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My work laptop was nearly dead so I plugged in my charger and the charger shorted. New fuse did nothing and IT said I have to order my own replacement. Work phone cried at having to Teams, now out of battery after full charge this AM. Laptop dead so can't access clinical systems.

Whatever man.

I need to find a new job. Can't sleep because the stress of the coming week is overwhelming.

Fuck the cuts to the NHS which making working there an impossible task.

I am fascinated by the number of people using ChatGPT to ask it a question that they know it will get wrong, while also knowing the environmental harms.

Here's the truth.

You can't stand with trans people and take a gig with Rowling. It is impossible. You can make donations, you can issue statements of support, but at the end of the day you are choosing to work with the single most prominent transphobe who uses her money and platform to harm us.

Instagram post from the nsgov Instagram account. Black and red text reads “STAY OUT OF THE WOODS”; the foreground is a black silhouette of trees

obsessed with this vague notice from the government of Nova Scotia. Like it’s definitely about the new fire restrictions, but it also looks like a poster you’d find yellowed and curled on the bulletin board of a diner in a town where locals won’t talk about their missing kids

Make your weird, uncomfortable, sexy, political, gross, naked, violent, video games. They deserve to exist. Art deserves to exist.

Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

tbf my comfort movies tend to be ones that make me sob because then at least i understand why i feel awful and emotional

I think some people have trouble seeing fascism as anything other than 1940s Germany.

But I think 'people going to a comic convention needing to have a plan in case the government's goons show up to disappear people' is a pretty good demonstration of what it can look like in 2025.

An absolutely adorable hand painted figure of a leopard gecko by Derptiles. He is being held carefully.

The figure again from behind, showing a white tail separate from the main figure.

I finally got my parcel (it arrived on time to its destination, I did not) but my lil guy dropped his tail in transit. Classic leopard gecko. @derptiles.art - best adhesive to fix this? Is poly cement / model glue safe to use?

Harry Potter TV series star Katherine Parkinson doesn't wish to add to trans "debate" – and says role won't disrupt other projects The actor, who has been cast as Molly Weasley, declined to comment on JK Rowling's views.

If you’re contributing to the commercial success of the Harry Potter franchise then you’re funding the removal of Trans+ rights. There is a very transparent funnelling of money toward that.

So you don’t get to say you don’t wish to ‘add to the trans debate’.

www.radiotimes.com/tv/fantasy/k...

guy handing money to JK Rowling "K*ll every trans person" - JKR "I'm an ally, I just really like Harry Potter!" - guy

this is what you look like as a Harry Potter fan in 2025

Please do complete this survey if you qualify, or share if you don't! I'm involved in this project, which is ultimately going to be thinking about the design of more inclusive future hospitals.

Wanting an AI to write for you is like paying a robot to fuck your wife.

I don't just "want it done," I want to DO it.

You might respond "but not everyone wants to write!"

Then don't have a robot do it? Just don't do it at all. Some of us LIKE fucking our wives, though.

I want to talk about my friend.

I met him at a summer camp for nerds when I was 12, pre-transition. We hit it off immediately, became SUPER close, and our parents would drive us back and forth for sleepovers for the next five years.

He was the first trans person I met. He transitioned in the 90s.

I would call myself a professional pessimist and "extremely depressed about the future" but god, please stop going into people's mentions to tell them that the law/courts no longer matter or post "AND YOU'RE SURPRISED???" at them, especially so if they are actively engaged in making the world better

I am already nervous about what I post because I'm sure my identity could be easily traced but with the new act that means we have to upload ID to use socials? I guess I'm cooked.

Also as an addition; sign this petition ASAP if you're someone in the UK.

Rather than just sitting around and doing fuck all, we need to make it clear that this Bullshit OSA won't work. Ever. Nor do folk fucking want it.

Contact your MPs about the bill too.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

strawberry shortcake for dinner tonight

i still won't put milk on it

pennsylvania dutch roots be damned

America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home.

Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.

tweet of mine from july 4, 2017: The MAGAs saw this and were outraged that @NPR was tweeting shade at Trump. It wasn't. It was tweeting the Declaration of Independence. quoted tweet from NPR: A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

happy 8th anniversary to this unintentional bit of improv comedy

A reminder that gen AI is a massive theft machine and that there is no ethical use of it.
It is destroying the environment and people’s lives. I have no fucking respect for you if you use it at all.

Stop Killing Games EU petition is now at

NINETY

PERCENT

if you're in the EU or know people in the EU they still have a month to vote!

eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

mr tab tab with a delicious fab fab

Grayscale comic panel. Alex grins, hands on her hips, with top surgery scars on her bare chest. Confetti rains down. Behind her are two angel personas saying, “Bye bye, boobies!” “Ta-ta, tiddies!” “It’s officially been one month since I got TOP SURGERY!”

Grayscale comic panel. Alex casually lounges across large letters reading ALEX (SHE/THEY) “For the record, I still go by Alex…still use she/her* pronouns…My body just feels more like me!” *they is fine, too!

Grayscale comic panel (with a little bit of green thrown in for the agender flag). An x-ray version of Alex, with brain and nerve endings visible, gestures. Below her is a headshot of the muppet Gonzo. “Truthfully, in recent years, I’ve considered myself AGENDER. Genders just not a big deal for me. As Gonzo puts it, I’m more of a “Whatever.” At the end of the day, Im just a brain piloting a meat suit, yknow?”

Two grayscale comic panels. A recreation of the Heavy Boobs music video from CExGf: Rachel Bloom holds up two big bags. Backup dancers bounce their cleavage. “I never wanted my boobs. Where some saw signs of womanhood, I saw only (as they sing in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) SACKS OF YELLOW FAT” Alex pushes her way through two dark blobs. “Once I knew top surgery was a thing, that I didn’t have to live like this, I couldn’t stop thinking about it…”

Ending pride month with some post-op reflection! 🌈 It’s been five weeks since my surgery and I’m so so happy I went through with it. (1/4)

🎨✨

Stop using generative AI. There is no legitimate use of generative AI. There is no “I hate AI but this is ok”. Not everyone is using it. We do not have to “get used to it or be left behind.” Just don’t. Just stop. Delete the app. Close your account. Save some money. Take the first step.
#noai

*beededededoop* Sam. It’s me, Die-Hardman. Wanted to let you know there’s banana bread in the kitchen. You can take a portion of this sweet cake bread anytime. Use the knife to cut off part of the loaf. You can take a full piece or a small piece depending on how hungry you are.

Big big hugs. I hope you have some time to rest soon. It sucks that it all falls to you.

And more than that. PIP saves the Government money.

It gives us support in paying for the things that the NHS no longer provides & we have to source privately.

It gets us to and from work.

If we can't work, we have no income, and the Government is on the hook for everything.