Well, yes, trans people are getting drugs; yes, from entirely unregulated sources; yes, without counselling; yes, without blood tests; yes, they are self-administering; yes, without clinical oversight; yes, risking long term harm; yes, it is highly suboptimal. What did you think would happen?

Well that's a mood.

I think I should use this as one of those enticing 1 star reviews 😂 If you want gay sex in a fantasy detective story, hit up THE REANIMATOR'S HEART, especially if you like autistic necromancers accidentally reanimating their detective crush, so they can solve his murder. Link: books2read.com/trm1

world-altering decisions are being made by a cabal of gambling addicts hell bent on self enrichment no matter the cost to humanity, we should look into that.

ATOS has found Ayatollah Khamenei fit for work

Years ago in another life I gave a guest lecture at The Hague warning “AI weapons” could be invoked to remove accountability for war crimes from the chain of command. I said “there are no autonomous weapons, only unsupervised ones,” and sadly it seems I was cooking with that one

Being Iranian is funny because you get selective sympathy from the right and the left based on who’s putting your family in danger at any given moment

Perhaps now people will stop wishcasting about the US military refusing illegal orders. That's not a thing that happens. The 100% compliance rate with using civilian boats for target practice was a bit of a tell.

The promise of OpenAI and Grok being used in war is that no human can be held accountable for the war crimes it commits, all the way up to where it sits on the chain of command. The total abdication of any kind of accountability, any kind of "am I following an unjust order" moral hesitation, etc.

Triptych. Last 3 years of charity skateboard pieces. Jackalope will be up for auction in April.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?" Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.

Tangled mess of thoughts on waking to see confirmation Khamenei is dead. Two months, two heads of states removed on Trump's orders without congressional or international approval - with no consequence. No one will miss either of them. But also what a fucking terrifying world to be plunged into.

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

Remembering that time they toppled Saddam Hussein and then everything in Iraq was suddenly chill and peace reigned supreme with blessedly little political fallout (The destabilisation of Iraq led to refugee migration in the millions, millions dead, spawned new even more evil terrorist groups)

If you see this, quote your starter choice from every gen. 🔥 Charmander 🔥 Cyndaquil 💧 Mudkip 🍃 Turtwig 💧 Oshawott 💧 Froakie 🍃 Rowlet 🔥 Scorbunny 🔥 Fuecoco 🔥 Pombom

He's like a fluffy sunflower.

It feels like the United States has the most solipsistic culture imaginable, with a populace unable to parse global events through any lens other than how they are personally affected.

Persist against all odds

It shouldn't matter. We should care about these things as much when it is strangers who are sheltering from air raids. But I shared a dorm with some Israelis at a burn last year and we got close and it definitely makes for more of an ache when you have specific faces and names to worry about.

New Wolf Paw shoes should be arriving soon, dropped the current prices to $120 to help clear some space~ v-art.co.uk/collections/... ^.=.^

Get a load of this stupid asshole

Sketchbook page from 2025 Mar 22 - Pine martens and a weasel, from reference photos. Big fan of mustelids so I had to draw em.

I like the new bird

it took 2 bags of dreamies to keep them still 🐱🦊 // ft. @melon-mow.me & @kitzen-waffles.bsky.social //

Well I guess at least there's a chance that we'll get a hilarious typo at some point.

I have one pair from the last time. These are Deeply Desired Objects to me. Trying to work out how many pairs it's reasonable to go in on 😅😅

wolfboy

I don't always read the Pokédex, but when I do Eyebrows

Labour MPs are now telling Starmer to be more left-wing, after years of demonising their own left-wing. I think Zack Polanski has absolutely smashed his first work target 🎯 #GetGreensElected 🗳️

Okay but it's all about the guy right at the end joining in with an "Awoo" and the coyotes looking offended and leaving.

Mornin

All this analysis from the Gorton and Denton by-election and how difficult it is for Labour to fight Reform on the right and the Greens on the left and I have a radical suggestion whereby instead of trying to fight them you set out your own vision and policies that people can support.

Continuing to speak as someone who does actually think that there are genuinely good and useful and cool things that can be done with GenAI: This is not one of them. This is a nightmarish hellscape. Do not put a computer whispering in someone's ear to be friendlier. This is a black mirror episode.

Work has been Something Else since I got back from surgery 11 days ago as we try to gracefully manage definitely missing a milestone. Plus I've been juggling job interviews (gave my 3 months notice 10 days ago; just locking final details on new role). While still cut off from many coping mechanisms.

I missed the last one of these 👀👀

BREAKING: it appears that the MHRA, in control of the UK puberty blocker trial, appointed a senior officer who had previously mocked supporters of trans rights online. Recusal is not enough here. He and those responsible for appointing him should resign. How can trans people trust them now?

Little dummy.

If Pombon’s final evolution isn’t a version of my biblically accurate pomeranian but on fire then idk man

Three systems. Three data pipelines. System 1: Microsoft support call yesterday could not work out what was wrong. System 2: Test pipeline run this afternoon: 'Automation failed due to a system error' System 3: Test pipeline run this afternoon: 'Error details: an internal error has occurred'

Accidentally woke up in time to watch the Gorton & Denton declaration and reflect on how it's always a good start to the day to see the Conservatives get fucked. Not particularly close in the end; most notably that even if you stick the various right-wing votes together, they still would lose.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

>Be me. >Put Huel powder in the flask, add water, screw on the lid, and realise you haven't put the cap on it so need to get that before shaking it up. >Turn to look at the draining board and reach for the cap with your left hand. Right hand the instant you look away: "SHAKEY SHAKE SHAKE :3"

Reform suddenly pivoting me to calling myself a free-market Libertarian as it pertains to the 'sexual economy' *shudders*

Same energy as people who put up "Beware the dog" signs when they have the most kindhearted labrador.

'Roughly a third of the group’s members posted deficits last year. The University of Nottingham, which recorded a loss of over £85 million, increased its number of top earners significantly from 207 to 294. And there were 185 at the cash-strapped Cardiff University.'

In any other sector this would be front page news along with government funding announcements. The UK just seems to not value higher education.

Having done fieldwork in Tasmania for a summer a couple of decades ago, I'm not convinced that wombats have any phases where they aren't shaped like potatoes. Very large, very solid potatoes, especially if you inadvertently end up in between a small and a large potato, but still.

And even fifteen years ago when I moved here, routine care was so much better. But this is what they’re doing on purpose: cutting it to the bone to make ppl think the American model is attractive. Because they’ll profit off it.