I always forget how obedient Seattle is to walk/don’t walk signals.
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I always forget how obedient Seattle is to walk/don’t walk signals.
Gurlllll…..
He turned out to be a dastardly ambulance driver/jewel thief. As you do.
A baby Pedro Pascal in a million year old episode of CSI
Look at wee baby Pedro Pascal approximately a thousand years ago on CSI.
Killing characters right and left. Hoping they’ll be some left over for book three.
The first book in this was really good.
Female athletes must pay £185 to prove their sex Matt Lawton - Chief Sports Correspondent British female track and field athletes are being asked to pay £185 for a sex test if they want to compete internationally. World Athletics requires all athletes to take an SRY gene test before competing in the female category at major championships and Diamond League events to guarantee fair competition by excluding trans and DSD (differences of sex development) competitors. Before the World Championships in Tokyo last September, World Athletics gave $100 per test for the thousand or so female athletes needing one. More money will be provided by the international federation for this year’s World Junior Championships. But British women have been advised by UK Athletics (UKA) to pay for the test themselves, urging them to have the cheek swab, which indicates the presence of a Y chromosome, “as soon as possible to avoid delays around selection”. However, some women have complained it is unfair when the test is not required for men. UKA has a hardship fund to pay for the test and will assess requests on a case-by-case basis. But the situation is symptomatic of a national federation already facing financial challenges, made worse by UK Sport cutting its funding for this Olympic cycle. While almost £32 million was given to the relatively niche sports that won five medals at last month’s Winter Olympics, athletics has had its funding cut from £22.18 million to £20.45 million despite winning ten medals in 2024. It was only last year UKA returned to some form of financial stability, posting a profit of £107,588. But it is now facing a big fine after admitting corporate manslaughter over the death of Abdullah Hayayei, who died in 2017 after a metal cage fell on him while he was training for the World Para Athletics Championships in London.
"Feminism" [Times]
On a roller coaster!
I’ve been waiting for “Colleen Hoover Land” at theme parks.
Imagine be so incompetent and venal that even Donald Trump doesn’t want you in his cabinet. May Kristi Noem soon be in jail. A jail run by dogs with rifles.
I apologize to all parents whose children have chosen some of my books for World Book Day costumes.
All the twiggy personifications of grief, all the blood-soaked trauma, all the dog carcasses.
I did write some some very sweet books about lizards in grammar so more of those next year!
Text reads: "Unpaid carers in literature" with a scribble below, and "World Book Day" at the bottom.
Two book covers side by side. Left: "A Monster Calls" by Patrick Ness, featuring a blue and black tree silhouette with a moon. Right: "Jakub's Otter" by Coral Rumble, showing an illustration of an otter on an orange background.
Four book covers are displayed. Top left: "The Blackwater Lightship" by Colm Tóibín with a calm sea and lighthouse. Top right: "All the Young Men" by Ruth Coker Burks features an orange-hued house against a sunset sky. Bottom left: "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver with a young boy lying down, surrounded by blue and orange tones. Bottom right: "The Vanishing Half" by Brit Bennett with abstract shapes in pink and teal.
The image contains text about the poet William Wordsworth, highlighting his famous poem "Daffodils" and his life at Rydal Mount with his wife Mary and sister Dorothy. It mentions Dorothy's illness and the care she received. The bottom of the image features an illustrated border of yellow and pink tulips with green leaves.
Today is World Book Day and we want to highlight just some unpaid carers in literature.
📖 What are your favourite books that feature unpaid carers?
#WorldBookDay @worldbookdayuk.bsky.social
I’ve never read a Sarah J Maas book, but I don’t know why I’d spend one tiny second of my only precious life making fun of people who do? Joy is rare and valuable. Read your heart out, I’ll be here celebrating with you.
Or better, two comedians. They learn about the local culture, but they learn more ABOUT THEMSELVES.
I’ve got this idea for a British tv show, where a minor celebrity goes to a foreign country, eats some food they call “gorgeous”, rides an elephant or horse or Ferrari, and describes Country X as a “place of contrasts”.
I think it feels fresh. I think there’s a market for it.
Jesse Singal: “I don’t understand why all these experts with degrees keep disagreeing with me. So demoralizing. What could the explanation be??”
A penny farthing bicycle chained to a window grate
London, today.
Ffs. There have always been trans people, there will always BE trans people. No law or billionaire is going to stop that simple fact. I have trans people in my life who I love, and trust me, I will fight to my last breath to protect them from the same dickheads who tried to kill me as a gay teen.
VALENZIAGA has *very nearly* DOUBLED the initial funding goal in 12 hours!
Blown away! Thank you all again!
Keep spreading the word, keep pledging, let’s start seeing double!
Stretch Goals will be announced tomorrow, once I’ve had a chance to sleep! 😅
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Ffs. There have always been trans people, there will always BE trans people. No law or billionaire is going to stop that simple fact. I have trans people in my life who I love, and trust me, I will fight to my last breath to protect them from the same dickheads who tried to kill me as a gay teen.
Anti-Trans Zealots inventing a moral panic to deflect actual sexual coercion they've engaged in for decades.
When I came out as Trans as a teen, I was consistently told I should just be a gay man and pushed to sleep with men before transition even though I only ever expressed attraction to women.
Yes, far from the first time for one of these. They're depressingly common now. AI has effectively ruined the internet. If anything can be faked, then what use does it have?
Had an email informing me that “Manhattan Book Club” has selected me to receive the “European Book Club Award Recognition” but that I should please note this includes a “one-time participation fee” from me to cover “the official award presentation.”
God, I fucking hate AI.
It’s you who is the real victim.
Does all this caramel *want* to salted?
1. This morning, Texas AG Ken Paxton just released a chilling new declaration:
Mental health therapists, counselors, and psychologists must cease affirming trans youth - using their name and pronouns - or potentially face child abuse charges and loss of licensure.
Its a horrifying escalation.
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The Scary Movie 6 trailer is truly the worst piece of trash you’ll make the mistake of looking up today.
