Gavin

This isn't a Wi-Fi outage, it's an ISP outage! Your Wi-FI was fine! This is a hill I will die on.

Small point I hadn't noticed until someone highlighted it to me on the other site; a commentator who still thinks of a computer monitor as a "TV screen" is likely to be out of touch on other matters too.

It seems possible to me that they basically are just repeating, like a broken telephone, a message that is everywhere, mostly due to the deliberate perversion of our normal media channels through far-right propaganda, due to the artificial boosting of their messaging online.

Went canvassing tonight and I'm starting to develop a theory of the Reform, and indeed general anti-immigrationist phenomenon that goes something like this: it's a moral panic. In the traditional sense.

This makes me furious beyond words. Keep your blood-dripping proboscis out of my society, you fucking vampire mosquito.

Bland boilerplate is honestly sort of underrated. You don’t really *want* a big faceless organization or stranger trying to be your friend when giving you potentially bad news. Obviously actual personal empathy is better but that’s not always possible.

Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.

A shirt that says "that's what I do, I read books, I drink coffee and I know things"

I bought a bag of 8 random t shirts on clearance. Most of them were fine but I also got one of the worst shirts I've ever seen.

I cannot comprehend the mind that would willingly buy this.

£200 per chair feels a lot but it isn't going to get you a particularly high quality chair unless you're buying second hand.

These aren't extravagant chairs in the world of office furniture, for instance an office I worked a while back used the third one on the list for all staff members

Here's a screenshot from the Times showing the office chairs they recommend buying.

Designer: all right Mr. Del Toro here’s those Frankenstein’s monster designs, real sexy just like you asked for.
Del Toro: (nodding) this is exactly as sexy as I asked for.

It's infuriating how arbitrary the cut-off is. I had to slowly click three times in a row every time I spotted something in order to pass.

A green dragon and two trees on swamp bases.

I did a quick paintjob of a green dragon and two trees today.

One day I'll apply a coat of them over a light primer and I'll be happy enough with the result to let it be the final finish, but it was not this day.

Weird coincidence, I was literally using them for the first time in ages last night to block out some colours.

It’s racist, it’s extremist and it’s immoral The right is still calling for deportations, and the government is still being cowardly about it. Also: London’s first green belt; some notes on a shark; and some news, on my next book.

"The idea of deporting people with settled status is disgusting, and anyone proposing it should be immediately drummed out of polite society. Breaking promises made in good faith to our friends and neighbours is racist, extremist and immoral."

I'm basically shouting at the sky here, but still.

Anyway, the tl;dr to take away from all this is a thing I have been repeating for ages, which is that extremism symbols function on a plausible-deniability basis. People who use them 100% rely on normal people going "I had no idea, so maybe he didn't either."

The average American millennial man has been a neocon, a pacifist, a liberal, a libertarian, a communist, a nazi, and I believe now most of us are back around to liberal again. This isn't a defense of platner it's just weird how normal this shit is for guys that age.

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

Just a ridiculous joke of a country proclaiming it's "going for growth" and spending every waking moment instead focussed on vindictive cruelty to migrants.

What a waste of everyone's time.

Painting of a middle-aged Collingwood in blue admirals jacket, resting his had on his chin.

Spare some love today for Collingwood. The other Admiral at Trafalgar.

Proud northerner. Hater of flogging. Legit brilliant commander and Nelson's trusted right hand. First into battle on Royal Sovereign. Took charge after Nelson was sniped and saved the British Fleet.

Here's HIS Trafalgar... /1 🧵

it’s deeply depressing to imagine being the kind of person who this would appeal to

You have to fight to not become a crank as you get older. You have to keep finding cool new things you like.

What are you people talking about? There are great movies and music coming out all the time, you’re just getting older. That’s not technology’s fault.

A large spider and several goblins

I have some spiders and cave goblins that I need to paint up, which seems about right for October I guess.

There's more goblins than in this picture but they're still soaking in soapy water.

people playing music/videos on their phone speakers in public is more than just mildly annoying and is instead a leading indicator of the decline of community and empath

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

If we make it illegal to steal paintings from the Louvre then the entire industry will be unsustainable

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am