always gotta retweet this because it's hilarious and true and the dude is just very casually a 10

Now who wants to place a bet that the council give me a ticket today because my car got shunted across (my, unused) drop kerb 😂😂😂

Also - life lesson kids - don’t be smarter than your boss, lots of people can’t take that ego injury and will throw you under the bus 😂

What a ballache.

Anyway, if what happens happens, I might end up as a DT and food tech which would at least postpone my next book “How state education fails your kids, the inside scoop” 😈

And it would keep me away from the new inept, gaslighting, science head of department.

(Can you see why I’m on the hook 😉)

Oh, and it looks like I’ve got a second hernia.

Good job I’m in a very ‘flat and chill’ mental status rather than my more common ‘you get a Molotov, and _you_ get a Molotov, EVERYONE GETS A MOLOTOV!’ mood.

So today, I have fucked work off (I’m surplus anyway) so that I can get a hire car so I can continue to do my caring for my mum during my lunch break, while also dealing with insurance, police, repairs, etc…

Because work has no mobile phone signal, which makes it a bit tricky.

So I go home, park my car and then less than ten minutes later a boy racer crashes into it, no doubt writing my car off.

At least his dad has insurance (they live on the same road as me).

My neighbours have been lovely.

So, yep. At least one of us is facing redundancy, and given that the head technician was, for the first time in months trying to teach her minion some basic stuff…

…well, you don’t need to be psychic Rosie Lee to see how this is going to go.

So it goes, I have plans, etc…

I know where this is going as the school has been running at a deficit for the last two years.

There are three science technicians, of which I am one. While I am very competent, I’m not the personal friend of the head technician who refuses to learn any science but makes the head tech look smart

Who wants to hear about yesterday’s really shitty day?

So, starts off with big back pain, minimal sleep and massive bloating presumably from my IBS.

No problem, I can do that.

Then partway through the day get a meeting request with the head titled ‘staffing levels’…

I don't like bad movies, ironically or sincerely. Every movie I like is good because I like it.

This story is also found in Scandinavia extensively.

and yes it's a tale to explain churches built in inconvenient locations that made sense to their builders. but i like to take the stories at face value

#folklore #englishfolklore #devil #faeries #churches

there's nothing scarier than that split second when you lose your balance in the shower and you think, 'THEY ARE GOING TO FIND ME NAKED.'

I’m remembering the time at which every one of my friends had received so many “free” AOL CDs that we shared craft ideas about how to recycle them.

Part of it I think is the same root as a lot of boomer nostalgia comes from. "This new technology which upends everything and is made by big corporations is Bad. Unlike the technology from when I was a youth, which also upended everything and was made by big corporations, but is Good"

Same goes for the Internet. Microsoft went very hard on promoting it with bundling MSN and Internet Explorer with Windows
and no way to remove it. They lost a very famous court case over it!

"There was no hard sell of mobile phones in the 90s"

Literally the 1990s:

Seen a lot of this performative ignorance lately and it's simply not true. 1999 was literally when the entry-level price of a mobile dropped and everyone under 25 was now in the target market. We all got marketed to very hard

Hookland was made by Soviet science fiction and cosmonauts. It was made by pulp novels my mother didn’t want me to read, but that my Aunt Barbara still lent me. Made by countless bad films surreptitiously watched on an old black and white TV. It has been shaped by a refusal to sneer at the work of Stephen King because Salem’s Lot was brilliant when I read it at 11 and still is. In fact, it has been shaped by a refusal to sneer at anything that generated a sense of sublime, awe and terror in childhood – even being forced to perform interpretive dance to Tomita. It has been made by brilliant writers – Aickman, Machen, Jackson – and it has been made by bad ones. It owes large debts to comics, goth, punk and movie soundtracks that is will never repay. Its substitute parents are free public libraries and Radio 4. It comes with a childhood place soaked with fear of ghosts and UFOs, it comes from a place of love for those exact same engines of terror. It comes from a revulsion for how psychogeography has increasingly became an academic and art language that excludes people from their own primal experience of landscape. It comes for a raging dislike of commodity writing about place and nature. It comes from an absolute refusal to allow fascists to easily occupy their cherished grounds of myth and folklore. It comes from the cunning, the ghost soil, the landscape of England as experienced by this broken body for five long decades. It comes from being a Fully-grown Changeling. Fay Godwin, Paul Nash and Dame Laura Knight are always muttering about it with disapproval in the imagined afterlife. Nothing in it is made up, just remembered differently. It was designed to be a permissive space, a common ground where people could explore and find their own hauntings. You all own it, you all make it. You are all marching with the spirits of dead spaceman, wood sprites and a thousand lost childhoods. You are all scuffling up your memories, your own stories as you navigate across th…

Today's answer to What is Hookland?

I am for the neglected ghosts of England. The poltergeist in terraced street, the phantom in the Co-op store. So many ghost botherers overlook industrial spectres. It is as if the shade of a hatter is somehow worth less investigation than a knight of the realm. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

Like....they have made it so much harder for disabled people to get cars, including just straight up taking the cars from them...to pay for shit like this??

Disabled people can't pay towards their own BMW but the government can afford this? I hate them I hate them I HATE THEM

ITS FOR SELF DRIVING CARS?!?!

I just saw an advert for an AI powered cat litter tray and honestly, I kinda give up.

Since 2012 the UK has treated all people with HIV, irrespective of nationality or immigration status.
Treatment prevents HIV transmission so it’s good for the health of all of us to have every person with HIV treated.
Farage’s policy would lead to more HIV cases and greater health costs.

A black cat (Eris) sitting on my lap staring at me while blocking the trays of paint and miniature figures that I was hoping to use.

Wanted to paint some miniatures to chill out at the end of the day.

Was stopped by this grotesque creature.

The insanity of ‘step-siblings illegal to depict’ but ‘cousins are fine in real life’ breaks the logic centres in my brain.

Oh, and of course step-siblings are legal in real life.

My government is deeply stupid.

And to be fair, the local council Labour Party in my part of London are actually quite good.

The plan they put together to get the council back from the BNP was forward thinking and makes actual sense!

What I find interesting is that the Labour local council election leaflet I got through the door, says ‘this is not about the national Labour Party’. (Or words to that effect).

A data point that the local teams are (wisely) trying to distance themselves from the government.

Anyway, fuck it, I’m off to read some Alan Moore, and being knackered is about as mind altering as I get these days, so it’ll fit.

Then he can get in the fucking sea.

(Concrete boots optional)

Absolutely fucking knackered.

Dealing with annoying humans is really taxing me these days.

One day I’m going to get into trouble because of it. And I’ll be fine with that.

Again. 😈