Natalie Alana Ashton

or opinions presented as neutrality

it will get sunny and you will sleep well and have a milkshake and dijon will sit on you so nicely and everything will be ok

one of the taps is dripping again and it's approx. 1m from my desk. i am going to [redacted].

a grassy field with a few trees, almost completely obscured by fog.

time for my "Love To Live in Silent Hill (1999)" playlist

was this poster made with AI?

How powerful do you have to be to record one of the greatest British albums of the 21st century while also being Mormons from las Vegas?

totally get it. it feels really unfair too, because they're supposed to teach you how to regulate, communicate, set boundaries etc. you're not supposed to have to figure it out yourself *so you can deal with them*! but i know you can do it.

oh my god im so glad you did it

setting this as a hard rule has made my family stuff borderline tolerable. otherwise it's just an endless energy pit.

urgh, sorry, this stuff is so destabilising

i agree though - act normal, get the card, etc. trying to guess at and engage with the narrative in someone else's head is a losing game. until they choose they to express it, you have to restrict yourself to engaging with reality

you're being taken on a day out to a mystery location... what questions do you ask to figure out what to wear, without them having to spoil the surprise?

huge lore drop

I knew y'all were good at responding to incentives, but I didn't realize it's just incentives all the way down man

this bit has become too powerful. this needs to be studied

I'm co-running a weekly online reading group on trans philosophy. We're now meeting Thursdays, 16:00-17:00 UK time. If you want to be added to the mailing list, please drop me a message :)

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Yeah alright I'll post mine

a whalebone carving on a little plastic stand. shaped a bit like a child's drawing of a bell but oddly boxy, it has a crooked face made of crude and extremely mismatched holes that together form a look of benign confusion and maybe a coming sneeze. it has an enormous bellybutton (?) but no other features such as limbs or any earthly explanation. i love him and you do too

hey guys? i need you to look at buddo real quick

As someone who was once a very opinionated but also very dumb 24-year-old I feel seen by this, but also grateful that no one published any of my takes til I was in my 30s

What if there was a mindful way to steal people’s art, pollute Black neighborhoods, and raise everyone’s electric bill?

also the kid is 9 now, so this happened 7.5 years ago

Bluesky is failing in its duty to safeguard and honour the most precious members of our community: joke getters

we love putting things that don't go in sandwiches in sandwiches. like chip sandwiches (which you would call french fry sandwiches) and crisp sandwiches (which you would call chip sandwiches)

i think so? they're like the fish version of chicken nuggets. but long

it's actually worse than that because the pigeons don't shout back non sequiturs

Superted, Spottyman and Blotch walking on a pavement in Cardiff. There is a distinctive wall to the left with a turret motif and a road to the right.

Google Maps screenshot of Cardiff. The wall of Cardiff castle is on the left , then there is a road and the Angel Hotel on the right. It matches the previous image.

Superted, Spottyman and Blotch on a pavement, seen from the side. There is a wall with a stone animal in front of them and a castle behind them. Superted's rocket is parked in the castle grounds.

The same image taken from Google Maps in November 2022 but without the rocket.

Kicked off St David's Day watching Superted's 1980s road safety videos and matching them to their actual locations in Cardiff.

fish finger sandwich with mushy peas and tartare sauce. nutella and banana milkshake. (no, im not accepting proposals, sorry).

nah, i respect you even more now

“Climb to the Monastery” by Giorgio de Chirico depicts hooded figures ascending a winding path toward a stark, isolated building atop a hill, creating a sense of mystery and foreboding. The artwork reflects de Chirico's metaphysical painting style, often characterized by enigmatic architecture and an eerie, dreamlike atmosphere.

Climb to the monastery https://www.wikiart.org/en/giorgio-de-chirico/climb-to-the-monastery