~daniel_barker~

(to the tune of eleanor rigby) eleanor rigby

*youth pastor voice*

Let me tell you kids about another carpenter who wasn’t very popular with the authorities

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE HYPHENS

Didn't quiiiite get what I wanted from this

Yeah that just sounds like regular quitting to me. We've had that for a while.

All my legs gone

Not really, AWS is a massive part of the infrastructure of the web. You can not buy from their website but their tendrils are in everything.

It's going to be 15°C next week. Might sit out in the sun with some mulled wine.

[Werner Herzog voice] He is monstrous, but in a more profound sense, Cookie Monster is also a victim

If you don't want to use Google or Amazon that's fine because you also have the option to play with some twigs in a ditch

The good thing about capitalism, you see, is that it always ensures lots of competition and choice

Christmas sweatshirt with cheery Santa and the message NOTHING FOR YOU, WHORE

STILL NOT SURE if I can somehow wear this to last work day before Christmas

My bank did its own Wrapped where it was like "you logged into our app 600 times and spent an unusually large amount in October" and I'm just here to say out loud that nobody wants this

Same three lads just passing it back and forth to each other until one of them dies

Deep blue glass vessel shaped like a stylized animal with four legs, a pointed snout, and decorative ridges along its back, resembling a whimsical pig.

One of my most favourite glass vessels: A marvellous Roman vessel in the form of a pig, made of blue glass. It was used to hold ointment or perfume.
Found in a burial in Cologne. Dating late 2nd/early 3rd century AD

📷 Römisch-Germanisches Museum Köln

🏺 #archaeology

Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.

no i do not want to give you my email for 10% off. and furthermore, I don’t think i should have to click a button that says “i’m a dumb bitch” to indicate that. you’re a website that sells blankets and you can’t speak to me like that.

Dreamed I got a chastising message at work that said, “You should know the names of all the Muppets,” and someone stuck up for me, saying, “I don’t think this one has a name,” and they attached a picture of like a white Gonzo with no eyes

The thing people were worried would happen as World War II and the Holocaust passed out of living memory is happening

I'm old enough to remember when you'd go into a restaurant and the first thing they'd say was "smoking or non" as if cigarette smoke would stay on one side of an enclosed space. The cultural shift on tobacco use over my lifetime is really remarkable and I don't think it could be replicated today.

I actually had a GP confidently declare that I didn't have ADHD because I mentioned hyperfocus, and -- I quote -- "ADHD is about being unfocused, not hyperfocused."

My therapist said this to me, and it hit me like a brick, "You should go drink seven pints and also no one is allowed to be mad at you."

Indeed

If this trend continues etc etc

A man covered entirely in bees except for one eye and half his mouth. The visible eye shows he's wearing glasses. The visible bit of mouth shows he's smoking the remains of a cigarette. He's also surrounded by bees. He appears sanguine.

IT'S BEES
HI
THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM
ITS BEES

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

I watched a video recently that showed I could tell the difference between hot and cold water purely by listening without actually knowing why. Blew my fucking mind tbh

I Know What You Did Last Sumer

In addition - the vast majority of diagnoses do *not* end with someone claiming a disability benefit or entering unemployment! Most people getting a diagnosis do in fact just successfully get a reasonable adjustment from their employers or make a lifestyle change and carry on with their lives.

bluesky wrapped but it’s all the times you got yelled at by strangers off the Discover tab for posting that you like pancakes or saw a pretty bird