I say this as a cis lady who is pretty, funny, and owns so many dresses, lipsticks, and high heeled shoes, this broad needs to go fuck herself into the sea with that cockamamie shit. HOW DARE that gremlin say what a trans woman ought to be to make her stale cracker ass feel more comfortable.

If you want to see the meteors - and you’re in the UK, look NNE - just above the horizon

Be very kind to yourself in the coming weeks. A lot of us get a huge wave of emotion afterwards when we realise we’ve been playing life on hard mode the whole time

I tried the ancient and brave marine one and I was allergic to it, unfortunately. This one was a bovine powder and it was foul and it keeps repeating on me.

I will try the capsules, I think.

Do you feel it helps you?

Thank you!!

What capsules do you take and do you get weird bone marrow burps afterwards? 😀

My body is so borked and I want to help it, but I can’t do this

And, I’ve seen it said on here and elsewhere that the pressure on women of my age to take large quantities protein / collagen / magnesium etc. is way heavier than the pressure we ever got as teens to sniff glue, smoke hash or anything else Zammo did.

Just tried to take collagen again. It’s so gross.

I’m sorry. It tastes of awful. And I don’t really believe my body can turn a smoothie into a structural protein.

My bones, tendons and skin will just have to continue to dry out and I’ll just have to age like a person of my age.

Can we talk about how harassment and borderline stalking of trans women by gender critical activists has become entirely normalised?

Why can’t a trans woman do a bloody Parkrun without having her privacy violated and her data amassed on a website?!

The year is 1969. Man lands on the moon. Back on Earth, the Concorde flies its first test for a commercial supersonic airline.

The year is 2026. Man circles the moon and will, a few years later, land. Back on Earth, there is a concept of a plan for commercial supersonic flights.

Thank you

As it's 10 years since Prince died (and the world went to hell), please enjoy this pic of Ed Miliband photoshopped into the Lovesexy album cover

Mmhmm, sitting right on the cusp because my trauma-related hyper vigilance makes me super good at reading people and figuring out subtext.

Also: congrats on your diagnosis. Be kind to yourself.

Beth worked as a doctor for years until a transphobe turned up. Now, she's had to leave her job, leave her home, move to the other side of the world and is still being hounded and harassed by the media and cult.

She did nothing but exist as trans in the orbit of Sandie Peggie.

I also noticed a month or so ago that there was a very clear pro-Jackson social media campaign going on. I kept having things pushed at me that questioned what actually happened. Young and impressionable people in particular could fall for that kind of white washing

2016: Annus Horribilis, a very special doom-laden episode of our So Disappointed podcast featuring stellar contributions from @whenisbirths.bsky.social, @danielnothing.bsky.social and @brexitrage.bsky.social. Enjoy!

Morgan McSweeney: resigned for telling the Prime Minister to make Peter Mandelson US ambassador.

Olly Robbins: fired for not telling the Prime Minister not to hire Peter Mandelson.

Keir Starmer: completely blameless and apparently without responsibility for anything.

Richard Gadd's new drama Half Man (24th April, BBCiPlayer) is almost unbearably tense and full of unease. A compelling, nuanced, wholly unpredictable and necessarily brutal study of male rage and violence, with - hey! - some tension-leavening laughs along the way. It's very, very good.

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines.

Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Don't bring a knife to a gunfight. Bring a knife to a vault containing many wheels of cheese in a brutalized postapocalyptic society where knives are only a legend. You are now Knifebringer, Divider of the Cheese. Raise your knife and rule the clans.

A sculpture made of a caved tree trunk with thick, twisted electrical wire sticking out of it

NATURE!

A sculpture made of a caved tree trunk with thick, twisted electrical wire sticking out of it

NATURE!

Breaking containment is so stressful! I just want the 5-10 people I like most on here to like my posts.

Breaking: Japan decisively resolves the Strait of Hormuz situation

THIS!!

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Maybe take a bunnet and a light scarf just in case

You take a social media break and this happens. It’s not fair!

Bluesky is made with AI, the engineers and even some non-engineers use Claude code

The guy who cleans paintings. So relaxing