what does the cap say??? (love the idea of clothes being in conversation / beef with each other)

'bootleg labubu' as the name of yr doom metal band, pls

A fluffy grey cat, seen from the back, sits on a bed with an apricot cover and brown and white blanket, watching a NASA livestream on a laptop, of the Artemis II and the back of the moon.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you.

If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can.

Everyone give this a share after.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

An oil tanker approaches the strait of Hormuz, collects a gold star and passes through while safely invulnerable

I think I may have cracked it

A google maps view of the area around the Strait of Hormuz, with crude markup showing the 4 steps to successfully clearing the strait: 1. Build up speed 2. Hit Trampoline 3. Cool backflip 4. Nail the landing The boat is illustrated using a clip art yacht, and the trampoline is also just kind of floating there.

wait. wait. everyone hold on. i've solved it

(mediating the horrors by writing a guest lecture on infrastructure fiction bringing together the Butlerian Jihad, Marf Summers, 'A Memory Called Empire' [ @memilies.bsky.social ], Chris Foss,
@rewiringamerica.bsky.social
's Ribbon Cutting Ceremonies, and more) bsky.app/profile/aime...

Loved all of this (and/especially Manjula's answer on making a life which one can 'me' as much as possible)

me: "AI" as a public or public-facing technology is primarily oriented toward the performance of plausibility and the post hoc rationalization/justification of a priori assumptions on the part of the user or audience.

cs people: nuh uh!!!

I use neutral-toned matte eyeshadow sticks - ELF has some good ones, also Laura Mercier Caviar Stick in Dune

and! and!

Design and Disability advisory group process • V&A Blog One of the key phrases that is central to disability politics is ‘Nothing About Us Without Us’, and as an exhibition that firmly aimed to place disabled culture and identity at its core, it was...

Some reflections and process on working with our Advisory Group on Design and Disability - “generative friction” and how we meet to create access and ideas. www.vam.ac.uk/blog/project...

I bench-press and do curls with Bruce and I think (??) he enjoys it.

does line dancing count?

Valentine's Day is in 4 days time...👀 🛩️

'The Change' - UK show but hopefully streaming somewhere.

whispered at the start of the track before the bass drops

yes!!!! I have been thinking about this so much; so pleased for you ✨🌲

Giving a lecture tomorrow which is citing both @jomc.bsky.social and Iron Maiden so pls believe I will be quoting you

(begging that perimenopausal folx / trans folx are just given a box filled with hormone-infused soil to bury ourselves in for the duration, like Dracula in his ocean crossing to Whitby)

And 'The Bone Temple' is even better again; more unsettling but/and more measured; first time in an age I've been in a cinema where the audience has spontaneously applauded during the film (and again at the end).

Bought a metronome.

a) EXCITEMENT b) I feel I'm going back to my older stuff a bunch bc i) it's still interesting ii) and horribly relevant iii) abd good to think abou things again with a crumb more maturity / knowing how to be in the world

And may I suggest also, Chapter 5 of 'Systems Ultra' (Verso) on payment processors and the adult industry? :)

DOKTOR CAPTAIN INGLEBERT!!!!!!!!!!

(friends in Toronto, NY, Vancouver, N Carolina - everything is bad *but* Wet Mess is coming to yr cities & I cannot recommend their show enough; astonishing, filthy, life-affirming. Think I've seen them perform 4 [?] times on the past few years and they are 🔥 💦 👑 ) www.instagram.com/p/DTGWaucDfA-/

I am KEEN to discuss both of these with you (in my 40s)