MMMMMM DELICIOUS LIVER

Continuing to work on this today (no rest for the wicked, or, those too lazy to have done it pre-holidays) and it's very important we all remember the screamingly funny circumstances behind (half of) the first by-election of the year: ballotbox.scot/preview-cf-2...

I am now on day five in a row of cycling, despite Christmas, and you would think I would be feeling very smug about that and, well, yes, okay, you would be correct, I am smug, but I am also very annoyed to have lost around 7 hours of perfectly good Sitting On My Arse Playing Video Games time

Oooooh look at meee, I'm PROMETHEUS, I made FRIENDS with the EAGLE that was meant to eat my liver for ETERNITY after I stole FIRE from the GODS, oooh, look how it SWOOPS OUT OF NOWHERE and FUCKS YOU UP WHEN I AM A HAIR AWAY FROM DEFEAT Fuck you Prometheus, I'm fucking eating your liver next, dick

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

Merry Christmas from me, Rosie, Maggie and Monty (these are new dogs to me apart from Rosie, obviously)

All my pals must think I am rude but I am waiting for the dug to arrive before they get a Merry Christmas, because what is a better seasonal greeting than a photo of a nice wee dug?

Mum got me a nice new winter jacket. It was of course immediately put to use with an outside task, for what is Christmas if not a time for parents to command their adult children with military severity?

The Special? On Xinth? With a Scorch boon? Ha. Haha. Hahahaha. HAHAHHAHA. AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH. AHAHAHABBABABABABBABABHSHAHHAHAHHAHSHHS I AM DEATH INCARNATE This is a fun run even tho it's first time with this weapon

Well, Legends ZA is set in a modern city, so it's not like having Alpha Pokémon here is going to be scarier here than it was in the wilderness in Legends Arceus, right? ... ... OH MY GOD, FLEE FOR YOUR LIFE, THERE'S A RAMPAGING BELLSPROUT

WHO PUT THIS AS THE MINIBOSS IN THE SECOND FUCKING AREA IT WAS IN LAST AREA IN ORIGINAL AND WHERE THE FUCK HAS QUEEN LAMIA OR THE SERPENT GONE I HAVE HAD NOTHING BUT IT FOR THE PAST FEW RUNS I WILL FIND YOU AND FEED YOU TO THE RATS

Greta Thunberg feels like a sort of Milkshake Duck but where the baddie is the speaker. Everyone loves Greta Thunberg, the schoolgirl speaking up for the climate! We regret to inform you Greta Thunberg is still doing that, and more, as an adult and it makes us uncomfortable being challenged so.

I know we're very near Christmas and the politics posting should calm down but it amazes me how confident some people are that Reform will show themselves up and collapse pre-GE29. My guys the Yanks re-elected Trump (on delay) knowing full well he was completely evil and clearly unfit for the job!

"Love you Uncle Poseidon" - things you say out loud when you have his duplicate items boon in Hades II and despite it being at 25% chance you get extra gold, health and magick in one room, yes we're having fun this run, check back with me when Chronos makes me eat sand again

We have reached the effing and blinding and shouting OH THAT'S FAIR, THAT'S FUN at the telly stages of Hades II

*rushing to my phone whilst the last lingering rays of the sun peek over the horizon* THE NIGHTS ARE FAIR DRAWING OUT

Tangent to this thread but with Tamar's post having reminded me, have I done my "I don't think it's currently possible for the SNP to win a majority" spiel on here? Basically, they can only afford to lose in 8 constituencies, and there's 8 I think are guaranteed to be won by other parties

Pokemon Legends Arceus: Since you fell through a rift in time and space to a barely populated wilderness you need to go along with what the people who took you in want Pokemon Legends ZA: Hey tourist you're helping us run a hotel now no we don't care where you were actually booked to stay

Took 5 attempts to then beat Scylla but only 2 for the Infernal Beast, despite the fact I hate the torches I have stuff to DO today but the siren's song (pun intended) of one more chamber...

LET'S GOOOOO (I have had a Switch 2 sat in my home for about 6 weeks and have only allowed myself to start playing anything on it today, the iron discipline I have shown, truly, incomparable patience)

this the Labour Together guy who said they should ship migrants off the the Isles in Scotland and Scottish Labour pretended was a nobody whose views didn't matter? funny

The sheer racism is very obviously the worst thing here, this man is absolutely vile and the fact he's gotten any public airing at all is awful, but alsobmy Jock Senses are tingling and making me scream SCOTLAND DOESN'T HAVE A STATE RELIGION, NOR DOES WALES OR NORTHERN IRELAND, YOU STUPID PRICK

Obligatory Bracken photo for his visit tonight, look at this little gentleman

Relatedly on "the possible, not merely the presumed", that's why Scottish Labour are currently at risk of such a dire result: they presumed they'd always dominate the FPTP side of the Holyrood system and did not consider the possibility the SNP would crack it.

Also when people say this you still see quite a lot of "Reform support will drop nearer to the time" or "tactical voting will stop them" cope and even if one or both of those are true that's still a sign of a deeply unwell voting system! You need to account for the possible, not merely the presumed!

Net zero losses in the government's approval with 2024 Reform voters?

I need to go to bed but also I would prefer to know if last year's Yank idiocy is leading to the first invasion in the Americas of my lifetime (I'm *just* too young for Panama) rather than wake up to "yeah, they're doing regime change again" in the morning, great times

Today's lunchtime activity: a quick Timewalking run on a low level healer on WoW, and getting a reminder of how much better FFXIV is in terms of "how fun is it to be dropped into level synced old content" and also "how fun, communicative and polite is the player base"

One of the big names in Camp Sultana joining GPEW after ditching Yorp? Score another one for both "Zarah Sultana should have listened to the lady that liked her and was voting for the Greens" and "GPEW probably privately glad they dodged that bullet given how disastrous her instincts have been"

I mean it doesn't explain Wales 2016 but Scotland 2011 is a perfect example of a turning point that was anything but inevitable. If Scottish Labour hadn't fumbled it with a frankly insultingly bad campaign, there's no 2014 IndyRef, no GE15 SNP landslide, but possibly yes Prime Minister Miliband!

Also on this, whilst a large portion of 2024 Labour -> 2026 Plaid support is tactical to stop Reform, you'd have to be daft to underestimate the importance of a Foot in the Door First Minister; the SNP's 2007 win was very narrow and it has led to two decades in power... and, of course, an IndyRef

Pretty jaw dropping stuff going on in Wales, though me being me the thing I'm drawn to is how Plaid support is akin to the SNP's, but because we're still using AMS up here, the SNP are currently on track to get much closer to a majority and to be able to get across the line solely with Green backing

Absolutely lost my mind at the fight with the deliberate fake out wind up telegraph gags, then further lost my mind encountering what I can only describe as Cunty François, superb work

Quick lunchtime cycle since that's the only time available in winter for it... Glasgow is in the first picture somewhere, I swear

Not saying I've had Une vie à t'aimer on repeat for days again now, but I saying I am spending a lot of time pottering about the flat giving it 🎵 peindre l'amour, peindre la vie, pleurer en couleurs 🎵

It's the most wonderful time of the year (the time when you are idly swiping on one of the terrible dating apps and you get the reminder that people who moved Down South are back in Glasgow for the holidays, making the process even more joyless and fruitless)

One of my most irrational microfears is that because I am now upstairs and my bins are further away, I always put off the recycling until it's a huge pile, so the cans make a huge rattle, and every time I think "THE NEIGHBOURS MUST THINK I HAVE A PROBLEM, I DON'T, IT'S JUST PEPSI AND TANGO 😭"

if you posted something mean about that podcaster guy they would deport you

Hooting and hollering that being gay and Scottish are apparently signs of being incapable of taking a balanced view, regret to inform my fellow Scottish poofters that we're all bigots now because most of us (like most of the population) think Keir Starmer is ane great big dirty wet blanket of a PM

I know that Christmastime is a season associated with charity and goodwill but I think we should draw the line at another round of pretending "guy lucky enough to represent the seat least likely to vote for the SNP" is actually "extremely skilled politician who should have been in Cabinet for life"

I do also wonder how much of this is just the enormous mental shift required after 14 years of Conservative government, which was to all intents and purposes the vast majority of the mass social media age so far. People have very, very engrained responses.

People logging onto Bluesky dot app to shill for Keir Starmer, have you considered trying to something more fruitful with your time? Figuring out how to transmute gold from lead, for example? Perhaps cracking faster than light travel? Something more achievable than convincing anyone here he's good?

By-Election Result analysis: Fort William and Ardnamurchan (2025) An easy Lib Dem victory, albeit with a weaker candidate that saw everyone else but Labour gain support, and a timely reminder of how Reform's support varies across the country.

A post-awards season update for Clair Obscur? As if I needed more video game nonsense to enjoy with my festive time off work, I will be sending this queen in to investigate immediately

Every week this year - every week! - I have averaged at least 7 hours exercise (including walking, am no fitness bro). This week I have... 4 hours, and I was knackered, headachey and it was so wet I skipped climbing this morning, so that number isn't going up. My sofa is currently a throne of shame.

Relatedly, given the amount of tear-stained "she's just a poor working class wummin who has had her life RUINED by a horrible posh rich doctor" written about her, this awful human being sure does have a lot of cash lying around to fund all this legal action! How convenient yet not at all peculiar.

Human Rights Joint Committee: We're afraid we simply don't think this is the right person to chair the EHRC. The Government: Go fuck yourselves, we'll appoint who we want even though that's extremely bad practice for an NHRI! *some months later* The Government, presumably: Oh. They are crap. 🙃

Somehow only just seen the faded KIDD MONAGHAN posters in a window of a street I cycle up regularly, might want to get some new ones pal, Kidd is retiring in May and Monaghan, deservedly seeing as she was Glasgow's appalling MP, lost her seat 18 months ago...

Bayne's opening an Anniesland branch?! Greggs SHOOK

As someone quipped the other day, "Your Party are going to reach voters the Greens can't, by matching their membership distribution exactly but with 70% fewer actual members"