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This whole social media thing is not terribly social for me. As far as I can tell only 5 of my followers are real people & I don't think most of what I post is seen by anyone. It's long past time for me to accept that I have no place here. Be well.

submitted 138 days ago • 2 comments

Won't be playing any of the new Two Point games. Cos when you're making the "spiritual successor" to one of the most endlessly replayable single player experiences of the 90s, fucking all replayability to tack on zynga-style multiplayer and never fixing game-breaking day one bugs is a no from me.

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

In an act of extreme violence against my sanity I woke up today to my internal jukebox playing Give It To You by Jordan Knight.

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

I probably shouldn't have read that article today, especially given now I get to sit awake, alone & in silence all night.

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

If you, like me, gave up on the MI films cos 2 was a mid edgelord wank fest & 3 was perfect proof that JJ is a talentless nepo baby then you're cheating yourself out of some fun spy/heist movies with only minimal epic scale creep that came after.

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

Oh good. My gas meter & boiler have developed faults. It only took the council a actual entire decade to repair the boiler last time.

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, just saw that cute "can't sleep? have you tried going to bed?" meme again &, sure, for a lot of people that will work. Our brains are all about modes & you can brute-force them. However, don't ever use it to respond to someone discussing insomnia. I have been failing at sleeping for 40 years.

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

You cannot imagine how Cassandra I felt trying to explain to people how good John Cho is when all they'd seen was his more gross-out comedies. His episode of Charmed is legit one of 90s TV's best short stories.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

The fact that all of Off Centre is on YT makes me feel something is right with the world. That 00s tail-end of the 90s sitcom boom birthed so many underappreciated gems that were only shown over here in the 3-5am slot on itv & ch4, & now anyone can watch them.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

I wish I wasn't awake & alone while my body is doing this. Not that I'd be the most scintillating host. I mostly need someone to make all decisions for me for a few hours while my body rights itself as I writhe & occasionally groan.

submitted 142 days ago • 0 comments

Oh that's a fun new wrinkle. Those little freakouts my body has if a particular internal thermostat breaks where it reads the air being colder than my skin as me being colder than the air are now tipping it so far I get hot enough my body takes away the capacity to breathe through my nose.

submitted 142 days ago • 1 comment

I made bolognese & ate so much spaghetti. This is still less continental than when I chainsmoke & chaincoffee.

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

I do not understand how bad rich people are at being rich. If I were a millionaire I'd probably spend my time burying my face in the mane of one of the Aslan puppets from the 80s BBC Narnia & leaving rave reviews for every service/business I interact with that deserves it.

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

Trying to convince my brain that despite its insistence it does not in fact want to start a game of Alpha Centauri cos if I do I won't move for the next 30 hours or so.

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Tbf to it, I'm not sure the first season got the best shot at me given how close I watched it to Rig 45 which arguably does substantially more with less. Like seeing Departure too close to Vigil.

submitted 144 days ago • 1 comment

Ok so season 2 of The Rig was fine. I don't know if there's been a series with this level of performance & character that has been this let down by the overall structure of its narrative. Everyone is doing such good work but something is just off.

submitted 144 days ago • 0 comments

It remains fascinating to me that when two people decide to get together & to give forever a go, everyone is still using hunting & fishing language to describe it like that's a normal & ok thing. Have you considered just being happy for people?

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It makes me sad beyond measure that my dad's business will not pass to his children cos a secondhand bookshop is a beautiful thing, but it's his dream, his life's work, also none of us have any aptitude for it, & he never expected us to be defined by it as adults.

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

There's just something about walking past a business, now empty & lost to venture capitalists, with Estd. 1926 still visible on the window that feels like it could radicalise Gods.

submitted 145 days ago • 1 comment

I know I'm into my 40s now cos I just had a long moment of wistful pining for a specific chocolate from a no-longer-extant local chocolatier. [Strawberry, white pepper & white chocolate if you're ever near a Digby's yourself.]

submitted 145 days ago • 0 comments

We need to consider a global body that evaluates all new technology on the basis of one simple question: Does this sound like the start of a Dr Who script? We'd save so many resources & so much heartbreak.

submitted 146 days ago • 0 comments

we've been the garages is officially out! this album was such a labour of love - shout out to ras and the whole community for putting together an absolutely rad surprise (in pdf form 👀) for anyone who buys the album on bandcamp! thegarages.bandcamp.com/album/weve-b... Streaming coming soon <3

submitted 147 days ago • 0 comments

There are still [I think] 4 accounts in the other place that I pop back to check for posting a bluesky handle every now & then. The ad at the top of my feed was some kind of online church of Tate delivering "his final prophecy" & I had a "remember when The Onion was satire?" moment.

submitted 148 days ago • 0 comments

Just heard the handful of seconds of Would I Lie To You by Charles & Eddie on the Heineken 0.0 ad. Yes. YES. A new generation will know the most successful one hit wonder in British music history. I'm telling you, baby, you will never find another girl in this heart of mine/Look into my eyes can't y

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

Aw shit. Up before 10am & capable of getting a few bits started before my second pint of coffee. It's almost as if improvement is iterative or something. Sleeping a full 8 hours after a 5 hour nap is totally normal, of course.

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

Such a good day. So much done. So many progress bars inched on. Even remembered to eat & had a [accidentally 5 hour] nap.

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Really we elder millennials are primed for early dementia detection. 2/3 of our conversation is callbacks & deepcuts.

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Join us this Sunday (Jan 5) for the release party of our farewell to blaseball album, "We've Been The Garages" - 10pm GMT / 5pm ET / 2pm PT. Come hang out in the chat with us and say goodbye to this game that we are all love thegarages.bandcamp.com/merch/weve-b...

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Had trouble sleeping the night before last. Finally slept around 10am. Woke up shortly before 11pm so befuddled it took two pints of coffee to get me going but once I was going, damn was it worth it. Got so much done. Still doing! [also resting cos pacing, ugh]

submitted 150 days ago • 1 comment

Hasui Kawase (1883-1957) Asahi bridge Ojiya #japanese #woodblock

submitted 152 days ago • 2 comments

1 hour heads up!

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One of the genuine joys of my life is Desert Bus For Hope & I will be forever grateful to DB for introducing me to these lovelies. Treat yourself to the music of love, acceptance, collaboration, & joy on this newest of days. We're in this together, my loves.

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

So far the new year for me is the same migraine I've had for days & a garlic smell in my bathroom so pungent it nearly made me hurl. May yours be happy, pain- & weird odour free.

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

RDR 1 winning best soundtrack cos it only came to Steam this year is a sack of bullshit so big you could almost use it to hide Rockstar's record of human rights abuses.

submitted 153 days ago • 0 comments