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Keep waking at 4-4:30 at the moment. Worry? Or just to be expected after all that’s happened and all that’s still to do.

Bereavement office at hospital called. ✅ Funeral director appointment booked. ✅ Details of registration office noted. ✅ That’s plenty for today. And then in tears cooking bacon for the kids, because dad was only telling me last Tuesday how much he liked the bacon they did at the nursing home.

"a distinctively British approach to artificial intelligence"

I spend more and more of my waking days thinking about how just ending my life will be easier. The hurdle I have is to do it in a way that impacts my children the least (if that is possible). I don’t want to go on living in the UK that we now have, but I don’t want to leave my kids.

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

I REALLY don’t understand why so many people think Andy Burnham is “progressive”. He hasn’t even been in office for three months and we already have a book ban. A BOOK BAN. What comes next…?

Andy two Dinners is the new Johnny two Jags

I genuinely don’t know how to go on. Everything I’ve ever done I’ve failed on, not least my transition over the last ten years. I’m nowhere near as far along as people who started after me, and there’s things that I just can’t achieve. A nothing meat sack. I’ve failed at everything and so isolated.

The irony that the BBC blurred out the Protect the Dolls slogan on a Strictly contestant’s tshirt for their social accounts as “political” but will happily dedicate a two-part doc to the woman who uses her billions to fund lawsuits to persecute transgender people www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Pretty sure I messed up this build somewhere along the way….

818. Copplestone Gangsters from GN10 - Tommy Gunners and GN6 - Hired Hitmen. Sculpted by Mark Copplestone.

Baba Yaga from Abyssoul (www.abyssoul.com/products/bab...). A joy to paint this model, honestly, and a real learning experience for me. If you're at SMC this coming weekend, you can find it in the displays in category 11.

A man who speaks out for others, climate and the environment, fairness and affordability in everyday life is vilified in the press and podcasts with a passion while a racist grifter who wants to cut benefits for the poor and taxes for the rich is lauded. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Back to work today after being ill for a while. All I can say is that my job drives me mad and isn’t helping me stay well. I know I’m a very annoying person on here at the moment - but i genuinely don’t have a single thing in my life that is going okay and everything is making me feel spent.

Oh I love these.

Zack Polanski is hugely popular with the party membership in a way the previous incumbents were not. Zack is exactly what the party was waiting for - someone with passion, energy abd courage, who can move things forward and engage with ordinary people, especially the young.

I haven’t painted in well over a week, or done anything for “me” thanks to being unwell, again. These are the times I start to spiral as I have limited energy and doubt myself. I’ll be back to work tomorrow and that’ll be what takes all my energy again.

My favourite book of September 2026 was Everything Will Swallow You by @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social - it was an amazing read! #BookSky

My piece about Zack and his leadership 💚 harryeccles94.substack.com/p/the-greens...

I adore Nicolas Cage

More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN

Okay this is my favourite Del Ameatri

We TRIPLED our vote share. Second best byelection result in Green Party history. On a date that Labour chose to deliberately clash the same week as our conference. All with a brand new PM in previously a "safe" seat. Best response to all the absolute nonsense today? Join.greenparty.org.uk

Holborn and St Pancras election vote share over last 4 elections. When Labour was at its most Left, they got the highest vote share. It’s almost as though people want a viable alternative to a constant parade of right-wing politics. And yet, the media will destroy any party of hope and change.

Gah - so I’ve learned that Scale75 are also shits using AI to promote their paints (and some pretty sketch Nazi-adjacent stuff). Along with Vallejo, AK, Greenstuff World - there’s very few companies we can look to anymore. Back to GW paints for me it is then.

The same company that doesn't pay artists seems to always find the money to pay this jackass. If you're still using Spotify... why? Pretty much every alternative is better in every way.

A fascinating editorial decision from the BBC, to make the headline a scaremongering “AUTISM AND ADHD ARE BEING OVERDIAGNOSED”, and then, four bullet points later, have the author of the report quoted as essentially saying “nah, that’s bullshit, actually”.

I’d quite like to try that.

Goodbye my loofah, goodbye my loof.

The MSM and Labour should just admit they have a boner for neoliberal dogma, transphobia and Judeo supremacist Apartheid states and have done with it. They're so damn transparent.

Thinking about trans rep in British kidlit from this year… obviously there’s Artezans, plus Cinnamon Crumb and Jacob… what else has come out in 2026?

I notice that everything the press doesn’t like is “social contagion” now, except for the escalating crankery of the press, which is an organisation of a couple of thousand people mostly concentrated in one city, who largely all know each other - one thing that definitely *is* social contagion.

Another classic, not sure if I've already posted this one here.