A Popeye's server just said 'hello again' so I'm going to get her fired.

Just crossed the border back to Scotland. The rain stopped. The tarmac improved so driving was almost silent. The sunset appeared. A huge flock of gulls went overhead, a fox ran across the road. youtu.be/M78sYaGjvv8?...

All these Tory MPs switching to Reform.

"I'm putting in an order from the co-op of chocolate cake, malteasers and ultra-absorbant pads. Do you want anything?" ... tbh I wouldn't want to disturb the clarity of the narrative.

I love chatting to strangers. Here are three exceptions. An American so profoundly uninformed that it was concerning. Asked where the Scottish president lived. Was amazed Edinburgh had built a parliament, because 'those buildings are usually old'. Fascinated that vegan milkshakes existed.

@lauralexx.bsky.social So good to see your show today! Goddamn, just masterful everything - pacing, movement, references, commentary. Hope your Fringe is very good to you!

Twitter: you're shit and the libs are shit Bluesky: we're shit and the internet is shit

Best malaprop I've seen in ages

Do apes fold their arms like we do?

Her: so why can't you have salmon? Him: I'm really allergic. Her: what happens? Him, unprompted: a lot of very detailed diarrhoea symptoms. In case you're wondering why nobody is having babies.

Man in park: Do you know where the tennis court is? Me, sitting on a bench in the shade eating a macaroni pie and drinking a can of full sugar Irn Bru: I do not know where the tennis court is.

There’s a moment after he says what he “does” where I’m having to wait and work out my response. I think I sort of can’t believe they’re falling for it?

Midsummer sky over Fettes College in #Edinburgh

omg they even ate the bones

With this article the local news item has reached its apex as a genre and now can only decline

Night sky's blue.

I won't describe the game itself here due to spoilers, but you can read all the details in my essay – just please don't share them too widely! I will say that it absolutely lived up to both Interstellar and Arrival – but more than anything else, it reminded me of Stanislaw Lem's sci-fi.

Started today cooking pre-euthanasia sausages for the declining family dog. An ancient smoke detector is erratically beeping for no reason. Downstairs are having a home birth. Mum's been howling for hours. Upstairs are doing carpentry. I am popping pills for my nerves like a 50s housewife.

Everyone happy so far. Donald

So Trump basically kicked Musk out of the Department of Government Efficiency and now Musk is revealing what Trump did on Epstein’s island. Sounds to me like a… shaggy-doge story

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

I am dewy

Commit to the bit

So, I think it's time I begin, in detailed specifics, talking about the mess that is Unbound / Boundless as a book publisher, in essence stealing most of a years royalties from me and many other authors, as a result of poor financial decisions, and legal BS. Please read and share this thread.

I interrupted an assault this week and was sitting with the gf while her bf got arrested. Tried to distract her: "The flower tattoo on your shoulder is cool, why did you get it?" "For my son Stephen, who died when he was two." (Shit) "How about the one on your arm?" "Also Stephen"

[Thread] At the origins of Ridley Scott's Alien (1979) Here are some of the films that inspired the writers of this classic sci-fi horror film. An opportunity to revisit the history of sci-fi. 👋 1/21

@rob-sheridan.com Cheers for the sale, I ordered a few more of my regular Plain Black. Love to you and yours.

There is absolutely nothing out of the ordinary about this

They're twistin', twistin' Everybody's feelin' great They're twistin', twistin' They're twistin' my sobriety

If you fancy some signed books, including some hardback copies of Be Funny Or Die salvaged from the Unbound explosion, and a load of lovely Ladybirds, including the ones you probably didn’t even know existed, then I’ve opened a little shop. Tuck in! www.gralefrit.co.uk/shop.html

Spent too much time on this

#HappyToast #Eurovision #Drawalong Finland

I just found two pockets I didn't know about in my bag. What a glorious day

@corneliusbeers.bsky.social The charity shop on Great Junction Street by the Tam O'Shanter has some en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell... and Eddie Campbell comics. Might be your thing!

It’s Bandcamp Friday, meaning the band gets 100% of any sales. Lots of Candidate goodies here, including our May Day-appropriate Wicker Man records, Nuada and Avellenau, and our critically acclaimed last album Point Clear. Cut some capers! candidateband.bandcamp.com

Some of my most recent #spaceart. NOT AI. Please repost. No new followers in ages. ☹️ #sciart #scicom #astronomy

And here's the Kickstarter. I don't think it'll hit 1000 followers before launch but you never know. www.kickstarter.com/projects/gra...

Domestic APB: does anyone have an outdoor light fitting like this, and can tell me how the purple fuck I change its bulb?

I shrunk the pronatalists so I can hear their delightful thoughts whenever I want from my own shirt pocket ᴵ ᵇᵉᵃʳ ʷʰᶦᵗᵉ ᶠʳᵘᶦᵗ ᵒⁿᶜᵉ ᵐᵒʳᵉ \ 🔘👄🔘 🔲👄🔲 / ᴸᵉᵗ ᵘˢ ʳᵉᵍᵃˡᵉ ᵃⁿᵈ ˢᵗʳᶦᵏᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᶜʰᶦˡᵈ

For class, rereading Steven J. Jackson’s “Rethinking Repair,” which had a moment when it first came out over a decade ago. Boy does it still hit:

Hypothetical: You're notified that in one month you will travel to NYC, where you will stay from January 1st to December 31st, 1850. This will happen whether or not you agree. You will arrive with the clothes you're wearing and one suitcase. What will you do to prepare? #Victorian #history

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty down about my small business. I’m working so hard but it’s been very quiet. It’s bloody difficult at the moment. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Anyone need a comics, TTRPG, or video games guest lecturer in London, Harrogate, York, or Edinburgh (Scotland, baby) in November? Trying to plan six months out right now feels wild.

If I used my binoculars inside my flat to look at the eyeballs of a glasses-wearer in their flat with a bus between us, that would be 10 sheets of glass between our eyeballs. Makes you think.

This is a research question, but for the TTRPG folk in my feed. What TTRPG (or other analogue game) is most efficient at generating 'bleed'?

In my experience, some jeepform like Flowers for Mara. In that one, players are encouraged/required to talk about real life experiences of grief.

Wow👇: www.countryfile.com/wildlife/bir...