I hate any story where you feel the plot was created to serve the really super mega cool world building (the magic system is so sick, y'all). Become a GM instead and let other people tell the story then.

Excited for the tiktok girlies disliking the new Mitski album and ready to finally acquire some concert tickets again, because going to the Laurel Hell tour was a religious experience even though I did not like the album before the concert.

Very jarring to work in digital journalism and suddenly being confronted with user needs, that has nothing to do with user-centric design or research, or psychological needs, but like, they still called it that for some reason.

Folks, we are back in a fuckass hair era

Everywhere I go competent older women love me

I think US electoral politics are a SCP designed to drive people insane. Maybe electoral politics in general, I shall investigate this.

Getting a birthday video from my life insurance company, thanks boss, I feel so un-alienated right now

Dual perspective romance books are the door dash of literature, they're a sign of a treatmaxxing culture. The yearning of the love interest is a little treat, you may receive in a special epilogue or perhaps some fanfiction, but in the main book? As the plot is happening? This is not as god intended

There's actually only one thing worse than journalists and it's sports journalists.

2026 and I'm still being asked for ID when I buy tobacco.

I need another deranged relationship network for the Olympian lesbians like we got for the women's euro

Seeing Connor Storrie in his little mullet and going hmmmmm.... what if......

I actually think it should be illegal to say "small businesses" or whatever equivalent exists in your country for political initiatives.

Twelve years, by the way

Recommended to my wife to play Sultan's Game about 54 times and then this morning she finally stuck to it and has been enjoying it ever since, let's gooo

Oh my god, I got "actually, we have to first talk about Hegel"ed on my work on Brechtian theatre and video games, if you're out there, I support your struggle.

Could be at home playing farming sim pretending to be outside instead I'm outside in office pretending to be home by rotating Nestor in my head, make it make sense.

I think it's funny that my banking app sends me warning that I'm exceeding my usual spending habits and then I check what I purchased and it's frivolous stuff like 'taxes' and 'pension fund'

I have only ever published open access, meaning all of my papers are available for free to anyone and yet so many people ask me to share full texts instead of just clicking on a link.

I'm an eternal Brandon Sanderson and Harry potter hater, my life amongst normie millennials when they find out I read is full of false smiles and polite nods.

Some highly advanced Nestor resting positions.

It's so good to have songs you connect to such devastatingly sad events in your life that you cannot hear them without starting to sob no matter where you are

I have to admit that I like business, I like optimising KPI, I like figuring out what will net our clients the most value, I like making processes more efficient, I like talking to people with decision power and convincing them I'm right. It probably helps that my business it mostly publicly funded

It's very funny how working in business and being good at what you actually do means your job very quickly just becomes 'meetings and email'.

Guess who had the honour of having a man steal their work and give them as little credit as possible in the process once again.

I want to be in my home and I want to play rogue trader, why do I have to make presentation and write email in a big office instead, the world is unjust and full of suffering

Do not speak to me on my 6AM train rides, I remain deep in meditations (excel) and am cultivating inner peace (noise cancelling headphones)

Crazy how ever since some fucking guy took the term 'filter bubble' and pretended like it's the new hotness (rather than a normal tendency for people to seek like-minded people) there's research saying it doesn't exist, but too many people are happy to keep profiteering off of bullshit ideas.

Apropos of nothing, this is Marika Hackman's 'Ophelia'

Can someone explain why men always sit into my compartment in the train instead of the compartments with other men, it genuinely happens every single time that the guy in the compartment right next to mine is left to himself while a guy sits in mine.

Finally asked my dad what his favourite Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band albums are, so I will listen to them on my commute tomorrow, feel free to give me more music recommendations now that I commute so much, lmao

Some pictures from the photographer that yoinked us

Rita Wheeler and her netrunner wife

Very tired cosplayers, happy we found our Johnny and crew again

I have decided the amount of care I can offer to US politics has been depleted over the last ten years, actually

Alright, maybe having four different languages in a single country of like nine million is a bit obnoxious.

Search engines have become so fucking ass, I don't know if it's deliberate to elevate the perceived usefulness of llms or just because of lack of development of search algorithms in favour of llms but jesus christ I can't find anything anymore

If I have learned one thing as a sports media data analyst it's that men long to wear weird underwear and throw each other onto the ground, it is an innate drive to them.

Was car DJ for four hours for my wife this weekend and she said I only played bangers, what an honour

The more the US does shenanigans, the more secure my job becomes, very funny, keep at it

Got very annoyed reading a Q&A by 'cat experts' where half the answers were about how your cat has to have free access to the outside world with no supervision and the other half was "wow, I'm so sorry your cat got hurt while having free, unsupervised access to the outside world :("

Had to block some researcher I used to have mild respect for on linkedin bc he let his student publish a paper about how dismissing AI's cognitive ability is mean and hurts his feelings.

Thank you unasked for AI overview, I can clearly see how 10^12 and 10^12 are in fact different numbers, what a fool I've been.

Friday at last…

I have never related to this sentiment, I did a PhD in something I love and yet I took breaks all the time, I chilled out regularly, any time I was rejected I thought 'you're dumb, I'm right' and not once did I take it personally. Idk I guess I'm just built different.

I love humanity, I wish for everyone to live in peace and dignity, but I also have to take completely full trains with other humans and I wish them pain and suffering

Doing data analysis for the women's euro and getting distracted by how beautiful all the players are

Listened to the new Lorde album, but I'm sorry to this man, any human friend still clears in the department of gender weirdos over sharing in their personal diaries (published albums)

It's very funny when 30 degrees (~85F) suddenly begins to feel pleasant and cool

Researchers who study the impact of a digital society while neglecting anything related to games, because it is frivolous or 'fringe' will forever have a massively limited scope