Andrew MacKellar

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

the only king we recognize in this house is feo ul

A screenshot from Final Fantasy 14 showing a chocobo wearing a green and yellow barding with a frog-shaped head and a golden crown.

Is it a chocobo 🐤
or is it a frog 🐸?

Signed, if we can also have every episode explicitly state the episode number and title immediately after a chapter marking on the physical media, purely so it's easier for me to label them when ripping to a private streaming server.

Petition: Require female CPR manikins in all certified first aid training programs The Government should implement minimum standards for first aid training providers to ensure every trainee practises CPR and first aid on a manikin with female anatomy. All training providers should b...

Parliamentary petition here:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.

Even from a purely dispassionate economic perspective, doesn't it make sense for me to have my workplace adjust to get the most out of me? I mean I literally work in the UK's quantum tech sector, and it's still not enough for these dipshits.

I'm a research scientist who got an ADHD diagnosis in January, and getting a microscopic dose of elvanse has made my life so much easier and less stressful that it's ridiculous. Heaven fucking forbid I actually pay back all the debt it took for my first-gen-scholar working-class-arse a PhD.

I love when you discover a new bit

Special mention to my downstairs neighbours shouting at each other from 3am until 5:30am, until I physically banged the floor like I was Alf fucking Garnett.

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I am coming to ABERDEEN

www.aberdeenperformingarts.com/whats-on/rob...

I've received an 'exclusive' invite to try Nature's new 'research assistant', which will burn down a forest to provide a 'summary of the paper' I'm reading and I have SUCH exciting news for them, that's called an 'abstract' and the actual authors already wrote it for me, no forest-burning required.

Free show in EDINBURGH next week - lots of new stuff that I didn’t do during the fringe

I have two fun Edinburgh shows coming up - and look, this one is free - tell your pals please

Reactivating temporarily to send a warning. Since I got doxxed, it appears the same doxxing ring has targeted several other users. I learned that they were banned this week, only for Elon to, apparently, personally unban them. I feel obliged to warn everyone about my experience. It wasn't just my personal information that got published. Someone, somewhere, got my passwords too. For my banking accounts, brokerage accounts, venmo, etc. Most of which had different and unique passwords. All these attempts started the day i got doxxed, and have sporadically continued since.

If you know anyone who's been doxxed by this group, you need to have them change all their passwords on every website immediately. Ensure 2FA and any other security measures are in place everywhere. And, wherever possible, document and report it. Frankly, if you're a lefty of any note, do it now too If anyone was also a victim of this or knows someone who was, there are ways to reach me. I wish I could go into more details right now. But until that time comes, protect yourself. I will be deactivating in 20 minutes. Hopefully, that's enough time for the warning to get out.

important note from libcrusher:

Social media is pretty ineffective in selling tickets - despite this I bang on - 4 tickets left for Taunton tomorrow

www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/tau...

Should have added this link to purchase signed copies

cosmicshambles.myshopify.com/products/ice...

Worth a try before I get train tickets - is anyone driving down to Thought Bubble this year on the Friday from Falkirk, Glasgow or Edinburgh with room for your auld comics pal (me)?

Nominative determinism gone mad, init

9.1.2 "Second Comes Right After First!" EnvoysA step back, a leap forward.Second ContactWe talked last time about the ways Lower Decks immediately establishes itself as a better Trek show than either Discovery or Picard. "Envoys" continues ...

This month on IDFC, how to follow up your show's premiere, and thoughts on early signs regarding how Lower Decks plans to interact with the franchise.

It seems more and more like something has clicked into place for you, like your stage performance and self are more connected than ever. Really looks like you're genuinely enjoying it, and it's great to see.

Been really interesting watching your poetry performance getting better every time.

The brief summary of the “coppers storming Nicola Sturgeon’s house” stuff is that the police were told the SNP had spent donations they were given for a second referendum on day-to-day party maintenance. I’m not even sure that is a crime. Now, look at what these clowns have done.

Petition: Do not introduce Digital ID cards We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. There are reports that this is being looked at.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

This is nearly at 2 million. It seems I'm not the only one with strong views about how unnecessary and invasive digital IDs are. Feel free to sign and share.

So as part of my day job I regularly have to check people's right to be in the UK, via a UK passport, or an eVisa/share code.

These are legal requirements.

Anyone saying we need online ID so we can verify who has a right to be in the UK is lying to you. We already do that. They are lying.

Poetry book out plus next one already in the offing

Honestly, I just... wouldn't tell them?

screenshot of a twitter exchange, dated Sept 23 2024: @MaliceDaFirenze: We're making a game where you play a courier rier in 13th century Mongolia. No combat, just you, the horse(s) you've tamed, bred and trained and the vast wilderness. Would you play this? (10k replies, 11k reposts, 131k likes) @doodlewhale: I would love to, as long as it can avoid woke DEI nonsense which appears unlikely as you have pronouns in your bio (shrug emoji) (337 replies, 124 reposts, 10k likes) @MaliceDaFirenze: For every comment like this, I will add one extra pronoun to the game. (2k replies, 700 reposts, 19k likes)

Happy one year anniversary to this banger tweet that got so ridiculously blown out of proportion that it got us 70k wishlists in like a day

was running msq and i forgot what the next song on the undertale soundtrack was

QUALITY CONTROL TEAM 🚨😺🚨

#caturday