16 episodes deep in to Heroes. The blatant product placement is almost hilarious. While the rewinds every episode are almost Anime Recap levels of terrible, with scenes sometimes re-recorded, then replayed half way through the next episode with different dialogue. Writing continues to be painful 🤣

Rewatching Heroes for the first time since it was on TV 20 years ago. Do not remember it being this corny, and I have no idea what is up with the camera work, but at least the ad break cuts aren't as unsubtle as ST:NG.

My sad-days lifehack: Buying discounted shop doughnuts, and cooking them in the oven to make them crispy and fresh again.

Labour: Britain needs more workers. Also Labour: But we hate immigrants. Also also Labour: How about forcing disabled and sick in to work!

Even less effort put in to Starmer's gaslighting party this year. Just for some highlights: - Healthcare bans - Removal of workplace protections - Removal of equality and human rights - Expanded conversion therapy on the NHS - A CT ban that exempts literal conversion therapy "Dignity and Respect" 🖕

The trippy sh*t we had to endure with a Catholic family. We weren't allowed to watch Disney. Instead we had VHSs like this: Noah's Ark told from the perspective of weirdly religious termites??

Usual reminder

Feeling sad that being sick for so long means my closest friends are people who generally forget I exist. Not so much their fault, just wish things were different. Still hurts, but they're all I've got even if I feel like an imposition on them.

Forget how sad this twangy upbeat song is. Sounds like it's about a dad all happy about having a kid, and instead it's all about a dad neglecting his kid, then realising too late he done f**ked up and raised a kid who only cares about a career and neglects his dad.

Yesterday my parents were like "Farage is bad because he said he'd consider a deal with the Taliban" As if that was unthinkable for Labour. They wouldn't believe me when I pointed out Mahmood is already working on that deal. Labour is *also* bad for the same reasons 😭

With Labour announcing their "Conversion Therapy Ban" (yet again) here's a reminder of what to expect it to contain. Added to this - they're only committing to write a draft, not actually making it law or implementing a ban. Below is from the King's Speech. Tl;Dr: The proposed "ban" is BS.

"90% of parents back bans on social media" in that case, it's unnecessary to have a government ban, because all these parents who want to ban it already have multiple methods to ban it at home. I'm sure 90% don't want kids running with scissors, yet we don't ban kids having hands and feet 🤷‍♀️

Went on Reddit looking for a guide for something. One person went full method, in character, in universe response. Beautiful. Everyone else was complaining about how people were having fun wrong by using a guide.

Starmer: I will not compromise on children's safety! Also Starmer: Unless they're poor, queer, disabled, ND, ...

At work explaining to a project manager that it is my job to tell them how much work needs to be done and any constraints e.g. ordering, deadlines, etc. Their job is to work out the most efficient way to make it happen given the constraints 😭

UK Government: We demand spy cams be installed on every phone! To errrr watch your kids! Through their cameras! Uhhhh just in case they're naked...?!

Saw the Mando and Grogu today. On top of being a "nobody asked for this" film, and feeling like it could have been an Aardman production - all character development seems to have been tossed in the bin for this 🤷‍♀️ Also. Why is that Hutt so buff wut?

Trump's been bragging about how super intelligent he is because he passed an Alzheimer's test again. Last year he boasted that the final 5 points were really difficult. Those points are for the date and location. Why is "The West" being led by someone who finds it difficult to identify an elephant?

Someone just asked the CEO, with a completely straight face: "What are the pros and cons of us being a sub?" CEO and his second in command then had a discussion on why being a sub is a good thing I'm dying here.

Cynical me has no confidence in GGs and WI reversing their trans ban anywhere near as quickly or easily as they announced them.

Reminder: Morality and legality are not the same thing. The consequence of making more things illegal, is the number of illegal things happening increases. It does not mean the number of ~bad people~ has increased. Especially when the majority of those people are, coincidentally, minorities.

Today is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia & Transphobia (IDAHOBIT) A global day to stand together against discrimination and to affirm the dignity, rights and safety of all LGBT+ people. Equality is not optional. #IDAHOBIT #StandAgainstHate #FFLAG

Headline BBC interview: "The public will not forgive us... A change of leadership will affect the financial markets! And that's not right for our consistents" Sweetie, they already won't forgive you for supporting Starmer for the past two years.

Conversion therapy ban has been announced again. No idea what it covers, as it has two paragraphs on what it doesn't cover, and nothing on what it does. Of course those two paragraphs explicitly exempt anything the NHS or religions do. So that's Wes and the GCs get out of jail free right there.

Labour: We are the party of freedom and equality! ILGA: *EH-F**KING-HEM* rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org/categories/l...

Starmer's speech today seems to be: "It's me or Farage 🖕" And because he's desperate to be seen as out of touch - he also announced nationalising steel 🤷🏼‍♀️

UK immigration is about 1/3 as much as births. And the birth rate is low. If you neither care about nor notice the number of babies coming in to the UK, you certainly shouldn't care about the number of immigrants coming in.

Just got the weirdest compliment(?) from someone 10 years younger "I thought you were my age. Do you botox?!"

@profanity.accountant please sir, can I have some swears? 🥺🙏

Idk how Labour does this. We have them cheerfully discussing disposing all their political opponents like Bond villains and despots, yet still have people explaining that the problem with Labour is that they're "cringe".

In petty things that bug me: People who use "an h-" out of misplaced Correctness. It's only "an" if the 'h' is silent so don't pronounce both 😭 It's there because it's hard to say a vowel after 'a', not just because language is weird.

James O'Brian on the radio explaining that the only reason the serfs pay for anything is fear of being beaten. As opposed to, ya know? Wanting to do the right thing 🤷🏼‍♀️ Meanwhile in a discussion on theft, he's only talking about tens of pounds rather than things like wage theft of billions.

Whenever there is an AMA with a CEO of a large business I've been to, one question always comes up: "How did you get there?" The answer is never "My talent". It is always equivocation around saying "My mates". There is no way these 100 CEOs are doing the work of 30,000 people.

If the problem with global warming is too much Sun, why not make less Sun!? 🤔

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Rewatching Underworld and oh my gosh it's somehow even moodier than I remembered.

Dad keeps saying he's going to feed us all with a spanoptikon. No dad. That is very different.

Thank you @hedgehogsafety.bsky.social you have done us all a service

I stood up for these d*ckheads far too long. They used to be the ones defending us. Now they pinkwash our oppressors. Archive link:

BBC headline today: Minimum wages are bad because they make business owners sad. Not an April Fools. It's just the BBC being awful. As usual. Like sweeties. These are just interviews with people who admit underpaying their staff, and are threatening to fire them if they don't like it.

Parents: House next door's up for sale. How about it? Me:... Parents:... Me: Oh. You're serious? *Checks price* £600k The deposit and stamp duty are the price of an entire second house. No, this isn't an option.

Ghey's mum in the media again. Is she talking about transphobia? Course not. She's blaming the murder on Brianna being "addicted" to social media. Forgetting to mention she was at the park meeting kids from school because her mum wanted her offline 🤷🏼‍♀️

Dude retrofit an old Ford with an ebike engine. I've ridden in smaller cars, but there's just something particularly bonkers about this hotdog car.

Have a good one out in the marches today in Bristol (10:30) and Edinburgh (12:30) 💜🏳️‍⚧️✊

"We want to be sure that public authorities will treat us with respect and not arbitrarily interfere in our lives. That we won’t be ignored or written off because of our age, disability, race, sex, or beliefs." Just casually forgetting her job includes queer people.

"for the first time, the government is stepping in with clear, trusted guidance" Idk. I remember this in the 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s and yesterday. And it definitely goes back much longer. Meanwhile, this guidance is based on what parents said, not based on any evidence. From Wes, of course.

In other things - Just saw a bunch of people complaining they couldn't get A Thing delivered, and complaining they shouldn't be allowed to list their products online if they won't ship them. They were ordering from a company going through Iran and the business has been in blackout.

Mahmood is pushing for deporting migrants, especially low wage ones based on this graph. Little explainer on why it's bs but in keeping with a eugenicist government. "If we dispose of anyone who is a net negative to the economy, line goes up right!?" Forgetting low wage jobs still need doing.

Huh. SNL UK was disappointing. It seemed to be: "Lol pedos." "Lol tr**nies." "Lol gaaaaaaaay." And "by golly oh croyky aren't the Oyreesh ~quirky~." I went in to it hyped, and came out thinking the writing team must be sixth formers trying to be mildly edgy.