"A Cat's Life - Wonder" Art by Gerard du Bois #MenWithCats

I’m entering The Teenager as potential winner of #Duvetknowitschristmas He’s had to move from his bedroom to the unconverted attic Cardboard floor & headboard is a nice touch which I’m sure he appreciates He think it looks like he’s living in a meth den #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

We demand another photo approaching midnight with the scene lit with a table lamp #DuvetKnowItsChristmas

It's the time of year when I can listen to the guiltiest pleasure song ever recorded, A Spaceman Came Travelling by Chris De Burgh. I remember first hearing this in Boots in Leeds city centre circa 1996 while Christmas shopping and being genuinely transfixed by that chorus

I have avoided *every single christmas song* until this evening this year

Sharing this quote from my great (x5ish) Grandfather's book. Seasonally appropriate. Share your yams. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

the muppet christmas carol demarcation between 'animals for talking' and 'animals for eating' is very troubling

Edited. Finished, now.

Here's a poem I wrote in February 2021, during yet another lockdown, and which I had forgotten about

‘Jimmy Page is a hologram’

Essentially, I think that LLM-generated dialogue only makes sense if you believe that the product of writing is words. But the product of writing isn't words, any more than the product of justice is prisoners, or the product of love is weddings. The product of writing is meaning.

good point, well made

It is the time of year where I load Dwarf Fortress and disappear down the mines for a week

deeply, deeply bored. just the worst ennui

Legendary subterfuge that all b3ta members will remember

Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

Lilac sky and my favourite lane. Taken a while before sunrise in Glastonbury.

the appointment has been cancelled by the GP 🫠

This is quite literally the job of an academic. Also, LLMs don’t do this either! It regurgitates what it statistically calculates as the most likely outcome. Stochastic parrots all the way down!

Got an ADHD appointment with the GP tomorrow. Filled in the form, done a list of ways my brain is borked. Think I am going to have to go private and somehow suck up the cost of that and meds because the thought of waiting to deal with this *gesturing expansively* is unbearable. Wish me luck.

Happy Winter Solstice everyone. One of my first oil paintings from 1996 of Avebury where I went to primary school. Being there had a profound influence on my work. Lighter days ahead.

yes, it turns out I probably have adhd about it

A while ago, @wangleberry.bsky.social and I made a shocking discovery. By writing a caption, hiding that caption, and having another person draw an unrelated Thing, the caption and the drawing inevitably resolve into a perfect New Yorker cartoon. We've blown the whole thing wide open. Thread:

What are you all up to then?

Watched 'Klaus'. Am a weeping wreck.

POV: you are The Bad Father who will not let Good Kitten Maelle steal Moxie the elderly cat's food

🎶In the doldrums 🎶It's the place where we're depressed 🎶In the doldrums 🎶Try to make myself get dressed 🎶In the doldrums 🎶Miscellaneously stressed 🎶In the doldrums 🎶(In the doldrums)

It took a little while this morning for some colour to appear but we got there in the end. Sunrise on Glastonbury Tor. Bitterly cold and windy up there as we approach Winter Solstice tomorrow.

Turn on the radio for some company; it's all Christmas music; turn it straight off again

I once heard a cutting assessment of someone’s intellect in Argentinian Spanish that went jugas al tetris y giras el cuadradito. It means “you spin the square tile on Tetris.”

frodo: "gandalf.. could we not have tom bombadil carry the ring?" gandalf, wincing slightly, sighing pissedly, rubbing the bridge of his nose: "tom is.. extremely high"

Gilbert & Sullivan -_-

I just told my kids this was Bloodborne

Could a person with depression do this?! (grimly goes about activities of daily living)

Yep. This is A Depression.

is this depression or is it just December™️

I called my mom just now and she answered all flustered and said “Erin? Just a second right now Dad and I are screwing in the tree“ and it took me a very long pause to realize she meant they were putting the Christmas tree up.

On the precipice of a big wobble. Send nice things please.

17th December 2025 08.09

time to run this non profit like a business, hey, where are you all going? so much for volunteers

This might be construed as a tedious 'awareness raising' thread, but Xmas can be a decidedly mixed bag for autistic & ADHD children & adults. The change in routines, the amped-up sensory stimuli, the flood of semi mandatory social gatherings, the unusual food, the unpredictability around gifts...

“Oh you should be online to try to provide value to your political side” fuck that that’s nerd shit you should be online because you’re unwell and need to tell people about weird animals you saw

I had to look twice at this because at first I thought Colin the Caterpillar had been in some kind of awful accident

how is it only 4.30pm

I have just found out that some reprehensible fucking dork has made an AI chatbot based on the character I played on The Magnus Archives and *it has my voice*. I genuinely don't think I have ever felt so fucking violated. My actual voice. Saying things I have never said. I feel sick.

People who don't respect clear boundaries that someone has explicitly set make me so, so angry. NB not something that has happened to me, something that I heard about from someone else this weekend.