A new MisanthroPod episode is here. It has shockingly little to do with moths. youtu.be/EU2mLJwZjo0 on.soundcloud.com/tRC1A7ZGlIjV...
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A new MisanthroPod episode is here. It has shockingly little to do with moths. youtu.be/EU2mLJwZjo0 on.soundcloud.com/tRC1A7ZGlIjV...
Struggling to socialise even online at the mo. It’s that kind of, try to join in conversations, overthink what I’m trying to say and delete it rather than be misunderstood kind of thing. I’m starting to feel like intense amounts of stress aren’t healthy.
This is today. If you come* I will personally say 'thank you for coming' upon request. *note spelling.
Thank you to everyone who answered my call for help to fund next months electrolysis. It has now been 100% funded and I can relax/not stress about cancelling again. Thank you all 💜
Thank for sharing it has been perfectly funded! Thank you to everyone who helped me 💜
Watching Rugby and a wild Fury has appeared!
Thanks Matt 💜
Morning everyone 👋 It's my dark observatories week old birthday today! Thank you everyone that's got hold of a copy and have been sending me photos of it out in the wild 🖤
Happy Skynet Self-Aware Day to those who celebrate 🥰
Why aren't you all watching Snipe and Longfang play Metal Gear? It feels like you should really be watching Snipe and Longfang play Metal Gear.
It’s quite astonishing that so many UK Labour supporters don’t register Starmer’s war on Queer ppl. Apparently because, like Hitler, Starmer has some gay officials, he can’t be anti-LGBTQ! & they can’t be willing to aide him for political expediency. History alone tells us that’s balderdash. [1]
In the midnight hour... she cried "more, more, more". *cuts to me sitting by my fridge hunting among the cheeses*
I was surprised by how many new races there are now when I returned to it the other day, definitely no lack of choice (though I still hate faction being locked by race but that’s a whole other issue).
A successful quest with @snipethesorrow.bsky.social to find the Discworld reference I'd heard of in World of Warcraft. 500 gold a shirt and that's cutting her own throat! Or skinning her own coat as the case may be. I need to find more DW references.
I’m going to have it’s legs off. It might take all day with my devastating 10 DPS but I’ll get there
Ooof I hope you heal quickly! Chemical burn/irritation is nasty
So returning to WoW is still a confusing thing to do but so far enjoying it it’s just lonely af. On my old main my guild is dead, the server is also surprisingly dead. Playing a new character on a different server, it’s not as social as it once was for sure, no chat going on or anything. It’s weird
“yOu’Re uSiNg Ai tO wRiTe cAuSe you uSeD aN eM dAsH!!!!!” Me, who uses em dashes in fuckin everything I write:
Why are they painting the French flag on the curbs?
Discworld QOTD, from Going Postal
There’s no way 2019 was so long ago 😬
He was very good in person with his trans fans too. Growing up going to SF cons, I met many trans people before I even knew what trans meant. I gave my parents very little they needed to accept in their child, so they had lots left over for everyone else. 😉 www.thepinknews.com/2021/08/06/t...
You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’ You don’t ‘run the gambit.’ gamut = entire range or series gauntlet = severe trial Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy
FREE for 3 days only! -completed 7 book series -reader's choice award -bingeable www.amazon.com/Deus-Mechani... #booksky #lesfic
Thank you!
Where do UK people buy their computer parts from now other than Amazon? The place I used to use seems to have gone and I want to price up a new rig (it won’t be being built soon but I need to have an idea of cost).
I have started playing WoW again. Ten years practically clear and I just throw myself back in. I’m a fool. I don’t understand anything that’s going on but can still find my way around so that’s something.
Citizens of USA - be quick! When tariffs kick in, it will be very difficult to buy my pins. Best case they increase in price by 21% & worse case I will have to stop altogether. This could be your last chance! proudscience.etsy.com
I’m going to go out on a limb and say, “very little.”
Every UK petition is like this
I need one of those shirts though!
Might be the floor ofc. Nobody can call it criminal damage if it’s for a quest (don’t hold me to that)
It’s to highlight a key area for your quest. Probably a breakable wall or something
When I look at anything I’d be interested in doing it’s always like how did these people become successful at this? Oh they have family in the industry, or they were loaded to begin with /sigh I’m glad it hasn’t stopped you writing though, I’d hate to never have a new Ryann Fletcher novel to read.
It was great to march with you 💜
I'm thrilled that streets around Hockley are becoming Nottingham's new 'Rainbow Quarter'. The idea is to create a dedicated safe space for our LGBTQ+ community, support businesses and honour the queer history that has shaped our city.
It’s so good! I’m about to start a re read of Discworld as it’s probably been five years or so, but from what I remember it’s probably my favourite Death book. As much as I like Susan and the death of rats coming into things more later on I don’t know, there’s just something extra about Reaper Man.
Listening to Reaper Man (heavy spoilers incoming). I haven’t read it for a while and had forgotten how beautiful the interactions between Death and Renata are near the end and what he does for her. I am now crying into my coffee. It doesn’t take much at all tbf but damn.
Oh that will not be a problem
Could you help promote a more inclusive and diverse community in the chemical sciences? @rsc.org Inclusion & Diversity Fund is open and will support projects with up to £5k. www.rsc.org/funding-and-...
Buffy is so old there were only 103 named elements, we’re at 118 now. (Yes I pause every show that has a periodic table to see if its period accurate)
This has over 268k signatures now, and the more, the merrier! If you're in the UK and haven't signed this, please do so! There are two days until a debate date is set, and the weight of numbers is important. The damage this and the payment processor puritanism are doing is substantial.
Nooooo illegal 🤣 But I need one!
Love to see it!
I was gutted that I missed it this year (and don’t get me started on Lincoln 😭 ) looks like it was a good one though!
Mood tbh
Hey! @snipethesorrow.bsky.social's new podcast got it's first proper episode. We really need to come up with an elevator pitch for it but it's basically 2 friends picking topics out of a hat to chat about and seeing where it takes them :) youtu.be/x-8jlR8lgKQ?...
Me reading this: “the wrong what?” 🤦♀️ got there in the end lmao it’s been a long day
I’m tired of the onus always being on normal people to offset billionaires’ carbon decadence. AC (esp if your energy provider gens from renewables) is never going to be as harmful as private jets, domestic flights, forcing people to commute to the office so rent is paid on the office space etc.
Burning through Clocktower Elegy by Ryann Fletcher (the sequel to the award winning novel Rhapsody in Flames). I’ve been looking forward to this since first finishing Rhapsody and in short, I love it.
Imagine being against gay marriage when it’s literally just this
People get me so mad with that. They’ll throw ableism, misogyny, homophobia and transphobia around and will not accept it’s unacceptable because “haha we’re using their tactics against them!” No duck, you’re not, you’re being a wazzock, stop it.
Illegal AND immoral.
“…clearly didn’t communicate what was intended.” Yeah easy to weasel out of it that way when you get backlash. It’s like declaring something was meant as a joke if it goes down badly. There is no good explanation for that absolute garbage fire and you need to do better or just fold.
STEAMPUNK LESBIAN SPACE PIRATES! 💀People are dying. 🔫A corrupt government is responsible. Full 7 book series now in Kindle Unlimited. books2read.com/deusexmechanic
The House Party has entered the underhive
Here is our draft letter to the Women and Equalities Committee regarding Rosie Duffield MP’s transphobic conduct. You can read it here: equalityamplifiedltd-my.sharepoint.com/:w:/g/person... You can add your name as a signatory here: forms.office.com/e/gwpJsm6ZMH.
Autistic people said: “The sun is so bright – I can’t leave the house without feeling like I’ve walked into a paparazzi scrum. And I think one of my tits just melted off.”
A momentous occasion! Started the day in the tens of thousands, now officially in the 100s! There should be cake.
Wondering if joining in with the parents race (gendered) at the kids’ sports day will cause a national incident 🙄
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? My fave Doctor and the amazing Yaz, I’ll be fine.
For those that need actual alt text
Dugga Doo pride pin has arrived! Thank you @jamiebgall.co.uk 🫶
Love this book! It’s free, go and enjoy it!
TODAY'S THE DAYYYYY!! After 2 years, tons of major rewrites, and lots of angst, Clocktower Elegy is finally out. 👁️✨💀 books2read.com/b/ba92XL #booksky #lesfic
Weekend calendar (U.K. edition): Steampunk happenings at Bridlington Spa and East Anglian Railway Museum, plus “What the Dickens” from Steampunks of Gloucestershire. #steampunk steampunk-explorer.com/news/weekend...
Do any of my Citroen people (are there even any on here?) know where I can get a firmware update file for the rneg/myway head unit?
Sadly the least believable thing in nu who (2005) is that a decent person would be elected as prime minister. She’s not perfect but I wish we had a Harriet Jones (MP Flydale North).
Remember this iconic photo from Ferguson? This is Edward Crawford, throwing back a tear gas canister to protect some nearby kids. Like many identified Ferguson protesters and organizers, he was "found dead" a couple years later and neither the cops nor the media will ever investigate.
If they can’t be arsed to MAKE the game, I can’t be arsed to play it 😒
This!
Like, how, after everything, do people not get that Covid isn’t fun actually. I would rather not go through it again as every time it has been hellish.
Having someone still testing positive for Covid get mad at you when you tell them no they can’t come round to your house is wild. I have a shit immune system (autoimmune disease probably doesn’t help), young kids, and a wife who also has a weakened immune system. Stay the fuck away 🙄
The UK Equalities and Human Rights Commission needs a leader that commands the respect of ALL marginalised communities! No anti-trans fanatics! Add your signature and share! forms.gle/P18vaA8AkrZA... #EHRC #TransLivesMatter #TransRightsAreHumanRights #Equality #ProtectTheDolls #Pride
Fairly seriously desperately struggling for the next few weeks. A gender-nonconforming aroace heavily disabled person on PRIDE MONTH! Only need a bit thanks to generosity but I DO need it. Then, I've got so much cool work coming out for the rest of the year! That will earn money then! Pleeease 4 now
I didn’t know that! It’s probably going to be today’s rabbit hole now
As far as I know they’re interchangeable. cobweb /kŏb′wĕb″/ noun The web spun by a spider to catch its prey. A single thread spun by a spider. Something resembling the web of a spider in gauziness or flimsiness.
I am eternally disgusted and disappointed by the declining use of “cobwebs” in favour of “spiderwebs.” Cobwebs just… idk… the phrase just gives more. #cobwebsupremecy #precoffeethoughts
Chris Chibnall was good actually. Loved Jodie’s run as The Doctor.
I want to talk Doctor Who but don’t want to spoil for people >.<
Started pride at Bolsover Castle this year. Great poetry and good vibes all round!
Love to see it!
That’s not very metal of them. Would be nice to see some big bands cancel because of this. They won’t, but it’d be nice.
I have it on the switch. Love it but it’s so unstable I’ve only played through twice (would love to play through more).
“Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hard-Boiled Egg!”
TransLucent are almost half way to an initial target to fund their legal challenge of the EHRC. They’re seeking a 12 week consultation period and also arguing the EHRC may have already pre-determined the outcome of any consultation. More info in link.
🎤 IT’S EARWORM DAY! 🎤 Our bold audio drama music filled with hip hop, jazz and ghosts! See you at 19:00BST for the premiere event! Tickets below!
Earworm is so good! @shadowsatthedoor.bsky.social have really outdone themselves with this production.
Streaming some The Planet Crafter with @longfang.bsky.social (and a silent @tshae.bsky.social) www.twitch.tv/snipeandwib
🚂NEW VIDEO TIME!🚂 This time I'm visiting multiple random Greater Anglia stations using a wheel of fortune to pick the stations as I go! Needless to say it was at times an anxious day for someone who loves a plan! Featuring several great anxious facial expressions! youtu.be/_7Rts06jlh4
Getting in the bath for a wash? She is nothing if not hygienic.
Big mood.
Me enjoying Take on Me after hearing it on the last of us, until: “You’re shying away, I’ll be coming for you anyway.” 😐 can you not? Fuck sake.
❤️New Video!🏁 People keep saying "For those we cherish, we die in Glory" is the Lamenter's battlecry. But is it? Watch as I spend far too long trying to answer that question. youtu.be/weRj6pjxJR8
I haven’t played The Last of Us (I’m welcome to anyone remedying that) but it was (SPOILERS BTW FOR THE SHOW) cool to see/hear Crooked Still
‘Golden Globes to Add Best Podcast Category in 2026’ huh? While I’m sure this will simple go to the Joe Rogans out there 🙄 it’s nice to imagine seeing some of the amazing Audio Drama out there (and there’s a lot) be recognised for the brilliant art that it is. 🤩
This book is 🔥 and free to read!
Prepping for this tonight. Gonna be fun, not every day you get to open for a band that was in The Sims. Still tickets available if you're in the area: www.seetickets.com/event/sonic-...
