Source: cringecorp on Tumblr they say u can't pour from an empty cup but i've been doing it my whole life and aside from all of these mysterious ailments it's working out great for me

Source: cringecorp on Tumblr

The kids don't know about the Amanda Bynes poster hastily airbrushed to avoid implying she endorsed peace

BigHand has been used at a couple of firms I've been at - never used it myself as I'm not a lawyer but I think it's fairly common?

Also congrats on all the law school places!

a medieval painting of a scruffy white dog with a strangely human face

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

The Soggy Muffin, for which I accidentally wrote a novel length script and created a passable Yakuza Cabaret Club minigame despite being bad at scripting, in a story that started as a muffin cafe refurbishment and organically became the stirring tale of Morrowind's first labour union

‘Grey’s Anatomy’s Steven W. Bailey Reveals Neuromuscular Disorder, Wheelchair Use: “Same Actor … Now With Wheels” A familiar face to fans of 'Grey's Anatomy', Steven W. Bailey is opening up about a five-year struggle with his own health.

this is my friend Steve Bailey. We met at one of the YoYo festivals, we were lodged at the same place, and we've been friends since. I am really stoked that he is sharing this stuff because "not all disabilities are visible" is something people say, 1/3

deadline.com/2026/01/grey...

It's the national year of reading in the uk in 2026. Instead of asking "why don't kids read any more", ask "how can I help them find the stories (and non fic) they will fall in love with". Less "get off my lawn whippersnappers" and more "come, sit on the lawn, here's a comic".

May 2026 be a year when those who persecute, despoil and oppress the people find their power shattering on the rock of solidarity!

tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999 (i’m scared of computer)

Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

Hi everyone. CyricZ here. After giving myself time to reflect on my options, I’ve decided that I will not be writing a GameFAQs guide for Yakuza Kiwami 3 / Dark Ties. I will not be purchasing the game, nor playing it in any capacity. I write guides because I love writing, and I write for the games that I write for because they inspire me. The joy I find in them drives me to give my best work. If I were to write a guide entirely out of obligation or expectation, I do not believe my best work would find its way to the page. With the hiring of known sexual harasser Teruyuki Kagawa to the face and voice cast of Yakuza Kiwami 3, I do not find myself inspired by the game. The Like a Dragon series has a long-standing history of opposing sexual misconduct in all its forms and I feel this casting goes against that message.

Key members of RGG Studio have refused to speak on the hiring of Kagawa after his misconduct was made more widely known. While they are by no means required to speak about this, by their silence they have sent a message that they do not view Kagawa’s misconduct as a dealbreaker for inclusion in the series cast, nor do they deem it worth addressing. This stands in contrast to steps taken in the past to replace other cast members that did not align with their values. I won’t go into further detail on the issue itself as the information is widely available via the #REMOVEKAGAWA movement. The rest of this will be about me, my guides, and my relationship with RGG Studio and the Like a Dragon series.

I remain a fan of the Like a Dragon series. It’s not something I can just excise from myself. I intend to continue playing past Like a Dragon games on stream as they are some of my favorite video games. That may be subject to change in the future, but the plans are to continue playing the games on stream in my intended order, with the exception of Yakuza Kiwami 3 or Dark Ties. The only minor thing that will change with regards to my streams is that I intend to take special note during stream of the many, many instances during the series that remind us of the societal ill of sexual misconduct. As to future games put out by RGG Studio, I reserve the right to not make a decision on those at this time. That will be a “wait and see” situation, dependent on future actions or inactions by RGG Studio. Further, if things change with regards to the release of Yakuza Kiwami 3, I reserve the right to reassess all the preceding. RGG Studio still has the opportunity to do right in this situation, and I hold onto hope that they will see the best way forward.

Finally, I promise to all my readers that my GameFAQs guides for the Like a Dragon series and other RGG Studio games will be going nowhere no matter what happens. Not only are they some of my best work, but if I preserve the guides with myself as the author, I remain in creative control of them. This prevents others from taking the text and redistributing it without my consent, which is something I fear would happen if I were to remove them from GameFAQs entirely. For those of you who read my guides, thank you so much for your support, and I’m sorry I will not be helping with this upcoming game. For anyone who wants to write a guide on GameFAQs for Yakuza Kiwami 3, be my guest, not that you need my permission anyway. For those of you joining me in solidarity against Kagawa and this release, I thank you all for sticking with it. Your commitment has inspired this. Be good to each other, Scott “CyricZ” Zdankiewicz

Announcement:

I will not be writing a GameFAQs guide for Yakuza Kiwami 3/Dark Ties.

Full statement below:

Don’t rely on government to save the British Library - Impact of Social Sciences Following a catastrophic hack British Library remains in crisis. Can it recover by refocusing on the people, skills and systems that enable it to function?

👀ICYMI: "the British Library’s woes are a microcosm of a wider crisis across the UK’s knowledge sector"

#ScolComm #Libraries #KnowledgeWork @simonxix.com

borb #borb

#birds

AFI - Barrowlands, 2006
Leonard Cohen - Clyde Auditorium, 2008
Bruce Springsteen - Hampden, 2009
MCR - Hydro, 2022
Mountain Goats - Barrowlands, 2024

Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.

Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/

A chart showing child poverty in the UK increasing sharply if the two child limit remains in place, and falling if it is scrapped.

Why the two-child limit has to go, in a chart.

Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.

what resembles the grave but isn't Always falling into a hole, then saying "ok, this is not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of the hole which is not the grave, falling into a hole again, saying "ok, this is also not your grave, get out of this hole," getting out of that hole, falling into another one; sometimes falling into a hole within a hole, or many holes within holes, getting out of them one after the other, then falling again, saying "this is not your grave, get out of the hole"; sometimes being pushed, saying "you can not push me into this hole, it is not my grave," and getting out defiantly, then falling into a hole again without any pushing; sometimes falling into a set of holes whose structures are predictable, ideological, and long dug, often falling into this set of structural and impersonal holes; sometimes falling into holes with other people, with other people, saying "this is not our mass grave, get out of this hole," all together getting out of the hole together, hands and legs and arms and human ladders of each other to get out of the hole that is not the mass grave but that will only be gotten out of together; sometimes the willful-falling into a hole which is not the grave because it is easier than not falling into a hole really, but then once in it, realizing it is not the grave, getting out of the hole eventually; sometimes falling into a hole and languishing there for days, weeks, months, years, because while not the grave very difficult, still, to climb out of and you know after this hole there's just another and another; sometimes surveying the landscape of holes and wishing for a high quality final hole; sometimes thinking of who has fallen into holes which are not graves but might be better if they were; sometimes too ardently contemplating the final hole while trying to avoid the provisional ones; sometimes dutifully falling and getting out, with perfect fortitude, saying "look at the skill and spirit with which I rise from…

Slept dreaming of, woke up thinking about the extraordinary What Resembles the Grave but Isn’t by Anne Boyer

Racists “we just want people to integrate”

Asylum seekers “learn english”

Racists

Truly wild! I can't believe how popular it is based on the excerpts.

I just got to the bit where equality and the US constitution is discussed and I am absolutely howling. What is HAPPENING.

🐸⭐️

It's the blatant lying that gets me! I expect large companies to behave unethically but when they just make up nonsense like this it takes me out. I've just looked and Waterstones profits have been broadly higher than Lush since 2018 and than Majestic since 2017, with turnover in the same region.

Waterstones says it can't pay living wage, as 1,300 authors support staff appeal Managing director says book chain ‘simply not profitable enough’, as Sally Rooney, Val McDermid and other authors write to protest

I'm assuming IKEA are miles away but I'll have a look at Majestic in a bit.

www.theguardian.com/books/2019/m...

Waterstones said that of other similar large retailers, only Ikea, Majestic and Lush commit to paying the real living wage. On Monday, Majestic Wine announced it will close a number of its stores and focus on its online and international business.

This article about Waterstones and wages had me curious so I looked into it, and Lush is not miles away from Waterstones in terms of turnover and has had lower profits for the last five years - there's so many things to criticise W on but why on earth are they claiming they can't pay the RLW?

Extract from Bookseller 2018 "When asked if the company had chanmged its stance on not opening up new stores in places which alreday had thriving independents, Daunt said "Absolutely not. We will not be operating in a predatory way."

Extract from Scotsman interview with Argonaut Books owner saying "It was with much surprise then that we learnes, and not directly from Waterstones themselves, that the UK's biggest book chain was moving in literally steps from our front door."

James Daunt (Waterstones MD) 2018 vs US Hedge Fund Owned Waterstones in 2025 - opening just 2 mins from brilliant @argonautbooks.bsky.social in Leith bit.ly/3XJ1thi. (NB Elliott Advisors' billionaire CEO Paul Singer donates millions to support IDF soldiers in Israel.. bit.ly/4rpjPBU) #SupportIndies

Bookshops of Scotland - Google My Maps Bookshops of Scotland

I don't know if this is of any use to you for updating but I started making a map last year (great minds and all that) and I've been trying to keep it as up to date as poss. Just in case it might help! I've been using mine to track where I've been.

tinyurl.com/3aznz7pz

and if your going to Scotland at any time there is a list of 117 Independent Bookshops (it does need updated and checked) to visit or buy from their website

#BookSky #Bookshop #IndieBookshop 📚💙 #ChooseBookshops #BuySmallBuyLocal

bigbeardedbookseller.uk/bookshops-sc...

Bookshops of Scotland - Google My Maps Bookshops of Scotland

I love that wee stretch of Voltaire and Rosseay, Caledonia, and Thistle books, been ages since I've been through to visit them 💕

Idk if it's of any use to anyone in this thread but I have a map of Scottish indie and charity bookshops that I'm adding to all the time tinyurl.com/3aznz7pz