Fought so hard in November against a short-term casual contract, because they're not meant to give casual contracts. And now I'm not getting renewed because they're not meant to give casual contacts. Kind of sucks lol

Going to be out of a job soon and the feedback was I'm terrific, it will be a huge loss not just to the office but to the organisation — by (my) (reasonable) extension, the good people of WA. When your life becomes marginally, ineffably worse from 2nd June this year, now you will know why. I'm sorry

[airily, to the butler, martini in one hand] just save it to the desktop

*gets my gallstones removed but accidentally eats them instead of a tasty snack, returning us to square one* fucks sake

So glad instagram makes these ai-generated questions about posts pop up for no reason

Perhaps Sir or Madam or Sirmadam would like a video of the wind blowing through some wild grasses in these trying times?

I think there are people who genuinely believe that things would have turned out differently if "we" (??) had "fought harder" on Twitter as if it were an actual battlefield not a terrarium totally outside our control that was iteratively redesigned to result in this current state of affairs

People will insist, regularly, that you're the reason why your kid is too soft, too rough, has too much or too little to say and they will insist that you should be trying to change your kid towards some kind of idealised child and not listening to them and meeting them at their needs.

You could call this child coddled or overly-indulged but the simple fact is that most people have dysfunctional and poor relationships with food, and that didn't happen because current cultural norms around food and parenting are awesome and cool and great. Maybe try to work with your kids.

You can tell people with absolutely no relevant experience but too much bravado are weighing in on the picky eater book and how you should handle kids who don't want to eat the food they're given. I keep seeing "Don't give them a choice! Eat or starve!" as if plenty of kids wouldn't pick "starve."

NZ assists rich white guys lawfully jaiked for assaulting a police officer in Thailand but Winston Peters refuses to go to the aid of Ms Wihongi in case he upsets Trump. What an obsequious toady. #nzpol www.thepost.co.nz/politics/361...

Just saw the most Reddit reddit post where a guy is posting screencaps from his cruising app asking "Is this a good first dick to suck?" like first off it depends entirely on your build

If anyone would like a sparkly art of their characters I'm open for commissions! 🐥✨ #art #dndart commission info: tinyurl.com/yaqy388x

"this would be really bad and so, ipso facto, it can't happen" is the assumption underlying the entire Trump era and it's sort of bleakly funny to see people clinging to it even as the train is jumping the tracks

My beautiful princess with a disorder

when he did the speech declaring the Iran war I asked a bunch of cis people I knew whether they thought it was weird that he broke off partway through to rant about trans people and it was like they didn’t even understand the question

[supply chain youtuber] the crisis in raccoon city was, fundamentally, a failure of supply chain management

This makes me feel like a Prisoner of Society, just like The Living End sang about

More bad writing than I can name has to have a concrete, tangible reason that prejudice against a species or race exists. The Quarians made an AI, condemn the lot. The Krogans are violent. The Gleepglorps stole me nan fifty thousand years ago and now we all call them nannickers. It's absurd.

also "I think children are DISGUSTING I abhor them and think they're obnoxious and horrible and gross. no shade to them or people who like the though" okay just so you know saying "no shade" doesn't absolve you of being shit. like just in case you didn't realize

Our website redesign lives. IT LIVES!!! With an all new layout, new colors, and a new, much queerer logo, we could not be more excited to introduce the new Assigned Media at assignedmedia.org. It lives! (Might need do something about this preview image for sharing the homepage, but it lives!!!)

Something I'm feeling torn about is that I want Welsh politics to be given the respect that it is distinct from Westminster, but I also think Starmer not immediately resigning when *Labour* lose *Wales* is gobsmacking

Whereas for me the pinnacle of good romance sex is watching two unique weirdos displaying their specificity & matching one another's vibes. Maybe we pause for a plot discussion! Maybe they have kinks I've never heard of! That's fascinating! I'm here with my opera glasses and popcorn.

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

they are supporting and celebrating each others achievements and they remind each other that boba fett's breakout success doesn't make them less than

It will always be my mission any time a Roy Lichtenstein theft appears in my feed to remind the world others did it first and better — in this case Russ Heath, artist for the story "Aces Wild," written by Hank Chapman, and published in All-American Men of War #89 (Jan-Feb 1962).

it's all star by smash mouth and it's not even close.

fungus fairy

a woman on the moon is singing to the earth

I want to see Judith Butler in the credits of GTA 6

And since it's #caturday, one of my favorite artists-with-animals photos: Lois Mailou Jones in her Paris studio in 1938 with the most adorable studio assistant ever

btw if you missed it there is a french translation of my book!!

The reason why the sketchy drawing is better than AI reference are the economical choices made. The person only drew what was most important and nothing else which gives clear direction! Please do more of this!

We're now into full bracken season in West Cork, which means I take my Opinel no. 12 and cut any stems emerging around young, self-seeded wild native trees, their positions marked with stakes or stones. Such a joy to spend time immersed in nature, helping to release a natural ecosystem in this way.

millenials booming out crazy style these days smh what happened to us

The flat background is inspired by Japanese woodblocks and is there to highlight the the subject of the painting without bogging it down in the background and is blue because its a realist painting and I don't want it to feel like it's subject is in an artificial environment, because it isn't

Shelter / 48 by 12 inches / oil on linen-wrapped panel My show opens tonight NYC! AuxierKline! 19 Monroe St! 6 to 8 PM!

I keep seeing folks say it's been 12 years, but it hasn't. Gamergate was 12 years ago, but the harassment of Anita Sarkeesian predated Gamergate by over 2 years, the Tropes vs. Women Kickstarter was in March 2012. So it's even more pathetic. IT'S BEEN FOURTEEN YEARS.

For those of you who don't know, each of those 16 keyboxes represents a home that someone once called home in the heart of the Old Town, and which is now somewhere a visitor pays an absentee landlord £400 to stay in for two nights. Through AIRBnB.

Right out of the oven 🥹

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Commissioned piece inspired by Rococo style for SeenYou (森游) scenery stickers. Finally finished this piece I've been working on the whole last month🌺 I'll share the details in the comments.

This affects more than just British trans people because Western institutions, unfortunately, have outsize influence on the tone and framing of trans discourse worldwide. So huge congratulations and thank you to Abigail for continuing to highlight Britain's abuses against the trans community.

print ad, illustration (1995) archive.org/details/game...

A lot of people are asking me what is happening here so I broke out Visio to see if I can clear things up. Hope it helps!

I've seen a lot of responses to this saying "I'm so glad I use Brave!" Brave runs on Chromium, it is also affected. So are Edge and Opera.