Mary

Broken clocks and all that… still, yeah. I’m going to go take a shower. 😬

Thames Water creditors ask watchdog to defer sewage spill fines Financial institutions want Ofwat to pause penalties for failings on water leaks and spillages for several years while the utility tackles its problems

Thames Water creditors ask England watchdog to pause fines for sewage dumping, unplugged leaks.

They don't want to end profiteering, cash extraction, undeserved exec pay.

The industry is financially, morally and environmentally bankrupt.

Only public ownership can end the abuses.
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I’ve signed this - please sign before the deadline tomorrow 22nd.

Screenshot of TikTok requesting feedback on why I’m deleting my account. In the text box is written “fuck you for the American pro-Trump bullshit you pulled.”

This was my feedback when deleting my TikTok account yesterday.

Welcome to the autism club! It’s so exciting as an adult discovering that you aren’t a crap horse after all, you’re just a zebra cosplaying in a herd of horses. 😜

I’ve sent this to my Lib Dem MP - please share with yours, particularly in areas where they may not already be aligned to these priorities.

Twitter exchange in which Rhianna Pratchett confirms that her father Terry wrote 75% of Good Omens.

Just saw this. Massively relieved, even if I’m trying to justify it to myself.

That’s a relief. I’ve long suspected that NG massively overplayed his relationship with TP especially as the TV version only occurred after his death. Also because GO2 was so awful.

Sort code then account number.
Also cream then jam.
I will die on both these hills.

As a technical writer, I can confirm that a lot of people underestimate writing. I usually don’t get hired until management tasks an engineer with writing documentation and eventually realises that one skillset doesn’t translate to another.

@cartoonralph.bsky.social I saw this posted by someone else, and then searched for you so I could follow. Thanks for the succinct way you point out what's really going on.

Even before I knew that I was autistic, I was horrified at this implication. Even if vaccines caused autism, would I rather have an autistic kid or a dead one?
Discovered several years later I *did* have an autistic kid. Then myself. Still better than being dead.

Gorgeous! I’m autistic and lifelong SPIN of Doctor Who. Recently into bell ringing, which autocorrect changed to “belonging”. Definitely not! 🤣

My dog came back in because it’s too spicy outside

Why did Alan Mak, the Shadow Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and Technology, accept £20,000 from Yan Huo, co-founder of Capula Investment Management, which has millions of dollars' worth of investments in private healthcare and pharmaceutical companies?

Related:
xkcd.com/699/

He used a LOT of words to describe “rhetorical”
(Note my use of what I will now always call “scare quotes”)

Magnificently (& appropriately) savage from @tompeck.bsky.social on Matt Hancock’s nauseatingly self-serving performance at the Covid Inquiry yesterday.

He repeated the lies about the NHS not being overwhelmed (it was) & there being no national shortage of PPE (there was).

2 more hours today 😡

Although my partner is surprisingly good at finding old gaming emulators and software, I think this is the direction we’ll go. Thanks for the heads up!

My eight-year-old daughter has these games on her Christmas list. ❤️

I didn’t recognise it, they mispronounced the word!!! <sobbing in your arms over a four-decade-old wound>

normalize blocking people to protect them from you

or you from them

normalize that you may never know why people blocked you, and thats ok

because we all have our own traumas and we all need to protect ourselves and each other the best we can right now

Is it 28 April already?
Or is every day Ed Balls day on Bluesky?

Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.

Mine was this weekend too! Feels weird, doesn’t it? I’d had my account for sixteen years. Since November 2008.

The number of times my husband and I go through junctions and say “what engineer never played SimCity and thought this would work?!”
The world would run so much better if gamers ran it. Well, certain strategy world-building gamers. Not the FPS ones.

Ain’t no party like a history party because a history party encompasses about 6000 years

Hooray! @butserancientfarm.bsky.social is in da roundhouse! 🤘🏻