A bit of further information about the 2026 charity auction (sign ups start 1st June!) I’ll repost this with sign up link on Monday. Last year we raised over £1000 for the charities and I hope we can help them this year as well!

It's probably fine that I slept all day and have eaten a total of two pieces of cold pizza and four ginger biscuits by 5pm, right.

Real bad malaise and executive dysfunction going on right now.

We have records of diabetes diagnoses going back 2,500 years. We only developed a reliable treatment (insulin) 100 years ago. Now we might have a cure. What an amazing thing to get to witness.

Over and over again, evidence seems to suggest that you should never direct a cartoon that's loved for its compelling characters and story, because it'll attract the cartoon fandom, which is like the sandworm of the internet

Praising men for doing the bare minimum i.e. having hobbies like most other people while the man in question is being a misogynistic asshole is the perfect encapsulation of what I like to call the Performative Moid Positivity.

Alongside "who built Hadrian's wall?", another great example of knowledge falling foul of 'common understanding' is scurvy. The Royal Navy discovered the cure for scurvy, won the Napoleonic War, humanity then lost that knowledge without realising, then got saved by two Norwegian guinea pigs 🧵 /1

while at least 2 trans women have been murdered by cis men, the demographic that attacked the mosque, in the past week

This. All of this. Terry must be spinning in his grave.

Me, when someone tries to get me to use AI:

Hair redyed, nails painted, floofy cat sitting on me and purring. This is getting an A+ in self-care.

dear god PLEASE let this also lead to a wider acceptance that treatment needs to include *improving quality of life* and not just "how to make them have baby"

I just saw an article that defends AI using us disabled people as the reason why it's okay. So, as a disabled person: fuck no, and stop using us as an excuse. AI is theft, AI isn't creating, and while other technology can help us, we don't need a stealing machine to create.

It is "sleep at the end of the bed on a cushion" weather, according to M'aiq.

A lot of people seem unaware that you can just wake up in the morning and decide to be a better human.

I quit diabetes.

It sucks being disabled. First, you wake up, and your body doesn't work correctly. It hurts worse than the worst pneumonia or flu you've ever had. You're shaky, sometimes various parts of your body hurt or your muscles twitch. Then you log on and read about how RFK jr wants to murder you.

Conservatives: If parents want to kill their babies by refusing a completely harmless vitamin K shot, that's their right as parents. Also conservatives: If you help your teenager get an abortion, CPS will take your daughter away.

Work requirements for benefits is *literally* the government forcing taxpayers to subsidize exploitative employers who would otherwise let their employees starve

The thing about depression is that it's not just sadness. It's your brain constantly lying to you. Telling you terrible things. You're a failure. Nobody is better off for knowing you. And nothing will ever get better because the problem is you. For some, drugs can turn that off. It's life-saving.

A fantasy version of Clint Barton 🏹 Comm for awesome @wiccan21.bsky.social 😍🫶 Grazie ancora!

The weather has turned enough that M'aiq has declared it Snuggle Time.

besties, if the picture on your petition is an AI image, I am not signing that fucking petition.

I should probably have eaten more than a bowl of porridge today.

god grant me the audacity of a Catholic convert sincerely telling the Pope he’s wrong about theology

The fact Trump’s grandma Door Dasher is doing it to help pay for her husband’s cancer treatments is indeed grim, but it is infinitely fucking grimmer that this was not *universally recognized* as grim.

Ffs. I handle multiple chronic illnesses. I nearly died four years ago. I had major surgery to reconstruct my digestive system. Why does a perfectly mundane viral infection turn me into such a whiny baby?

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

THEY TRAINED THE AI ON ACTUAL WRITERS. YOU CANNOT TELL IF SOMETHING IS AI SIMPLY BASED ON IT USING PROPER GRAMMAR. IT STOLE FROM US!!! IT STOLE!!! IT IS A THIEF AND I WILL NOT EVER BE QUIET ABOUT IT!!!!

Why would I use "AI," I actually know how to fucking write

And guess what: if you generated your book using AI, you didn't write it! A machine did!

Third day running of this fucking adrenal shit.

I agree 100% with Steven Vickers that authors will be falsely accused of using AI in the coming years. In particular, authors like myself whose works were stolen to train AI systems are at risk. When we write in our own unique styles, AI trained on us will quite likely flag us as using AI.

Going to fight my brain weaselsby planning a stealth cosplay Blathers dress.

Ugh. Ended up having a bad crash last night, and now I have the brain weasels going "what if :3 you are actually :3 a terrible roleplayer :3 :3 :3"

Game subbed for Pheno.

Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”

Started watching Babylon 5 for the first time. Initial observations: 1. Nice to see competent professionals trying to solve problems with reason and constructive dialogue 2. Nice to not have characters descend into debilitating personality flaws constantly 3. Christ that's a lot of hair wax.

Disability/chronic illness/horror movie fan rant incoming: It really sucks looking forward to a horror movie and then hearing the Creator say that it was inspired by having to take care of a sick relative and how horrible that experience is.

Hi, I'd like to invite you to my £0 BlueSky GM course: 1: get an RPG you like 2: get together with folks you like 3: play some games 4: keep doing the bits that were fun 5: repeat Thank you for attending - your imaginary certificate is in the post! 🙂

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

Friendly reminder that Disabled people still can't legally get married without losing their benefits! Certain states have workarounds, but if you require federal assistance, you're out of luck. We still don't have access to the same rights as others 36 years later

Makin' food plans. No-carb lasagne bake (meat, ragu, bechamel baked with a cheese top) and pizza-less pizza pocket bakes (bacon, cabanossi, mushroom, pineapple, all mixed in pizza sauce and baked with cheese). I can't do carbs much anymore and variety beyond my eggs is important.

Wearing shapewear pants, an underbust shaper, and a good bra. Still can't see my own feet past my titties XD

This tweet from Alex Hirsch will always be evergreen. Disney and Pixar are complete fucking cowards.

jk rowling uses her money to fund groups that push for transphobic international outcomes and helped bring the case in front of the English supreme court that defined trans women as "separate but equal" and removed several civil rights protections. there is no way to ethically consume harry potter

Agreed. This is bullshit. Chalamet was wrong, and people were right to point out he was wrong, but Docter did something truly damaging, espousing fundamentally homophobic ideology as his excuse (i.e. that queerness doesn’t belong in the mainstream) and that’s intensely fucked up.

Couldn't sleep. Got up to play some Rimworld and drink a 600ml diet coke to help with my headache. An hour later, very sleepy. What even is my body.