Rosie Best

There is nothing wrong with any of these colours in isolation but bloody hell. I don’t really associate the word subtlety with four year olds and yet

Coincidentally it’s also chest high walls as far as the eye can see

I’m standing in M+S and BY FAR the brightest colour anywhere in the kids section is my own t-shirt.

Is there like a service I could sign up to where I get like a text message when we as a society decide to turn the saturation back up on the colour of kids clothes? I realise this is not the most urgent issue of our times but it is oddly insidiously depressing

Cannot wait!

Reading the quoted post I was like ooh I don’t know what an epigone is I wonder if it means what it feels like it means

It does. It very much does.

Anyway now he’s gone and that means I can hear the other four people within 5 metres of me who are playing videos out loud and I’m not actually certain it’s an improvement tbqh. I might be willing to negotiate with trolley wanker after all.

Also he got off at a stop I happen to know has no step free access and I am so curious whether that was the plan and he just gets off on annoying people on as many trains as possible or if he’s fucked it up

There was a wanker with a massive speaker in a shopping trolley on my train for a couple of stops and he DIDNT EVEN HAVE SPOTIFY PREMIUM

So we were all subjected to fifteen minutes of music followed by a pleasant voice going ‘upgrade to Spotify premium to skip the ads!’ at top volume

a man in a bride 's veil with the word yikes on the bottom right ALT: a man in a bride 's veil with the word yikes on the bottom right

I’ve just witnessed my first use of AI in the wild and it was a guy on my tube train who paused what I guess to have been AI assisted coding to ask grok (GROK) about allergic reactions to mountain plants.

(Oh, I suppose I was thinking about journeys, because this transition on the other hand unquestionably slaps)

A screengrab from Tidal of a playlist in which Hozier’s I, Carrion is followed by the Village People’s Go West.

The 2026 playlist is shaping up to be a bit of a mixture of new and old, several callbacks to favourites of past years. It’s mostly already a pretty good smooth progression vibes-wise but uh. What was I thinking here

Delete your Spotify.

Eeeeeee it’s the cover for my first Warriors book and it’s so pretty 🤩

whenever this goes around I must rec @eruthros.bsky.social 's The Green Knight Taskmaster vid: vimeo.com/673999791?fl...

I think the original intent of the Bingo card was original versions only - but if I want to achieve bingo on Christmas Eve via the means of an old fashioned fairground organ and an animatronic reindeer then I think I should be allowed.

So close to Bingo but the standards have been elusive so far.

Also guess where I just picked up Fairytale of New York?

NURSERY DROP OFF.

Just quietly blasting ‘you scumbag you maggot etc’ to a group of 1-4 year olds over their toast and watermelon. THE ORIGINAL. You legends.

Absolutely and godspeed 😁🫡

Riding gloriously into Whamhalla within ten minutes of arriving at my favourite cafe in Becontree, wish me luck for the next two hours!

I keep thinking this about the farce of his deputy doing a Strong Denial. You can almost see him wiggling his eyebrows at their supporters. Oh no, my man Nige isn't racist at ALL *massive panto wink*

I have additional questions, Spotify.

Cis folks: Speak the fuck up and open your wallets. Our trans friends can’t fight this alone. It’s our job to be both noisy and generous right now.

SHAME on everyone who has pushed and paid for this. You are not feminists. You are not allies. You KNOWINGLY work with ultra-conservative and far right organisations. SHAME on you.

Also, your daughters think you’re shitheads.

Nothing says feminism like forcing women to do something they have been vocal about not wanting to do.

This year we're doing Whamutopia. Every time you hear Last Christmas you have to have a mulled wine at your earliest convenience and toast George Michael, because he was a lad

One of the most peak British thoughts I've ever had here in this French hotel room: "huh I will have to unplug either the kettle or the desk lamp to plug my laptop in. That's OK I don't need the light on."

MY LOVE OF SANTA HAS GIVEN ME SAXOPHONE POWERS

*plays unrelated notes*

Every year I’m caught off guard by the fact that this is a real thing and not something @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social made up for The Unsleeping City.

Back in the day, the datacenter LiveJournal was hosted in had the requisite emergency power off button in the event of fire suppression systems becoming necessary. It was placed on the wall right next to the exit door ... where it looked precisely like a button to open an automatic door.