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Oh yeah since I remembered my password: These books make great Christmas presents for the cynical paranoiac in your life fixeroptional.itch.io

Overheard a great interaction between the guys renovating the flat next to mine. "You have never pet a cat? You must try, it's so good."

The further we stray from DIY gigs, the more we run into people who's idea of being "alternative" is just replicating the same plastic celebrity worship bullshit as mainstream culture, just in a black t shirt

The government's climbdown on day one rights against unfair dismissal was sold to us as a way out of the impasse on the Employment Rights Bill. Pragmatism, eh? Well guess what? The business lobby (via the Lords) isn’t giving up & is pushing for more concessions. Funny that. 🤔

Every young generation explores retro technology because it’s cheap and plentiful and exotic but it’s more alluring when current technology gets actively shittier, more evil and invasive.

Gammon Four Lions should ne a thing. There's like a million and one hard-hitting dramas like This is England and American History X that portray neo-nazis as variously dangerous and/or full of tragic pathos; I want one that portrays them as bumbling dipshit facebook dads and coked up lads on tour.

There were also a group of men (landlords and company directors) who had a good laugh by burning an effigy of Grenfell, and I can't imagine that in China these men would continue to live upper middle-class lives. People genuinely get 'cancelled' there, and sometimes that's for the best.

What a great headline

You are now picturing a 2017 sad Bart Simpson edit

Fuck off all stores I don't care if it's black friday Stop emailing me

There are entire books about this! And the answer is “bragging to journalists about how cleverly they had shitehoused their own party to defeat”, “sending Times journos pissy WhatsApps” and “fretting in case someone shouted ‘LOL you suckup wankers’ when they unveiled the sixty foot Union flag”.

at Fixer Optional we do negotiate with Terrorists. And by terrorists we mean @abivasquez.bsky.social 's laptop

Hey everyone, please consider checking out my novella, it's really good and only £3.99. Support the punx, buy a book etc

Feels very 21:00 for 16:00. Winter enjoyers, defend this

If I was a journalist right now I would deadass ask donny if he spits or swallows

"I supplied everyone but the typewriter factory. I sold AI generated essays to students, AI detectors to teachers. I even sold image generators to the chuds when they were memeing on my fellow techbros. Never sold to Peter Thiel - not on any moral grounds, in those days his checks always bounced."

okay see this has made me want to destroy palantir now. i did not think palantir was up to any good before, but this guy? talking like this? i think palantir should be destroyed and I'm reconsidering my opinion on involuntary committal

Sorry Elon, the figure you needed to earn to make your family talk to you was actually two trillion. Good luck earning the rest

Sorry to use terms like 'Libidinal Economy' on the app for weird radlibs and distressing Furry art, but the mechanism here is building structures in which a person can have fun - posting botched surgery pics at trans people, gabbing with your TERF gal-pals, proximity to JK Rowling...

Pls considering buying my sci fi horror novella

When Have A Nice Life said "arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads arrowheads" I felt that

NEW BOOK OUT This one's got: - forced disfigurement surgery - wrench beatings - revenge plots - a suspiciously friendly cult - fashionistas This one was fun to write, check it out if you're into Rant era Palahniuk, violent revenge dramas, or Cannibal Corpse fixeroptional.itch.io/nils-shroud

Yer da calls it X now

The USSR produced some of the best cinema I've seen in my life, to be quite honest, and it's partly *because* of the system it was produced under. Imagine trying to get Stalker made in the Hollywood ecosystem

Doing yoga to the most underproduced lo-fi chaotic sk0rm they got on Deezer like I'm trying to achieve inner peace via overstimulation

Tbh if you've even seen an advert in the last year, that's on you. Skill issue

I survived 2012 UKHC bruh of course I know what a rat king is

Sam Altman is a an incestuous rapist and I feel like not enough people talk about it

We keep seeing startups who want to replace something valuable (therapy, counseling, tutoring, artistic expression) with some tech bullshit under the banner of democratization. But why do we need to invest so much in bad tech that doesn't work instead of just giving people access to what they need?

Happy Halloween from the "good" "folks" at Fixer Optional itch.io/s/165717/spo...

Been saying this about the net for years now www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnQX...

New story announcement! You won't want to miss this if you like wrench beatings fixeroptional.co.uk/2025/10/21/n...

Fantastically written article here, although it's a bit on the heavy side (maybe give it a miss if you're feeling fragile) www.thenational.scot/politics/255...

Maybe not everything should be online. Maybe not everything should be controlled by one company. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Keir Starmer being outflanked on the left by Israeli police was, in fact, on a lot of people's bingo sheet. A remarkable mind.

Just spent five minutes talking about "horse croquet' because I forgot the word 'polo'

Blocked nose got me talking like a 80s anime dub