Is it ok that the ads for gain-associated products are just openly like "This is an addiction plus a zero-sum disorder, subscribe now!" I feel like if SlimFast went this hard people would complain.

In case it passed you by: that's fanart! It has always been a part of "classical" art. Just look at Rembrandt's workshop! Two artists separated by time, space, & culture, linked forever by one loving the other's work [& correctly attributing, ahem!] enough to buy it.

One recurring vision from the Hiroshige exhibition has been Van Gogh's own late edition print of cherry blossom with its faded colours & his much folded & loved sketch made to scale it to his canvas for the painting which would reveal he had definitely seen a 1st Ed at some point. So human.

I seriously considered putting the heating on last night & seriously didn't cos I've yet to capture & release my home's spider population & so many of them are above radiators. I don't want to bake them dry!

So much of human suffering is tied up with us not feeling like we have permission for anything else. The starvation of positive feedback leaves peeps vulnerable to all kinds a bad ideas. Dance alone if you have to, cos you won't dance alone for long.

This is the same guy who tried to refuse me entry to a dead bar midweek for not looking 18 at 27. He'd been off with an injury for 10 months & missed me becoming a "treasured regular" [landlady's words]. I might've been his first chance to exercise his petty power in all that time. So meagre.

A decade ago our old GM was in the midst of moving so my [now ex-]chap hosted his bday for him. One guest arrived & commented he'd been worried at first that the address was "council trash" referring to the block where I live & it was politely skated over to save the party atmosphere.

Just love waking up to a fat brown envelope from the DWP. I wish I could be surprised at yet another gov dept claiming to have tried calling me to no avail. They had no problem texting me yesterday!

I've been awake for a good 25 hours & I'm finally winding down but I got so much done today. Big necessary things like a load of washing-up, & a whole bunch of little jobs that had been deprioritised due to shortage of spoons over the last few years. I feel lighter.

Not going to pile onto the rando who made the flippant remark, but NO, "the roman people" DID NOT "survive the fall of Rome". As the empire began to pull in the tendrils it had sunk into the heart of nations across Eurasia the skilled followed them. And I don't just mean the high end like [1/6]

Just in case you aren't a human factors obsessive like me, all these airworthiness directives the FAA are issuing now are the ones they refused to issue after flight 191 crashed. Someone should work up a list comparing NTSB recs to FAA actions so their death toll can be more readily public.

DRG season 6 confirmed! Rock & Bone?

I blocked a certain famous person in other places way back for continued casual ableism & slut-shaming. I just got to block them again when their first appearance in my feed is them posting an AI image. Always trust the first flag.

How many of the people today solemnly muttering the sacred phrase "Lest we forget" are fascists, fascist enablers, & wanton profiteers of fascism. But, yeah, of course, someone wore a white poppy. That's what matters.

If I posted even half of the praise he deserves - as a man, as a friend, & as a lover - you'd be sick to death of me by now.

Long before we met in person & fell in love, there was a standing joke that my beloved & I were in fact the same person &, frankly, if this is what it's like being my beloved then I get why some people got so narked when they weren't The One.

My first scroll of the discover feed post-age-verification presented a kaiju taking a massive load. Nature is healed.

If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.

If we get the nappy porn back will it drown out the people who insist on posting untagged graphic images of animal cruelty as some kind of dunk on non-vegans?

It's illegal to advertise gambling to children, so shouldn't there be a problem with Dyer becoming the face of Paddy Power just as his marketing for a child-friendly xmas movie is running? That's got to be over the line, surely?

And, yes, I know there's a great deal of difference between the events otherwise but, most importantly, both only happened cos a US citizen didn't refuse an obviously illegal order.

The unjustified attacks on boats had been reminding me of something, just that annoying little twigging in the hindbrain, & I've finally figured it out. The Laconia. One of the USA's WW warcrimes. Well, it was actually a warcrime sandwich but the final one was American.

The thing that always winds me up about HS2 is, as anyone who actually uses the rail of this country could tell you, traveling up & down the country is already a piece of piss. It's traveling across the country that's a total arse.

I don't see tipping delivery peeps as any different to someone I know nipping to the shops for me & me saying "And anything you want for yourself." But then I'm poor, not a miser.

I hate that my messed up bodyclock keeps meaning I miss the useful hours of a day, but, damn, it was fun to wake up to those US election results as delivered via Kate Mulgrew.

Lol at all the peeps just now discovering that the French are lax AF about most things. When a nation won't pick up its dogshit, it tells you everything you need to know.

Fuck

Waiting for pain meds to kick in is my least favourite chore.

lmao Just got a travel to the USA ad. On a video about the Baltimore bridge collision. Poetry.

And lol at all the peeps just so eager to tell on themselves by interpreting the term "British National" as meaning white.

You, Joe Internet, insisting something is terrorism merely cos people were terrified, who are you helping? You, Karen, dismissing Joe's claim by being incredibly ableist ["nutters", "on drugs"], who are you helping? We. Don't. Have. The. Facts. Yet. Stop inventing background noise.

No, autocorrect, I did NOT mean window. There was not a false window making its way up my wall. Widow is a word. Everything is so much shitter than it used to be.

Are we going to have to start taking up a collection for the NOAA flights like the air ambulances? I will happily kick in a fiver to help keep people everywhere safer from extreme weather events. Shame the US government isn't likeminded.

All of this stuff that's just being thrown away on the whims of a despot who is incapable of understanding anything that really matters, it's people's lives.

Leaving your window unlocked is "contributory negligence" & insurers won't pay out. Yet this ⬇️ is fine. Every one of those icons is between 6 & 500 people, defying gravity & air-pressure in an aluminium can, going hundreds of mph & America is leaving the window open.

Filters are giving people porn-creep but for reality.

The "disappointed by St Peter's Basilica" thing has me seething. Some people really don't deserve the senses they were born with. It's MFing ROME, cunt! If you can't appreciate Rome then stay the fuck home!

Also, not alone in the world, Americans could also do with learning that just cos the King has to sign a thing, it's actually The Crown Estates [or sometimes the Palaces] who decides which things he gets to sign. He is legally prevented from holding opinions on anything. The Royals are a Firm.

Going for a cuppa as my first caffeine of the day when coffee is available & quicker to make is the equivalent of a distress flare to those who know me. Having to go all the way back to brass tacks & listen to my body like it's a stranger, cos post-covid, it is.

Just saw an American wondering if the UK might have their own Epstein Files as if all this didn't start with Yewtree. The comments of its SIO on why it came to a crashing halt are public record even though he was prevented from speaking more freely. Don't give up. Keep demanding justice.

It's wild to think the UK would probably be better run with all decisions being made by laying out labelled litter trays in Downing Street & waiting to see which Larry chooses to shit in.

Exactly who is it people think they are helping when they wade into someone venting about some else being awful with "They might be ND, y'know". Fucking, AND?! Like, the only person associating ND with awfulness is you? Automatically? Unprompted! Wind your neck in & introspection may be possible.

I don't understand this male loneliness thing. Surely all you have to do is meet a random woman from your area on the internet, become her best friend, finally meet, & you both fall madly in love? [Yes, facetious, but also true story.]

Today's Random Memory: mother ordering me to make a Get Well Soon card for my aunt June & only once I had hand drawn & lettered the whole thing did she look at it & inform me that June was in fact going to die so I shouldn't have written get well soon. I fixed it with parcel labels.

Sort of surprised at how many of the basic achievements for Skyrim SE are shiny. Can't help wondering if this is a sign of how done with new versions people were or if it's more a symptom of Bethesda repeatedly making basic mods disable achievements entirely.

It's fascinating to me the very different personal political paths that old [80s-90s] core mostly ex-Footlights group of British comedians & actors have gone in their later life. Such a spread on the spectrum. I kind of wish I could study them 7-Up [the study not the drink] style.

Ok. Have confirmed the new feeling wrong involves an increase in heartrate even when sat at rest. Just love the finding out stage of having had yet another virus without getting to do the fucking around in the first place.

This is a really good time to remind everyone not to shoot the messenger. The government did this to the pharmacists too. If you need to vent at someone your MP's & the Health Secretary's addresses are freely available.

Sparing a thought for the pharmacists in little consultation rooms up & down the UK having to explain that, yes, you received an official NHS invite for the covid vax, but the government decided it knew better than global medical opinion & changed who could get it after that & now it's £90.

Guessing from pfps but everyone mourning Britain falling to populism only now are definitely old enough to remember a man losing an election cos he ate a bacon sandwich "wrong" & didn't look as good in a suit.