Ankaret Wells

Yeah, it beats the alternative.

We are older than dirt.

Honestly think the easiest value to society you can add as a bloke is to stand up for women you don't know.

As M.C Escher was refused permission to exhibit his pictures at the Royal Academy that year, he smuggled in his reality-twisting creations in the form of ladies couture.

#GirlsOwnCC

Remind me, who was it did what in darkness?

I'll take 'Questions You're Going To Regret Asking' for $5000, Alex

If they did a jumper pointing out that according to Matthew they were refugees from a child-murdering dictator *I'd* wear it.

Edwin had reached the last chapter of Mr Kafka' s book, and was dismayed that it gave no advice about what to do if your wife turned into a giant Cornish pasty and bore you a misshapen pastry baby with a detachable head.

#GirlsOwnCC

Thanks! Fortunately I have an in-house Linux nerd to help me.

Didn't she call transitioning 'deliciously trendy' or words to that effect?

I wish I'd been kinder to all the humans over the years who have given me unsolicited advice, because it turns out that is *much* less annoying than receiving unsolicited advice from a ghost in an overheated server.

Once. I asked it what books I'd written and it got the first two right but then hallucinated a YA called The Cat And The Staircase.

My elderly PC is dying and I am resigning myself to the annoyance of learning a new operating system, because to avoid chatbot creep I'm jumping ship to Linux.

I might if there was a special designated introvert sofa where they gave you a few minutes warning before swooping down asking for a soundbite.

Also, honestly, if you're going to conflate knitting and crochet you might as well just call it fibre arts and give people a go at tatting and sprang.

I mean Lego Masters manages to get jeopardy in there without just giving them two hours and some Duplo and then asking them to form teams and make a sandcastle.

I'm not even a knitter & I'm giving #gameofwool the side-eye. All the contestants seem lovely and very creative but I feel like they could have set a more reasonable timescale and then just had them finish the projects in the barn if they thought footage of people sitting there knitting was needed.

He also had more authentic problems with his feet!

I got a 'military surgeon engineer' once. Maybe they really *do* have a secret cyborg program.

Hey, so good to reconnect! How are you, your spouse and your bespoke adult film business doing?

I'm now wondering exactly what sort of Americans would want to gatekeep veneration of Charles I, and I suspect it would be the descendants of c17-18 Scots emigrants who are actually far too busy dealing with their ghostly ancestors' constant demands that they take vengeance on Diana Gabaldon.

I've been going with 'pay their fair share' but yours is better.

I mostly get what I presume are romance scammers since they all have stolen photos of middle aged gym bros cuddling puppies. I miss the old hand curated weirdness. Like the couple who would politely fill in a contact form every eighteen months to see if I was into making balloon popping pr0n yet.

I hope your sweet dog feels a bit better soon. Fireworks are a menace.

I tried to read it and gave up after repeatedly thinking 'is this a satirical novel with an unreliable, solipsistic narrator who skates *close* to seeing other people's point of view but never does? is the marketing as non fiction part of the joke? is someone going to get murdered?'

A pack of large, slightly metallic black and red Tarot cards featuring skulls interpreting the Rider-Waite-Smith system through line art skeletons rests in a cardboard box on a tiled windowsill, with a fluorite skull and a geode.

UK friends of a #goth / #tarot persuasion, the Killstar eBay outlet are selling these cards for £7 a box and they're an absolute bargain - heavy card, slightly metallic, silver edged, about the size of a big Thoth. Not sponsored or anything, just wanted to share.

ebay.us/m/b26KJq

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Same with the 'everyone should use their passport name online' bros. People have really valid reasons for not doing that.

It may be uncharitable of me but this whole "but you are ENTITLED to my opposing opinion" shit brings up real bad memories for some of us. Way to show you've never been harassed irl or e-stalked

Nobody is entitled to my time, attention, brain, body, or anything else

(Incidentally the cartoons of Queen Hatshepsut are real, they're in the relevant Bettany Hughes documentary.)

Dealing with griefers is *just* aggravation.

And all of these things take it out of people in different ways, and no one has a claim on anyone else's time and resources when they're just some rando on the internet.