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“Doesn’t have to be anything fancy.” “Right.” “Just a basic graph.” “I understand.” “Maybe some nice colours or something.” “Something simple, I hear you. Leave it with me.”

I find it fascinating that people who will pronounce POTUS and SCOTUS like words will spell out USAID a letter at a time.

Nine out of twenty paragraphs in this article are specifically about national insurance cuts and whether they are damaging business and causing job losses. Only 12.5% of Sainsbury’s cuts can be directly attributed to the rise (source: literally this same fucking article)

Cynthia Erivo co-wrote a new original song for Wicked part two, and I can’t wait for her to lose Best Actress only to return next year and claim her EGOT anyway for a non-performance award in an ironic twist of fate.

I think about Quibi a lot

FYI there’s a little update on Patreon (but free to read) explaining whether I’m dead or not (spoiler alert: no), why the podcast slowed down, and what to expect going forward (spoiler alert: stuff) More personal than I normally like to get but it’s been a wild year and it felt right to share.

“So what kind of music are you into?”

It’s 2025. I’ve turned off Reddit image attribution for the seventh time. When will this madness end?

🚨BREAKING🚨 The two attacks may be linked Also they might not be There’s no evidence or anything to suggest they are But they COULD be and really isn’t that what matters? More legit news at 6 No it’s not odd to have to specify that our news is legit it doesn’t imply anything it’s a figure of

It’s insane that you can go to any conservative account on Twitter and scroll through 5-10 pages of tweets and they’ll still be labelled “1d” If I ever post 100 times in a day, euthanise me.

Unable to move without pounding pain and nausea, I watch helplessly as the thief disappears into the night with sacks of wheat “MY GRAIN!!”

Christmas Eve was a good time to doodle a little. Not too happy with the trees but I don’t think this is too bad at all for an hour’s work!

"For Good" is a great song, one of the most moving, and the one that most encapsulates the themes of Wicked. But I'm sorry, it just doesn't make a good subtitle. Honestly? Wicked: March of the Witch Hunters

Lyricists: *sweating from hours of work perfecting their craft* My brain at 2am: FACE FABD EGBD EGAC

This episode didn’t even begin to get to the bottom of it and it’s obvious these asses are going to stretch this crap out to ten episodes. Podcasters: learn to stream line. Long series only hurt the natural flow of the story you’re in.

Never leaving this site

London, 1592. “The plague is incredibly transmissible—“ “The plague is but an illusion forsooth.” “But the data shows—“ “Damned be those who worship at the false altar of doctors and nurses.” “But 15,000 people—“ “‘TIS BUT THE BAROQUE MIND VIRUS”

I believe the Mandela effect is nonsense. However, Jim Carrey starred in the 2000 family film “The Grinch.” He did not star in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” I don’t even know her. This film was a turning point in geopolitics and I will NOT be gaslit.

Imagine staying in the bath so long that your skin becomes so loose you get lost in it and now you’re just a pile of skin and if anyone gets too close they get absorbed and the skin monster grows larger, hungrier

These people are sick celebrating a man’s death. Scrooge may have hurt a lot of people but he was still a man, an uncle, a colleague. There is no lesson to learn here

Love how they couldn’t even find six positive quotes without one admitting there’s a “broken system” and one literally owning up to working for UHC.

Dying at them sticking with this theme for December 2020

CHICKEN ACCENT I’ve died

“Dear Mr Ramsey, we have your daughter. As an intelligent and handsome man—

Not actually sure what the policy is on bots like this on Bluesky. Is it something I should be reporting? @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @jay.bsky.team

December is the universe’s sweeps week and the writers room is becoming increasingly reliant on last minute plot twists.

It’s funny that even the bots are nice over here but also can we not have the bots please