Dominie Leigh

The thing I can never remember to do is to mute the thread at the same time so I just get notifications of other people tearing strips off the mutee in my replies instead

When my wife was putting together a GRC application I was insistent that willingly submitting herself to a handy government list made my Spidey senses tingle. It is fucking alarming

Nooooo ☹️

God, I wish Nadia Whittome would finally just quit Labour. Her general "I can change them from the inside" angle is utterly maddening and feels wastefully naive given their general resistance to being changed in any meaningfully positive way

Labour has hurt disabled people, trans people and immigrants. My wife is all 3. This government have made our lives that much harder and more stressful. Labour have richly earned the contempt I have for them and I'm afraid your little list does nothing to address that

From your lips to god's ears

I think I have the same Charlotte Tilbury makeup bag, or at least very similar

a close up of a dinosaur 's head with a purple and white mask . Alt: close-up of the face of a Skeksis (evil reptilian creature. Antagonists from The Dark Crystal). It has an expression of cruel yet cowardly spite with eyes half-lidded and sharp teeth just about visible

They do have a certain smug, piss-weak malevolence in common don't they?

It's good that he's finally getting there. It's a shame he just takes *so long* to cotton on that I simply don't have the patience to see the same excruciatingly drawn out process happen every single time

Joint perfect. How could I ever choose a favourite?

Oh my goodness, it's perfect

That looks so cool! Gorgeous colour

Scrap baby Steve. I love him

I went to see the Tina Turner musical in Cardiff last week, which uses that word a couple of times and you could feel the room collectively draw a sharp intake of breath and shift uncomfortably every time it happened. Did she just marry a horrible racist or something?

He's unpopular with me because he decided to stick the boot into disabled people, trans people and immigrants. My wife is all 3 so he is making her life (and therefore mine) materially worse. Is that a good enough non-media reason for you?

So? You were saying the UK is somehow special in this regard. It isn't. That's why you're getting pushback

Oh, boo hoo. You're pinning ribbons to my country that it doesn't deserve. You've earned the pushback you've received. I'm glad these arseholes are getting arrested but I'm not naive enough to think it's because those in charge finally found an actual conscience

There is! Go to Settings, then Accessibility, then tick the box that says "require alt text before posting". Then it won't just remind you, it'll prevent you from posting without it

Nah, this is just a cynical little sacrifice on the altar of optics. The rest of the ruling class are betting that they can save their own worthless hides if they throw a couple of their own to the wolves every now and again

What a gorgeous piece. My friend has one of these and it always amazes and delights me that it's still in working order.

My condolences to you and yours on the loss of your Nanna

The Narn from Babylon 5, maybe? It's a short lived freedom and the circumstances are not quite the same, but still

(I cackled at "space protestants")

Stealing every scene is Claudia Black's specialty. And the antagonists are definitely extra scary when you already have a smattering of religious trauma under your belt 😬

Don't forget "sneak up behind nazi and punt them off the edge of some precipice or other". Loved those bits

Letting themselves a bit off the hook there, saying they were merely "letting this evil stuff slide" rather than what they were actually doing: willingly perpetuating and instigating much of it themselves

Those seasons have Vala Mal Doran in them so I guess I'll join you on that hill

The responses are basically "well, it was shit for everyone, life's not fair" and I'm thinking that yeah, we know it isn't fair but surely trying to make it fairer where it's possible to do so is a better goal than just telling people to suck it up until they *also* get jaded and dismissive

It's possible that his PR team like him about as much as the rest of us do

There was an article a while back about how his mum was pressured to have an abortion but resisted and had him anyway, which just shows that he probably gets his tendency to make bad decisions from her

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

That sounds fantastic and all but for a single wonderful moment I thought you'd started actually eating the rich