A lesson from jazz I find valuable? Too much horse is not good for you.

We really don't give technology enough credit. Take the IPL. I can now burn myself, blind myself and choke on a cyanide cloud of my own vaporized body hair - all at once, at home and on a budget! Truly, we live in an age of mundane miracles and everyday wonders.

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He knows.

One day I will learn how much whimsy is too much, chat. Today is probably not that day, NGL, but one day.

Bit of niche interest crossover - ThorpyFX are doing a 2000AD collab with some cool custom finishes. Usual sorts of Thorpy prices, but I am safe because there is no Nemesis. thorpyfx.com/collections/...

I am going to take a shower. I may be some time.

Sooooo... currency trading causing instability and credit overextension, followed by a war and then a global return to the gold standard for reconstruction, anyone? Bretton Woods 2 baby, we're back and err... idk, woodier.

Having just hung it up now it's dry, I cannot recommend a good colour restoring liquid for dark fabrics enough. The one I have at the moment claims to depill too, which raised an eyebrow, but does seem to be true.

Perhaps I had seen something mid scroll which reminded me, but it seems he has a bio out and the answer to "what have you been up to then?" is "smack, mostly." (apparently he's only read the first four chapters, which is... on-brand). He was still right about soloing though.

Recommendations like those made by Healthwatch lead directly to cases like the trans woman I quoted yesterday who is having difficulty finding out how to get checked out for possible breast cancer.

Just waiting for the tub clean cycle to finish so I can do the third lot of laundry, have cleaned and tidied the kitchen store cupboards, cleaned the entire flat and now I am thinking about firing up the pressure cooker to make soup. Maybe she's born with it, maybe she has chronic fucken anxiety.

Small minority parties like Labour need to stand aside, as they just take votes away from the Greens.

I don't know about anyone else, but there are posts in the middle of threads trying to straighten out someone saying some headass shit where I cannot help but suffix them "pray tell."

Good grief, only a fortnight until it's time to complain about the clocks changing again.

I kind of miss the days when people (alright, person, namely Richard Stallman) would only use the web by mailing a daemon running wget, which would download the page and send it back for viewing.

"Lan, will you cook for us all?" "Yes, sure. As we're all autistic, do we have dietary things I should plan round?" *round of 'no, I'm easy'* "Are you sure?" *round of 'sorry, actually I'm incredibly picky if I'm honest, sorry, sorry'*

Haynes manuals were mid.

This is super quick and easy and we only need a few people to reach the goal.

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This may seem extreme, but at this point I think the only reasonable response to someone saying they want to remove bodily autonomy from others is a captive bolt pistol.

Can't work out if Sheffield having The Punchiest TERF is a point of local pride or shame.

Still really pleased with this, just because it's so new to work hard at something **and then feel a sense of reward and accoplishment**. Fuck, if I could have accessed this shit earlier in life... well, you get the idea.

I mean, break all the enemies and drive them before you that you want, listen to all the lamentations you fancy, but when women whose makeup you have long admired compliment yours last night in the group chat and ask how you did the eyeshadow, honestly Conan, THAT is living, old son.

From the cottage cheese brain that brought you "That Charlie fella never said anything bad that I heard, and he was really polite." There is a pattern emerging here that cannot be be explained by simple stupidity and ignorance, even in extremis.

Incredible take from a foreigner who arrived on a small boat. Admittedly it was at Whitby in 1890, but still.

About 30 years ago, I read an interview with Evan Dando of The Lemonheads. It contained the quote "Soloing is like surfing, because the curvier it is the cooler it is, but if it gets too curvy, you fall off." I think it is the best explanation I've ever seen.

My ma had one and this produced what I still believe to be the best grated cheese, to the point where I insisted it was retained long past her getting a succession of food processors.

Yes, if only you knew someone utterly risible whose life could easily be reskinned thusly into a farce based on their vileness. What marks the spot? What is Elon Musk's website called? Most commonly used variable?

Apparently Billy Bragg was inspired to start his career in political music after seeing The Clash. youtu.be/dqmvShiyrqQ?...

I have found ANOTHER one. So many records full of gravity blasts and death grunts and totally sterile because they all sound like the Castlevania soundtrack. It's only baroque'n'roll, and I do not like it.

Obviously it is the law that all modern technical death metal bands must contain one (1) former member of Obscura, but if those kids don't calm down with the harmonic minor, istg I'm gonna take their Yngwie albums away.

I don't think a commitment to publicly displaying your whole arse is an issue here, as the mod team would have self-canned ages ago.

You really know you're a mess when even the senior manager shows concern and empathy.

This just turned up in my follows. Block suggested.

When you think about the way Rusbridger was forced out following the Snowden leaks, what followed at Graun Towers does make a lot of sense. Viner can be relied on not to ignore D-Notices and to print any any tissues of lies attacking trans people. Fearless investigative journalism, don'tchaknow.

It's said the wages of sin are death but the wages of virtue are pitiful. If Polly Toynbee is any yardstick, the wages of idiocy appear to be immortality.

I don't want to be logged on. There are all these tickets. Someone take me away from all this, to a better life or a guitar shop or a knacker's yard or something.

Return all the hosta- oh, no, not those.

My thoughts are wandering a little inbetween banging out tickets like the Queen of the Data Scene, but I've just remembered the time I scared our DM to death and nearly broke the entire campaign.

The "one in one out" deal between the UK and France is based on the idea of deterrence. But (and it's getting boring saying this year after year after year) the fabled deterrent effect does not exist. Here's one of the more recent explainers on this topic odi.org/en/insights/...

Absolutely maddening that this isn't a bigger news story outside of NI tbh. Loyalists are literally threatening to burn shit down over dual language signage, but Palestine Action are the big scary terrorists that we all need to be talking about, right?

I've decided that any positive mention of Adrian Chiles is on a par with "oh, dear Dennis Thatcher." It either signals ignorance or malice and I will treat you accordingly.

Fucking hell, you take one weekend off because it's the annual Delirium And Crying Following Double Vaccination festival and you miss so much. Friday she was still at "users suck and I hate them," and she's already all the way to full endorsement of the worst people on earth. They grow up so fast!

The worst time to discover the long skirt you grabbed at random this morning has one of those annoying inside bits that's like wearing a mini is when you try to take the stairs two at a time.

I begging you all to please stop celebrating the spouse of the Guardian editor, one of the people who has pushed transphobia on this poxy rain swept rock to fever pitch. He does the banality, she does the evil.

Strange that every legitimate service wants ID proving my carbon date, yet not a single torrent site has requested it.

wowee who could've guessed that this might happen