Kara Chameleon

Though I have wept and fasted, wept and mourned, I have not prayed For gods, like minds and bodies, Are not simply born - but made. The watchword of our elders “be gay, do crimes” Served well enough, for simpler times But let’s turn this shit to eleven: It's time for “be trans, conquer heaven!”

Only just occured to me today that most of my closest friends are female. Never really thought about it that much before, beyond just observing that I had friends of multiple genders.

Hexagonal growth in a black olive tree.

Think I'm just going to order one halcyon day and one salad day, sort of of tapas style.

Just thought "right, time to get on with some chores" but then accidentally thought a bit about how everyone in any position of power in both countries of which I'm a citizen is in a competition to demonstrate how much they hate me and think I'm scum instead.

You probably know about the Jaffa Cakes VAT thing, but here are a bunch of others compiled for your tax nerdy pleasure by @timharford.ft.com www.ft.com/content/2b77...

ABBOTT: Japanese developers today have unique names, like FromSoftware COSTELLO: From what ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: I thought you said it was from Japan ABBOTT: It is COSTELLO: But what's the name of the developer ABBOTT: FromSoftware COSTELLO: The Software's From Japan, though ABBOTT: Yes

(doing standup for darken hall of glass men whose limbs are flutes & wind chimes) me: so im crossing the door of agony glass men: (soft harmony & a few unsure chirps) me: im crossing and i PRAY the Haruspex not receive me. so who receives me glass men: (discordant, hostile crashes; banshee shrieks)

movies need to capitalize on the lack of consensus reality. release a film with multiple endings. air them at random in theaters. Make everyone insane

Always slightly strange to see people talking about Trump's changes to the White House being tacky and remembering "oh yeah, you don't view the White House itself as incredibly tacky, do you?"

That "it's on Poob" post except for video game genres. It's an idle sandbox. It's a text-based flight sim. It's this year's best decremental bullet purgatory. It's literally a second-person olfactory novel. It plays similar to a mouse masher. It has meaningless choices. It has meaningless choices.

Has Your Donkey Become A Great Terror Upon Your Household?

[whittling a stick, looking off to the distant horizon] The Vengabus is coming

"Most stolen and hoarded wealth isn't just pretty trinkets, it's the actual infrastructure of our entire society. Seize that wealth and you're reclaiming control of the economy."

You ever think about how it's a funny coincidence that every song in human history has lyrics that are about my pets specifically?

it's hard to describe to young folks how cool airbnb was when it first launched. just weirdos and spare rooms for like twenty bucks. we stayed at a guy's house in oregon who was a "bear safety expert" and when we asked him what to do if a bear attacked you he replied, completely seriously "i dunno."

Every gothic horror:

This week I have sent SEVERAL Scary Emails advocating for myself. Everyone please tell me how brave I am (and give me something to do with all the leftover anxious energy)

Even if you wrongly believe trans people are delusional or whatever, a mental health charity offering support to people whose 'delusions' cause them distress is totally reasonable and wouldn't harm cis women at all. Their objection to it is based not on harm to women, but hatred of trans people.

no amnesty

Even if LLMs gave objectively better advice - of course they don't - it would have to be *way* better than advice from friends to compensate for what you lose: that getting help from your friends and learning through experience how to help them in return is one of the good things about being alive.

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

The real story isn’t this, it is what happened after this as the BBC and other mainstream media platforms repeatedly platformed racists, transphobes and other fascists, including a disproportionately large number of appearances by Farage and Farage lackeys.

This is the kind of thing I might recommend if I wanted to *promote* antisemitism.

Kruip op de fucking fiets Shinji anders gaat Rei het weer moeten doen

Sixty years, tomorrow. They gave the man in charge a knighthood. They made the local community pay for the remembrance garden. No-one held to account. I always think of the dinner lady, Nansi, who shielded five kids with her body and died in the process but they all lived. #Aberfan