aaaaaaaand it turns out the answer to "how TF did some guys with a ladder steal the French crown jewels" is "cuts to arts funding mean the Louvre is massively understaffed"

I hope the Louvre thieves are working their way up the colonial empire hierarchy and do the British Museum next.

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

I know Facebook is quite literally the work of Satan but I still log on for the BSS groups where you can log and see content like “my lousy ex didn’t pay child support, buy my label dress for $15” forget the dress, tell me what else he did.

My favourite activity while observing is clocking the outfits the undercover officers are sporting like the one at a trans rights rally who was wearing a band shirt from famously queer aligned pop punk band Sum 41 in attempt to blend in.

My father tonight, in the most puzzled tone of voice: “you’re very driven. I don’t know where you got that from.”

Today I watched my father so obsessively try and identify the call of a bird above us, he roped in a stranger sitting near us and ignored the man trying to shake his hand until the question had been answered to his satisfaction. No idea how I ended up neurodivergent.

Assata Shakur, of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army, has died at the age of 78 in Cuba, where she received political asylum in 1984.

an entire generation of men experienced irreparable damage by being exposed to weezer during their formative years

Why did I only today realise that Ezra Klein and Nate Silver are two different people (are they though?)

how are you supposed to know if your depression meds are working these days?

I’m supposed to submit a photo of myself for a leadership panel on Monday (don’t ask) and I’m starting to realise I don’t have any photos of myself where I’m not holding a drink, have my tits out or wearing something aligned with a protest movement.

Seems fine.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

Every time a social worker tells me I have “social worker energy” in a professional setting, part of my soul withers away and dies. They truly think they’re only cohort on earth with the magic ability advocate for change within a system.

Yesterday I had a quiet meltdown because the person I manage asked me why something they had checked out was only opening in read only mode and not edit mode. I hadn’t eaten lunch or moved in 5 hours but I also don’t think it was an unjustified meltdown.

I went to my nephew’s first birthday and then out to a gay club at midnight just to prove I can occasionally still do it, whatever it is.

Stan Lee and Jack Kirby: “Galactus, destroyer of worlds.” Me with my arms folded: “Shiva.”

Every time I accidentally catch an episode of Escape to the Country, i have to sing “whoops, I’ve got a lot of money “ to myself in a Damon Albarn voice.

ZACH DE LA ROCHA: some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses SOCIAL MEDIA: wow, "some"? way to hand-wave the complicity of the power structure. unbelievable. never meet your heroes I guess. do better

I bought some presents for friends and have dispatched them across the corners of our not so little city because I don’t know what else to do with this helplessness and rage.

world’s bad in 50,000 ways, out yr crushes

LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

I realise this is how capitalism and power has always worked but objectively funny to see po faced politicians defend the righteous theft of massive corporations to feed the slop machine and not you, the individual, just trying to fulfil a basic need or find a modicum of joy.

Every day I think about that your job involves sending emails or involves emergencies tweet (I’m paraphrasing) because my job sits at the intersection of sending emails about the horrors.

My aim for today is to get to the end of my pile of mending (mostly resewing buttons) but it’s so boring. I have a new sympathy for Laura Ingalls Wilder and her 1800s need to touch grass.

I was walking from the station to the office yesterday in the rain and this tiny Chinese woman saw me, yanked me by the arm and put me under the umbrella and walked me to the building. Destined to be bullied by small Asian women my whole life. 😭

Someone I work with asked how I told I was and then said they thought I was in my twenties when I told them. They asked how I looked so youthful and I said: “a deep wellspring of rage.”

Good work, everyone.

I spent two hours straight yesterday talking to clinicians about one of my programs and I don’t know how anyone does this. I don’t ever want to speak out loud or interact with another human for at least a week.

OK but Morrissey often does go about things the wrong way

This is no way to treat Lenny Kravitz

My father just asked me to explain intergenerational trauma to my mother like they’ve completely removed themselves from the process.

For me Antony Green announcing Dutton is set to lose his seat will be the image of the night.

INJECT IT STRAIGHT INTO MY VEINS

Happy May Day from the southern hemisphere.

i'm mostly not out here just to repost memes, but this is in fact a photograph of me soooo

I know times are tough but anything you could spare, would be amazing. G was an extraordinary human being and so is Ana.

Why is this so funny.

This is how @anagerm.bsky.social said happy birthday to me.

I have had a four day headache I could not shake because I have been stress clenching my jaw for a week straight. If anyone has any tips about how not to that or release tension, it would be gratefully received.

Things are bleak but I a millennial of who is scared of Phone just spent an 1 and 45 mins talking to a friend I have somehow bossed into friendship long after we stopped working together. Talking people: sometimes it works.

As someone rightfully pointed out in the thread, the Europeans learnt it from us. Australia has a mandatory detention policy since 1992 but shamefully we’ve had “offshore processing” (or regional processing in Asia) since at least the end of the Vietnam War.

“there is no way to build the artificial mirror world that AI promises to construct without sacrificing this world – these technologies consume too much energy, too many critical minerals, and too much water for the two to coexist in any kind of equilibrium.”

don't you understand that we NEED ai, because the human mind is simply incapable of imaging a video game lady with big enough tiddies

My manager just politely and gently suggested I am “consistently showing signs of vicarious trauma and burnout.” So rude when trained professionals turn their focus on their employees or whatever.

Wore this to a job interview and my friend called me a glorious camp queer. 🤡🤡🤡

I understand for lots of reasons people aren't paying attention to the earthquake in Myanmar but the estimated death toll is as high as Cyclone Nargis in 2008 which killed 140,000 people which. That's roughly the population of Coral Springs, FL; Elizabeth,NJ; New Haven, CT or Pasadena,CA

Discovered outlook now does this when people respond “tentative.” How about you go fuck yourself. I know as an inanimate object that might be hard but please try.