Liz "Goats" Blake

Well the @cpxmcr.bsky.social October lineup is looking spectacular. Just makes me wish I had more free time, I want to watch everything!

Cross stitched pixel art of a black mage from final fantasy on a green background

Making a little guy into a bookmark #finalfantasy

I suppose this is the point when I should say again that:

the amount of money the videogames industry brings into the UK economy every year is *more than double* the value of the fishing and steel industries *combined*

what this country is really good at is producing culture

Anyway here's a reminder that if you want some arthurian adventure in modern day Anglesey with queer characters and some laughs, you should take a look at my book Ynys Môn here: books2read.com/u/bwO600

Yeah, nailing this "self promotion" malarkey

Things are bad sometimes but today I went on three whole boats - @ssgreatbritain.bsky.social (ok, that one's a ship), a water taxi, and a tapas bar which is on boat. Boats are good

Every actor taking part in the new HP audiobooks is an enemy of trans people

me, a person who got a wrist tattoo on saturday, approximately hourly: why does my wrist hurt so much?

NO IT FUCKING ISNT ALL THE CREATIVES ARE FUCKING **BROKE**

Promised myself a doing nothing useful day today. given I'm the type to "just do a quick mop" on a sick day, let's see how this goes

Thatcher; Schools “shall not promote homosexuality or publish material with the intention of promoting homosexuality” Starmer; Schools should not use materials that “encourage children to question their gender “

Labour’s Section 28 moment reveals the ugliness and dishonesty of its authoritarian transphobia…

The important thing to understand about this case is that it's not about the crossing.

It's part of a whole slew of cases where the ultimate aim is to establish "gender ideology" as a political/ideological belief so that organisations can be prevented from being trans inclusive.

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Actually the four presentations of autism are sanguine, choleric, melancholic, and phlegmatic.

I'll keep banging the drum here, but the Prime Minister went on national TV and endorsed Great Replacement Theory. That was *before* he borrowed from Enoch Powell. How much longer are some people going to pretend these things aren't directly connected?

I know I'm in my 30s because I'm weirdly invested in the one big great tit that bullies all the others off the nut feeder. I should name it

Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth

Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

“don’t demand better things, that’ll just help Reform” “don’t criticise Labour, that’ll just help Reform”

what exactly can we do then

I've been running this campaign for over 3 years and it's probably ending this month. Feels weird, but I'll then not be playing D&D any more and can play some fun new things!

(That said, campaign 2 with this group's likely going to be my homemade space pirate game, Pirates of the Red Spot)

Still my absolute favourite character

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

that's amazing!

this squirrel just flipped itself at the edge of the smooth plastic dome by its feet to get at the peanuts i put out for the birds. the SQUIRREL PROOF DOME has become a tool of the squirrels

There was no ideological heart. There needed to be a clear project to make people's lives better. Instead the "pragmatic" project of cuts to vital lifelines continued. It felt like a continuation of Tory policy because it picked up exactly the same talking points without any plan to transform them.

the upside of making far too much bread for yesterday's pizza boscaiola (I may have forgotten how much faster sourdough works when it's warm) is leftover homemade bread for breakfast

I just finished Queer as Folklore by @sachacoward.bsky.social (very lovely person, we met at a couple of museum conferences) and am rotating it in my brain alongside how important fantasy and folklore have been to me (bi, nonbinary, didn't have the words for a long time) personally

Favourite word to break out un D&D games

“Every horror movie is about grief now” buddy what do you think most ghost movies are about?

last night I dreamed that there was a big national scandal where it turned out Edward VII was illigitimate and overnight they kicked Charles out and replaced him with a builder called Larry who was the real true king and his first act was to introduce "UBI to everyone, no backsies or it's the chop"

If you truly were an "unflinching" ally, you wouldn't have flinched when we told you to show up as people not organizations. Trans people want you to show up, as yourself, to show us that YOU personally support our rights. Then you can act on that conviction to change party leader opinions.

Pink and yellow swirled soap bars

Finally cured the rhubarb and custard soaps! I blame the humidity for how long it took

Between this and the bizarre re-invention of the e-visa a few weeks ago, there’s more than enough proof that both the media and politicians alike not only have zero idea how the immigration system currently works, but have no interest in learning about it either.