dystopia for many years

Remember the wild days of the past, when if you wanted a photo of something you could just find one online? You wouldn't have to scroll through pages of fucking slop imaginations of that thing.

I do a chest session at least once as week and nothing changes, I never do shoulders but they seem to grow? So I guess either fitness is a lie, or bad posture and lots of stress is the secret shoulder routine? 10 x 4 exasperated sighs. 8 x 3 tense shrugs. 9 x Hours hunched at a desk.

Remus is loving it though, so maybe I'm being too harsh.

Oh, and why are the edges of all modern films blurry?

I really wanna enjoy Predator Badlands, but half hour in and its a bit soulless and a lot CGI

there are only two moods as an artist

Crap. Turns out - based on this - that I've not acclimatised or intergrated, despite my family tree basically being an Oak thats bounced around Cornwall and Wales for the last 300 odd years.

Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’) Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...

Patriotism isn’t moving your money into offshore accounts and shouting about immigration. Patriotism is volunteering at food banks, youth centres, and libraries. Oh, and paying your taxes.

Timely reminder that we actually used to get lots of funding from the EU, due to how impoverished areas of the county are. So glad "wE Got Hour CuntTree BaCk"

My aim is to be even half the man my dog thinks I am...

It feels like there are two distinct types of arachnologists. We've got the academic type, calling things palpigrades and schizomids, then there's the kinky bastards going, "lets call that one daddy long legs and that one a whip spider."

Labour MPs trying to work out who's sabotaged The Labour Party

Just spent 15 minutes in my car, mumbling and typing horrifically half-rememebred lyrics into google to try and find a song that was stuck in my head. Turns out I was looking for 'Existentialism On Prom Night' Explanations for why this twenty year old, bang average emo ballad was in my head? 🤷‍♂️

The audio book I'm listening to is good, the physical book im reading is good, and the story I'm beta reading is also good. Where do I funnel my overflowing judgemental sass?

I struggle to get into the Winter Olympics, they feel a bit too Tory. Im sure it's different in different countries, but here the only people who really get the opportunities to be elite at skiing etc. are rich kids. 🤷‍♂️ Brilliant, Jonty is smashing it.

Dibs on this one.

The NYT is really trying to cheerlead slop here despite admitting it's bad at writing romance and readers hate it, but the featured slopmonger is confident that eventually she'll wear us all down

Life advice: If you're going to shake your protein bottle at your (cluttered) desk, make sure the lid is on.

People talking earnestly directly down the camera hurts my soul. How so many people love TikTok and influencers is beyond me. Makes my skin itch.

@footballweekly.bsky.social @maxrushden.bsky.social can we have a moment on Neville's insane commentary? Genuine fury at the referee for not ignoring the rules - followed by a, "but I like VAR" addendum. Really odd stuff. Almost unlistenable at points.

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

Adult soft play, vodka slushies, laser tag, dodgeball. My jeans didnt stand a chance.

Just rewatched the opening FMV from Final Fantasy VIII. I first watched it 27 odd years ago, as a 9 year old, and I'm happy to report it still gives me the same chemical reaction.

Vat returns for 7 companies today. My brain is fried.

STOP THE PRESSES! THE THAI LADY FROM THE MARKET HAS RELEASED HER OWN SAUCE AND THE LOCAL ASIAIN SUPERMARKET STOCKS IT.

My local cinema doesn't appear to be planning to show Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die. I appreciate there may be bigger problems in the world right now, but I'm willing to riot over this.

YOU - Where the hood, where the hood, where the hood at? SHIVERS - HAVE A BROTHER IN THE CUT. WHERE THE WOOD AT?

The Submission Grinder is both the best and the worst thing in the world. Objectively useful, but god damn, I check it too often.

Just been reminded of this fabulous truth

Aeroplane flights shouldn't be cheaper than train tickets. Its insane that they routinely are. I can get to the South of Spain for less than I can get to Bristol, and I live in the Southwest.

6 years 🤯

I'm a step closer...

This morning has been relentless, im gonna go get a medicinal cortado and browse some books on my lunch break.

Don't feel guilty for sharing good news and silliness amongst all the doom and gloom. It's not only allowed, its essential. I love seeing your wins and fluffy animals.

Poor piece of wood. It was born in the wrong time. This would have been the finest club in the entire neanderthal community.

I assume I look graceful as balls when I play football......turns out its all crooked wrists and puffy faces.

I started reading this book out loud and now my skin is turning to bark and I can hear the forest.

Hahahahahahahhahhahah, fuck off.

The two moods.

The world is a mess, shall we go find a balcony and laugh like Yuna and Tidus?

Ive just hit 23,000 words on this thing. To misquote Samwise Gamee, "This is it. If i write another hundred words it'll be the furthest I've ever gone on a single story..." Like LoTR, I expect pain, suffering, and the odd death will follow. Whiskey and dog for vibes:

Black Swan was shite anyway...

Some scary things lurk in the dark.

For the filthy degenerates among us, some really fun prompts here.

"Britain has not declined because of its people. It has declined because of weak leadership." A headline on the 'Policies' page of Reform UK. Which, fair play, is impressively honest from a party now mostly made up of ex-Tory MPs that ran the country for 14 of the last 16 years.