We are very slowly rewatching our (my) favourite series of taskmaster. We’ve done 5, 12, 13, 14, and are now going to start 16. Very excited to see my beloved Lucy Beaumont again

Got a baby that was screaming bloody murder to sleep twice today 💪💅🫠

The heat wave has now hit Leeds (though not nearly as bad as last time or as in the south), so I re-yoghurted the windows. First pic is when I applied the yoghurt yesterday evening and it was still drying. Second pic is how it looked this morning.

I was confused until I looked at the map & realised by world they meant “land” ie ppl. Which is fair enough usage but not how my brain works when discussing things like solar radiation Anyway this is a cool lil consequence of how much more land is in the N. Hemisphere and how damn big the Pacific is

a new beyonce release! that isn't actually new because it was recorded 13 years ago and the demo leaked! But it IS new because it has new arrangements and some new 40-something beyonce vocals which sound very very good youtu.be/Mv5f9Q2LJYM?...

More from Connie’s birthday photoshoot. I can’t believe she is five!

Connie hiding from the paparazzi on her 5th birthday

Group of well dressed people admiring a cat. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

If you've got a novel manuscript in need of developmental editing, a quick-but-incisive overall evaluation, or a sensitivity read, then hit me up! I've got spots open starting mid-month, and can't wait to get my grubby little hands all up in your stories.

#Movies #MovieSky #MelBrooks Happy 100th Birthday MEL BROOKS

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

These two albums ended up next to each other on my downloads list and I love how they look together

We’re getting a nice line of storms that are cooling things off this morning, but this afternoon it’s still meant to get to 34C (93F)—very hot for Yorkshire; I wouldn’t be surprised if it breaks the June record. All I can conclude is that without the rain it would be more like high 30s or 40 😬

This is true even if it’s just the hundredth time seeing their own cat that day

Gonna get a tattoo that says “walking away from Omelas is a metaphor”

Lol my chosen home #ukpolitics youtu.be/no1sV4oRCXY?...

Thanking UK politics for (I presume) sending this gem back my way in the algorithm. Always a fave youtu.be/okANIupG-o8?...

BeReal is sending me updates about the England/Croatia game (why), and relatedly it took several minutes before I realised I need to close my bedroom windows before I go to bed

Apparently there is an episode of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (the show that Xena spawned off from) in which beloved characters Salmoneus and Autolycus are in drag and then this happens

I am enjoying finding out where my friends’ fannish pseuds came from

explain your @ in the late 19thC physicists realised that equations of classical mechanics, which already understood light to behave like a wave, predicted that as the wavelengths of light got smaller and tended toward zero, the energy in the light would tend toward infinity. This is not correct.

one of my favourite bits of every Taskmaster series is when the winner is announced and they stand next to Greg Davies

VidUKon was nice but now I’m off to the recorder conference (no paint)

Pick up phone to check the forecast. Read WhatsApp messages, check bsky and discord. Put phone down. Remember I wanted to check the forecast. Pick up phone again, this time check the forecast, remember I checked it less than 12 hours ago but for some mysterious reason didn’t retain the information.

Serena Williams! I moved to Melbourne and a friend from grad school came to stay and go to the Australian Open, and we came along for a day. (He also gave me the files from Beyoncé’s just-released self-titled album, which I proceeded to listen to on repeat, having previously only known her singles)

Someone in the Xena subreddit talked about only watching a key episode in one of the tragic arcs once, and I wonder what it’s like to not want to see your blorbos suffer

I made two vids for VidUKon 2026! First, Feeling Good, a Pluribus vid from the perspective of the hivemind youtu.be/ls43vRR_wMs?... archiveofourown.org/works/86233696

this is the first story i thought of when i heard about Anthony Head's passing. it was shared on fb, then reddit, then a few publications picked it up (i won't link to articles bc they needlessly mention famous people who are... the opposite of him, and nobody needs to read that during pride) 💙💗🤍

I forgot to turn off my work alarm so I got up at 6 and started getting ready for VidUKon, only realising the time when the alarm I set last night went off at 7. Now I’m twiddling my thumbs ☕️

In the last year I finally splurged on some Beyoncé shirts and now I have to decide which one(s) to take to VidUKon

Need to track your money but haven’t yet invented the concept of zero? Nill issue.

Rumors in Bellingham, WA, USA. I was friends within one of the bartenders so in addition to Fri/Sat nights I also went on random weekday evenings, and she would make me a new-to-me drink which I hated without fail, but it was fun nonetheless.

youtube is currently only showing me old music videos and performances, which is good for my mental health. that's how I learned that this Hamilton/Beyoncé mashup happened 9 years ago. The arrangements are great and the harmonies are gorgeous youtu.be/Vt3tsdUGZmU?...

I thought I didn't have a particular grudge against any teacher but then I remembered the community college philosophy seminar that started with the prof asking about my anarchist tattoo and ended with him mocking me for opposing the invasion of Iraq

sometimes Connie and I are hanging out and she'll just give me a little grumble meow that means she wants me to reach out to the absolute limit that my arm will stretch and give her a little skritch on the the chin, and no she will not come closer how dare I suggest it

There might not be a Xena podcast but ROC just did an interview with Katherine Fugate about When Fates Collide AKA the most romantic episode of XWP (written by Fugate). youtu.be/giTa33sdjSk?...

Just one week to go until this year's con! If you've not registered yet, you still have until June 4 to do so. Links to our Code of Conduct, AI policy, and where to sign up: vidukon-cardiff.dreamwidth.org/73378.html

I watched Queer (the Daniel Craig film) last night. I liked it. I sort of think if it had been a half hour shorter I would have loved it, but also perhaps it just wasn’t quite the perfect thing for me, and if it had been the perfect thing for me then I wouldn’t have minded the length.

I love this thread and I love these clothes

Ursula with her Nebula Award for The Left Hand of Darkness, 1970

I have the week off work and my plans to repaint the bathroom and kitchen are being thwarted by the heat. I am managing to reorganise our bookcase though.

For Christmas the families of the kids we look after got us a gift card (for like £100!) to a nice restaurant in our neighbourhood. Check out me remembering to use it a full five days before it expires! 💪

my only complaint about Hacks season 5 is that the Xena podcast with Renee O'Connor doesn't really exist

I’m finally caught up on Taskmaster and this series is so good. What an excellent cast they got this year! Armando’s enjoyment of the show is especially endearing.

the carhartt craze is funny because when I was a teenager in semi-rural new mexico in the 90s that was also what the cool (FFA/rodeo) kids wore

Mt St Helens May 18, 1980 I just cannot imagine what seeing this would've been like. The person who took this photo had to abandon their car and escape with the motorcycle. 📸Richard Lasher

Up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom.

youtube really wants me to watch fantano's new beyoncé video but I am staying strong

Someone On Here suggested that Jason Mantzoukas should have been Odysseus and now I'm going to be mad forever because he's not.

I often think about how Stevie Wonder was in a car crash a few days after releasing Innervisions, was in a coma for days, then the next year made Fulfillingness First Finale and then Songs in the Key of Life. This is how I know we aren’t in the worst timeline Happy birthday to a generational talent