I studied the Diggers/Seekers/Fifth Monarchists for my dissertation on The Ranters at uni - the execution of the king in January 1649 led to all these radical sects who perceived that social hierarchy had been smashed. What Cromwell and the army grandees had unleashed completely terrified them

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The 'stop complaining, life is suffering, you don't have ADHD, you never did, you're just a silly woman who can't cope' narrative emerging from St Streeting, the right-wing press, and wider society is doubly damaging for me as someone with long-standing issues from an evangelical childhood, I think

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I am very, very tired.

most brands on April 1st: half-arsed 200 word blog post Warhammer: www.warhammer-community.com/en-gb/articl...

1am posting: do you oscillate wildly between 'Everyone is struggling so much. I want to do something to help. Something. Anything. I feel so powerless and stupid even on the small things' and 'How dare I ever assume that anything I do is worthwhile, valuable, helpful, or wanted. I should disappear'

ah, le sac magique

“I wore a dangly chain connected to my wallet, which was the style at the time.”

The otherwise calm life of the last “neurotypical” person on the planet to like Sonic the Hedgehog has become increasingly disturbed by the ominous sound of ticking, according to reports.

There are very stupid people in charge of important matters or with great influence, doing and saying very stupid things, and earning a great deal of money, and meanwhile I am spending my day supporting very vulnerable Union members with challenging cases, and arguing for basic inclusion in a game

This evening someone earnestly flagged the word 'scatter' as an example of language that had been edited to be too 'sophisticated' (their term), and I think, with everyone's permission, I might just gouge my own eyes out and walk directly into the Thames.

God, I hate irritable and grumpy pain makes me.

Outsourcing a costume, what things would someone raised in a post-apocalyptic commune based in an abandoned analogue television factory wear / have about their person So far I'm thinking of printing out the components of Test Card F as a 'guide to making explosives' and doing neon striped facepaint

"actually Kier Starmer is doing a really good job in incredibly difficult circumstances. He is a strong and credible leader."

Start thw week by playing my horse adventure, that's what I say. I mean, honestly. It's free to play, I genuinely think it's very funny, and you can die by shitting yourself because you thought of a robot policeman tok much. What more do you people want??

Hot take: Men & masc-presenting people at LARP do one 20 min session of waggling a foam weapon in someone's face and then start talking very seriously about battle tactics and footwork in exactly the same way that a junior karateka who has just passed their 8th kyu talks about 'fighting awareness'

Look at this chunky little fucker who turned up yesterday, alright pal

'Not everyone has time to write a book,' says the AI advert, as if shitting on the planet and other people's hard work to use it will somehow mean that you have miraculously written a book

Clear, targeted, evidence-based regulation is generally Good, Actually

Fanad Lighthouse, County Donegal

Gosh, I get super sleepy after my elvanse top up

The thing about hypermobility is a lot ofthe pain is from muscles spasming 'cos they're having to take up the load from lax ligaments, so they get tight, but because the joints are so loose, you can't really stretch the muscles either as the joint goes well beyond reason before any stretch happens

What the average person thinks HR is supposed to do for them at a job is what unions are actually for.

Uni has said they will pay for me to go to this conference! I'm a real post-doc student now, Gepetto :3

A Little Owl was rescued after falling down a chimney. South Essex Wildlife Hospital reported he was "dirty and dehydrated but soon on his way back home". Want to donate to SEWH? southessexwildlife.org/donate Source: fb.com/555952912555... #owlsintowels 💛🦉

I am going to eastercon and selling my soul to pay for it

Possibly doing a couple of fundraising twitch streams over the next couple of days to help me go to the (space) ball, i.e. a sci fi convention happening over the easter weekend, because so much of it is relevant to my PhD, but MONEY

immediately after posting you have a brief window of i-frames before your skeet is submitted and hits the tl, so as long as you maintain skeet frequency and volume (not quantity) you CAN post through it and never die

I thought Marcel Vos did a vid on this but actually he made his own coaster absolutely chumping Mr Bones' Wild Ride. Exponentially, existentially. youtu.be/4o0-0G2OjSg?...

Just been approached by Huel to see if I'll be part of their paid influencer campaign. I don't think they're quite across what I do for a living. (FWIW, and in the interests of having influence, I regard Huel as a soul destroying, miserable product and the death of all that is worth living for.)

Seeing people online getting very weird about the ways people repurpose and recycle old books again and this is a gentle reminder that nobody is ever going to sit down and read that 1930's encyclopedia, it's either becoming decor or going in the skip. Please be normal about this.

On this day 14 years ago, an anonymous 4chan user posted a RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 thread showing a 30,696-foot coaster that took four in-game years to finish, complete with riders screaming “I want to get off Mr. Bones Wild Ride” and a looping exit where “the ride never ends.” youtu.be/y3lANHeZey0

Genuinely, though, who is still consuming the potter media? Like, what demographic makes this all worth doing from a money-making perspective?

My ADHD-specialist therapist suggested I might have value to my friends outside of what I can do for them to be useful and helpful which a) is of course nonsense and b) made me feel incredibly uncomfortable so I guess THAT'S now a big thing to work on

Fully-funded three-year PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at @sydney.edu.au (with Nicola Parsons) and @glasgow.ac.uk (with me), working with collections in Australia and Scotland. Deadline April 21st - please circulate! www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

The IOC has announced a trans and intersex athlete ban requiring an invasive SRY genetic test for female athletes. In the 20+ years trans women were eligible, only one ever competed and none ever medaled. This is solving for a problem that doesn't exist. www.nbcnews.com/sports/olymp...

"I avoid politics." No bestie, you avoid uncomfortable conversations about politics. From the moment you were born til the day you die, you've been thoroughly and utterly enmeshed in the policies, systems, and governance of a society that shapes your experience. You just try not to think about it.

The horrified replies to this are hilarious considering this is the normal procedure in thr vast majority of the world

the very specific ADHD feeling of buying a new thing because you need it, going to put it away, and finding that you already have that exact same model sitting there

At LARP this weekend I got to spend four solid hours hyperfocusing on a complex problem that involved analysing and synthesising multiple pieces of disparate data to produce a coherent, risk-assessed, prioritised intelligence strategy and then 'Operation Mincemeat'-ing the outcomes into the dark

I didn't even need to see the byline to know that my husband wrote this

oh my god who the fuck still cares about fucking harry potter

What I Did On My Holidays Dot Text (LARP, for me, is an opportunity to shitpost IRL)

DLSSR 5 off / DLSSR 5 on

i will sing you the song of my people NO ONE WANTS THIS NO THANK YOU NO THANK YOU

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Deploring Israel's actions as a state isn't antisemitic. Attacking Jews and symbols of Jewish culture in supposed retaliation for Israel's actions is however *textbook* antisemitism and these are not complicated thoughts to simultaneously hold in one's head.