if I tell the forest
my secrets
will the trees take them
to hide in the darkest reaches of the root?
or will they grow,
yearning for the light?
shouting on spring leaves
new again, born again
to grow old,
and become the earth again.

Daily Mail front page banner with "I've only been taking testosterone for 3 days - and it is working already" Nadine Dorries

Folks, folks, FOLKS!

She's 68. There's no way she's in peri.

Also they're not fixed - this is the really good part - go with what works for you at the moment. *Subject to change

If you've not got yours in there, pop them in. It's all good.

I dislike that the tie and the lapels are getting in each other's way, but otherwise it's perfection.

Didn't he have a meltdown over reading hearing "foreign" spoken on a bus, and it turned out to be Welsh?

You know what I, as a privileged cis person, really like about seeing pronouns in someone's bio? It means I can follow them/ engage with them and not worry that they'll suddenly turn out to be a wrong 'un. Given the massive overlap between terfs and racists, it's a helpful green flag.

A large and luxurious orange cat sitting in the sunshine on a teal velvet sofa

Can confirm

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Right. It's a big step from a good understanding of a language, to idiomatic understanding, so it makes perfect sense.

Bámul, mint borjú az új kapura

The default assumption that "foreigners" are all a) incredibly thick and b) gasping to take offence really screams a great deal about what Mail readers are like on holiday

Incoming local elections

Me and Mr Bee masking on a recent flight

It was infuriating and depressing in equal measures. Meanwhile...

Yeah even if that were true, idioms exist in almost all languages and sometimes we have to explain them to each other. Lots of the time it's a great way to connect with people because they're often funny. There's often a matching version in the language of the other person.

I had COVID last June and - on telling my neighbours I was sick - was told "oh is that still a thing?" They're both teachers.

They're leasing the name. A judge blocked the actual sale

I have a Wombles one

This is really interesting

This is one of the few legitimately good things about being an adult

Screenshot of Microsoft flex routing during peak load period setting that shows what you need to select to not allow flex routing.

🚨⏳ Act now! Microsoft just enabled flex routing for Copilot users in the EU - & you're opted in automatically!

This means your data can be processed outside of the EU.

Turn if off: Copilot → Settings → Flex routing → Do not allow flex routing

Even better, cancel Copilot: tuta.com/blog/microso...

A fluffy tuxedo cat looking suspicious

Frank doesn't chase things. It would be Tybalt who murdered me.

my lenovo thinkpad does not look like this

We really have to stop saying The Leader Of the Free World now.

Please explain how that's pertinent to the dozens of people who don't live in the US

'never knowingly mislead the public'

keir starmer lies. that's what he does.

this was posted by @saulstaniforth.bsky.social on his twitter feed back in 2023.

starmer has only lied more, and more, and more since then.

he even promies self-id for trans ppl in here and we all know what he says now.

This sounds like an excellent arrangement

It is now