Today I learned that when Americans say "I'm going to the eye doctor", they probably mean they are going to the optician for an eyetest. I did wonder how so many Americans I knew had severe eye problems that required ophthalmologist attention.

the man the landlords asked to look at my boiler did not come and also he did not tell me he was not coming so i've spent the entire evening sitting at home waiting for him for nothing, rather than go to the pub crawl in lots of nice warm pubs.

shocking to discover that A, whoever that is, was in The Fall.

this is why you should all switch to the askjeeves browser

When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.

Ngl I found this episode of pluribus quite hard to follow while I was watching at 2 speed while playing a VR game in the next room. I liked the first one best, where I had hired a troupe of mimes to act out the events, which I could watch on the phone while I was doing some welding.

Learned today that “Galápagos” comes from a Spanish word for tortoise, meaning that “Galápagos Tortoise” is, in fact, a tortology

these days

'Biological' male or female used for trans+ people is misgendering and not neutral, it's a slur. It doesn't matter if a judge said it. Media folk using it are doing a similar thing to interviewing racists and not just repeating their slurs in quotes but adopting them themselves. It needs to stop

Mini thread on the ET decision in Peggie Top line: It says exactly what we have been saying for months. The decision of the Supreme Court was not to turn the Equality Act 2010 into a nationwide bathroom ban - regardless of how anti-trans organisations have sought to misrepresent the law. 🧵👇

Two ways to read this. One is “she lost on every substantive claim, completely failed in her attempts to ban trans staff from the workplace, and won mild procedural victories against her employers handling of her case”. The other way is, I guess, “point one is longer so it must be more important”

Getting to know this legend has been one of the greatest joys of my life and I'm so pleased to introduce you to her with this gorgeous feature from the Inquirer, where she speaks for the first time in over 30 years on her incredible journey share.inquirer.com/XdfXr9

PITCH: “Beep or Meep”. Quiz show where contestants must identify whether character names from science fiction are for robots or aliens.

thanks, google.

Launching a campaign to restigmatise mental health now is it?

angry, distraught, tired

if you genuinely want to argue that the Equality Act, when introduced, intended to make unlawful an approach to trans inclusion that has existed *since the 1970s*, I absolutely cannot take you seriously

Telling a targeted, hyperscrutinized, vilified population that you have no choice but to comply with mulching us is not a praiseworthy stance!!!!

If these organisations fear closing down in the face of a hate-driven financial attack, play chicken. Announce proceedings to close down if their commitment to trans inclusivity is threatened by a stretched interpretation of the judgment. I suspect more people would rally around to support them.

Cis women need to step up and ensure that any women’s groups they attend are inclusive, if they aren’t boycott them. I refuse to access any women’s space that doesn’t include trans women. We are all women when you discriminate against one of us you make us more vulnerable as a group. We stand as 1.

It's worth noting that the Government has a massive majority and could fix this in an instant with a one-line piece of legislation. It doesn't want to.

The article explicitly notes WI had had a trans-inclusive policy *since the 1970s*!

leave the organisations that are doing this bullshit.

if they fucking beat us to doing “sausage roll s*****e”….

@profanity.accountant Ok sure

Introduce yourself with five concerts you’ve seen (2025 edition) - * Chappell Roan * Kittie * My Bloody Valentine * Pop Will Eat Itself * Suzanne Vega

This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened

Pluribus episodes as Red Dwarf screen caps, a thread. Episode one:

Here's a thread from Twitter shared with Sophia's permission in which she finally is able to talk about Graham using the police as HIS personal goon squad and getting Sophia arrested at home by EIGHT armed police officers, somewhat putting the standard Heathrow armed cops in perspective.

Same

The UK courts are being used to further harassment of transphobes victims and the judiciary either is too stupid to understand that or doesn't care.

a rational response to this would be to introduce proportional representation. we have FPTP because it promises the stability of a two and a half party system. that system is gone and now FPTP provides unpredictable chaos.

I was out at an indie disco tonight and the Dj played “just” so I did the bit where I lie down on the stage motionless and this time PEOPLE JOINED ME. decades of doing this but just paid off.

if they don’t properly set this in Leicester and use Leicester accents this time I will kick off. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

excellent thought bubble, my first since 2019! glad to catch up with those of you I did, sorry that I didn’t if I missed you. back in my bed in London with a nice big pile of comics!

if only I’d actually written this…

just remembered that time Ground Force did a patio for Nelson Mandela

mine is the mitford-hitler baby

For “barely legal type” read “not legal”

new robyn single LETS GO! www.youtube.com/watch?v=viti...

look at the preview, and - oh.

Double Denim Patrick Stewart!

my planet (F54, M9, F32, M73, F1, X32, M34, F7, M3, …) has unionised.

good episode! as often happens there's a lot of good stuff even for people who don't know the material. speaking for myself (to my shame) i'm not even sure if i've ever really realised that the "proud mary" song and the "fortunate son" were in fact by the same band.

but was the sandwich rocket propelled?

listen we may have lost our family business, made our kids miserable, had to live in a barn with goats and lost $50,000 to a local Russian slumlord, but at least we dont have to see gay people in public

Now everything’s cool; the beast’s part of the band; my monster mash is now the hit of the land; but the witches’ curse means the living can’t hear it; you’ll have to be happy with this rather different tribute.