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And @greenbeltfestival.bsky.social recently arrived

Welcome, and thanks for the thoughtful email about the switch. Hope you get those extra sales you need before the Christmas deadline!

I am going on holiday and woke up silly early from excitement and couldn't get back to sleep, so travelling today is going to be interesting

Being away from home in winter makes it very obvious how much I rely on my SAD lights. Even a few hours away have made a difference. Good thing I'm travelling to sunshine!

The Dickhead Song Miles Betterman · The Edge of Seventeen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) · Song · 2016

I have a new favourite song about annoying colleagues: open.spotify.com/track/2pEJrQ.... The cheesy key change in the last verse really makes it.

Being ill is the worst and I hate it

I have once again discovered that painkillers work better in my stomach than in my handbag

I’m begging people to understand that privilege plays a significant role in one’s ability to survive as a disabled person.

In Canada - it also plays a role in whether or not you end up having euthanasia “suggested” to you as a treatment option.

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I'm in a field and I'm ridiculously excited about it. Camping at #GreenBelt festival near Kettering. Fresh air and good food and music.

Thread of comical/worrying dog crossbreeds:

Wow, that's amazing

I think we have too many traumatic cultural memories of wooden houses burning

It's sad how few sparrows there are here. The continent has loads more.

Yeah, most sheep spend most of their time unmonitored

Yeah, canals are for leisure these days, working barges are only on big rivers, e.g. on the Thames for waste

Again?!

Today I successfully managed the often-tricky logic leap from "I am in pain and I don't like it" to "I could use my pain relief tools, like the pills in my handbag" and it helped, hooray!

Yes please!

Wei "Attempt-the-Impossible" Wuxian whos not actually bad at cooking, Jiang Cheng just told him once it was impossible to fuck up congee

Capitalization affects how people read hashtags or how people hear them on screen readers. Use #camelCase or #PascalCase in hashtags instead of lowercase. You could have #DoctorWhoRewatch ("Doctor Who Rewatch") or #doctorwhorewatch ("doctor whore watch.")

Guts, even

Question of the day: what does a centaur eat for dinner, and how do their guys work?

Had a lovely weekend and then discovered I'm still disabled

So I'm reviewing the hotels we stayed at on TripAdvisor, and I see some fellow guests have left a quite negative review because the owner was pretty unwelcoming to their boisterous seven-year-old, and the owner has written an incredible five para response. /1

A cartoon of an angry frog sitting in front of a tiny coffee mug, captioned "I am trying my best."

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me: I need a passport so I can go to australia

clerk: have you ever been convicted of a crime?

me: is... is that still necessary

Note: The Vietnamese words in the original version of this essay used diacritical marks. To comply with New York Times style, the marks were removed before publication. Unfortunately, this practice alters the meaning of the words. In the case of Hỏa Lò Prison, for example, “hỏa” means “fire,” and “lò” means “furnace”: the Burning Furnace Prison. Without the marks, “hoa” means “flowers,” and “lo” means “worry,” rendering the term “Hoa Lo” meaningless. I look forward to the day when The Times and other Western publications celebrate the richness and complexity of Vietnamese, and of all other languages, by showcasing them in their original formats.

This is already an extraordinary piece on the literature of Việt Nam in the New York Times, but this note especially blew me away—what a powerful argument against house style when it comes to foreign languages: