Who’s ready for labours U-Turn of the year?

Up early in a Saturday to drive H to a church hall to queue. For potatoes. Seed potatoes. (For non brits, this is an annual affair in the UK - we’re given a ration of potatoes to last us the next 12 months and we have to register annually)

The figures here also show that 7% of all child suicides were trans children. That compares with trans children making up only 1% of the population. Trans kids are seven times as likely to die by suicide as cis kids and all this government can do is make things worse and cover these figures up.

recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.

Well, the @coffeestain.com #Satisfactory Kickstarter/merch finally arrived! Built in the space of about 1.5 hours (the instructions were okay… but a little unclear at times. RC works great - and it drives/handles just like the game - utterly terribly!

With the Magic Mouse being the exception, every single mouse I’ve ever owned has needed to be replaced because the scroll wheel click function stops working eventually, as I open ALL links with a middle click to open the link in a new tab. Is this a very niche only me problem?

This is going to be an enormous mental health crisis in a decades time. (More so than now)

Is anyone else finding it terrifying how normal it is now to scroll from a cat video to graphic footage of war crimes, onto an advert for hello fresh, then onto graphic footage from multiple angles of someone being executed by ICE, and then onto a video tutorial for making pasta.

I just discovered that this bird - the Gloster Canary - exits and it has changed me.

Retrofitted an old IKEA FOXA screwdriver with a USB C port (rather than a barrel jack). Really like these tiny PD trigger boards - great for upgrading barrel jacks as they’re smaller than the old connector, and good for replacing micro USB ports too. Obviously gets an @ifixit.com sticker now!

Just reflexively oppositional, YOU NEGOTIATED THIS DEAL! If you'd not held the election when you did, Rishi would have signed it. YOU WERE IN THE FOREIGN OFFICE AT THE TIME.

Domino’s have got rid of their classic tracker, and instead you now they have beheaded Baymax

Who knew buying printer toner would be such a PITA? Attempt 1: Amazon (Market place seller, although did not know this at the time). Price £65 Arrives, and upon checking via the Brother website, turns out to be counterfeit. Amazon won’t accept a return as it was still marked as “in transit”.

Huge craving for cardamom laced cinnamon rolls.

Timeline cleansing

Snow! 5/10 constant thick flakes and about 1.5cm #uksnow

Time to give @wombat37.bsky.social his final send off. Very grateful for modern technology allowing me to attend the funeral via a live stream. Cry laughing at the music choice for everyone entering the ceremony.

So, the US have seized a ship in international waters. I appreciate at this point international law isn’t exactly the USA’s top priority, but isn’t this technically piracy‽

you did not see this kitty pull a glizzy heist good morning

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‘I’m not going to tell them I’m a police officer’ says the woman who looks more like a police officer than any other person in the entire world #Traitors

[Spoiler Free] Watched the Stranger Things finale. I felt it was a very well crafted wrap up of the show, which will undoubtedly be panned because people have stupid expectations/were grumpy it didn't pan out how they thought. Was it perfect? No. Was it satisfying? Yes.

Holiday Inn Media City, Manchester. Queued behind John Humphries in the breakfast queue. He likes sausages.

Typical tech bros, they could have saved so much time, money, precious metals and energy if they'd just asked a passer by to kick them in the nuts instead.

Visible morning stability score this morning was 1/5. Turns out cooking/serving Christmas dinner, cooking/serving bubble and squeak yesterday, and doing that with the lurgy = massively blowing your pace points budget.

@wombat37.bsky.social I just want you to know I’m thinking of you, and remind you how loved you are.

@wombat37.bsky.social hope you’re having as good a day as one can hope. You’re in my thoughts!

In essence: juries are important for what decisions they prevent others from making.

Fixed up the cuff of a beloved hoodie using a knockoff speed darner from AliExpress. Very much would like a speeddarner from Ministry of Mending now! Unpicked the seam to repair hole with a patch, and then used blanket stitch around the cuff to reinforce some ropey bits then resewed the hem.

Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.

@wombat37.bsky.social what’s for brekkie?

Several winners of Cycling UK 100 Women in Cycling prize decline award due to exclusion of trans women 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 road.cc/content/news...

Did you know we want to war in Iraq due to The Rock movie? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roc...

@wombat37.bsky.social saw this, thought of you

Happy #Halloween folks! My pumpkin this year is quite expressive given it doesn’t have a mouth!

Nothing to see here, your party is totally on track for 100s of MPs. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I’m seeing a lot of Labour supporters on here badgering trans folk to vote for their party again because Reform might be even worse than they are. Give it a rest - Labour represent nothing but cruelty, segregation and oppression to me. I will never vote for a party that means me harm.

The British press in all its ignorant, blinkered, navel-gazing, entitled glory here Note to Metro fact-checkers: she’s Ireland’s third woman president, lads

I should add that the judgment is very well written. I felt quite emotional reading the final sections, which contain the findings of fact. This is also the first time that AP, Garçon and Nicot v France has been considered in full by our domestic court, rather than merely mentioned.

Can anyone recommend a UK based Queer/FLINTA+ owned jeweller/maker of rings? #QueerOwned #QueerBusinesses #Jewellery #HandMade #CustomRings #lgbtq #SmallBusiness

@dropout.tv Polite accessibility request for the next season of Crowd Control - could you reconsider the typeface used for on screen text/reduce/remove the green red white motion effect? It’s a VERY difficult typeface to read for many folks, made even more difficult by the animation effect.

*opens TikTok one week from now* “Did you know Black people have an extra muscle for crime?!””

See also: Knitting

It has come to my attention that many of you have been sharing this photo of Streeting and Mandelson widely. Please remember that Wes Streeting does not like it being shared widely. So please do not share it widely and on every possible occasion. We wouldn’t want to upset him would we?

Damnit. This weeks episode of Strange New Worlds has me sobbing.

Sex Matters has deleted his page from its website - but the internet never forgets. web.archive.org/web/20241107...