So anyone else who's had this flu recently absolutely wrecked? It's been 10 or 11 days and I am completely exhausted. Bad fatigue, brain fog, feels like I can't breathe properly Life with a toddler is hard going, the last two months I've had a stomach bug followed by back to back colds, then flu 😮‍💨

I think the 90% of the BBC that isn't news and current affairs has real value, does things that can't or won't be done by a normal media company, and we'll miss it when it's gone. But the news and current affairs are bad enough in every way that I can't actually justify defending it overall.

Saw Rolf Harris having a piss in a service station urinal when I was 14.

this is culturally a vital work of modern art

AOL exec in the 90s: "oh boy, this trailer doing numbers"

I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl. Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.

lmaooooo

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but has there actually been any reasonable justification of the many examples of full on transphobia in Your Party that could in any way justify being involved with them?

Not often people jump from a rising tide to a sinking ship

Toddler is having a great time singing along to Daniel Johnston today. She's never really sung along to anything before this. This is too cute. She does keep declaring the more Satany ones "spooky" tho.

New video is out! Roger Ebert's Relationship to Anime: youtu.be/oMdddKTJnQ8

Weird quirk about being from Yorkshire and living away is that people seem to think that we care about their opinion on Yorkshire Tea. It comes up surprisingly often for me. I don't care. Yorkshire Tea is shite anyway.

reminder that the people who made Hard Drive good were pushed out and some of us are doing our own thing here. give us a follow to support independent gaming satire and not whatever the fuck this is supposed to be

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky is good. I didn't realise men could write good sci-fi tbh, who knew

Massively reduced my social media consumption (deleted TikTok, deleted Reddit, uninstalled YouTube, put a timer on Instagram for 10 minutes, only check Facebook for nursery updates, barely check here) and I really hate how much it has improved my mental health. I'm also actually reading books again.

Didn't realise what a 'Tradgedeigh' spelling Cid has in this

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

i have zero notes

Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽‍♀️

I defeated Savage Beastfly and all I got was... anger management issues.

everything i read about Your Party in Scotland is just ‘we need a party exactly like the Scottish Greens but without the track record of sustained electoral success’

8 years HRT

standing with glinner? no. i'm SITTING for DINNER. with my wife, who has not left me,

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?" Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Your Party has got a transphobic MP before they’ve even gotten a name!

He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...

A.I.:

game genres are so fuzzy and confusing...what's an Action Adventure game?? what do you actually do in an RPG?? to fix this, i got together with loads of my lovely friends to create a much more descriptive classification system. all games can be neatly placed into the New Genres

My professional football career came to an end when I was socially ostracised for bringing the polycule to a WAGs event. There appears to have been a misunderstanding.

Excuse me, Donkey Kong is not working class. Man sits on a horde of bananas, generational wealth passed down from Cranky Kong.

sooo uhhhh does anyone know a publisher that would be interested in a 60k teen mech pilot darkly psychedelic political thriller?

a party for the we and a party for the u

i have a lot of sympathy for writers facing censorship but also idk, maybe don’t be a Scab??

All the homes on Grand Design style shows are so weird. The people have so much money but so little actual personality or interests. Sure, the house ends up being nice, but where's all your books? Your minidisc collection? Your jars of animal fetuses? Your anime titty figures?

Did you know asofterworld.com still exists? It remembers for us. It is the one time when a bill unexpectedly comes out of my account and I'm not mad. #ASW #asofterworld #writing The past ain't so bad sometimes.

Revising all my Frieren complaints after I realise I feel about LLMs the same way Frieren feels about demons.

Where is the SNP that wasn't afraid to be kicked out the chamber for challenging the worst of Westminster? Now they seem content to abstain and sit quiet while Labour trash human rights in front of them.

Sex is a soulslike. It's scary. You die every time. There's a femboy there.

Second injury of the year let's goooo. Went over on my ankle and almost vomited from the pain, good times.

Are bird/nature photography walks a thing? I've seen people organising more urban photo walks, but do we think they'd work for wildlife? Thinking of trying to get one going locally one time and don't know if it's a non starter.

i want to be extremely clear that the whole "political adherence to radical bodily autonomy as trans politics" vs. "rejection of unstable frameworks like 'gender euphoria' or 'queer joy' in favor of hard focus on transness as a site of medical-legal crisis" is inside baseball shit

Allowing assisted dying while savagely cutting PIP is telling disabled people they're allowed to die with dignity but not to live with dignity

Is anyone else noticing an uptick in street transphobia the last few weeks? Is this actually happening, or do I just look particularly ghoulish from sleep deprivation? Glasgow is usually mostly fine, but it feels like there's noticeably more people staring or straight up shouting shit at me.