Oof. Yeah. A party electoral system that can’t receive the signal voters want to send is going to meet an infrastructural system that can’t deliver the outcomes the elected want to promise, and that is not going to be the pretty kind of spiral.

When you know you can but shouldn't is why we have Australians.

This is glorious

Ya like tshirt cannons? Man, you're gonna love the pantyhose

All right, this just came across my radar, and it is *brilliant*. You won't find a better or more compact explanation for [waves hands] all of this. This is the skeleton key.

The correct director for an Odyssey adaptation is Taika Watiti. I will not be explaining any further.

We complain about NHS GP services being a switchboard that calls you fat unless you’re over seventy, in which case you can talk to someone in a fortnight, and yes, the alternative is so much worse, but today I had an equivalently shitty private experience, so, uh, maybe it’s our national psyche?

Hell YEAH I've a new book coming out. They made me a cover reveal animation, look!

God, he's so missed.

The return of runic magic! Golems! The Word made true. If you find the right magic spell, the genie has to obey you. Only you can tame the monkey's paw! It's SCIENCE

Related to this, I continue to think that the biggest and most interesting mistake Disney made was going 'it's all canon' and thereby forcing itself into weird knots rather than just going 'screw it. Let's adapt Knights of the Old Republic into a movie'.

I think this is my favourite related meme

Also, while people are doing Met Gala discourse, some facts you may not know: the Costume Institute at the Met is the only curatorial department that needs to self-fund, meaning it gets none of the grant money or admission money given to the Metropolitan Museum itself.

First question: if one of his female employees followed this guidance, would she get to clear out her own desk, or would security do that for her?

The original trilogy is nonsense elevated by a cast whose skills and charisma far outmatch the material and they’ve been ruined by a fandom that demands an explanation for every throwaway line.

Well this is going straight on the to-buy list

I do think it sums up “the weird way the Internet shapes politics unnoticed” that “some chants that people should knock off but are mostly an ignorable part of an in-person march” are given more explanatory power than “the website that is full of antisemitism of every stripe that MPs hang out on”.

Shaft!

Dinner chat: “So, yeah, I guess in terms of headspace and shutting your brain up and all that, saunas are just like hiking except you might get off and you’re less worried about bus times” There remains no Peak Rogger.

Plumbert won’t see your messages calling him a monster but your friends made entirely of fruits and vegetables will

Speaking of the old gods, a friend of mine made this extremely silly game about Mr Blobby having an existential crisis and by playing it you can evoke his chaotic magicks www.patreon.com/posts/mr-blo...

That's the west coast mainline for you

This is broadly correct so long as you don’t use an overly abrasive scourer. The seasoning is a funky polymer layer, it ain’t dainty.

Sometimes I think about how Covid was almost this Watchmen-ish unifying global crisis, and the phenomenal goodwill and scientific and logistical mobilisation, and then how after the eye of the storm passed, left and right came together to… reject bedtime.

Speaking of the old gods, a friend of mine made this extremely silly game about Mr Blobby having an existential crisis and by playing it you can evoke his chaotic magicks www.patreon.com/posts/mr-blo...

no mr blobby isn't a cryptid because the horror of mr blobby is that we KNOW he exists. he is a constant threat

Reading back up through this thread I could genuinely not have predicted how it starts. Good grief.

Midway through rolling my eyes at yet another march past George Square blasting drums and bagpipes I lean out the window and spot that it’s the trade unions this time, so, uh, as your were lads, carry on, I guess.

ISAAC CHOTINER: So, the food bowl. It's empty, you say? CAT: That's right. IC: And has it ever not been empty? C: Not that I can recall, no, it has not. IC: Fascinating. And this bit of food caught in your whiskers, where would you say that's- C: Now hold on, this is about the bowl, not

Dinner at Sugo last night, a two branch chain spun out of Glasgow’s excellent Paesano pizzeria (now owned by a local-ish restaurant group) and with the rough agenda “same, but pasta”. Pretty good? Ravioli special trying to do too many things on one plate, but the fundamentals are solid.

My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

I think about this all the time.

Let's see if today's plan survives contact with the weather...

This shitpost has a convenient reading time of 3 seconds

i have a fetish for shocking realizations and i just came to a startling conclusion

"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that.

Shoutout to my friend Wade who pointed out that with the overwhelming global popularity of One Piece, Alan Moore’s prediction in Watchmen of pirate comics overtaking superhero comics has come true

I know I have posted this a lot today but I have finally made my game's itch page look, you know, *nice*, and not desolate. God knows how many people were put off before! Now it has COLOURS! and a BANNER! And SCREENSHOTS! and generally looks like I meant to make it brainmage.itch.io/i-will-stran...

This is the perfect encapsulation of the conservative id: make everything the way I thought it was when I was nine years old

Things that sound like they’re rude but aren’t: jam funnel See also: jazz apples

In other words, Meta is the #1, #2 and #3 top way Americans got scammed out of money. www.techmeme.com/260427/p43#a...

I’m not sure the intended outcome of the work training course on supporting neurodiverse employees was that I realise I probably have a fair whack of ADD, but hey, at least I now know how to support myself… (I do not. I am a shitshow)

Sometimes, having things that need using up before travelling results in a rather depressing lunch. Other times…

One of the problems with technology today is if you're a millenial/xennial you remember when tech worked.

A massive wasp flew in the window and I panicked and just said "please don't do that" and it immediately flew back out and just for a moment I truly believed I had made it happen by being firm yet polite.

Mr Blobby is a pokemon