Not a novel opinion, but Silent Hill f is proper good.

Breaking news: Pope too Christian for Christians

I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.

Please don't rely on ChatGPT for any information that's life or death 😭

The Anne Shirley anime is perfect, no notes.

🎭✨ The world premiere of Ada — written by Emily Holyoake & performed by @chronicinsanity.bsky.social at #PyConUK2025 — is on YouTube! 👉 buff.ly/PzPqzBv Emily also shared her reflections on writing Ada in our blog 👉 buff.ly/U6Ej0NQ 💜 Huge thanks to Emily & the Chronic Insanity team for their work!

Showgirl is a Goldmember album; I will not be elaborating further.

Job searching after 5 years in higher ed is a strange one because you end up having done so many different things in your role, whilst also being forced into niche brackets with no progression, so it's hard to know what suits you. Thank goodness I still have my freelance work to hand

It's honestly magic to have found a second career where this is both true and rewarding/rewarded. Opening a million tabs to discover why some code works/doesn't feels as fun (to me, anyway) as falling down a research hole for a play.

📝✨ New blog post alert: Post-conference report! 📝✨ Our brilliant Conference Director @rebkwok.bsky.social has put together a report for #PyConUK2025, including reflections on key highlights, behind-the-scenes moments, and the community who made it what it was. 💜🐍 Dive in here: buff.ly/CR22Xm0

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

Christ, some journos really do just need to say SOMETHING, even when they have no clue and have not spoken to anyone who knows and/or understood what they were told 🙄

Really thrilled to be bringing Ada to #PyConUK2025 with @chronicinsanity.bsky.social 🎉 Wrote a little blog reflecting on developing the script in the 2010s, and how different the play feels in 2025.

This is a first for us! We are incredibly happy to announce All Falls Down: Sorroborough, our latest play-at-home experience based on our critically acclaimed immersive show of the same name :)

Started a new job this week (my first proper web dev role!) and feel really grateful to have @realbengilbert.bsky.social backing me up while I get used to full time office work after 5 years wfh. Top tier house-husbanding.

There is no greater opening scene to a film than this one.

i have been obsessed with the phrase “i don’t deserve flavors” for weeks now

Getting closer... 👀 (I'm so excited about this. I think it's the silliest thing I've ever made.) #DadaShakespeare

The unfortunate thing for WeTransfer is that even if they have removed specific clauses from their T&C's, their intentions are now clear. They've made it clear what they're interested in and what they think of other people's content. They will find a way to sneak it back in.

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

Not that the left need further evidence, but looks like being woke means being a normal, considerate person. Who knew. Elon knew too, that's why this happened.

When your headphones start saying "battery low" and your gut reaction is "tell me about it."

Pro-tip: if you're building something to randomise Shakespeare plays, make sure you test it with someone who knows the histories, and will therefore spot immediately that, er, half the characters are (unintentionally) missing. Thanks @realbengilbert.bsky.social!

With 38 hrs to go to the EHRC consultation deadline I'm seeing posts from people feeling bad they're too stressed to engage. The GLP⬇️has removed all but the last step, a general comment box. This is a far easier task. I hope it helps those who want to, to get their voice heard without too much pain.

Honestly the amount of anxiety we have when they just lie there on their cool bathroom tile with purified air blowing in their direction

No one with a pet can enjoy a heatwave, it can't be lovely that it feels like a warm Spanish evening when you're filled with anxiety over your two rabbit children

The last time this happened where I used to live, we formed a community group who exposed not just homophobia, but dodgy money practices as well.

Racism. Islamophobia. Not that complex.

I should be very drunk and high on Queer-Euro-Joy right now if not for my inability to ignore genocide

Making a creativity map in Laravel - complete with a mid-blog realisation that something in the application would not work as I wanted it to!! Coding is so fun. emilyvhs.com/making-a-cre...

You'd hope that Labour would realise that edging centre-right is never going to gain the Tory vote, whilst continuing to lose the left-leaning vote. But they'll probably just dig in. Sigh.

On writing code, writing theatre, and why writing to a computer has been healing. emilyvhs.com/three-ways-w...

Derby is wild because walking around 2 corners, I just saw: - Unconscious man, blood pooled around his head, guarded by 6 cops - A group cooing over a tiny bird hopping around - 2 teens in all black, acting tough, with this exchange: "You going to Rollerworld?" "Nah I'm broke" "It's a quid?"

I miss the few years we had there where everyone was collectively not interested in April Fools

Just accidentally texted Steve Harvey the plans for my invasion of France. I'd appreciate privacy during this difficult time and whatnot.

Its Monday, Again. 🥱

Rewatched Mad Men for the first time in a long time and it really was just...THAT good, wasn't it? Like absolute psychopath shit from beginning to end in the best possible way.

Watching the first episode of Attack on Titan for the first time since finishing the whole thing really does hit different 😳 But also, it remains the most brutal first episode of anything I've ever seen 🙃

Autoglass repair, Autoglass replace

bingle bongle, dingle dangle, yickedy do, yickedy da, ping-pong, lippy tappy too-ta

Hello please enjoy a minute of Barley cronching (/making his treat look like he's just super chill)

One thing people don't realise about creating a podcast? The amount of time you spend editing at 1.3 playback speed. Every episode is like listening to Alvin and the Chipmunks.

I secondhand learn while I caffeinate and watch Emily beaming with how much she knows. It's a nice life.

Unfortunately I live with a man who must 100%.

I've just finished the platinum trophy for Kingdom Hearts 2 and being someone who loves a meaty, narrative-driven game, I was tossing up between Baldur's Gate 3 and RDR2. So naturally I thought I would revisit Kingdom Hearts 1 for some trophy clean up.

I'm sorry I just saw someone refer to Wheatus as being emo and I don't know what to do

POV: You might be a banana

I'm v lucky to be able to learn full time right now and I'm really enjoying it, but also I have no idea how teenage me did GCSEs AND after school clubs AND wrote fanfiction til 1am, yet 33 year old me is crawling into bed at 8pm because fetch requests broke my brain today.