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Yeah I wish I could do that. When I start to resent a project I start doing it badly because I'm tired (I suspect also out of some level of subconscious spite) and then I hate it so much I end up scrapping it and starting again. Took me a long time to learn to tale a break when I feel the pinch.
This is where I'm at too. I find that I get so tired of one project but I want to keep working on something to keep the momentum going
Been thinking about this a lot lately. Do you think they genuinely don't know? Or they do know but they think "this time it'll be different, we know what we're doing"? I'm trying to rationalise how they could possibly think this whole thing is going to end well.
I mean... Chatting about tech investments and recognizing Palestine is all well and good but there's a big fucking fascist elephant in the room, lads.
Anyone else feel like we're now at the point where paranoia about complete societal collapse has become common sense? We've joked about having apocalypse go-bags for years but yesterday I actually packed one...
It's always a dangerous time to move house with Halloween round the corner. We need to go to The Range to get a rug, but we daren't.
Finally getting around to watching Andor and oh look, I'm in love with Stellan Skarsgard... Again.
That's how we do it in the UK! Love it!
I don't know why it still surprises me that he keeps getting away with just making things up off the top of his head whenever someone puts a camera near him.
Why do I always open the fucking comments section? It's 11.30pm, I was ready to sleep like 5 minutes ago, now I'm just having imaginary arguments with a mad antivaxxer who lives in my head. At this point I'm just mainlining anxiety like a speedball. Someone take my phone and bury it in the yard.
Gotta let people get this ridiculous flag thing out of their system or they're just going to bitch about being oppressed. Heard someone in the pub the other night say "well, we're not allowed to fly the British flag anymore" Like, mate they're everywhere and nobody's taking them down. Think.
I'm never a fan of good shows being prematurely cancelled, but I love to see the writers get enough notice to go HARD on the finale. Thanks, Code Black. It's been a ride.
As far as I can tell, it's a bit like music theory so far. Stuff like energy transfer is pretty simple and intuitive the same way that chord structures and scales are if you play the piano, but the terminology and correct wording is the hard part.
Yes I'm a 33 year old man learning GCSE level science on BBC Bitesize because I didn't pay attention in school and I'm tired of being stupid. And I'm comfortable with that.
I definitely feel this. If I ever move house again, I'm determined to make it easier than last time. The danger comes when you move to a bigger house with more storage space.
I found the best way was to decide to do something I really didn't want to do, convince myself it was super important, and then use packing to procrastinate from that. It only worked about 5% of the time but it was definitely an improvement.
Ladies and gentlemen, the president of peace, apparently.
At this point, I think it's out of the realm of paranoia to believe that there are forces at work to deliberately bring about the end of our civilization.
Excellent work. Go get him
Outstanding effort
The physics of moving house doesn't make sense. We moved recently and every time I start emptying stuff from a room, it ends up full of more stuff than it was when I started.
I dread to think what the next election is going to look like. Feels like at this rate either way it's going to result in a riot that's going to make January 6th look like a tea party.
What a prick.
Like, everyone knows that's not true. He knows it's not true. He knows that everybody knows it's not true, and yet he says it and maga is now so deep in sunk cost they're just nodding like "yep, absolutely JD. That's what happened."
This is so ridiculous. I'm reluctant to chalk it up to ignorance. At this point I can't discount the possibility that they're trying to systematically desensitise people to believing contradictory information simultaneously, like "doublethink" that Orwell described in 1984.
Loved Limitless season 2. The man is a shining example to all of us. I can't imagine why young boys would idolise pathetic idiots like Andrew Tate as a role model when men like Chris Hemsworth exist.
Well congrats to Swift and Kelce. It's not something I'm particularly fussed about but it's nice to have some news that doesn't make me want to run for the mountains and spend the rest of my days chopping firewood and fixing an old motorbike.
Thought I lived in a pretty sensible area. Walked home from work today and there's UJ's and George flags up on every lamppost in the street. God dammit, lads, tone it back a bit.
I'm skeptical that it's just ignorance and stupidity. At this point I'm concerned we're in Orwellian Doublethink territory. This regime is trying to systematically desensitize people to believing contradictory information and it's terrifying.
We consistently Underestimate the threat Of pathetic men
Not mutually exclusive to be fair. I think the point is that his weakness is the very thing that makes him so dangerous. People still see Hitler as some sort of ultra powerful evil giant, it's easy to forget that he was a tiny pathetic idiot with a superiority complex and that's the real red flag.
"This initiative aims to ensure alignment with the President's directive to celebrate American exceptionalism" This is straight out of the Mein Kampf playbook regarding Hitler's belief in aryan supremacy. This shit has to be shut down mercilessly asap.
Really hoping they do another one of these for 25, it was so good
Ffs this guy can't catch a break. Remember after the El Paso shooting when his voice cracked during an interview because he was trying not to cry and MAGA was like "Look, he's laughing!"
Oh so now she's a lunatic... Is it because she thinks the secret shadow elite of big science is making hurricanes to flase flag man-made climate change? No, she said something bad about Israel. share.google/zK3dYLEAKtaY...
"We didn't have all these autistic people 20 years ago!" Mate, 20 years ago I was doing volunteer work on a narrow gauge steam railway in Cumbria. Trust me, we did.
Can we start referring to her as Jake A. Rowling?
Our new house has a wonky apple tree and I love it so much
People are setting off fireworks in my hometown. It's 10.30 on a sunday morning. What the fuck.
If anyone wonders what life is like a professional musician, it's basically this. And then a two hour gig. And then this again.
Oh you're doing productive things today? Chasing the dream? Manifesting success and grabbing every opportunity with both hands? I've just finished the Frasier finale, and now I'm watching Frasier again from the beginning. In bed. Eating chocolate. Sorry.
Imagine most of the developed world agreeing that the planet could use a little cleaning up and the foremost military and economic superpower on that planet says no.
Ugh, I hate this. Being alive and a member of a participatory democracy is such fucking hard work at the minute, if people want to post pictures of cats just to cheer each other up a bit, let them get on.
We really need to start being nicer to people who don't seem to know when something is satire and think it's genuine. It's so hard to tell these days.
99% of Trump supporters are so deep into the sunk cost fallacy at this point, he could walk out into the streets of DC and just start punching people wearing maga hats and they'd still love him.
Can we just ban the fucking laugh react button on facebook.
My mother-in-law refuses to watch the Little Mermaid reboot because, quote: "It's like casting a white person to play Nelson Mandela." Against my better judgement, I'm going in. If I don't come back alive, let the people know I went down kicking.
I got it to follow Trump and Musk. I believe in keeping the bastards out front where I can see them. I maybe have the spoons to look at it once a week.
Sons of Liberty is quite good so far but I have a question... Why is John Hancock speaking with an American accent? And, if they were going to give him an American accent, why did they cast Rafe Spall, a British actor, to play him?
Is dementia even up for debate at this point
Every day is weirder than the last. If it keeps on at this rate we'll be at war with the moon by this time next year.
Just when you think you've found a nice place to live with friendly people, you see a post from the local police about a missing teenage POC with 200 laugh reacts. I feel sick.
That would be very comforting if the heir to the throne wasn't JD Vance
I'm not usually a conspiracy theorist but I don't trust this Musk U-turn on Trump. Something about it feels like he's got a weird supervillain psychology play going on and the whole thing has just been put on. I have no idea where it's going but it can't be good.
Daaaamn. I mean, if you're one of the most powerful heads of state on the planet with an unchecked twitter account, surely proofreading is the absolute minimum you can do.
Hearing an antivaxxer call bullshit on the very peer review process that outed Andrew Wakefield as a corrupt fraud... Priceless.
Typical of him. "I have no idea what I'm doing but I have loads of money so it'll definitely work anyway"
Just heard Walk Into Space by Zorro for the first time in a coffee shop. I thought it was the song from the end of Portal 2.
I'm far too cynical for the internet. Soon as I see a post that starts with "My four-year-old asked" I'm like "No they didn't."
First arguably useful thing he's done in his entire presidency and then he fucks it up within hours. I don't know why I'm even surprised.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Donald Trump. Does something useful for the first time in his entire presidency and then completely fucks it up within hours.
At this point, I'm genuinely considering moving to a bomb shelter in the Scottish Highlands.
I mean I know his whole shtick is "what the hell do qualified professionals know about their own jobs anyway" but I wasn't expecting him to be quite that obvious about it.
I love how he interviewed an archaeologist about amazonian dark earth who has spent her whole career studying it and said she was fairly certain the indigenous people discovered it by accident, and then he just cuts to the next scene like "so after they deliberately invented dark earth..."
I admit I didn't have high hopes for Ancient Apocalypse season 2 and I'm really just watching it so I've done my homework before I watch the debunks, but I didn't have "humans planted the Amazon rainforest" on my bingo card. Holy shit.
Got stuck in traffic coming out of the White Rose Centre wondering what the hold-up was. It was these geese.
I was guilty of that one for years. My dad corrected me quite angrily. Stuff like that really bothers him, for which I don't blame him.
Made an X account to check up on what's going on with the Trump/Musk breakup and came across something... very... I have no idea what to call this. Stupid doesn't quite cover it.
I don't want to be the conspiracy guy but this thing with Musk and Trump is happening too quick and I don't trust it.
That is ball-retractingly terrifying.
How often do you reckon the Queen used to wake up in the middle of the night with a rough village brass band version of the national anthem stuck in her head?
Transphobes: "It's biology!" Ok, well here's some peer reviewed papers by biologists based on some really interesting studies that show the effects of gender dysmorphia on adult trans people and... "But that's not science though!" Please can you just... Like... Decide what the hell you want.
Learning to drive at 33 is a nightmare. Having to pick my guitar up for an hour after every lesson to remind myself that I'm actually good at something.
Easter has just passed, and he is rizzin'
I can't stand the "I'm just asking questions" method of spouting conspiracy theories. You're lighting a candle next to a curtain and then leaving the room. Like, you didn't deliberately start a fire but you can be damn sure that house is going to burn down anyway.
"Need architecture and interior design? Have you tried Fiverr?" No. Obviously not. Who the hell is doing architecture on Fiverr?
Just done something I thought I would never do and subscribed to Jeranism on Youtube. There's a lot of courage in escaping the vice grip of flat earth and I respect the shit out of that. Looking forward to diving into some ex-cult content.
My friend went to a law school for giant rodents. He's a Capybarrister.
2 weeks back on a calorie deficit of 1k a day and I put on 2 lbs. How the hell is that even possible?
The biggest transphobic question seems to be "where did they all come from?" As if it's such a stretch to assume they were always there, you just didn't know about it because they were hiding from people like you.
He's only 4 years older that Trump anyway
For some reason I read this as "when you're crocheting a biscuit" and I think an unexpected sneeze would be equally alarming
Wow. I bet this guy watches Titanic and roots for the sea.
I'm more than familiar with conspiracy theories and misinformation and the people who peddle this crap for money and social media clout leading to the inevitable downfall of our civilization, but how the hell can Candace Owens possibly be a real person?
Outstanding.
I love him. What an absolute baller. Makes me proud to be British.
We don't really need SNL in the UK, we've got our own set of late night shows and we've always done sketch comedy well anyway, Fast Show, Dead Ringers, Python etc. If the BBC wants an SNL equivalent they can just knock a few Footlights grads together with a veteran host and make their own.
SHORT HUNGRY PORCUPINE See, I can do it too.
Is there any way to let Now TV know that I have absolutely no interest in a SatC spinoff? If I see that trailer one more time I can going to hit my TV with a rock. The voiceover doesn't even make sense, it's just a string of clichés that would have been considered clapped out a century ago.
This is just so hilarious I don't even know where to start.
There are few things more unsettling than hearing a solitary football chant around a street corner at 11pm.
When I start to panic thinking I've lost my phone, and then I catch myself texting my partner while she's at work to ask if she knows where I left it.
I wouldn't care, but their advice tends to boil down to "be an incel and don't eat soy" captioning a picture of Timothee Chalamet for some reason, who is considerably more successful than any of them.
It's fun seeing people on the coaching ladder. "Oh yeah, I made my money from teaching people how to teach people how to teach people how to be successful, and I can teach you the same. Look, I have a lime green Lambo. Fetch my ice bucket."
Although it occurs to me that a lot of them make ad revenue from making video content about "the hustle". Get up at 3am, dunk the face, tell other people to do the same. Sorted. Now you can have a bright green Lambo and a mansion in the Bu. Congrats.
Words cannot describe how tired I am of hustle bros. There's gotta be a word for someone who spends so much time bathing their face in ice water, pissing around with crypto and doling out sanctimonious career advice they forget they actually have to do something to make money.
The mother-in-law is infuriating. We got talking about Hamilton and she made the argument that rap isn't proper music and I'm wrong to think so. Professional musician and former music history student, love. You're arguing with Gordon Ramsay about how to fry an egg, let's fucking go.
You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.
