Grief is the weirdest beast, because yesterday I found a handwritten recipe of my grandma's and I spent a solid 2 hours just full-on weeping about the fact that she'd underlined the words 'French Apple Slices' with a wiggly line, and very carefully left a space for the tails of the 'pp'
Having one of those weeks where I really miss the writing community on Twitter. I will never return to that hellscape, but so many people are still active over there, and it feels like crickets here. Ho hum.
(In all seriousness though, at what point am I allowed to say to them 'uh, hello, your dog barks without pause from dawn 'til dusk and I'm sick of hearing both it and you, can you maybe just take your dog for a walk for once and stop futilely and cruelly screaming at it, thanks loads'?)
I'm in no means advocating for the return of the death penalty, but my adjoining neighbours have spent all day from 7.30am shouting at their dog, which won't stop barking for more than 10 minutes at a time, and are now loudly putting up shelves AT DINNER TIME along the wall of my kitchen... crimes
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I actually think even if he demolished the entire White House and put a large golden statue of himself in its stead, MAGA would go there to pay pilgrimage and get on their knees to pray before it.
There is no saving those people at this point. Nothing will convince them he is the antichrist.
I wish Llŷr Powell a very happy fuck off into the sun
This is an utterly nonsensical way to report the really relieving news that Plaid Cymru, a party which espouses all sorts of liberal values including trans rights, etc. (and which isn't even mentioned in this headline!!!) won the election by a 47% landslide, well ahead of Reform as well as Labour.
Made paneer, made paneer koftas, ate paneer, became paneer
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago.
So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year?
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Because they're not pronounced the same ;)
Can confirm this is indeed in Caerphilly. Boils my piss to see it on my bus route.
Reform candidate visibly squirms as he's confronted by a local family in Caerphilly.
How it started vs. How it's going
I was a kid who wanted to be a knight, fighting for equality in an unequal world.
I think I've done that 💚
911 my neighbour's paint is peeling
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Just a reminder: Freydis Moon is not a Mexican author. They are a a white person pretending to be Latinx. Do not give them any money.
And yes they have a new book about to drop in the middle of Latinx heritage month.
I read this when it was first published with the old cover! Stayed up until like 4am. No regrets.
One of my best memories of my grandma before her dementia is of the two of us having a little stroll, walking past someone selling old secondhand books on the street, and me convincing her to buy me All Things Great and Small by James Herriott. She was a voracious reader, until she couldn't.
I don't generally believe in signs from the universe, BUT the day after my grandma died, I went to my local secondhand bookshop and found a book I've been looking for for years, which isn't even published or distributed in the UK.
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My grandma just died and fucking hell, fucking hell.
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When I wrote the final SIR CALLIE book, I had to imagine the very worst Peran's world could be--a world where no one is immune to his whims and tempers; where his most dedicated are treated with as little humanity as his enemies. Where the world and the war are just a game for his own entertainment.
Perhaps I will eat an entire tin of Spam and all will be well (all will not be well)
Today is a day when I keep needing to have little tactical cries because my grandma is still on end of life care, deterioriating, and I just love her so much!!!!!! She's so cute!!!!! I just want to wrap her up in a little blanket and keep her safe forever and ever!!!! Oh gosh!!!
Achievement unlocked: this girl was physically pushing past everyone to be the one to get on the train first, and I ended up sitting near her, so I gave her a single disapproving glare that was apparently so withering, so vitriolic, so full of disappointment and irritation, that she moved seats
First image (screenshot of tweet with video): Tweet from Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) reading: “Under @elonmusk, you can violently call for the medical and physical elimination of all trans people and nothing happens. This isn’t free speech. It’s marching towards the darkest moments of human history.” Below is a paused video frame of Brianna Wu wearing glasses and a black top, standing in front of pinball machines. Text overlay on the video says: “This right wing isn’t Handling this well” and “GOT TO TALK.” Timestamp: 10:04 AM · Sep 18, 2025. 12.4K views.
Second image (screenshot of tweet): Tweet from Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) reading: “I think I’m moving on from Twitter. You can literally call for my death here and when I report, it doesn’t break any policies. It is horrific what Elon Musk has turned this place into, a forum where the right calls for the medical and physical genocide of trans people.” Below, there’s a screenshot of a post by user “Lucifer” (@jhughes19801) replying to another tweet, saying: “The best solution is a straight jacket and lethal injection.” Next to it is part of Twitter/X’s policy notice stating that threats, wishing harm, and promoting violence are not allowed. Timestamp: 5:34 AM · Sep 18, 2025. 16.9K views.
File this under we told you so.
Trying not to get too livid, but if I end up with a Reform MS because the other parties are burying their heads in the sand about the viability of the threat of Reform, I will simply have no choice but to scream.
Today, I received my third (bullshit) election communication from Reform regarding the Caerphilly by-election. To date, I've had nothing from Plaid. Reform is going to win this election because they're the only party communicating (bullshit) with voters. The complacency from others is staggering.