Derek

The way "double tap" is used in the context of the Russia/Ukraine conflict is that Russia will often send a strike to the same location about half an hour later, designed to kill emergency responders.

me?

New recycling tech recovers nearly pure nickel and cobalt from old EV batteries Researchers have developed an eco-friendly recycling tech that extracts 99 percent pure nickel and cobalt from waste batteries.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals

Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is

interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

the terminally online didn't push back nearly enough when tumblr birthed the concept of demanding disclosure of personal information for purity's sake and it has made me want to bite someone in the face at the absolute least once a month since

Give yourself a high five if you wrote a book this year.

You did great!

It should be perfectly acceptable to wear a badge that makes it clear you're opting out of the so-called festive season.

I don't reach across the aisle. I don't find common cause. Nothing wrong with being polite to people you disagree with - even vehemently - but if someone makes a disgusting joke, you don't laugh along with it. You don't allow that there's a grain of truth in their bigotry so we can all get along.

people, you have the chance to put my book ahead of Olivia Nuzzi’s on the bestseller list. put aside all other considerations and think how objectively funny this would be. #1, that Mountain Goats guy. #2, Antivax Man Has My Heart. funniest list of the century. We can do this if we try

It rocks to tell people their shit rocks. Every single person who has ever been nice about my work has been appreciated for doing so. I take time to say I love stuff and it’s always the right time to remind somebody you value their work! You don’t need to get into detail either. Just say it rocks

If you read the books, either as her or her male alter ego, watch the films, the TV programmes or the plays, listen to the audio books, go to the studio or buy the merch etc, you are complicit with a transphobe who spreads nothing but hate.

I know it shouldn't need to be said, but it does - criticism of the Israeli state, the Israeli government or the IDF is not putting blame on all the Israeli people or the worldwide Jewish community. Anyone who cannot tell the difference needs to sit down and really have a think about things.

Once had an existing ADHD diagnosis waved off in a five-minute assessment during a hospitalization for another issue because the doctor straight-up didn’t think adult diagnoses were real—zero discussion of, oh, you know, symptoms, or what the previous extended assessment was like

Nigel Farage denies saying anything racist ‘with malice’ as he attacks BBC Reform UK leader launches tirade against broadcaster in latest effort to address claims of abuse from school contemporaries

It’s obviously very funny seeing Farage lose his shit when given any journalistic attention short of doe-eyed adulation.

It’s also impossible not to despair at the thought of how different his career- & therefore recent UK history- would’ve been with the mildest media scrutiny a few years ago.

“Racism allegations could derail Farage’s plans.”

Strange. Cos actual racism seems to have done him nothing but good. Maybe it’s the alleging that’s the problem.

Not at all concerning, given the current political alignments of the tech giants that own and operate them

Indie authors and Amazon, artists and Etsy, etc etc

Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.

Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:

Using an LLM to come up with funny things to post is not the poster's ethos. The true poster does not care if their posts are funny. The true poster posts solely as an outlet for the silly little thoughts that build up in their head like an abscess.

Reading Tim Curry's memoir, Vagabond, and during the chapter about how The Rocky Horror Show came about, he mentions that the show's publicist used to bring her six year old son to watch rehersals, her son being Alexander Siddig. Dr. Bashir witnessed the birth of Dr. Frank-N-Furter!

See also: indie authors.

Genuinely though, it is so hard to know how to get that yes on submission, and after 5 years I am so burnt out with it! Every rejection relately has been really positive, a couple at acquisitions...what else can I do at this point but keep stubbornly at it and hope things fall into place? 🫠

Got a rejection on a longer project that was so nice and positive, but still a no, like it's promising but urghh I feel like the goalposts are impossible right now 🙈 I know we're at year end so rejections are probs coming in...but it'd be nice if it was prep for new year good news though! 🫠🤞

Jonathan the Tortoise (left) and friend

Happy Birthday (Observed) to the uncontested KING Jonathan The Tortoise, estimated to be 192 years old

192 MORE YEARS! 192 MORE YEARS!

Migrant workers seen sitting in locked & caged lorry at Farrer Park, resident raises safety concerns A chain hook appeared to be used to lock the compartment from the outside.

This is the real face of Singapore: a country that values profits over people to the point where we allowed fucking awful shit like this to happen.

Sad to hear about Nigel Farage. Nothing's happened to him, I just don't like hearing about him.

it is just so fascinating the way 'sexual fantasy' is a part of our lexicon and the moment sexuality actually gets fantastical folks believe it must be fake, or a joke, or a parody. if some day buckaroos look back and i have had a small hand in changing that perception i would be so honored

Sharpie graffiti in a toilet that says ‘j k Rowling is a wasteman’

North London knows what’s what.

Streeting going after harming yet more kids.

*Resets counter*

My cunt of an MP at it again. I don't know why he's always targeting me and my friends personally