*changes name to Muriel*

Sharing this again, because hell, just caught myself typing an angry response to a serially ignorant repeat offender of sweeping generalisations. Breathed in. Deleted my paragraph, realising it’s not my duty to educate the ignorant and waste my energy defiling my mood. Scroll past.

There is fruit in it which means it’s practically a salad…

Did this estate agent just this property with a key selling point being the Burj Khalifa view? What - you mean that tiny sliver barely visible between the other buildings, several kilometres away? Yes. Yes, he did.

I think a big energy shift is needed. Too much weight in the current trajectory. I need a big change in so much. At that point where the pain of staying still outweighs the pain of change.

Gosh, Dubai PR agencies - you get so much wrong about Chef’s Tables. Like spectacularly so - and the poor unsuspecting restaurants are paying you exorbitant rates for these failures of promotion. I think I should write about it and educate you all.

Well, THAT was an interesting few hours. I don’t want to leave the UAE but to have our airspace suddenly closed, and not being able to leave even if I wanted to was … an interesting feeling. Anyway, not going anywhere without my cats.

I love being in my 50s, I just want the flexibility and stamina of my 20s.

Let me repost my lunch pic just for you, @jongard.bsky.social - so that wild, wild mind of yours can rest. 🤣

There should be a German word to describe the mixture of disappointment and relief when someone lives down to your expectations. Disappointment that once again I have to deal with this BS, relief it’s happened and I don’t have to have anxiety on when or if it will happen. Disengage. Move on.

Me: might die living in the Middle East Also me: …at least my fuel will still be cheaper than back home…

My friend’s cat had kittens and now I’m trying to work out if my cats will welcome new cats or not. This gorgeous ginger still has a few weeks of growing up to go before it can be rehomed, but we’re going to do a couple of days of tests with my two.

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It's not even 9am. It's nearly 33C and feels like 50C and humidity is nearly 80% This shit sucks man.

Word nerds and grammarians: as much as you may love the em-dash and a how to use it properly, best to just remove it entirely from your future body of work. Right now, the overuse of em-dashes is the single biggest tell that a piece of copy was generated by ChatGPT.

Powerful thread, and one of the many reasons I left Twitter, because of a callout gang. It was sickening. And so easy to get caught up in - I was a proponent of an earlier callout swarm only to find out so many names on that list were innocent. Hard lesson well-learned.

“Wear your pets” sounds a little psychotic, no…?

Awkward…

Than you, sweetheart. Thank you. That protest was also deeply meaningful to me. I still have the photos, including of us together. We spoke up and spoke out and took our power back. And about 5000 others around the country joined us, too. In solidarity 💜

Toast wrote that thread in 2022. The document of lies about me was first published in June 2024. It's been used to terrorise me ever since. I've been sharing Toast's thread since then. I was doxxed as a SW in March this year w/ that doc used to justify it. I honestly don't know what say or do.

When we moved into this house a couple years ago, my very kind neighbor was like “oh FYI my husband is a concert cellist so if it’s ever too loud or disturbing you or anything, please just let us know.” You know what, hasn’t been a problem.

I've known Bloggsy for at least a decade. We've met in person — the first time at an anti-rape protest I was the spokesperson for. This is his assessment about the lies that are now used as justification to doxx me as a sex worker. I know my abusers won't give a shit but... yeah. This felt good.

2025 anyone…?

It’s not even 8am yet, and going outside means you’re instantly drenched…. And it’s only June. August is going to be truly unbearable. We’ve already seen a temperature of 51.6 Celsius a week ago. In June. August will break records. Well, MORE records, since that 51.6 Celsius was already a record…

I needed to read this. Honestly, I've needed to read it for a long, long time. I really missed your wisdom, old friend. 💜

Incredible thread by an old mutual and friend of mine from my activism and journalism days. Bloggsy and I have known one another for... holy shit, 15 years by now? 👀👀👀 I'm so glad we've found one another again, friend 💜 xx

Please 🔃 this thread widely. Thank you, loves 💜

How they sit in the corner, whispering, conspiring against me.

My cats never suffer from any doubts like this…

Yes, these two things exist in the same building. Yes, get your mind out the gutter.

I cannot express just how deep my hatred for HP printers is - more so that in a universe of eternally crap printers, they are the least worst, but still a blight on my soul.

Sharing this with the thread as a montage, because these are very wise words, and more people should practice this and understand it. Stop calling people out as cowards or harmful because they choose NOT to engage in online cockfighting.

Interesting…

Hey, you - yes, YOU! The person who saw something triggering and scrolled past…

Seen this going around but I’m Reposting it with the full alt text bc everyone deserves to read this glorious reply from Boy George

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For many years now, I’ve had a problem with behaving appropriately with suggestive signage in public. Voila my 2025, 2015 and 2006 selves…

Except for @jongard.bsky.social for he shall be the ruin of your audio indulgence. 🤣🚫

I want to get back into the Retro FPS stuff. Tomorrow I am going to stream the PIGFACE demo by @titolovesyou.bsky.social See you tomorrow at 7pm EDT. twitch.tv/brettrerickson

Gonna use ‘irregardless’ relentlessly just to piss off the sheep who jump on the “It’s not a real word” bandwagon without doing any research. Remember, kids - punch n*zis - and the Illiterati.

Despite the concept being quite easy to grasp, they still cannot, which really says a lot about their intelligence, you know? It's like explaining red shift to an ant. They just don't have the brain capacity.

Live life laugh

Plant-based meat.

Well. Can’t very much call yourself Typo and then spell your brand name correctly. So there - I fixed it.

My mate at Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra invented a percussion brass wind instrument. It was SO attractive… yes… he was a sax cymbal.