Hello, update (not asking for more money). 🧵 I've unfortunately been stuck in limbo over this. I heard back that there wasn't any private availability until the new year, and now I'm in the awkward position of not being able to afford the surgery and the costs of recovery time. However! 1/

I am currently laid up sick on yet more antibiotics, but thank you to everyone who donated, I'll message you all once I'm well enough. We've put a stretch goal on to cover the platform fees (whoops) and recovery costs. You can read Chris' update below the original message. Much love.

65% of the way there. Can you help make it 66?

when you love and can’t get enough of peace

Enemy of my enemy is not my friend, and a neoliberal in favour of privatisation doesn't get a pass from me because they're opposing an authoritarian political regime.

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

59% of the way there thanks to a very kind shout from @wtyppod.bsky.social. Can anyone else help? I'm very much in do-or-die territory.

Today my doctor told me it will be at least another six months until I can get the surgery on the NHS. I am not exaggerating: I will be homeless and probably dead long before then. My situation is completely dire.

I'm a third of the way toward being rid of this shitty disease. Can you help?

I've been quiet for a while. It's been due to a number of factors, the most prominent of which is poor health. I need surgery, and I'm stuck in limbo. Please help. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

this is basically what it's like to be in any group that society isn't built for. with bikes it's just laid out more plainly and built into physical infrastructure

You think this is funny, but it's actually a tactical innovation. Every time the word "bee" is ejected from the chamber, the next bullet speeds up.

I am currently on my third consecutive week of antibiotics (clarithromycin and then two doxycyclines) and I am now at the stage where I'm constantly nauseous due to gut flora dying off. Honest to fuck this is miserable and I am so fucking fed up. The rich strangling the NHS has ruined my life.

"Lord Blunkett, who worked on the Blair government’s initial ID scheme 20 years ago, welcomed the decision, saying its 'time has come'." oh well it's probably an excellent idea then, can't discern a single flaw here

If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.

I've been quiet for a while. It's been due to a number of factors, the most prominent of which is poor health. I need surgery, and I'm stuck in limbo. Please help. www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

It's kinda depressing that the genocidal fascists are back and this time they have the nukes.

Jaw-dropping reporting by Haaretz www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

🧵 Alright, I've been putting this off, but I can't really keep going like this — I need to tell you all what I've got going on. I'll preface this with a warning: if any of you so much as cracks a smile at this, you're a cast iron cunt and deserve to rot. You don't know what you think you know. 1/

Having a good day (at the end of a course of antibiotics) and stopped in at a restaurant I used to go to pre-covid to collect some takeaway... Being here again is not good for my mental health. I miss going out for a meal.

sensational

I love comments like this, as they betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the fascist project. They /don't care/ that he's fucking it. He's the Führer. Elections don't matter to them any more (there's a very good chance they stole the last one), because they're not going to allow free elections.

oh, word?

I don't know, but no two look the same.

Chippenblob

You know, the thing about other countries is it's still mostly owned by a hereditary elite, they're just de facto hereditary rather than de jure. My comment isn't in favour of aristocracy. I'm just saying, if it's not 100% public sector and conservation? Glass houses.

Unless the US is a strategic ally of the US, in which case it would arm the US and offer military and police training to the US to repress dissent within the US to benefit the US and the wettest libs on the planet would try to ignore anything pointing this out, like cowards, the babies

Unless the US is a strategic ally of the US, in which case it would arm the US and offer military and police training to the US to repress dissent within the US for the benefit of the US.

To hear my thoughts on our relationship to mythology that Andor has affirmed (saving me from being very doompilled about it), listen to Episode 104 of Comradio: open.spotify.com/episode/4CfW... (If anyone has a better link, please share.)

I've been chewing this over, and here's my official stance on Andor: 1. It's literary quality TV, different from but on par with works like The Wire and Deadwood. 2. It transcends its medium by proving its thesis through irs existence. 1/3

Hey All. So about every 6 weeks, we run a creative challenge in our discord, where we give our members a theme, and ask them to submit something, anything really, using that theme. Members then vote on their favourite submission, and the winner gets an interview that is then posted publicly.

Controversial opinion, but it can simultaneously be true that: - Putin is a war-happy, dictatorial autocrat - The conflict in Ukraine was made inevitable when the EU and USA disregarded the promise to keep Ukraine neutral, made noise about it joining NATO Russia doesn't want NATO on its doorstep.

This is a public service, as far as I'm concerned. Please share far and wide. The 'satire' excuse reminds me of "It's just a joke, like on Top Gear."

I think the Trump government has two things going on: 1. The economic underpinning of their high fertility white nationalist project has been shown to be bullshit, 2. They're getting more push back than they expected on racial issues like immigration. Consequences:

new written piece from me: Donald Trump: The Fertilization Administration

Don't bring your phone to a protest! Jesus Christ. Do not bring your phone anywhere you don't want the government to track you: this is bad advice that nobody should listen to.

📢 PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: Bluesky has implemented a set of filters, defaulted to "On," that hide posters who their moderators don't like. This includes some simply tagged "Rude." Go to @moderation.bsky.app and click "Labels" then go down and turn this censorship off. Then check it regularly.

I regret to inform you that Microsoft is a target of BDS, and it applies to all their products and subsidiaries, including Zenimax, which owns Bethesda, which owns the Oblivion Remaster. Buying the Oblivion Remaster is breaking BDS.

Hey @bethesdastudios.com important question, does the PS5 version of the Oblivion Remaster support mouse and keyboard?

Okay so two things: I really, really wish that I had a PC good enough to run the Oblivion Remaster. I really, really need to know if the PS5 version supports mouse and keyboard.

I owe a play through of it and then an essay on Cyberpunk to one of my followers/Praxiscast patrons after they bought me it. I've not forgotten, it just turned out my machine wasn't good enough to run it after all.

Retracting this endorsement now that I realise the creator put a positive depiction of fucking asmongold in as a minor character. like, what the fuck

transing my house by refusing to clean or do essential maintenance to let it fall into a festering pit of squalor no asmongold does not live here stop asking i have no idea if he is, that's not the point of the joke look, we're entirely off topic now, there's no punchline ugh fine i'll vacuum

Adding to the chorus to say: the ones who oppress minorities the hardest are the ones who cannot and will not conceive of their own liberation. Genuinely would not be surprised to learn that JKR secretly has some gender anxieties that are absolutely impossible to admit.

My conspiratorial take is that if the poor guy ever does get released, it'll be attributed to Cory Booker or another "safe" pair of Democratic hands, rather than Van Hollen, who fucked their weak strategy off and just went down to try. bsky.app/profile/theb...

I'll admit: everything that's happened lately has made me much more sympathetic to Due Process nerds who insist it's the sacred rite of society. I think I'd have been much more on board from the start if the system and process were fairer and more equitable. But, they're better than nothing.

Rare sight of a Senate Democrat actually just fucking doing something.

So it looks like I am going to have to do a GoFundMe to raise around £6k so I can get surgery and not spend the next several months living on antibiotics. This is kinda important, as constant antibiotic use is linked to both gut cancer and resistant infections. I'll admit: I'm pretty scared.