Goddamnit I demand hand-made artisanal pedantry.

I think Rachel Reeves should present her budget via the medium of dance.

I have long posited that Daniel Craig's accent in Glass Onion is better than Knives Out because in Knives Out he is trying to do a real Southern accent and is bad at it but in Glass Onion he is just talking like Foghorn Leghorn, which is something a real gay Southern weirdo would do.

Had a dream that involved Ringo Starr joining @spraypopmusic.com and their version of Octopuses Garden was 🔥 🔥 🔥

I think being tried by a jury of your peers is quite important actually.

We (temporarily) have two sofas. Naturally, the cats could not possibly share one. They need personal sofas.

95% of authors are not making a living through book publishing. The public needs to understand this.

@oddtypeofdragon.bsky.social was telling me about something like this in the sewing world, too.

The asexual experience

I wonder if the reason boomers have fallen for AI is because it’s basically what they’ve assumed people with computers have been doing this whole time. They’ve never really understood how digital art or music etc is made, but assumed there was a computer button that made it for you and now there is.

"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.

That's right. Much love to all of my friends on this website

The conservatives syllogism; I don’t like socialism > I don’t like the state of the world > therefore it’s the fault of socialism!

Socialism is anyone they don’t like doing anything that they’re not a fan of

Hurt my coccyx today and all I can think about is that fucking bit from The Time Monster. 😭

“Can you roll for initiative?”

This is like someone asking you or me for twenty bucks and they’re going to act like it is Armageddon

this was made specifically for me

The most insidious thing about this is that if you turn off the AI “smart features” it also disables spellcheck. Heads up fellow dyslexic people; get a spellcheck extension for your browser instead.

oh yeah the new york city subway is so fucking scary, you never know what kind of weirdo you'll have to share a train with

I've never been particularly convinced by Drama Centrists who insist Boris Johnson could be back to lead at any moment but I reckon "didn't you personally kill 23k people m8?" probably makes it harder for this already improbable thing to take place.

“They attacked art first, for a reason.”

Nobody wants this shit. Nobody. The hostile reaction has been so pronounced, in fact, that it feels like a company announcing it would never force AI into its products would carve out a pretty good chunk of the market.

Anyway please enjoy this pumpkin I saw yesterday

VERY funny that Labour are being pointlessly cruel and haemorrhaging support from their base and yet none of what they're offering is ever going to be enough for the people whose approval they're seeking, WHO could have predicted it

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Ben Jeapes was a Guest of Honour at BristolCon this year. We are lucky enough to publish a couple of his books. Want to know what happens to the British Royal Family in the far future? Try this: wizardstowerpress.co...

Cute TDoR post. What are you doing for those of us who are alive and struggling?

Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember the transgender lives lost to violence. The Green Party stands shoulder to shoulder with transgender people in the face of increasing transphobic rhetoric in our society and politics.

The TERFs think that they can “always tell”. But they can’t. These revised EHRC guidelines that The Times is leaking will affect far more cis women than trans women. What a ridiculous waste of public money the EHRC has become.

Renaming the internet browser Firefox to "Star Fox" on every computer to which I have access and the ability to do so is exhausting work. But worthwhile work.

A recipe for any company or organisation trying this nonsense to end up in court rightly accused of unlawful discrimination under the Equality Act 2010. www.acas.org.uk/religion-or-... Which the Supreme Court ruling explicitly says still applies.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

A great lesson for any future Labour leader… they’ll call you a socialist anyway, so why not just be one?

if you're wondering why it's today it's because men were invented on november 19, 1974

The wild range in Green support is interesting. 11 here. YouGov put them on 17 yesterday. Ipsos had them on 15 earlier. 15 does more or less split the difference so 🤷‍♀️

This is really interesting. I wonder if this is that particular flavour of toxic masculinity wherein a person has repressed all ability to express joy and pleasure in their own hobbies for fear of being perceived? I’ve known people like that and it’s genuinely upsetting.

That wasn’t the part I was worried about, bro

Imagine a heavy weight boxer who only fights ammeters and children but insists he’s just fighting “the tough matches”.

Free speech is more than me being allowed to say what I want. Everyone also has to like it and tell me I'm a smart and handsome boy

Oh wow! So, nothing to do with the rise of the right? The PM is leaking support TO THE LEFT, to the point that they're going to be kicked out of their own coalition? For trying to APPEASE the right? Don't let the establishment continue to spin this. Farageism is being rejected in Denmark. 3/3

Should David and Ed Miliband retrospectively be denied citizenship because Ralph should have been sent “back” (to Belgium? to Poland?)

When I was a little boy I played Mario RPG for the first time having no experience of JRPGs outside of Pokémon. As a result I became CONVINCED that Pokémon was a rip-off of Mario RPG, and told all my school friends they were idiots for loving Pokémon so much when CLEARLY Mario did it all first.

Thinking about how the perfectly sane and humane - and not remotely radical - words coming out of this man’s mouth makes him an outlier in today’s political landscape.

I've weighed pros and cons and I think it's still worth pointing out something out: the accusation is horrible and unjustified, but giving it airtime normalises it.