Experimenting with makeup when the door rings. Thought "oh they'll see me in slightly weird, one-eye-made-up-and-the-other-not mode, but that's not a big deal". Delivery person called me 'sir', so yeah wasn't a big deal at all.

Whatever your politics, I think we can all agree that we should be working towards a world where this is no longer the scariest thing Linda has to confront.

It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

"The Starmer government is moving things in the right direction but much too slowly" is one of those positions I see people argue against a lot but have basically never seen anyone actually argue for.

A bunch of people are going "it's bad that Allbirds are stopping making shoes" but why the fuck are they making anything that isn't birds?

Do t listen to Duffield, shortmen. You're just as valid as biological men ❤️

Applying for job. Form has a bunch of "explain how you're experienced at X" fields. The text boxes are tiny, like 80 characters wide. So I write out all the answers in a document, ready to paste them in. Turns out they also have stupidly low character limits so I have to cut most of what I wrote.

It is endlessly fascinating how obsessed so many academics and liberal thought leaders are with the famine in the USSR in the early 1930s. These same people never mention the famines caused by their countries which impact the global south-

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta

I heard there was a handy clasp That helps rock climbers with their grasp Of ropes, and makes your keyring look much keener It saves on space, it opens in, And closes with a subtle spring, The humble and the trusty Carabiner

Before you transition, clothes are just clothes and faces are just faces. When you begin to transition, clothes are no longer clothes and faces are no longer faces. After you have transitioned, clothes are just clothes and faces are just faces. - Zen master Qingyuan Xingsi, paraphrased somewhat

In various easy Asian countries there's a tradition, with its roots in Zen Buddhism, of writing a 'death poem' as you approach the end of your life. This is known as 'waning lyrical'.

This is theoretically true, but it's also theoretically true that question 1 in the "are you a Christian?" flow chart is "do you accept the teachings of Jesus?" and the last time mainstream Christianity could truthfully answer 'yes' to that was before the gospels were even written.

instead of posh hungarian baths & too much IG making you a bit jel, how about this. someone in your family has died, they kept getting discharged by various NHS teams for reasons you can't fathom but it's made the person who was caring for them in your family non-verbal. you book a train for the

stolen from @ausir.bsky.social

“want to feel old” let me stop you right there. it’s not about what I want

HOW I WISH I WAS IN SHERBROOKE NEXT

LETSSSS GOOOOOO

nancy, you don't have time for this shit you gotta stop the crimean war

They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing

this Allan Horing poem, my god

Got a Date tomorrow so I'm sweeping out the cobwebs in my bedroom. Whether this is just a joke about how long it's been since I got laid or the literal truth - or both - is left as an exercise to the reader.

when the whale said this I lost my fucking mind

As a very non-passing trans woman who has no desire for bottom surgery, I can struggle a lot with imposter syndrome at times. I just have to keep reminding myself: even a clocked top is right twice a day.

The fundamental symptom of ADHD is that every time period feels like either zero time, or infinite time. Everything else proceeds from this.

I'm currently on seven different medications. That's too many. What's worse, I can't think of a good mapping of them onto the names of the Seven Dwarves.

In Germany, the Holocaust is commemorated by portraying Hitler as a Palestinian.

"Got the pic of the red card incident for you boss. Real fucking sexy just like you asked."

Still feels weird that Wikipedia goes with a second hand account about how working on Pokémon helped her come out when she talks about it in her own words right here www.thefreelibrary.com/Pokemon%27s+...

Lots of people say they're unhappy with how things are going in Omelas, but if you look at this graph it's clear that for over 99% of the population things have never been better. So we can safely ignore those idiots.

texting random phones with HERE IS THE SECURITY CODE YOU REQUESTED, NEVER SHARE THIS CODE WITH ANYONE FOR ANY REASON and then it's just the number three

i think about this every day

The NLRB doesn't exist to protect workers. It exists to keep workers from burning down the owners' homes, because that used to be now labor disputes were settled

Scottish Labour taking the strong position that people like me don't get raped enough

I suggest 'whaddup' as fitting both the "hwæt means listen" and "hwæt means what" schools of thought.

how adults colonize every third space and remove young people — including the Internet link: dragon-in-a-fez.tumblr.com/post/8134647...

Do you know what's actually tedious? Centrists finding out time & again not only that their analyses of where the world was heading were wrong all along but helped provide the conditions for us getting to where we now are whining about "teenage tankies"

Around 20% of hospital beds in the US are in Christianist facilities, most Catholic, that have happily been denying reproductive health care and gender-affirming care for decades AND enjoying a nonprofit status. Most people don't realize the stranglehold the church has until it's too late.

hats off to the Lib Dem’s who have had to invent a new kind of profit that is somehow bad instead of the regular profit that they have zero problem with

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

Hungary was the only country which was opposed to a narrow European Union wide sanctions package on "violent settlers" and a handful of settlement construction companies. So in that sense there will likely finally be action. But suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement remains unlikely.

was once New Amsterdam.

He pays them in woims!