The Lord is with you! Even when you do a poo, He is not ashamed of you. But please understand the wiping thereafter is solely yours to do. - Julian of Norwich

Hot tip: put a motion-activated light in your bathroom and then you can do your business in the middle of the night without a) blindness b) noise. I've used the main bathroom light about 5 times in the last two years and even forgot it had a fan attached. thedailytism.com/noise-of-ext...

I didn't get the memo, are we supposed to be Raptured today?

Anti-autism campaigner, Karen Hoyland, 40, commented: “I love my child but I hate his autism. The other day I came home to find him lining up his guns, instead of playing with them like a normal kid.”

Nice to think someone somewhere has seen the 2000 BBC TV adaptation of Gormenghast

The same goes for animated films and TV shows. SO many extremely good and not remotely controversial projects go nowhere. If there are sinister outside forces it's generally accountancy, but sometimes nepotism; never political skullduggery.

Pleased to have my observations of the positive social/emotional impact of micro-interactions(www.patreon.com/posts/mcmurd...) confirmed by Actual Science (www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...)

the UK bookshop.org site has a competition where if you buy from them between today and the 24th, any book sitewide, you can win a £250 gift card to spend on books. i like this because even if you don't win you still have a book uk.bookshop.org/lists/win-a-...

Want to read ethically by ditching Audible/Amazon, Spotify, &c? 💙📚 1. Your local library needs support & has free physical & audiobooks 2. Queer Liberation Library: free digital library for US LBGTQ folks 3. Libro.fm: Audible but pays indie bookshops 4. Bookshop.org: physical books from indies

Michael Rosen being politely aghast at the manosphere as explained to him by a sweet northern lady sociolinguist is definitely my #PickOfTheWeek

If I do cancel my Disney subscription, as a protest, I just realised I can still watch all the Marvel and Star Wars and Alien and Simpsons I want. Good old physical media. The best way to not have to depend on the whims of corporate dicks. Pay once, and when they pivot fash, you don't have to.

Resolving something with one simple phone call even in this hyperconnected age requires the character to think "you know what would solve this, a simple phone call" or even "making this call is an OK thing to do" which I am sorry to report is beyond some perfectly real people.

Ridiculously good. Better with German potatoes. 😋

Rush Limbaugh. Not on tape. I know our car had a tape deck but I don't actually remember listening to tapes in it once I was past little-kid sing-a-longs.

Have I mentioned that the place to go for US news and analysis is the CBC? www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

Do awesome shit and TELL NO ONE. Stop looking for praise from others. Doing awesome shit is its own reward, and if it doesn't feel like that to you, you should maybe look inward and reflect on why that is.

If you're female and eccentric, you will fight a lot of pushback and rejection in your youth. But as soon as you turn 40 you will magically become extremely cool. I don't know why this happens – nothing has changed – and the whiplash is disorienting, but I'm not the only one who's noticed this.

Aleister Crane (me!) is doing his first full show on October 25! There are only 40 seats so get your tickets soon before they sell out!!! phtheatre.vbotickets.com/event/scared...

Msn, I wish I could cancel a Disney+ subscription in protest, but I never signed up for it in the first place on account knowing their moral bankruptcy ab arche and not trusting them with an inch of my data. So all I can do is badmouth them on an obscure social media account. Boooo!!! :P

Settling in for a quiet morning reading the psychology papers I've been trying to get to all week. Polar history does really take you all sorts of interesting places ...

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Poll! Do you like puzzles? Would you buy a 1000pc jigsaw of my art to support the Scott Polar Research Institute? Would you NOT do this? Tell me in a free and public poll here: www.patreon.com/posts/puzzle...

"Britain must burn more fossil fuels and bills must rise in order to power the robot that'll fire everyone. How else will I afford my next private island?"

And me, a non-Emma

this year's jfsp is on the bbc's comedy of the week podcast this week, and i believe that's available to international listeners podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/c...

Wouldn’t it be amazing if Trump stayed overnight in Windsor Castle but tomorrow, the royals just come out and wave, and he doesn’t. It’s never mentioned again. But on Sunday, by the town hall, the whole of Windsor, rich and poor, gathers to tuck into this enormous fuck-off pie.

I want my country back … from those who profit as public transport is run into the ground , those who get rewards for putting shit in the sea, those financiers and bankers who will destabilise a country for a quick buck, basically everyone Farage will stand up for if he wins an election

i would quite like anyone who has said that the trump administration would be better for free speech to write an column saying "i was wrong, sorry, and now i'm going to get a real job so this space can be used by people who deserve your time"

Meanwhile, in Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Happy Geopolitical Birling Day, everyone!

From age 11 to 18 I lived in suburban Utah with an emotionally abusive dad who preached all the Limbaugh talking points ad lib. Kirk was neither unique nor new and it's about time people understood what hard-line Republicans have been consuming and regurgitating for 30+ years.

Truly the Post Of Our Time

I made a playlist of my favourite Yankee music* for my renunciation party, and you know what, listening to it makes me feel a teeny tiny little bit more kindly disposed to the better parts of the US. *feat. The Dead South, who are Canadian, but they deliberately _sound_ American

If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky

'He's got the Midas touch! He's obscenely rich without having to actually work for any of it yet he can feel no earthly joy; food turns to hard metal in his mouth; even his children become dead-eyed and cold in his presence; peasants find him a pitiful symbol of the dangers of hubris!'

Last night of the proms tonight so Gabby's Gonna Rec Her Favourite 2025 Proms. You still have a month to listen on sounds!

On the other hand, there are people out there rescuing pigeons.

Man, I hope they're enjoying I-15 ... That's a loooong road, but at least the Utah part of it isn't staggeringly boring.

Sedation dentistry is no longer weird. Phone cameras are really good. The price of solar panels has dropped by tens of thousands. Southern white rhinos, giant pandas, Arabian oryx and Stellar sea lions are no longer endangered. And, I can testify, modern cancer treatments are fucking amazing.

YES. YESSSSS. I maintain that if everyone had read Going Postal before 2016 we would not be where we are today.

Imagine deciding to be that. Imagine making the choice to live not in dedication to the all-connecting principle of love, to decide not to serve humankind, but instead commit yourself to indifference for the weak, scorn for the abused, mockery for the desperate. It's inhuman, and so deeply sad.

Your semi-regular reminder that the best source for American news is the CBC:

Imma go out on a limb and predict that the perpetrator is a white man with a hunting rifle [this is a joke about the demographics of Utah]

Pourquoi est-ce que les nouvelles de Radio-Canada sont autant mieux qu'en la service anglaise? Je me sens que je dois apprendre le français pour obtenir des actualités de qualité plus élevé.

- Live in Antarctica - Eat lots of fresh seafood - Loads of depraved sex It's a promotion.

I am a hypermasculine and extremely powerful alpha male. As such my greatest fears are seed oils, rainbows, people who don't look like me being on TV, and preventative medicine. I cannot explain any of these fears and consider that to be your fault.

I am not offended by the emergency alert. What I am offended by is the synthesised voice explaining the alert having an American accent.

Fellow sufferers (including me, right now) take heed: GET TO THE END OF THE FIRST DRAFT, THEN EDIT. NO LOOKING BACK.

Your last saved pic is your moral philosophy OK, this is accurate