A birthday cake shaped like Mr Blobby's head.

Turned 40. Glad to be alive. Missing my friends who aren't here anymore.

Caitlyn never thought…🐆

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

I have unfortunately encountered far too many gistorical novels. So enraging.

Oh that's nice

The normalisation of war crimes includes the ongoing material and political support by the EU, including the Irish Government, for US-Israeli actions in Palestine, Lebanon and Iran, and US illegal interventions in Venezuela and Cuba.

Congratulations! Happy home-owning.

Really glad transfolk haven't started smashing their faces in with hammers yet. Let's leave that one for the cis boys

Gender affirming care is ok when it's cis people, I guess

As a teacher, I don't give a rat's fart about homework

One more week of work then I'm off to Rhodes to read by the pool, swim in the pool, look at the pool, read by the sea, swim in the sea, look at the sea.

An RPG community in Iraq takes their first steps outside D&D Rascal talks to 3 Iraqi players about the good stuff.

“People sometimes feel embarrassed of acting in Arabic, so they try to act in English. I'm trying to encourage them to roleplay in Arabic, but sometimes [even] I feel a little bit shy."

Members of an Iraqi tabletop club discuss growing, teaching, and the oddities of RPG cultural barriers.

Red kite with sausage roll snapped by Banbury photographer Mark Hopkins managed to get some pictures of the bird from his back garden.

STICK IT ON A FIVE POUND NOTE

Dark cosy nook delighted to see you again The dark corner of your flat where you curl up and hide in the evening is once again looking forward to sheltering you from the bright and terrible complexities of the world, it has been reported.…

The dark corner of your flat where you curl up and hide in the evening is once again looking forward to sheltering you from the bright and terrible complexities of the world, it has been reported.

The Strait of Hormuz is perfectly safe...

I mean, they kind of invented it all

can't remember if I've posted this one before but it came up on my dash again and

This is an excellent rule for storytelling but also implies that Philip Pullman witnessed the death of God as a boy.

The party literally born of misogyny dies on #InternationalWomensDay

We got a small win.

Albini Sessions (Benefit for Letters Charity), by Fugazi 12 track album

Stop literally everything.

Steve Albini's Fugazi sessions, widely bootlegged and full of lore, now available officially for the first time.

fugazi.bandcamp.com/album/albini...

I'm in Glasgow and it's not raining. I don't think this has ever happened to me before.

Tonight was one of the worst fascist protests we've seen in Aberdeen recently. Completely uncontrolled by police, fascists chased down multiple groups of asylum seekers who were trying to return home. We had to funnel them through our protest area to keep them safe. Which upset the far right.

A bunch of intricate tiny chairs and a beer can

The winning chair and the can type it was crafted from

My favourite tiney chair with tiny woven metal straps

As seen in the Nelson airport, a contest to make the best tiny chair out of a beercan. My cold hard heart softens

"I asked Chat GPT and -" ok, I asked the exhumed corpse of Pope Formosus during the Cadaver Synod and he went "... ... ..." and then his jaw fell off and it was still a better answer

“i’m still punk” i whisper to myself as i turn down the music in my car so i can see better

I hate that I perceive Loss here

Poem by Maura Dooley 'The Weighing of the Heart'

Maura Dooley draws on the Egyptian afterlife ritual in which the dead person’s heart is weighed against a feather to determine moral worth

Her poem is not documentary, but metaphorical

On the scales the weight of accumulated memory & of loss; a weighing of what we carry

#poetry
#poemoftheday

Revisiting my old hobby of listening to phoebe bridgers and crying 👍

I don't want the richest people to be richer, I want life to be better for everyone.

If we have to make the richest people poor to do that.

That's fine with me.