Sunderland?

Okay, I don't get it at all & I feel like I've reached my personal limit of sensibleness? Surely a crater on the dark side of the moon can have as many names as you want, and someone's dead wife can be one of them. How about plurality instead of denialism, and we'll have our cake and eat it too.

Oh, there is absolutely no interest in self-examination of biases either. But I don't find that surprising, most people aren't interested in introspection - especially if they've never had a time out of survival mode. But vibes I have no idea how to even empathise with.

Lately on insta, a person was convinced London was more unsafe now than 20 years ago. But wouldn't accept current data, or historical data from 20 years ago, or before that, or comparisons with similar places. Not interested.

People are going by vibes. Just vibes.

I don't know how to fight that.

Pleased for Hungary, but I'm holding back from any jubilation just yet. A former member of the same party who has held the same views and been complicit in some horrors? His election platform + working with the EU are in his favour but it's going to be a while before I know anything has changed.

That looks magnificent! While personally I'd be cooking the gnocchi fresh every time, I fully recognise that's my own inability to handle a disintigrated gnocch, and not anybody else's problem.

I'm still mad, but I did need that cry.

Which one of you assholes forgot to tell me they incorporated parts of Challenger and Columbia into the Artemis II? Whoever it was is solely responsible for my current emotional breakdown. Damn, space people. Why'd you do this to me? I hate you. I love you.

Trump, Melania, Epstein and Maxwell pose for a photograph. Together. In the same place. At the same time.

Why... why do they say these things when there is *so much* proof? And they don't have to be friends. They just had to be there. Which they were.

DHS says it has body-cam footage related to Pretti shooting in Minneapolis The lawsuits aim to prevent federal officials from destroying evidence related to Alex Pretti’s killing and to end the surge of immigration officers in Minnesota.

It's been 66 days since agents killed Alex Pretti.

DHS has body-cam footage.

They haven't released it.

66 days and counting.

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Robin Reeds on Instagram: "All data is from the Equaldex. Okay so I have a confession. This video did not turn out how I intended and I debated not posting it. Originally I envisioned this funky woo... 16K likes, 464 comments - robin_reeds_dragking on March 29, 2026: "All data is from the Equaldex. Okay so I have a confession. This video did not turn out how I intended and I debated not posting it...

I... don't know how much more heartbroken I can get.

And the reason I'm even talking to them - thanks to kind instagram strangers I found out my very tentative first ad is showing as an empty grey screen on some platforms 🙄 can't even spend a measly £20 right! Might be part of a bigger issue though, which looks better for a refund.

*blinks* first experience with Meta ad support. As a first-time user with an ad spend of... £20, I didn't expect much. Slow, many hops between AI and (alleged) humans - but warm, solicitous, no creepy AI fawning. Either the AI training is working or they need to be training the AI with these folks.

I a) love all things historical and also b) lived in the Netherlands for nine years, and heard not a peep about the invasion my entire British school and university career, but even when I did finally hear about it, 7 years in, it was about why the ships used orange in their flag, not red. *shrug*

Helpful 'just in case they wake up' time too.

Oh, thank goodness. As much as I am baffled and heartbroken and enraged by their laser focus on disenfranchising trans and disabled folks, this is a very welcome return. One of the few truly good things New Labour did.

Thanks :)

Not the helium *again*?! Have we learned nothing?

One of our CatBats, a black cat with one pointy tooth called Máni, is flying through the sky.

The logo for CatBats has kitty ears and a tail on the C, and little bat wings above the second a.

Meet Sól, one of our first CatBats - a calico cat with green eyes.

I've started a new venture! Turning people's cats into adorable, spooky CatBats. It's a way to do something fun, and keep my brain engaged, while accommodating for my disabilities. Find out more: www.catbats.co.uk

Thought of another one I'd still recommend as well as So You Want To Be A Wizard - maybe a little older - is basically anything by Tamora Pierce, but especially the Wild Magic and The Lioness serieseseses. Magical world, knights and mages, girls and women breaking glass ceilings, all that jazz.

Honestly you could read Kafka or Dostoyevsky *to* a kid - as long as you've got the voice and expansive gestures down :)

Reading to, go for whatever you want! I meant for (attempted) reading themselves. Again tricky for me since I was a very early reader (love me some hyperlexia). Think I was nine when I finished LotR?

Agreed, they are very different beasts! Earthsea is an actual different universe. If you're looking for familiarity and parallels with the present day that improve accessibility - no. Finding yourself, understanding friendship, learning that going it alone sometimes makes life more difficult - yes.

It's tricky for me because growing up my reading was never particularly directed. I just picked stuff at the library and absorbed it through my pores. Earthsea included! I didn't understand half of it but it didn't matter.

Oh! So You Want to be a Wizard was very formative. Lovely series.

As for Pratchett, the Tiffany Aching books are more accessible than the rest for young'uns and grow in age with the character. I am a very big fan of his but the main series needs more maturity/experience (not loads, but maybe teenage) and avoid the very early books.

The Worst Witch? I know HP is more accessible but I am so viscerally repulsed by the author that I just... can't.

Hex's teddy bear...

A list if dos and don'ts around hiccups.

I have hiccups.
What *absolute numpty* is responsible for that caveat in the NHS advice?!

I will tell no lies. They are gert lush.