Late night Doctor Who with season 26 opening serial Battlefield. Interdimensional alien Arthuriana! Jean Marsh! The Brig! UNIT Brigadier Winifred Bambera, played by the actress who played cisswap Dave Lister in that episode where she knocks prime Lister up!

Tonight, Back to the Future: The Musical, at the Lyric Theatre.

Weather VERY disgusting (32°C, sunny, one brief downpour this afternoon that has left everything damp) but I walked past the nature reserve at the bottom of my street on my way to the light rail, and the warm, steaming eucalyptus trees smell like a dream.

"How did you get into TTRPGs?" Clipboard, a hi-vis vest, and a confident walk.

The trouble with having an active aural imagination is that when audiobook readers Do A Voice for a character in a book I've read with my eyes, it's hit and miss if they hit the timbre my imagination's ear conjured.

2025 actually did suck. i know we've all said this about a lot of previous years but this one was quite bad actually

Merely seeing this screenshot gave me a full sensory flashback to sitting in the study in front of our big beige tower PC running Windows 3.1 For Workgroups, loading the shareware edition of Castle of the Winds on a floppy disk.

Someone in the catchment of our street library has clearly had some kind of traumatic breakup with Bernard Cornwell.

You will never guess what this is in reference to.

Forgot my watch and rings on my way out of the house this morning and my hands feel Weird

tfw you’re fucking the lasagna man for lasagna

also if you want free literature??? go to the library!! that's what they're there for!!!

Late night Star Trek Smonday with DS9 s06e13, "Far Beyond the Stars". Simmering, righteous fury at the miserable injustices of racism, told through a lens of history to highlight systemic horrors happening contemporary to the episode's creation in 1998; depressingly, not all that much has changed.

Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing

a movie that takes place where you're from

You in my business now… don’t do that

DID cook and eat dinner before 10 PM! Before 9 PM, even! Even though I was all tuckered out from sampling so many delicious meats and cheeses and getting a little bit tipsy sampling alcoholic things at the Christmas market and really wanted to pay someone else to make me food! 🏅💐🎆

If you have been sharing that Malwarebytes article on the Gmail thing, you should note the giant correction up top. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

fat bottomed girls DO make the rockin' world go round

Whomst among us hasn't felt a little vacuum about snackie all done

Spending the day- or at least the morning- at the Good Food and Wine Show Christmas Market. Slightly wasted on me, a wine hater, but I do like Good Food.

When I’m trying to find a gender-neutral alternative to “ladies and gentlemen”

Did not get dinner out before 10 PM :( but! I did also have an after-work nap that went until 10 PM. I went back to the meal kit life this week, and I did cook all three meals and didn't let anything go manky, so a little midnight cottage pie is, on balance, not too bad.

Why does this slap so hard???

Having listened to the audiobook the other week, I have spent the evening watching the new movie of The Long Walk. Fascinating choices made in this screenplay.

Elegant little lady!

Managed to cook and eat dinner before 9 PM today, though!

Had my last session with my grief counsellor today. Talking about feelings is rancid, but I feel like being able to sit with someone and say out loud all the stuff I didn't want to say to someone uninvolved beyond our patient-counsellor relationship has really helped me process The Whole Thing.

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Red Milligan. Just ninety anti-Irish stereotypes crammed into a bag, then

90 percent of good fic is written by people in thier 30s and 40s who have like two full time jobs and are juggling parent teacher conferences.

Gee, don’t threaten us with a good time… 😏

gork we have GOT to start getting dinner together earlier than this

Another month, another international technical committee meeting interrupted by the squeaky toy who lives in my home.

The stills from the Legend of Zelda movie look good but I better not hear that twink say a single word

It's my fault in the first place for using Nextdoor, but my god, people cannot read. I posted asking if anyone had leads on donating large quantities of books as I worry I'm overtaxing the Lifeline book shed, and fully half the replies... suggest taking them to the Lifeline book shed...

whyyyyyy are men so loud on the phone

having your claws shot off with arrows by some blonde twink probably feels good as fuck if you're an immortal dragon

Always feels weird when I'm actually early to things, given my lifelong flirtations with lateness.

Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon

Delicious birthday yum cha times at Zilver Chatswood with @fishmouse.bsky.social, @bduh.bsky.social, @ozlyn.bsky.social, @blahblah-woofwoof.bsky.social and @iibnf.bsky.social!

Went grocery shopping! Picked up a bag of free bread from someone on a FB free stuff group! Traded a box of veggie nuggets and some of the bread to some nice tattooed queers off a different FB group for some incense and a burner! Being a person is exhausting!!!

Trying to decide whether I want to use the 4th level ability score bump to make my girl Scilla more buff by bumping her STR and CON to 16 or if I want to go all in on CHA to improve her spellcasting... hmm...

I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.

Arguably the *correct* answer here is the anthology of Dracula, Frankenstein, and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde I picked up at around 13, which is probably responsible for a lot of why I'm like this, but the *fun* answer is Lord of the Dead by Tom Holland, in which Lord Byron is a vampire.

Please clap: I have, after [mumblemumble] months of putting off sorting it out, finally fixed the busted latch on the verandah door.