We really need to shed every ounce of civility for the architects of our sorrow.

I'm not English. You don't follow me and I don't like when strangers come into my mentions just to be combative.

There’s no compromise to be made. Destroy and prosecute ICE.

Well that's sort of fun to discover.

I guess I'm doing this.

OK no but if you read bad books this advert thing is actually true. I was tortured into reading that god awful Secret of Secrets book and it had such obvious advertisements that I was losing my mind the whole time.

The view from my bedroom. Unexpectedly snowy here on the canal.

Are we doing British food is bad discourse, which is weird because a full English breakfast and fish and chips and meat pies are incredible, I thought we'd closed this discourse down.

Tonight's music: Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, in honour of the composer's birthday (6 January, 1872). An exquisite work, lush from beginning to end.

I love rotary phones and I miss the rhythmic patterns you'd learn from dialing certain numbers.

The doctor told me I could take 4 grams paracetamol a day and it made me think of how our most common pain relievers have such a tiny dosage window between 'effective' and 'you could die'.

Off to the doctor in a winter wonderland.

When I was younger and first heard of phoenix down in Final Fantasy I thought it was like Black Hawk Down or something, like "phoenix, DOWN" and not, you know, a tuft of down from a phoenix.

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

It's snowing.

Fuck, I need to go into hiding.

I have the worst cold. Again. Or the flu. One of those sore throat sneezy coughy plugged-nose things.

2026 is here. Say 'ah'.

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Celebratory workout selfie.

I want small, simple games with emotional and mechanical consistency and I also want weird, unwieldy games that try to do too much and the other games too.

So I've finally been playing FF7 Rebirth and this thing is BONKERS and I think I kind of love it?

In case it weren't obvious: I do not want your weight loss advice, and unless someone asks you, specifically, you should always assume your advice is neither needed nor welcome.

You don't follow me and I am not looking for advice but thanks.

I'm down 5.2 kg in 2 weeks which is - quite a lot, actually.

and then for hours used passive voice to pretend they had no idea who was behind the apparently spontaneous explosions

I spent far too long on this unscientific @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social cast classification grid.

The same editorial board described Seattle’s mayor raising taxes to pay for childcare as a totalitarian power grab

About to spend some a week getting to know the Belgian MEPs, and making sure they get to know me.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

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Fuck.

Europe can always be counted on to serve up a bowl of nothing.

It's snowing.

I'm hardly original in saying this, but a lot of people are going to try to make this about whether Maduro being gone is good or bad as such, rather than the blatant violation of international and US law in a destabilizing act of aggression. Don't fall for it.

Given the looks of things, we'd best be prepared afore pressing on.

I've said this before, but I do think it's easy - and incorrect - to assume every move from this regime is a planned distraction from something else. It's just an open pipe, pouring shit and flesh-slurry, a bombardment of horror. Its very nature is that every drop is a distraction from the last.

There's your Nobel Peace Prize winner, btw. Hats off to everyone involved. Great job.

An administration driven by greed, cruelty, and frankly a sort of empty-hearted boredom. The death of innocents so they can beat their chests and line their already fat wallets. Whatever comes next has to at least look like justice. We cannot just turn the page for the sake of one party’s comfort.

Fuck.

My vacuum has this feature where it sucks harder when it senses more dirt and it's hard not to take it personally when it starts really revving up.

I spent far too long on this unscientific @makesomenoiseshow.bsky.social cast classification grid.

2026 is here. Say 'ah'.

People will read old newspaper clippings

Sunny. Feeling good.

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Now reading.

It's always very funny when reactionaries criticise socialists for having a thing maybe even a nice thing, it absolutely boggles their minds that we could have currency and goods.

Blockbuster interview about institutional transphobia at the New York Times that names names of the bigots responsible: A.G. Sulzberger, Joe Kahn, Carolyn Ryan at the top, plus Pamela Paul, Jeremy Peters, Azeen Ghorayshi, Katie J.M. Baker, & an entire anti-trans pro-mgmt splinter group in the union