I think it's probably for the best that I turned out queer given how much I love rainbows.

Americans think British people are wimps for complaining about the heat. But what you don't realise is that most British houses were actually built in Britain, a cursed island that hates us.

This is my first heatwave on antidepressants and, I'm going to be honest, maybe the Thoughts were the better option.

There's been a sharp rise in the sales of Metal Gear Solid, Thief, and Dishonored games this past week, ever since the UK government decided that the only option for trans people is stealth.

Someone should make a Persona game I can recommend without endless caveats.

Keep being suggested posts going "They don't make comedy like this anymore 😂" About shows that got six episodes. They arguably didn't make comedy like that at the time either.

Well, okay, took thirty five episodes for me to get to an X Files episode where I'm going "yikes that did not age well". Extremely poor treatment of SA and some general racism thrown in. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excelsi...

Season 2 of X Files contains the only 18 rated episode, which I'm curious to watch as the one I've been warned about in advance is in Season 4. What have the BBFC specifically objected to.

Paging @misterabk.bsky.social @loremen.bsky.social

People keep telling me I should MC, and I feel like it's mostly so that they have another gig run by a not terrible person to apply to, but given how much I enjoy hosting improv... Maybe I should learn to do it?

Hmmmmmmm. Metric are doing a few dates in the UK, but the Manchester one is like £50 standing only, which I understand is reasonable for a music concert but feels like a lot for me, someone who only goes to comedy, and also I think I'd probably get quite overwhelmed by being in a crowd of people.

Tom Cashman and Emma Holland doing Manchester at the start of August is excellent news for freeing up two slots at the fringe itself.

Very self conscious about my set a lot because I do just want to be silly and playful but at the minute it is based on being queer and neurodivergent and it keeps being called "important" which, ew.

this is what I mean when I say "don't let orgs and managers see discriminating against trans folk as the path of last resistance". transphobes are persistent and annoying. be just as annoying. show them compliance is going to be a legal nightmare

I've previously joked that I don't need to play Dark Souls because I already have depression, but I keep being tempted to pick up Elden Ring for some reason.

Discomfort has always been a motivation to discriminate. Book bans are about preventing discomfort. Letting inadequate white people fail upwards is about preventing discomfort. They are pathetic, but the their pitifulness is less visible if they aren't next to the people who embarrass them

Although that does also mean that if you're cis you're going to need to be more vocally and annoyingly supportive. Cover everything you own in pride pins, bring your trans friends to events and fight anyone who'd challenge them, make it clear that they are loved and you will stand with them.

A while back I made the decision that I am only wearing dresses when I perform on stage. Partially because it makes me happy, mostly because visibility cracks through prejudice. I'm just a person. And I'm a person that's made you laugh.

You know the greatest way to fight transphobia? Be happy. So if you can't do it for yourself right now. Do it out of spite. Live a full life. Pick up that hobby. Join that group. Go on that adventure. One day you'll wake up and realise it's not even an effort anymore. It's just who you've become.

Again, which toilets should I use. When I use the gents men walk out and women follow me in, even if I'm just in jeans and a t-shirt.

I'm leaving on 30th but the temptation to stay around till 3am Monday morning is... Immense.

Got tickets for The Mermaid yet? I'm back at the Fringe after my award winning 2024 show 'Haunted House' ('Belly laugh funny' **** 1/2 The Metro) This time it's about mermaid mythology, 2000s magazine sex tips, rat boyfriends, & James Cameron's submarine. www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...

I appreciate I may be lacking in imagination but... What benefit to wearable tech glasses actually provide. I can't think of a single thing I'd want them to do.

FINAL 24 HOURS for the Pride Potions pins before they're gone and stretch goals stop unlocking! www.kickstarter.com/projects/npa...

If the leaked TM S22 lineup is correct I... have some thoughts about 40% of them. (And much nicer thoughts about the other 60%)

if people are this upset about the cast of The Odyssey, just wait until they find out about the time Disney cast a bunch of lions in Hamlet

The thing you need to remember when you find yourself tempted to get involved in discourse is that everyone on the internet is a massive loser.

Watching Reece Shearsmith in Taskmaster and unfortunately for him the angrier he gets the more he just becomes his Spaced character.

Favourite #SNLUK S1 Sketches for each episode: E1 - Undérage E2 - Kidnapping E3 - Great Big Crab Man E4 - Golfing E5 - What A Life magazine E6 - British Pork E7 - Attenborough E8 - Louis Theroux

Overall very strong first season of #SNLUK. Lots of really great sketches, surprisingly pointed and daft in equal measure, and only a few moments that make you go "hmmmm not sure about that one."

Last Sunday morning tea and SNL UK of the series 😞

I somehow missed the new trailer for Stranger Than Heaven coming out and I think I like video games again.

Incredible line from a 1953 article about why homosexual marriage could never work. How would they decide who is Mr. and who is Mrs.??? And they'd have to pass a law decreeing one spouse cannot "keep" the other!!!

I'm catching up with Taskmaster and my main takeaway is that I want to learn to do all of @5teviem.bsky.social's hairstyles because they're all so cute 😭

This show is very good and also responsible for a new reference point for trauma in our house.

Just had my first "oh let's explore what's on Steam, find something new, oh this looks fun... God dammit AI"

My grandfather passed away over the weekend. A phenomenally intelligent man (look at this, one of the research papers he contributed to, what on earth is going on) but also one of the most gentle, loving men I've ever met. His face shone every time he looked at his family, especially my grandmother.

I feel like Wes Streeting would be the current politician most likely to work with the Daleks then get exterminated ten minutes before the end of the episode.

let it not be left out of starmer's legacy that he brought back babestation

Once again going to a meetup for women and non-binary comics has reminded me that maybe comedy can be good and I definitely need to spend more time around nice people and not get trapped in my head.

evangelicals have finally created. the golden calf. from the classic bible story “don’t create a golden calf”

Watched Fantasia for the first time in probably thirty years tonight and it is fascinating as a piece of history. They talk about The Nutcracker as an obscure, unsuccessful ballet, and when talking about a piece representing human evolution mention no one knows what killed the dinosaurs.

There really is a simple solution to migration. And its to be fucking normal about it and stop being a nationalist racist

But what would political obsessives want with a competition dominanted by public schoolboys, structured to cater to wealthy pensioners and contested under anarchic rules?

I do try very hard to be optimistic and hopeful but honestly I'm a little tired of always having to pick myself back up and go "right, where are the small corners I can make a difference in?"

Seeing this at fourteen and immediately locking into "Oh, comedy can just be weird and silly!" Like I think I saw this around the same time I first saw Python and this has had a much bigger impact on me. It's still great. youtu.be/PfXzRkk1LPo

I feel like I need to confess something, which is that I'm still not sure if hypnosis is a thing. I don't mean in the mind control sense, but there's an awful lot of therapies that claim to use hypnosis and I've no idea if that's just homeopathy or if it's an outdated term for, like, mindfulness.

The amount of times I start writing a new bit and then go on Instagram and see someone else do a bit about that but much better is disheartening. Time to cross it out and think weirder.