I just put the clean tupperware lid into the sink to soak rather than onto the container with leftovers in it, that's how tired and autopilot-y I am tonight

There's fucking yaoi art on a train by my house I'm fucking losing my mind, this rules so much

Sakaithunder, a 3-year-old panda wearing overalls, is a YouTuber from Fukui Prefecture. If you open the zipper on her back, it leads to the demon world.

instead of taking today as a (justified) potato day, I have managed two loads of laundry and a handful of other little tasks (move a/c unit to its winter home, vacuuming, find the bag i thought was knackered but oh it's fine and now in the donation pile, new sponge)

In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

bleeeech I'm up I'm up, let's get this meatsack caffeinated and launched at the train

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

I'm so productivity-rotted that I was actually trying to plan out what work tasks to do while spending tomorrow's open day at the welcome stand Self, you will be AT WORK, leave the laptop home and grab that (work) library book you keep meaning to read, if you really really need a task

rip 🫶

This isn’t scary to me at all. A skeleton is the only way I’ve ever seen a dinosaur look.

you say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group

ah we've hit up before dawn to teach an early class o'clock sooner this year than I expected

The bees have discovered Brutalism

it's the way the cats seem perplexed by the ball disappearing into the pocket that really gets me. it's gone?! whaaa?

It’s over for us

HANG IN THERE! 화이팅! #art|#kpdh

hopefully the proofs will turn out okay, because at least one of the emails wandered off in the middle of a sentence. today i'm much more clear-headed, thank goodness. doing both vaccines in a day was a good choice, I'm glad it was possible!

amazing how much quicker this sleeve is knitting up now that i bought nice DPNs rather than fighting with the £1 set that was part of a cheap bundle (i started on magic loop but wasn't feeling it for this project)

answered an acceptable number of emails, corrected proofs for a chapter due out later this year, will be leaving a few important replies and significant tasks until tomorrow when I'm more awake 💪

got both flu and covid shots this morning, so the afternoon is going to be riding out side effects while answering emails. exciting times!

Look what we have here then.

EUROPEAN: Ah! [American third-rate politican]! He texted his dick to people. I know this basically against my will. AMERICAN: I don't know what's going on over there. You're ruled by the Marquis of Racism or something?

same, actually

It's a basic point, but one that needs to be repeated: If right-wingers and their views were popular, they would not be so desperate to control mass media & social media nor to use government power to silence everyone else, and they wouldn't need oligarchs pumping billions into amplifying them.

Seriously how hard is it to say “This is an outrageous attack on our friends and neighbours who are in this country legally and have followed all the rules to get settled status, who are valued members of our communities, get to fuck frog-face”?

welcome autumn! 🍂 🎃

WE COME FROM THE LAND OF THE ICE AND SNOW FROM THE MIDNIGHT SUN WHERE THE HOT SPRINGS BLOW

I don't want to link to coverage of the Reform promise to scrap ILR, bc I'm annoyed at how much coverage they get, but also I gotta say: it sure is an uncomfortable time to be an immigrant

i can tell the weather's turned because i've had to empty the dehumidifier four times this week, when i barely touched it over the summer

You know what day it is!

Vivaldi, Four Seasons, which - sorry Vivaldi enjoyers - was enough for a lifetime

a slow project over the next few months will be to copy over old hard drives to a shiny new 4TB, and also download my Gmail account (opened in May 2005!) so I can stop storing so much of myself in the cloud

If you ever wanted to get into Hong Kong action cinema but didn’t know where to begin (or more realisticly didn’t have any way to see a lot of what were pretty rare films), Criterion Channel has got you covered in October. It’s like a HK essentials starter pack. A ridiculously stacked selection.

I will be out and about tomorrow, so early Happy 10th Anniversary to the second great love of my fannish life (after my beloved Smallville), Nirvana in Fire! One of the best tv series EVER, with a whole cast of All Time Characters™️. She really is That Girl. youtu.be/vYSZpTICPzs?...

This was quick and easy to do!

started watching Marry My Husband (Japan), and the first episode takes place on 18 September 2025. spooooky!

Quick signal boost: my cousin (a nurse) and her kiddo lost their home and everything in it in the Sackville fire. They have a safe place to stay, thankfully, and things are tight for everyone, but any financial help for them to start rebuilding would be amazing. www.gofundme.com/f/shes-spent...

it's almost serial narrative fiction time again!!!

thank you serial narrative fiction for giving me something to focus on at the end of a day. just some fictional people going through things and figuring stuff out as a buffer so i stop thinking about work for a while. full marks, serial narrative fiction 👍

Went to ihop drunk at 4am and asked them to make the pancakes Evil. Maybe one of the best escapades I’ve Ever been on LMFAOOOOO

I did work tasks and made dinner, and then more work tasks, started the day with a delivery of some nice bowls and also groceries, and a couple of meetings, plus sent a revised article back to a journal, and vaguely internalised some teaching material, took out the recycling,, it's been very Monday

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

guess what's 40min delayed? you are correct, it's my return flight into FRA, presently scheduled to arrive one minute after boarding starts for my connection

saved (?) from buying fun little treats for gaming group snacks at the airport by... the card machines being down. cash only! 😲