I just realised Typepad quietly died at the end of September when I went to try and find a knitting pattern linked on Ravelry 😭

I slag off Vinted sellers a lot but this is the perfect way to sell your item.

lots of people know Łink from what he did to promote alt text usage here. this tip about pretending you’re describing an image over the phone has been burned in my brain since i saw it

The media continue to present this woman as a child because at 22-years old she presents a degree of moral clarity, rhetorical potency and profound understanding of the connection between one's politics and one's actions that her detractors, many more than twice her age, not ony lack, but defile.

So as a newly-diagnosed asthmatic, I just realised breathing heavily at night /doesn’t/ have to be normal and I can just take medicine to make it go away? What is this novelty

BREAKING: Son of the most powerful man on the planet who's name is on dozens of golf courses and buildings and shakes down every institution for payoffs and bribes is rich. HOW DID HE DO IT

Me at 9am: a fresh week, a positive mindset Me at 4.51pm: why can’t literally everything go piss itself

ugh, with this wave of xenophobia against ILR holders, I should probably finally do citizenship, shouldn’t I? 😭 The thought of pledging allegiance to another king kinda makes me want to hurl though

many benefits are household claims. imagine you're british and your spouse has ILR, and you're told that you're being denied benefits because your spouse is from "other parts of the world and they can leave". imagine if you lose your job and your spouse can't claim jobseekers, so you end up homeless

“The rule would not apply to EU nationals with settled status in the UK, as their right to receive benefits forms part of post-Brexit arrangements with the bloc” An explicitly racist policy then

lol I’ve been trying to find my holy grail jumper so much this week Google Opinion Rewards even paid me £1.18 to talk about it 😂 (the quest to find it was unsuccessful, I’ll have to try again later)

Hell yeah HELL YEAH

I really shouldn’t have to say this but using “His mom prob took Tylenol” as a way to insult fascists is wrong on so many levels. 1. Autistic adults are not unfeeling. In fact, many have more compassion than average neurotypical adults. 2. Autism is NOT caused by Tylenol. 3. Stop blaming women.

I refuse to begin a new clothes collection because Rebecca Bunch from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend generally dresses like a Harvard/Yale lawyer i.e. out of my price range, but I was hunting for the A Diagnosis dress for years because it’s so pretty…

List three things you can-- Fucking NOPE. I can read from the thing, and I'm happy to do panels and answer questions and whatnot, but stand up and just... talk... for three hours? I'd rather gnaw off my own legs, seriously 🤣

A class-action suit against major entertainment companies by people with disabilities might right the ship on this. So would a provision in a revised & expanded Americans with Disabilities Act. (If you reply with some variation of, "There's no hope, the bad guys won" it's an insta-block)

I’m saying this shirt appearing on eBay after I’ve been looking for it for years today of all days is a #BiVisibilityDay miracle

Someone on eBay knows I’m on the hunt 👀 (got it for a fraction of the price on Vinted, don’t worry)

Imagine claiming with a straight face that someone being shot by their employer is not forced labour

Just realised my wardrobe has three defined categories: 1) clothes I bought on holiday 2) rainbow, sparkly, or meme clothes 3) Eleanor Shellstrop clothes (a lot of the Eleanor clothes also fit into the rainbow category) Screw having a capsule wardrobe?

I didn’t realize “the left” was synonymous with “every employee and waiter who’s ever dealt with her”

Hercule Purrot.

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

So this is a sign I should just do the test, right? A few weeks ago I bought the Life in the UK Test book from WH Smith/TG Jones/whatever it’s called now. They just refunded me completely for some random reason (not me, I haven’t been back and still have the book) so the book is free

In London, hate will never win.

The correct response, if someone demands you prove what bits you have, is “Fuck off, creep.” If they keep demanding, the follow-up response isn’t a verbal one.

A colleague asked me today about if I’ve ever watched a TV show so much the characters felt part of my life and I… *gestures vaguely at entire wardrobe*

So my very specific dopamine rush is buying the same clothes Eleanor Shellstrop from The Good Place wears (new master thread of photos as and when I find the clothes in my wardrobe again)

A newer friend recommended I drink some coconut water after a hangover recently and I had to fill her in on the coconut water situation

Those of you who know me from The Other Site know I went through a phase of buying a lot of Eleanor Shellstrop’s clothes after seeing them on The Good Place. I thought I was done but I just got an alert for an item on eBay…

I keep forgetting this website exists so please enjoy my new toad bag and her collection of hats

And England won the Euros too? Aaaaaaaaaaaaa

Thank you to @allontheboard.bsky.social for continuing to help make concerts at the O2 magical (I had such a fun time seeing Alanis Morissette for only the second time since 2008, and Liz Phair for the second time since 2019)

Opened a Thai news programme this morning to catch up and find that they’re asking viewers to use a hashtag which roughly translates to “Cambodia fired first” on social media. Why are we like this

Just realised my new asthma diagnosis alongside my usual anxiety disorder means I now get to play the fun game of “is it a panic attack or an asthma attack?” 🤦🏻‍♀️

Telling the press that a cabinet minister has the full backing of the Prime Minister is an empty phrase. Kwasi Kwarteng had the full backing of Liz Truss (according to the minister on the media round that day) just a couple of hours before he was called home from Washington to get sacked. #ukpoli

My most dull injury yet - sprained my shoulder while, uh, getting up out of bed

Bought a masquerade mask for a party in like 2011. FINALLY using it again 😂

I have no idea what on earth an “AI BDR” is but I hope whoever graffitied on this sign has a cold pillow at night

happy pride month!

Typing may be slow because I have a 7kg weight draped across my left hand any time I work from home

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

The only good use case I’ve found for any AI is to ask it to help generate some alt text occasionally (and even then it still needs the human to add lots of context and correct errors)

It’d be pretty cool if aspirational masculinity was just like. Being a gentle, funny dad and a loving partner and having jumper cables and a lug wrench on hand and maybe learning how to build and paint sets for school plays instead of being a sentient crypto ham hock with a creatine addiction

Someone put a mirror out with the trash near Grange Park, and this one Canada goose is VERY MAD at this FUCKING GUY who will not STEP OFF

This bathroom is for biodegradable women ONLY

my birth certificate is in Thai so good luck with that, transphobes

My internet friend of 20 years(!) has gone through a difficult time lately so sharing in the feed for support (and yes, I've bought some too because I too do all things out of spite)