I'd like to dedicate today's (very good) half marathon run to all the terfs who are trying to get trans people barred from running in public fun runs. Hahaha, you sad dorks.

I like to go for long runs and such, and I'm sometimes asked by (cis) friends and family if I'm training for a more organised run. Nope, and this is one of the reasons why. I don't want to have to navigate the potentially humiliating risks of falling foul to harassment by these obsessive weirdos.

Trump started a dumb little war and now it's more expensive to fuck. Truly a bonkers age to live in [derogatory].

On the AI haters blocklist, aka the cool kids list 😎

I'd probably say either Alien or Arrival. The first is something I never got to experience wholly fresh as the xenomorph and its whole deal were too firmly disseminated throughout modern pop culture that even a kid like me was aware of it. The second is just a perfectly paced and pitched film.

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Low stakes and now pretty outdated, but Boris Johnson talking about his 'hobby' of making model buses was a deliberate attempt to skew Google searches for Boris Johnson + Bus, to keep images of his infamous Brexit Bus down since Brexit had turned into the omni-shambles it was always destined to be.

Interesting cast. I wonder which one is playing the white ghost occasionally seen running through the background of a scene, naked with a big cat-fog statue head on and a fourteen foot sword over their shoulder before dying to some unseen monster?

Oh I'm sure it's fine that a hate group is praising the appointment of someone to a leadership position for an organisation that supposedly has my best interests at heart. Yeah, that's fine, no concern here. Eek.

Made a bloody nice lemon meringue pie today, and honestly it just shows me that I've been a complete idiot for not making a lemon meringue pie every weekend, because lemon meringue pie is, and this may be a shock, a good thing.

Please fill this up. To the brim of course #caturday

Look at those whiskers! #Caturday

"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Yeah, even them trans, Wes"

So you vibe coded a website and don't fully understand what all the code really does, did you? Do you want the Adeptus Mechanicus? Because that's how you get the Adeptus Mechanicus; techno mysticism and praying to an unknowable machine god to smile upon you.

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Mate, I just wanted a lager top and a bag of nuts.

Time and time again transphobia is shown to be very unpopular with people once put to them. It only gets pushed by small sect of out of touched, unpopular and hated elites. Like Scottish Labour who have been a long time joke party after pissing away all their voters.

To be fair, Detroit Becomes Human did get me very emotional. Although that emotion was primarily laughter based.

It's a good night to read this excellent piece, on the Orban regime's network of financial support for the nationalist right in Britain. For many on the radical right, the tills are about to stop ringing. democracyforsale.substack.com/p/orbans-brits

christ, not to relitigate It a decade on but it's hard to watch people happily waving Hungarian flags and EU flags at the same time and not think "oh right, almost like it's not that fucking hard to realise that you can have and cherish multiple, complimentary identities"

Well as a kid I always knew there were two things I needed to do in life: become a writer and a woman. Nailed it on both, but always hoped I'd have more readers, and not have to constantly justify myself and fight for my identity as a woman because there are still so many bigoted wankers out there.

Of course the real reason Amazon decided to unceremoniously sunset so many early generations of Kindle is because they accidentally made a product that their customers only had to buy once, thus failing at one of the foundational tenets of late stage capitalism.

There's a hanging branch above a footpath in Battersea Park that someone's slung a full doggy poo bag over at head-hitting height, that's a get catapulted into the sea offence in my book.

Garlic presses are for the weak.

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

God, the constant infantilisation of trans people. The idea that we can't be trusted to know ourselves until we're all of 25 is patently ridiculous. We bloody well know ourselves better than Wes fucking Streeting does. We know what you're trying to do, Wes. Everyone thinks you're a prick, Wes.

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We didn't deserve this day.

It's 2035. The transition away from fossil fuels has been a rousing success. The regime is in prison, after the lengthy Philadelphia Trials. Insect populations are rebounding. UBI has uplifted millions. The date he died on the toilet after being informed of his 250 indictments is a global holiday.

Spectacular images taken by the Artemis II crew of earthset and the eclipse. Just incredible. NASA posts them here and it’s free to access: images.nasa.gov

Love and support from family, my rescue cat happy and thriving, that I've got a really good draft of a new book I think rocks, seeing a big movement of progressive voices building with the Greens, moon joy. It's helping keep the despair at bay.

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military. The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him. Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

I love how people are cheering on NASA like it’s their sports team EXCEPT everyone is cheering for the SAME team!

The moon is pretty rad though, ain't it?

This was unjustified against Gaza and is unjustified now. Noone believes - and Israel is not even claiming - that Israel is trying to minimise casualties (or eg that Hezbollah weapons were in those hospitals). It's an illegal invasion of Lebanon, and a series of war crimes.

Please don't Jim the camera.

Something that's perhaps underappreciated about the Artemis II mission is how nice it is to have a positive news story from America again. It's good to be able to look over the pond and say 'yeah, nice one, America', rather than 'guys, what the fuck is going on, that's messed up'.

Jesus shared his pronouns.

Important public service announcement: They Live is still an awesome film in this, the year of our Lord, 2026.

You mean the first episode won't just be an extended character creator sequence resulting in the most uncanny looking protagonist ever? Disappointing.

No joke, using a fountain pen was truly a game changer for how much I looked forward to the physical act of writing.

Advice for anyone thinking of using AI to bring their ideas to life because they don't find the typing process an enjoyable one. Get a really nice fountain pen and write it by hand. Seriously, the feeling of it gliding over the page and the satisfaction of seeing the words flow out is wonderful.

"Going to space is a waste of time" I post using my tiny pocket computer, while satellites transmit it to everyone across the globe

It's easy to be cynical and down about the state of the world right now, so it's really nice to see such a wonderful sight of Artemis II lifting off safely. Been waiting all my life to watch a real manned moon mission launch. Made me a little emotional if I'm being honest. I just think it's neat.

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Cat, and her staff.