There is not a single reason to outsource your creativity to a computer. Not one. To do so removes the very point of being creative in the first place.

Oh look, Kevin Federline’s back out here exploiting Britney. With the same media outlets who pretended to have learned lessons from their past abuse of her giving him the platform to do so! (But hey, why quit victimising the woman you already destroyed when you can still eke $ out of her?)

Having one of those periods again where I struggle with the fact that if I don't go chasing after people, very few of them come chasing after me. But if I decide to energy match... well, that's me on me tod. Doesn't feel like there's a good answer. ("Make new friends!" has not historically helped)

And of course, your reminder that the Conservatives in government enthusiastically approved every single one of the Sentencing Guidelines that they now claim are evidence of the far-right “two tier justice” myth.

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

So many story lines have used Women In Refrigerators trope to move plot forward. It's one thing if it was once in awhile but frigging is so commonplace a lot of us assume it will happen especially in action films.

This sign wins the day 🏆

Having now completed The Jury... despite the difference in details, in both seasons I've felt like verdicts have been reached on account of certain large personalities in the room dominating proceedings and having to be either totally or partially conceded to. A worrying pattern.

I probably shouldn’t have watched S2 of The Jury given how frustrating the first one was, but here we are again. This time the main cringe is a whole bunch of jurors who do not understand you presume innocence and require guilt be proved, not the other way around. Siiiiiiiigh

Nearly a year later and I still think they’re underappreciated

I know it’s far too late to save the word “literally” from the daily abuse it gets on the internet, but my eye still twitches. Even if I catch me doing it too 😂

The r/teachers subreddit is full of stories about lists of teachers who criticized Charlie Kirk (many listings without evidence) and harassment campaigns to get them fired. Free speech and open debate my ass. It’s the same as it always was—another way to destroy education

coining the term "abusive stepdad politics" to describe that thing the right does where they goad you until you snap at them and then act offended in order to frame you as unreasonable.

Why is there this sudden rash of idiotic cutesy names being coined in order to pretend perfectly ordinary behaviour is some weird new phenomenon? So people can churn out articles on it? We now have “job hugging” aka being in a job and not actively looking to leave it

I fear this article misses the point. The problem is not the (entirely human) desire to be attractive to your preferred dating pool, it's misogynists cosplaying as feminists to appear less dangerous to women. This isn't just pretending to like the band you like. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Lord, reporting scam artists is absolutely useless now all the platforms have outsourced moderation to AI. I am constantly reporting people who are overtly impersonating celebrities trying to lure me into DMs, and it’s “we see no problem here”

Pet peeve - “per the attached email” when the attached email doesn’t say anything like what’s claimed. Don’t lie to me, I can read 😂

Signs you're too invested in a fictional character - you want to do another Veilguard run (brain doesn't want new games right now), think "hmm maybe I should try the Emmrich romance this time," but you're hesitating because Lucanis making Neve gooseberry pie would hit you in all the hurty feels.

Take a 4* hotel - Put 1-3 more beds into every room, and force guests to share with strangers - Shut down all public facilities - Close all restaurants and cafes - Fire all trained staff - Cancel cleaning and laundry services - Feed guests cheap low nutrition slop 3x a day Is it still a 4* hotel?

I am releasing myself - I want to like AC Shadows, I do, but I cannot get into it for the life of me. I will not keep slogging at it hoping I will change my mind, we've done enough hours that we'd be into it by now if we were ever going to be lol.

Trouble with this advice for me is that the book I want to read is “the exact story I have in my head as written by a better writer than me” 😂

Worth remembering that Terence Stamp was the son of a ship's stoker. Stamp desperately wanted to act, after falling in love with movies as a kid, and it was a scholarship to Drama School that allowed him to walk that path. Every time arts cuts are made, they rob us of more Terence Stamps.

Out in London today, of course your phone detects all manner of hotspots - found one called “castrate *racial slur for South Asians*.” That’s what some racist arsehole decided to put out to every stranger who checks for wifi. Remind me again how Britain isn’t supposed to have a racism problem

If someone demands you quote Shakespeare as minimum entry requirement for a chat, “would thou wert clean enough to spit on” springs to mind

NEW BLOGPOST: Why did the jury acquit Ricky Jones? thesecretbarrister.com/2025/08/16/w...

Bring back headphones on public transport.

Pals, I know everyone is doing it, but you gotta stop deciding that because you don’t like someone that it’s okay to diagnose them with a personality disorder. Mental illness isn’t a sick burn or the ultimate way to dunk on someone. And when you treat it that way, you’re choosing to worsen stigma.

Space bestie ❤️

Timeline cleanse

Feel good stories where karma actually works

Me trying to do a renegade run in Mass Effect

Shepard's squadmates from previous games when they're asked to come back to the Normandy

This is horrendous. And any cis people wondering why they should care should consider just exactly how it is that anybody is going to enforce this - how would you prove you weren’t trans to someone who decided you didn’t look girly or macho enough to use the loo for your gender?

Today, for no reason in particular, am thinking of Lucanis Dellamorte

Apparently you can't just record yourself screaming as a description, so I have relunctantly written some actual words about the problems we're facing as a rescue

There is understandable concern following this news report. Let’s try to break down what has happened. 🧵

Amused anyone even cares to make this complaint nearly 20 years later, and still manages to be wrong. "In 2007, all historical fact went out of the window when Jonathan Rhys Meyers played Henry VIII as a hunky, brunette sex god in The Tudors." The only inaccuracy in there is that he was a redhead

20 years later, I have belatedly worked out why people defending Spike’s attempted sexual assault of Buffy on BtVS always makes me so irate. It’s because so much of it, bar the supernatural element, is classic rape culture rhetoric.

I am extremely flattered

muppets in buffy the vampire slayer: thread

Shakespeare walks into a gay bar, then realizes he has somewhere else he needs to be. ::Exeunt, pursued by a bear::

I think a really important thing is giving yourself permission to do thing slowly. You aren’t going to cook a good meal rushing, aren’t going to write a good book rushing, aren’t going to enjoy your day with a friend rushing. It’s really important to practice intentional slowness sometimes.

Learning today how many people think “I’m sharing my confidential business don’t tell anyone” has an unspoken “except your romantic partner” attached. I hope they mention that policy to their friends *before* accepting confidences.

"The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting” is the dumbest thing I have ever heard. People criticized your work, therefore it was good?

The amount of people baselessly assuming Adriana Smith would have supported what’s been done to her, and that her family did support it, is insane. This is a well reported story, these points are known, and in any event *you don’t get to experiment on a corpse based on conveniently assuming consent*

A great initiative from We Need Diverse Books: "Magic Stories are for Everyone"! Check out the link to support trans and nonbinary kids who deserve to find magic and joy in their lives — and in the stories they read! www.diversebooks.org/magic-stories

Can I get a hallelujah? 😇😉

It's easy to forget now but we had decades of steady advancement on trans rights. The 2016 bathroom bills invited huge backlash! It was only after the media constructed sports and youth medications as 'debates' that opposition moved from the far right to the polite center.