Trapped by a cat

Genuinely the kind of stuff that speaks to delusional mental ill-health, and which once upon a time would have rightly been dismissed as vexatious

There was a pub on one near where I used to live. About halfway up.

currently in tears over these two dogs

Mother of god

Out now

Me as I push my enemy into a ravine

I don't live in England or Wales, so I can't vote GPEW, but Polanski is saying the things that no Labour politician will say. #RentControls #HousingCrisis

This is, as they say, the good stuff.

posts, lost, like tears... in rain,

Reform are on C4 News and seem to have sent, in lieu of a spokesperson, a bottle of 19 Crimes wine

Trying to figure out this menacing display in the doctors office

there’s music for literally every activity

Food discourse will only die out when we're all on rafts, eating algae and drinking brackish water from a solar still, wondering how ethics in games journalism led to the end of the civilisation...

I’ve given half dozen talks to uni Ss past few weeks & in all of them have gone off on Ai & how we can’t give up what makes us human, the importance of struggling, of making mistakes, & all the decisions & surprises along the way that makes us who we are. We won’t be robbed of this. Ss don’t want it

suck my entire fucking dick

I get that airbnb isn’t the deal it used to be, but when I book an underwater suite I *am* expecting full use of the anemones

All I ever wanted All I ever needed Is here, collecting beetle larvae, on the body farm

Dune Perdido Street Station Brideshead Revisited

I keep telling people to play Clair Obscur

The flag-shaggers I saw in the pub in Holborn yesterday had thick Yorkshire accents (never been so ashamed of my home county). They were served at the bar by a Black Londoner who looked like he'd had a deeply-exhausting day. Divorced Loser Facebook Uncle energy from every single one of them.

I was saying just now that fandom is a lot like roleplaying — there’s a longer history, more complex in terms of gender than we flatten it to be, it’s historically contingent & tied to universal human drives. Come to think of it, also true of smell (1st book) — you need to look for the OLD words.

The winter duvet is still on the bed, this is some prime bullshit

Mothman love lamp.

ME: *throws a fried chicken breast and it returns like a boomerang* KFC INTERVIEWER: *presses intercom button* holy shit larry get in here

18: Garfield's Guide to Bomb Disposal

20: Those Are My Balls I Guess: A Guide to Sexting for the Depressed and Online

26: The Meniscus Panjandrum: A Velocity Titbath thriller

28: One Man's Meat's Another Man's Meat: The History Of Competitive Buffets

41: Neal The Seal Hijacks A Plane

42: Spot the Dog, Detect the Cat, and Intuit the Presence of the Goldfish: A Guide to Pet Ownership for those with No Object Permanence

When writing this I wanted a joke about admiring realistic dragon prosthetics as an out, but was Reliably Informed that an orgy tent joke would actually be closer to home...

Unrelated: it's weird how moustaches have made a fashionable comeback among the young, right? It's weird that they look like 1980s footballers?

X The Everything App doing more to alienate whoever is left, by limiting you to making 50 original posts a day if you’re not paying to use it. A true poster can break 50 posts a day just by making jokes about breaking news.

Absolute loser energy from dickheads wrapped in flags in central London today

I will never stop talking about this: The lovely and profound "If we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known" is from an NYT article about the author accidentally being CC'd on an email where his friends were making fun of him for renting goats.

The idea that a novel can be 'best' is so self-evidently silly I despair slightly that folks think it worth discussing. Awards & rankings are antithetical to the project of telling diverse stories. Read, lose yourself in fiction, press books into friends' hands. but don't make ridiculous lists.

hey john. its your cousin marvin. marvin cage! you know that new sound youve been looking for? well listen to this *hangs up phone*

52: Wife Finds A Lay: A Jurassic Park Cuckhold Adventure

25, but I did do an English degree, which means I had 15 years after graduating when I was so burnt out that I could barely read anything, and also, Middlemarch is - genuinely - one of the most tedious slogs I have ever waded through

Is this protest actually as big as the BBC is declaring or are they just doing the usual to tacitly whip up support for the far right while having plausible deniability

81: Memes For Mindfulness

82: Adeptus Stinkarius: Smells of the Warhammer 40k Universe

84: How To Take Unsettling Nudes

93: A Year In Provence (Now With Added Car Chases)

96: Mr Stool's Stoolcyclopedia, A Cagalogue Of Celebrities and Their Most Common Bristol Stool Chart Rank

97: Murder in the Zoo, A Detective Lemur Story

100: Glue Your Bum Shut. A handy guide to intrusive thoughts.

These are VERY funny.

I can pretty much guarantee that it was mostly incompetence. There generally isn't any grand conspiracy in government at the moment, everything which looks like it could be is an arse/elbow calibration issue. Outcome is the same though.