And yes, it's just as good, if not better...

As long as we don't get what we got before: witless moral panic and exhortations to snitch on your neighbours (who are going to work because they can't afford not to)...

Don't know how the rest of you are doing but after another horrible day I have made a GP appointment to ask them what is wrong with my brain and if they can fix it. I lost a bit of paper. It completely dematerialised. My gears are definitely slipping.

One bit of the dayjob that I like some times more than others: slideshow-building. Fun when it's someone who lived a good long life and there's a mix of vintage photos, happy poses with the grandchildren and a few daft ones in silly hats to make people smile. Not so nice when it's babies.

You don't have to like porn to defend it. There's not even much wrong with having issues with some types of porn... but you do need to understand that the weaponised moral panics around porn are not about porn. They are about power and control and the scapegoating of those with little of either.

Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.

If I wasn't so sleepy I absolutely would be leaping about and shrieking with joy. I thought the days when putting an obscure band name into your search engine and something you want ACTUALLY COMING UP were long gone. But I have just found this and .... oooh... youtu.be/cT3fqK_thc0

Joyful indeed...

Finally wrapped up another gruelling on-call shift. Today was definitely Weird Shit day...

Oh hello again Bluesky. I'm back - did you missme?

Well I was going to post a nice happy video of me in my pigeon gear dancing with ravens, but it won't let me.

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

I am quite inclined to take some of the Pride bunting I have knocking around and tie it around lamp-posts in areas where the flag-shaggers have been active. But not sure if it would taint the Pride flag/confuse people into thinking it's an endorsement of the weaponised red&white by the queer

Amazing how many people on this app seem to believe that adopting the fascist stance on trans people is somehow the key to defeating fascism.

Want something to do this Sunday?

Sad but not totally surprising news - the legend that was Tom Lehrer has finally gone. 97 so it was bound to happen. The world is now a slightly sadder place, though.

About the best thing I can say for this site is that it has so far managed to keep the bots way down. Thr**ds is getting worse and worse in terms of being flooded with christofascists, foetus worshippers, racists and the anti-trans crazies.

Think this may be of interest to some of you... I'm going to be there lybertine.com/events/love-...

If I had any kind of step-counting device (which I don't, because I refuse to pay money for an electronic Cartman) it would probably have melted today. Bus complications meant a walk of about a mile to start the day, and then this evening's bout of 'FINE if no one else can do it then I'll do it

I still ache in various places, and today was frazzled but less awful than I was worrying it might be (the Big Mistake I thought I might have made is not only salvageable but already salvaged)...

I am very very tired and my neck, head and shoulders hurt. But it was worth it. #PrideInLondon today, in full pigeon rig, parading with the Queer Morris Alliance. If you were there too, hope you had a good day - who were you with?

Sometimes doing a good deed gets a reward, not in heaven (if there is any such location) but right here. In other words, a grateful client gave me a bottle of EXTREMELY nice Romanian wine.

I have been moderately productive today and intend to be moderately more so this evening. Possibly due to accepting that I am going to remain horribly overworked for a while but there IS a path out of the situation.

Another not-bad opinion piece in the Grauniad www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Urgh, absolutely shattered this morning. Went to Cambridge last night to retrieve daughter and her belongings; she was having a farewell meet up with her running club so we agreed I would meet her at 8.30. 'Got everything packed, love?' I texted at intervals. Er, nope. Just caught the last train

I have something to read tonight that is going to make some of you very envious. Want to guess what it is?

Today's discovery is a band defunct for 50 years called the Hollywood Brats. Anyone else aware of them?

What are we all at this morning? Anyone else wanting to do a million things at once and also wanting to hide under the bed till it all goes away?

Thanks everyone who dropped in at @londonaltmarket.bsky.social yesterday - and thanks to all the crew. It was a fun day.

Gah, daughter, caught up in tonight's train chaos, decides to walk halfway across south London and has no phone credit. Trying not to ring her every 10 minutes to order her home when we are both too broke to get her a cab...

You can also come and see me doing the same this Sunday, June 1st, at London Alternative Market in Great Queen St #LAM @londonaltmarket.bsky.social

I think I may have dodged cellulitis. I think this is just a regular bug bite. Whew.

I think I had better go and have a look for some antihistamines. Something has bitten me and there is a certain sensation around that bite that indicates potential trouble. Of course it's Friday...

If you've bought a copy, why not share a pic of you enjoying it?

Super happy to see the wonderful @boop.exposed and @porkchop.farm wearing the correct attire while spending time together reading Swinella. You can get yourself a copy of Swinella here- buff.ly/LxevSQk and an organic cotton, vegan ink Swinella T-shirt directly from me by sending me a DM. Oink! 🐷

Looking for LGBTQ bookshops and particularlyLGBTQ+ bookish events. Shout out if you have any suggestions #LGBTQ+books

Only a week to go! Come and get your #naughtybooks and other fun things at the Viking-themed BBB...

I now have prints of the wonderful artwork that @arrivalofbirds.bsky.social painted for the cover of "Swinella". They're in my Etsy shop right now! They're A5 size and are printed on real card. www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4... #swinella #pig #pigplay #piggirl #arrivalofbirds #gloriasync #oink

Only done three days of the day job but very very glad it is Friday. (No, none of them got up and ran away... but one of the staff did).

Oh this is fun

And here is said soundtrack 🐷 (there are some novelty tracks on there, so be warned... I should make a DJ mix of the playlist and cut them out, but I've not done that yet...) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy9h...

Things you see when you are out doing WHOLESOME THINGS like Morris dancing while dressed as a giant pigeon. Of course I immediately thought of that filthy piglette Swinella dirtysexywords.com/about/dsw-bo...

And a very merry May Day to the lot of you. No I did not get up at sunrise because my team's tradition is not to do that. We start dancing at midday...

Cold poached salmon with dill, new potatoes and baby asparagus. Marmite on toast. Mature cheddar with (buttered) water biscuits and pickled silverskin onions...

I posted about the end of #sinfulsunday too dirtysexywords.com/goodbye-to-s...