I mean, you had me at "disaster lesbian in her thirties", but yes, I see the vision

Kier Starmer has apparently reached the "major story in the French press" level of fucked

Among the charismatic, professing amazement at how unbelievable one of your own lies is CAN work.
Starmer is not that charismatic.
Or charismatic at all.
Or capable of seeing that charismatic with a telescope. The James Webb space telescope.

It would be consistent with the average level of competence of governments during my adult life (even if you discount 🥬 as an outlier)...

Unironically, and definitely on the long list of things that I had difficulty coming up with a cis-het explanation for.

I suppose tou have to pick your favourites. Then you can have fun making pronouncements like "this one no longer pleases me, I shall be demoted from the display board to the box of miscellaneous phalluses".

I'm hoping it works on some kind of exponential decay, like some of the stuff I wrote as a child was extremely cringe, so now I'm in moderate, endearing levels of cringe.

I suppose the other version is that she figured out her gender years ago, but sees my doing OK at surviving capitalism and that spurs her to start her evil girlboss arc

This sounds like a recipe for clone forcefem, or maybe I'm just telling on myself

The most succinct explanation of why don't use facebook

At a time when mass surveillance and autonomous weapons companies like Palantir are openly announcing their plans for violent world domination, it is crucial that our attempts at “big tech reform” don’t actually give them more power—ie via government mandated age verification/identity software

I'm coining a new term.

Upgrate: When you're being forced to upgrade to new tech against your will, and the process is grating.

Looking at you, Microslop.

Reading the first sentence: "that's kinda funny though, I wonder what silly company could have done this?"

Reading the second sentence: "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH"

To be fair that's seemingly quite hard to do after a revolutionary struggle and is worth celebrating.

How I learn about big political news stories on here, in order:
1. Post about the government claiming the dog ate their homework
2. Westminster journalist: "Number 10 spokesman claims front bench are all clueless babies who had no idea of anything"
3. "Breaking news: most obvious thing immaginable"

I know the discourse on class here has been fucked for decades, but I'm really not liking the implication of "look at this silly girl trying to define class based on economic situation, unlike my serious understanding of what paper does your dad read".

I love the little game of "what antiquated slurs has Jemma dug up this time?"

Quitting my job

🧵 1/3

ko-fi.com/emoria

My favourites which fit the definition would be:

Catnip by Vyria Durav
Is It Wrong To Fall In Love With A Reclusive Wizard In A Sky Palace? by Autumn Wolff

For legal reasons I don't suggest burning down or exploding Sam Altman's house.

Adding "oil tanker rammed by ironclad" to the 2026 bingo card.

Emoria looks upset at you, she mad you aren’t reading her book

Emoria looks happy with you, you started reading her book!

Pic on the left is when Emoria hears you haven’t started reading Aftertaste yet, pic on the right is if you tell her you read through to chapter 3

(Reverse as necessary according to your own links)

Read Aftertaste free, my trans coming-of-age horror romance: www.scribblehub.com/series/21643...

Well I've got the shy and uncertain pretty nailed down, but the last few weeks on Discord, especially [redacted], have done wonders for my confidence.

Yeah, I definitely do this one, especially for tricking myself into doing excercise. Although I do sometimes end up making real off-ramps accidentally.

You may have accidentally already started a variation on this

Our lives has been put on hold for underminesld time. I will turn 38 this year. I had so many plans, none have even started. I applied for jobs, all the openings closed because if there is no internet, there are no jobs.
I can't even do freelance. I can't even receive money.

You can go to sleep at 2:30 and still be awake most of the daytime — I tell myself every week when I do something like this.

Congratulations! One step closer to the true form.

Scrolled past this again, and felt my inevitable getting into film photography creeping closer.

That's just being realistic