(on being asked if I enjoyed my buddy's tale) I really appreciated how much sound and fury you fit into it! I'm not sure what it signified, but I'm sure it was something important.

My job in the anarchist commune will be to draw up borders that *don't* imply the violence of their maintenance.

Women are not just vending machines that you put kindness coins into and then the key to your cage falls out!!

(putting my hand up during basic training) How many times do I have to pump the charging handle before my rifle is fully charged? Oh, and how fast does the battery run down?

1998 was a very good year for games. Several of these could double up in other categories but I think this is a fair spread.

If I had a nickel for every time a Brokenwood Mysteries episode involved the funeral of a wealthy family's gardener who was also a poet, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that both involved someone fleeing accusations of past sex crimes.

You can hug your children with conventional arms. That's a normal thing to do with arms.

I hate painkillers. I always take them right before my headache goes away on its own, so I've just wasted the money.

True to my history of being woefully behind the times, I've finally caught COVID in this, the year twenty-twenty-six of the Common Era. Fortunately, it's not too bad a case. Unfortunately, if I laugh too hard, my lungs hurt. Fortunately, I have the new Taskmaster to get me through! Unfortunately,

Thinking about Wake Up Dead Man... I don't know if I like it quite as much as the first two films, but it is interesting and powerful that they decided to make it Sherlock Holmes (2009) but whenever there'd be a martial arts scene they instead make it Conclave (2024).

Apparently I set up a job alert over a decade ago which is still active and finally pinged. Great opportunities available for a forklift-certified Jacobin.

I am in an emergency situation where I need to raise $500 at the start of this month, and I'm stressed about it. I'm still looking for work. I'm seeing a physical therapist for my shoulder injury. Please help me keep going

Lever? But I know 'er so well!

Warning: horse man use this path

I had to replace my laptop about six months ago, and I'd been putting off reinstalling New Vegas because my modding environment had grown so dense and complex. Lots of mods from different sources, mods that relied on each other in a house-of-cards type situation, and mods I'd customised to my needs.

Whenever I search for something and the first result isn't the Wikipedia page for that thing, I feel betrayed.

Crocs is short for Crocter Marten's Boots.

A very weird week that culminated with the burial of a large brushtail possum, which had apparently felt that our driveway was a safe place to hide out in its final moments.

Designing Pokémon is easy. You just create a Water/Electric one that's a water wheel with a face and you call it Wattweal, and then it evolves into a paddle steamer wheel with an angrier face and that's Puddlesteem, and then the third evolution is a gravity dam with big fists and that's Hydrowreck.

I activate DLSS on my gaming rig and the characters all start delivering pithy bons mots, buoyed by quotations from Dickens, Donne and Carroll. I realise I actually activated DLS (Dorothy Leigh Sayers, 1893-1857).

Sick of builder's tea; getting fancy with it by making myself a 'builder's mocha' (instant coffee with choccy milk).

Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

My quest to get someone who writes it 'CIS' to reveal what they think it stands for continues without fruit. I keep seeing it capitalised but no-one will explain it!

GREG: Roll the boulder to the top of the hill. Simple. I can't imagine this one took too long. ALEX: Let's see Sisyphus's attempt. SISYPHUS'S CHAIR: (sits completely empty)

Take of the morning: horror isn't an unavoidably reactionary genre, but it can very easily become reactionary because horror premises usually boil down to 'what if this thing that scares you was actually dangerous' and exploiting baseless fears is fundamental to reactionary ideology.

DID YOU KNOW: Pixar's 'Cars' universe features a Catholic Church led by a car pope. This is because a world inhabited entirely by sentient vehicles inevitably develops a concept of vice and the need for absolution, in a process known as car-sin-isation.

JOE COCKER: Woman, don't you pray to me / lover, can't you see / that I'm just / I'm just / a Shitty Crab BACKUP SINGERS, IN IMPOSSIBLY BEAUTIFUL HARMONY: Shitty Craaaaaaaaaaaaab

I saw a post asking people what albums they don't skip any tracks on, but I couldn't usefully reply because I usually listen to whole albums. So, I'm asking the opposite: what's a track you skip on an album you otherwise enjoy?

The phone company sends 'friendly reminders' about upcoming payments - like, not late payments, not overdue fees, just 'friendly reminder: we'll be sending you a bill soon! :)'. Every time, I'm like, man, why are you friendly remindering me. I haven't done anything wrong.

Making a playlist. link.deezer.com/s/32vHUlKkxM...

DID YOU KNOW: Water is incompressible, but many other fluids can be easily compressed! In fact, a number of popular snack foods are produced by compressing fluids, such as milk (cheese), juice (apples) and cola (chocolate)!

Hi, my arm won't raise without blinding pain. I don't know how to beg without acting like a sick animal hiding under your porch. I can't cook, or type on a keyboard, im on my stomach using my left hand on my phone. Shits bad

Your Favourite Living Writer Apologises for Misgendering You in Cameo Paid For by Your Semi-Estranged Family (ASMR)

Reading fandom discussions... I hate when people misgender nonbinary characters, but I kind of love it when they can't agree *how* to misgender them.

I know bemoaning a lack of media literacy is the most terrible cliché, but sometimes you see people challenged to simply describe a scene in a work - what takes place, how the characters react to it, how it relates to the greater plot - and you realise they genuinely have no idea.

I hate the 'know the work rules' meme so much. It's just antifeminist propaganda. I don't want to see that shit.

A series about glamorous women married to professional fishermen, scuppered eighteen months into production by a three-day fight about whether it should be called 'Reel Housewives of Nantucket' or 'Real Fishwives of Nantucket'.

An argument I see repeatedly as the Americans go around talking about "immigration enforcement" (ie, racism as state policy) is the idea that it should go after "businesses that employ illegal immigrants" buddy. baby. my child. the immigration enforcement IS THE REASON those businesses do that

maybe you don't need to enforce laws about hunting down and displacing people for the temerity of being born in the wrong place

LEONARD COHEN: You're just a turd in a car / and I hope you drive far away from me / and crash into / the Bad Octopus BACKUP SINGERS, IN IMPOSSIBLY BEAUTIFUL HARMONY: The Bad Octopus

(completely misjudging the zeitgeist) Fine, I'll be brave enough to bring up what we're all thinking about it: the devastatingly handsome forehead/nose angle of the late Zeppo Marx.

My taste in music is so basic (it's all artists I've heard of). Other people's music is much cooler (they listen to artists I haven't heard of).

Watching Good Cop/Bad Cop. It's *really* good, but it's also *really* weird seeing all these Australian actors in Australia playing Americans in America.

Anyway. Nothing but complete eradication of all right-wing ideology everywhere will suffice, I think.

If I were ever wrongly convicted of a crime, maintained my innocence during my incarceration, was denied parole because I refused to (wrongly) admit guilt, and then was granted an appeal due to exonerating evidence being found and finally acquitted, I would be so insufferable about it.

Discovered tonight that you can see the fireworks if you stand in the right spot in the garden. Less convenient than our last place, where you could see the fireworks reflected in the windows from the couch, but more convenient than the place where you could see the fireworks from one corner window.

I once saw a Liberal Party member fry and eat a moth on live TV. It settled on a steak he was cooking, then got stuck there when he flipped it over. It remained in place as a recognisable darker patch when the steak was served, and the first cut of the knife went right through it.

Shout out to Christmas Wrapped for featuring two self-contradictions in its recorded thought process (Bah, humbug / no, that's too strong / 'cause it is my favourite holiday / but all this year's been a busy blur), beating Your Song's previous record (If I was a sculptor / but then again, no).