I'm increasingly convinced that if social media existed in the 1930s Germany, there would be endless videos of Jews being hauled out of their homes while people watched like this. People let this happen because they can't fight the state and it effectively encourages learned helplessness.

Look, when I walk past them in the corridor, especially the naughty kids, I take great pleasure in crop-dusting them. It’s the only way I can assert dominance.

Lil' comic about hope and longing 💗

Now cancel all Palantir contracts. They are worming their way into the NHS and MoD, and now that the U.S. is giving Ukrainian defence info to Russia… …we need to treat it like a hostile company due to it’s owner’s friendship with Trump. And weird Rapture beliefs.

"We have embedded a notorious US military surveillance company whose founder [Peter Thiel] is a close ally of President Trump into the heart of our military at a moment in which the US is threatening to invade our NATO ally..."

Via neurowild (The reality is that the western world runs on a historical assumption that kids aren't people but property. We've made huge progresses but that assumption is still around)

How to improve publishing: Publish fancy hardbacks and affordable paperbacks on the same day (instead of a year apart). Don't sign authors for what they represent, but what they write. Sign 20 debuts for £10k each instead of one for £200,000. Ban celebs from kid's lit. De-emphasise the Booker.

Having a small alcohol related wobble about not meeting people outside of work (who are all people I wouldn’t socialise with). Thinking of how I was happy socialising with bloggers back in the day, because they seemed more… I dunno ‘neurodiverse friendly’ towards someone who found socialising tricky

Note: a bruise can be counted as ‘internal bleeding’. Medics don’t however because it is exaggerating bullshit to call it that, despite being technically true* And it’s probably from where his belt rubbed on his gut. (*in this case, not the best kind of true)

Fucking hell! A sensible bloody company that is refusing AI? Love it! (Really should get around to building my Skaven box…) frvr.com/blog/warhamm...

And the next ex-Tory MP to defect to Reform is... #WhoCares

One of my co-workers doesn’t know the name of our prime minister. “He looks like Roland the rat” is as close as she can get. It honestly befuddles me how someone can be so wilfully ignorant. And yet she has an opinion on everything, based mostly on feels, Facebook and TikTok.

I like London. But the one thing I don’t like about it is that the schools never close for snow - which annoys me as I work in a school.

One of the more powerful magical incantations I was ever taught is, “Fuck no, make me”. Sometimes shortened to just “no”, but the rest is said in my head.

It feels like we had a choice, Trump’s America or Europe. And for some fucking reason our government has chosen Trump. I can easily see us ‘giving support’ if the U.S. invades Greenland. There are no words for how fucking cowardly our government is.

Every follow up question should be “would you condemn Trump for invading Greenland? And if so, why is that different?”

The Online Safety Act means that to see if someone has DMd me here to say they like my podcast I have to use a VPN, because it's illegal for me to see without proving I'm old enough, but I could just go to The Paedo Nazi Site For Nazi Paedos and get it to make customised CSAM and that's fine.

The British government won't address this until someone does it to an old picture of Princess Diana.

I mean, I’m not counting the ‘left a huge flap of skin on a fence nail, walked home drunk and forgot to dress the wound, woke up stuck to my bed with dried blood’. Because who hasn’t done that sort of thing in their youth?

Or… knocked myself out and gave myself concussion tripping over a box of bandages and dressings in my clinic about a week after I’d handed in my notice 😂

Two. Dislocated kneecap stepping over the cat. Or… Came under automatic fire ambush while patrolling Greenham Common Base, hit the floor, rolled into cover and returned fire. Broke a rib by landing on the rolled up bandage in my chest pocket. Milsim Airsoft can be hilariously brutal!

I think the appeal of portal fantasy is not only do you get to abandon this fucked up world, but you get to have real agency to effect politics instead of this harrowing helplessness. Alice gets to bring down a terrifying despot in Wonderland, but couldn't even vote in the "real" world.

I’ll also be making sure they get a good look at my raphe, from perineum to scrotum, just so they can be sure there are no suture scars.

I *will* be showing my genitals to anyone who is a toilet monitor, even if they don’t ask. I’ll just drop my trousers and wave my bollocks at them. Maybe bend over so they can get a good look at my arsehole. I encourage all the lads to do the same.

In the same way the invasion of Ukraine motivated Finland & Sweden to immediately request full membership of NATO, both for their safety & as statement, Starmer should consider making an emergency request for the UK to rejoin the EU. The post WW2 peace is over. We live in a time of sharks & food.

Time for the EU and UK (and the rest of the world) to do the same thing to the U.S. as what we did to Russia when they attacked Ukraine, seize assets and put sanctions in place. And ban the fuck out of ‘X’ as state propaganda designed to influence sovereign elections.

New Years Resolutions 1) Give less of a shit. Push back against bullshit more. Do more curses. Destroy egos. 2) Build one model from my stack of sprues a day. I struggle (eyes, back, pain, hands that drop things) but it’s frankly embarrassing. 3) Read more books.

It’s the only way to be sure.

So… …normally I’m very anti-nuclear bombs. But maybe, just for this one time, a medium sized one would be fine?

I’d love to understand the thought process behind people letting off fireworks starting at 6pm on NYE. 10pm and they are really going for it!

I don’t stay up for midnight, don’t really give a shit about New Year’s Eve, resolutions, drinking, etc. But… someone on here mentioned that new year resolutions don’t have to just be for good things. They can be for evil things…😈

Are they women though? Has anyone done a genital check?

I used to do this so that my colleagues with kids could have Christmas Day, etc off. I see my entire family once a week anyway, doesn’t have to be a special day to a religion none of us follow because we are all atheists (or think that if God exists they are a right cunt 😉)

Exile on Coldharbour Lane. Alabama 3.

PSA:

Not the world’s worst idea. And I’ll probably be dead of old age by the time the ‘sexual assault cover-up’ becomes known.

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.

In my part of the U.K. it’s ETOH. Still use it as a science technician when using ethanol.

Since it's Christmas, and my colleagues on-call tonight will no doubt be dealing with alcohol intoxication... A word written in case notes is "ethanolic", which is not *really* a proper term. It's emergency room argot for drunk. It's like, the alcohol isn't in you. You have become like alcohol.

Seasons greetings Bluesky buddies. Whoever you are, wherever you are, I hope you’ll be spending some time in the next few days with people you care about and who care about you. Happy Holidays

These cheap polyester flags in TATTERS, with their fibres littering the local area. Why haven't the die hard patriots maintained and replaced them? Not very patriotic to leave the country looking like a shit hole.

Reading William Gibson's ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES, about a coming "nodal point" where tech disruption changes everything, which for the characters has such transformative potential. So much sense of wonder! And. Watching an actual AI "nodal point" unfold... in real life it's just so fucking boring.

Ex-A&E nurse here who can concur. Also, don’t argue over the dinner when one party has a knife in their hand (first murder I ever worked on), sex toys need a flanged base and for the love of all the gods, a Christmas ornament is *not* a safe sex toy/cock ring. And don’t get pissed and fall over.

Well, this is totally fine. Just fish 72% higher than science would allow. Completely collapsing the mackerel stocks seems to be the plan. "Realpolitik", "grown-ups", etc... www.thelocal.no/20251224/eu-...

Hey #ttrpg folks I don’t know if I’m early or late to this party but the beta of WONDER X WORLDS, a universal system, by @colinkahl.bsky.social is pretty great. And filthily good looking for an indie rpg. wonderxworlds.itch.io/wonder-worlds

If you couldn't be fucked when every government in the UK for the past 14 years started killing disabled and ill people with benign neglect, couldn't be arsed to sign our petitions, couldn't be fucked to put on a mask or even reskeet a message, you don't get to be shocked at the march to eugenics.

Now do racism, because we coulda told you this and weren't listened to. Only when it got to THIS point, now everybody is shocked? Well, now you know.

Every year my favourite spreadsheet gets released by the government. Endlessly fascinating. My ambition is that one day I’ll be a “1” in this chart. Take a look, even if it’s just to say “I didn’t know you could die from *that*” www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...