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look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

They decided they’d seen enough and don’t need to check my head for anything scary

Evidently just migraines and not uncommon for vision to get wacky before the actual headache hits. So far I’m alive and able to see and the migraine has been lessened with appropriate medication so I guess!!!!

Migraines with aura. They’ve given me pills. Common side effects: blurry vision, headaches

Thanos meme from Avengers Endgame. “I used the stones to destroy the stones.”

They’ve given me dilating eye drops that cause vision impairment so they can better access my vision impairment

My vision in my left eye borked for twenty scary minutes and that then turned into a still-going headache — now hour 4 in the ER and they’re doing the whole shebang. CT scans, neurologists, ophthalmologists.

It’s gonna be a looooong night. The human body was a mistake I long to be a jellyfish

Me every two pages: this is just like in Hades II

I’m reading Circe by Madeline Miller after sitting on it for years and I’m kicking myself. So so good

My only contribution to the discourse is that I don’t like the word “wuthering” it has an insidious mouthfeel

The nine circles of hell as described in Dante’s Inferno

Publishing is a journey!

The journey:

I’m having so much fun writing manuscript 2 now that I’m well into the second act, I almost forget to refresh my email six million times to see if there’s any word on the fate of manuscript 1

Happy Valentine’s Day to me and this steak and cheese footlong

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

When you’ve been on BlueSky long enough, threads and instagram are unusable. The amount of ad slop to sift through is grotesque

We don’t talk enough how nice and quiet it is here without feeds clogged with ads every third post

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Fond memories of me going all around Houston of all places on launch month to find a place that wasn’t sold out. I had a copy of Zelda Twilight Princess way before a Wii to play it!

A Nintendo Wii remote controller with the nunchuck attachment

As we careen towards the Wii’s 20 year anniversary, this is still peak controller design.

The Switches try to replicate the magic but it’s more like holding a pumice stone than a magic wand

I have so much nostalgia for 2019 which if the 2020s weren’t such a shit show would have been a completely unremarkable year to yearn for

Classic blackbeard meme. Pirate writing with a quill by lamplight

1400 words today!

Even his post reads like AI 💀

One must imagine Sisyphus happy, pressing the “show fewer Shorts” button on YouTube day in and day out

The Leave vote won with a 2% lead. Rejoin opinion polls on YouGov have had a double digit lead consistently since 2022, longer than Starmer’s premiership. But he’d rather pander to the right on the matter.

Can do easily. The majority TODAY support remain. But the Labour government won’t even touch it because they don’t want to spook the Reform base. Pandering to the right wing makes you right wing, functionally speaking.

Yes, and Mahmood’s proposed immigration reforms are to the right of Theresa May’s Hostile Environment. If you think May’s actions at the Home Office were appalling then I’m not sure how you can hand wave the current one

Oof — and I fell for it and typed an actual reply to them

Immigration and Asylum - Mahmood is to the right of May’s Home Office

LGBT rights - Labour’s cabinet abandoning trans rights, giving anti trans views legitimacy - contrast to Cameron and May supporting trans rights unequivocally

Brexit - the 2017/17 Gov backed remain, 2026 won’t entertain rejoin

The current Labour Party is to the right of the Conservative government from 2016-2017 and every time I think about that I despair

First time they get in power in 14 years and they just make a hard right to this bullshit

No one loves making up a triad of new buzzwordy -isms more than Unnamed Government Source when asked for a sound bite

A screenshot of a January 2026 calendar with 15 days highlighted in green to indicate the days I was writing

A screenshot of a February 2026 calendar with 3 days highlighted in green and 2 in yellow to indicate the days I was writing and outlining respectively

I’ve gone and gamified the writing journey of manuscript 2, because my little rodent brain needs little itty bits of dopamine as I run the hamster wheel

And it’s working