Suspect that right-wing affiliated bots are mass reporting posts critical of Reform UK on a variety of platforms, including Threads and Reddit. I've been suspended on these platforms twice in the last week. It may just be me, but I don't think it is.
There’s a judgmental teen rolling his eyes at me every time I find new band. It’s me.
Have you tried this thing called “reading”? It’s like a podcast but inside your head.
Easter is just another one of those pagan festivals that Christianity hijacked. It’s all about the coming of the Spring. Even hot cross buns are pre-Christian. If any of these Reform nuggets had paid attention in RE, they’d know.
Pretty sure my train went the wrong way this morning and no one bothered to tell us. Transpennine Express for ya.
When I finished my degree my uni friends went to London. I lost touch with them, while they still hang out together. I see updates pop up on Facebook. The weird thing is there’s always this one guy in many photos who was, apparently, at uni with us. I have no idea who he is.
Dental Receptionist: And your next appointment will be at… 2:30.
Me: *DON’T SAY IT DON’T SAY IT*
I kind of love that REM broke up and just very, very occasionally jump on stage at a tribute gig for one or two songs, unrehearsed and basically just there for the love and friendship. May they never make another record.
Ironic that The Walking Dead is still going so long after it died.
We were watching series 5, episode 1 of Buffy this evening. The classic, goofy one with Dracula, and the first appearance of Dawn. A friend texted me the news of Michelle Trachtenberg’s death just as she appeared on screen. What terrible news and a bizarre coincidence.
On behalf of all Goths, former or current, we entirely disown Elon Musk and do not recognise the concept of "Gothic MAGA". Goth began in Soho and Leeds, UK as an extension of punk and a grassroots rejection of the establishment. You are the establishment, Leon. Get in the bin.
I knew Buffy would come back to stop the apocalypse.
Hello. The Grammys and The Brits are sales and marketing opportunities to reward sales and marketing. You can ignore them if you want.
Trump’s second term is the USA’s Brexit.
Today is the 10th anniversary of the release of Life is Strange, Ep 1. It was relatively new when my PhD started. Last year, my first paper from that research examined LiS and the nature of choice in narrative games.
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I just mixed leftover vegetarian haggis with a little gravy, topped it with buttery mashed potato and grated cheese and put it in the oven at gas mark 6 for half an hour. Wish I could show you a pic but I ate it all.
Never occurred to me before that WWIII could be NATO vs USA.
My TIkTok feed is currently full of Canadians, Aussies and Brits offering tutorials on how to remove American accounts from the For You feed, trying to emulate the brief window of relative civilisation they experienced when the US was banned.
Weird. Just got an update from Tumblr.
There are worse places we could all go, I suppose.
Don’t you lot attack us enough already?
Started my run a bit late this morning, so had to negotiate all the pack runners and people jogging in pairs, two abreast. Which leads me to this thought:
Social running. Why? Someone help me understand how running and talking to another person is a desirable activity.
Today’s hot take on the social medias is “the nerds were the villains all along”. Yes they were. But so were the jocks. And the alt kids. And they also weren’t because whole groups of people are generally not bad, unless they *ideologically* are. Please like and subscribe.
To be fair, we were warned that the meek would inherit the Earth.
Just found out who Mollie-Mae is. Now researching how to induce amnesia.
PIR, hcnyL divaD.
2005-2008 - Popular kids programme Charlie and Lola airs on UK TV.
2025 - Everyone in your first year university class is called Charlie or Lola.
Seriously, playing Euro Truck Sim 2 helped me build the confidence to drive long distance IRL.
To those preparing to say goodbye to TikTok; all social media is transient. Ask those who have built careers on MySpace, Google Plus, Vine, and Periscope. Content creation skills need to be transferable. Strategies cannot rely on single platforms. Host media on distribution, not social platforms.
Social media has not helped, lumping beliefs into baskets marked "left" or "right" - then sorting people tribally along those lines.
Beware of "cool" role models.
