Happy equinox everyone

An excellent long read about the road to an illiberal, undemocratic bathroom ban in the UK. www.liberalcurrents.com/britains-bat...

Had a great conversation with @sjoy.lol today. We both toyed around with the web as a hobby starting in the late 90s, before eventually turning it into a career much later on. We talked a lot about that, but then got into accessibility and I just loved how she referred to it as "a heart thing" 😊

I wanted to try and draw dragons. This was the result of that.

The Prime minister told an ethnic minority newspaper, Eastern Eye, in late July that he recognises his responsibility to speak out if the status of minorities in Britain is questioned by a surge in racism

A couple of worriedaboutsatan releases have become my new wandering around exhibitions soundtrack, and this sounds like it's joining them (the others are Subtle Manoeuvers, and JÆJA, and you should also have a little listen and a little purchase of both of those while you're over on bandcamp)

There's an end of summer sale on over at @inprnt.com, head over for 30% off my prints… www.inprnt.com/gallery/this... #ArtPrints #SciFi

Is it possible that MPs have just become addicted to confidence votes?

My amazing friend is walking 50k tomorrow in aid of London air ambulance. If anyone’s feeling particularly flush this month, please consider chucking her some money? www.justgiving.com/page/susan-m...

You HAVE to check out @matthiasott.com's website: matthiasott.com Extremely creative and well-built, you can even play around with customization knobs (using design tokens!) like a musical instrument!

freelance/ltd company pals who are grown up enough to have a mortgage—did any of you use a specialist mortgage broker when you got your gaff and if so, would you recommend them?

I’ve nearly finished building a website that is literally all-singing, all-dancing, it is probably the greatest thing I’ll ever build in my life and I can’t wait to show people.

Extremely normal for companies in 2025 to be like "We do not truck with the fae"

This is an absurd misuse of laws designed to tackle terrorism and an insane waste of a resource-starved criminal justice system. There were obviously not 900 terrorists wandering through central London on Saturday and it's utterly ridiculous to act as if there were

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

microsoft: before you sign in we need to send you a code also microsoft: omg was that you that requested a code also microsoft: omg someone just signed in to your account

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

The owl and the pussycat went to the ball in beautiful pea-green gowns,

Argh I hate z-index

What do you call a magician that’s lost his magic? Ian

I want you to ask yourselves honestly, if a 50-something year old man started speaking to a minor who is cisgender, speculating what kind of pornography they watch, asking them if they've "groomed" (read: sexually abused) other minors, would that not be quite plainly sexual harassment?

“Taking votes from Labour helps the Tories” AND HOW WOULD A TORY GOVERNMENT BE WORSE FOR THE COUNTRY THAN THIS CURRENT LABOUR GOVERNMENT, ED?

average person just has the one gender. Roy Genders is an outlier and should not have been counted

A representative of the British state broadcaster and its nominally left-wing Prime Minister both fulsomely supporting the idea that refugees are a risk to "our daughters". The fascists own the discourse, and if our institutions aren't entirely fash yet they soon will be.

First ever episode of Black Mirror except everyone’s trying to stop the Prime Minister from having sex with an England flag on live TV

Yvette Cooper looked at current British asylum policies and thought, what we need is for *more* children to die in the English Channel

“Sir, there is strong evidence that the recent preponderance of flags is being organised by the far-right” “Quick, organise a photoshoot where I’m surrounded by St George crosses, tell everyone I think flags are the best thing since sliced bread”

I mean … it’s a Lot

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Just found what is apparently a female wasp spider in our conservatory and a) holy shit she is *beautiful* but b) I am very glad neither of us is scared of spiders because c) she is also *enormous*

Sonc

just once i’d like to hear an established, successful artist look back at their work and say “of course, you couldn’t make that these days, because you can’t get funding for original work that’s not based on an established ip”

Due to an unexpected council tax bill I am opening up ten slots for Silly Little Guys. DM me to secure a slot! Usual rules apply: ⭐️ £25 each ⭐️ No portraits ⭐️ Just simple, silly stuff.

d&d is just three hours of people saying things like "so I know how doors work, but-" and then asking you if they can do something that suggests they have no idea how a door is constructed, how it works, or what its limitations are as a physical object

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

From this week’s Beano.

Got a friend’s funeral tomorrow and I’m absolutely dreading it tbh, it’s going to completely break me.

Freelancing is going from working on a super-corporate project one week to sending emails saying "here's your hairy squiggle!" the next.

Screen-reader users: If a website had a lot of graphical elements, e.g. torn paper scraps etc, to give a collagey-feel to it, would you prefer those graphical elements had alt text so you got the feel of the design, or hidden entirely from screen-readers so they didn't clutter up the content?

Screen-reader users: If a website had a lot of graphical elements, e.g. torn paper scraps etc, to give a collagey-feel to it, would you prefer those graphical elements had alt text so you got the feel of the design, or hidden entirely from screen-readers so they didn't clutter up the content?

also I need a job. if anyone has any uhhhhhh pub manager or bar jobs or whatever the fuck going aaaaaaargh this is my actual literal worst nightmare

Urgent: me and him and the cats need somewhere to live within the next two weeks, I've just been (I think very unfairly) fired and need to move somewhere ASAP

Everything you love mixes into Cotton Eye Joe. Everything you love also mixes into I Feel Love. This implies the existence of a megamix called Cotton Eye Feel Love which we will absolutely be creating the next time we get high.

Loving how quick and easy my hair is to dye now. Also loving this colour (crazy colour blue jade)

Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a spectacular wide-eyed octopus! 🐙😍 From Palaikastro, a Bronze Age settlement site on the island of Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum. 📷 by me #Archaeology

look at this ‘e’ and ‘f’!!!

“I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me” www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7fB...