that would be my dad not me with the lead btw the rest of us are merely plot furniture for her

this is what Bramble the criminal terrier thinks her living situation is

We are looking at a painting of St Liphardus - a 6th-century lawyer, hermit and abbot in Meung-sur-Loire near Orléans, France. He is wearing bishops clothing including a surplus and mitre and is holding a crook. On a lead is a small knee high green and blue dragon.

We’re very sorry sir but you cannot bring your emotional support dragon in here.

Getting her to quit the NHS wasn't enough. Getting her to flee the country wasn't enough.

Nothing will be enough. I fucking hate transphobes.

the lying can change people on a DNA level it's quite fascinating

this isn't a new realisation, but it is one of those thoughts you have to continually refine. like, what sort of contagious? well timothy sometimes it's catching like the flu where just being in the room with them sickens you, other times it sinks into your blood

thing i'm getting about politics is that lying is contagious

REMEMBER: If you're not alone in your dating app profile pic, be sure to state whether or not you're the fish

Watch how everyone involved in this Mandelson business has ensured that - at every step - they have a degree of plausible deniability. This is how people in senior positions get away with doing what they see as necessary while covering their arses.

i love how this entire approach relies on the general public having really bad memories. i, as someone with a terrible working memory, absolutely love it.

i thought "why am i so hungry" and "why am i so tired" and "do i have time to book another doctor's appointment" and "am i dying" and "should i make a will"

i have not had lunch yet

You should cop one of these, @ewacat.bsky.social did an absolutely perfect pull for me from her deck and the aesthetics made it even better

a brightly-coloured tarot card spread - French Cross

little reminder that I have made a (very well reviewed) tarot deck using linoprinting and ✨absolutely zero A/I✨, & I'm moving house soon, so if you could buy some decks I'll have fewer boxes to move! #tarot

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there's one in the £10 tuesday thing on the Boots website i'm going to have a go with but yeah, they're super hit and miss

Fascinated by this alternate reality some people have created where kids loved reading and politely sat focused for hours on end before the cataclysmic introduction of the Nokia 3310.

this is what you get if you mix pokemon x rome with warhammer 40k and lois mcmaster bujold

This photo needs to be the front page of every news paper in the world.

Israel prevented Palestinian children from going to school by blocking the routes with razor wire — the Palestinian children sat down in front the razor wire and start studying.

Olly Robbins: "Throughout January.. my office.. was under constant pressure.. constant chasing.. has this been delivered yet.."

Robbins is asked who was the source of the pressure.

Robbins refuses to name names.

Pressed, he says the pressure came from no.10's private office

Anyway I am doing a pre-payday treat of *~*a new wrist brace*~* ain't I lucky

thanks so much again to everyone who bought a shirt, and said nice things, and sent me pictures - I said it on stream before but I was *super* stressed and anxious about how these would turn out and if people would like them, and it makes me so super happy to see you guys dooooo 🙇‍♀️💓

People who think this is about the phones and not the social media, please read my posts again

To explain why Labour are choosing this path, it is normally sufficient that it is stupid. It is stupid. But also part of an unpleasant trend.

Why do I have to go to work? Why can't I just have a sprawling hundred floor procedurally generated dungeon to work my way through each day like normal people do?

A fluffy long haired tabby cat lying down in a child's cot.

Have you met my child

Pokémon and the lost Roman legion, what a mix

they're banning smartphones in schools because your posts are so bad they're a threat to the kids

It’s Blue Shirt Day 2026.

There are 22,000+ political prisoners unlawfully detained in Myanmar suffering brutal conditions and torture in cramped cells.

We call for the immediate release of all political prisoners!

#blueshirt4politicalprisoners
#FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
#blueshirtmovementmyanmar

One of the great things about the fora and livejournals I was on back in the day is that there was definitely a wider range of age ranges in each of those milieux while now it feels like all the social medias are sorted by age range. The one true echo chamber issue imo

If they were only arguing for it in the terms of what it's good for that'd be fine, but they aren't